 Hey, what's going on coach? Hope you're having a great day Today, I want to answer a question that I saw on Instagram And if you're not following me there, I'm there every single day Posting content that you won't see here on YouTube, but the question I saw Was from a coach. He's a basketball trainer. He said hey Ben should I have parents? sign a contract when they train in my program and If you asked me that question about seven or eight years ago when I was new to To training and I really didn't understand that much about business back then. I would have said nah As long as they pay You're good to go and my mindset has really changed on the subject because I know That when you have clients in your program if you don't have things set up properly to protect yourself as the as the business owner then Ultimately you end up getting screwed and I'll give you one good example. This is something that personally happened to me This happened about five years ago. I Had a player that I was training. It was a group actually was a group session and There was one parent who told me he would be responsible for paying for all the players and It was probably around like I think like $500 a month that I was supposed to make And I would train them twice a week and the dad was a very successful guy had a really nice car I thought he was good for it I thought he would ultimately pay me back and there was about I think four or five months where I kept training these kids I kept thinking that he was gonna pay and Nothing ever happened and I remember when the the last time I was supposed to train them I showed up to the field and They didn't show up and I called the dad and he bought my number So didn't get to collect any of that money if I would have had a contract back then I wouldn't have gone a month Without getting paid. I wouldn't have gone one session without getting paid that's because I ran things like a coach back then not like a business person and This should show you. Yes, you do need a contract. Yes You need to have that set up when parents are paying because if you don't they're going to run over you like a little speed bump and I've run into so many problems in the past. That's just one story. I could give you a hundred stories of things that happened to me when I was just starting my business and and I know that Because I've gone through those experiences It taught me how to do things the right way and the whole purpose of this YouTube channel is To show you how to avoid the mistakes that I've already made in the past these that mistake alone You know losing five hundred dollars a month if you have a contract in place that will save you thousands of dollars in the future if you implement that and I know what you're probably asking yourself right now is well Do you have a contract sample that you could send to me? The answer to that is yes But I only reserve that for coaches in our consulting program I have it set up to where if you are a member you will receive Access to that. I will basically set up an entire website for you I have so many different things In order for you when you are a member of our consulting program And having a contract one that is signed by parents That is something that I supply you with and if that's something you want to learn more about shoot me a comment below Here on YouTube and let me know if you're interested. I would love to chat with you over the phone to see if that's something That we can plug you into hi. I'll talk to you soon