 Hey coach, welcome back to the channel. If you haven't yet, make sure you subscribe to stay up to date with all the latest content that we put out. At this point, we've pretty much got content going out every four to eight hours. So don't stay stuck with your business. Make sure you subscribe to stay up to date with all the latest content. Now, if you have a training business and you want to learn more about our sports business accelerator program, then there's two ways you can do that. Number one, either send me an email to make money coaching sports at gmail.com or you can apply through booking a free 15 to 20 minute call with me. My kindly link is in the description of this video. You can book a free 15 to 20 minute call. We jump on zoom, I can ask you some questions about your business, see where you're at, see where you want to get to, and I can essentially see if our accelerator program is a good fit for you. Right now, at this point, we've got coaches in all sports within the program, and we're getting really, really good results every, every single day with the coaches we are currently working with. So if you want success with your business, if you want to learn more, then those are the two ways to get in contact with me to grow, scale, and build what you're currently doing to the next level. So today, I want to talk about how to start up your own soccer coaching business. Now, I have talked about this multiple times on previous videos, but I thought it'd be a good, good idea to come on here again and kind of repeat myself, because there's a lot of coaches that maybe haven't watched the previous videos that I've put out, there's some coaches that are watching our channel for the first time, and there's a lot of coaches who actually write me every single day, they send me the text messages, emails, they get in contact with me through Twitter, through Instagram, and they ask me, how do I start up my own soccer coaching business? So there's three very basic steps when you're looking to start up any type of business, and especially this type of business, it within soccer. So I'm going to break it down three very simple steps. The first one is you need to set up your business legally. So whichever country, whichever city you're in, the best thing to do is get in contact with a CPA, which is an accountant, so a certified accountant, and book a consultation session with them, where you can ask them questions about what you're currently doing, and what is the best way to set up your business legally. A CPA will be better and will give you better advice essentially on how to go about this, and how to set up your business legally in the city and area you're currently in. So the first step is you've got to set up the business legally. If you're in the United States, most coaches, what they do is they set up an LLC. If you're in the UK, then what most coaches do is they either set up as self-employed, or they set up a private limited company, where they're the director of the company, and essentially what happens is they run the company. The coach and the company are two separate identities. This model is very similar to the LLC model, which is in the United States. But whatever country you're in, if you're in Canada, if you're in Australia, if you're in the UK, if you're in the United States, whichever country you're in, get in contact with an accountant in your local area. They'll be able to give you better legal advice and point you in the right direction to get in your business set up legally. But that is the first step to setting up, and it's really important that you do this first step because, number one, it's more professional because when clients or parents want to search your business and search what you do, they want to see that you're a legitimate company that is operating. Also, in terms of marketing and selling, if you're set up legally and if you're set up the right way, this builds trust as well with clients. So the first one is setting your business up legally. The second one is having business insurance. So if you're in the UK and I speak to a lot of UK coaches, a company that I have used within my business and a company I recommend to other coaches is a company called Insure for Sports. So Insure for Sports is fantastic for private trainers, coaches that are doing private one and one training or that have a coaching business. So InsureForSports.co.uk, I believe, is the website. Get in contact with them. They'll be able to point you in the right direction, give you a couple of their appropriate packages that they have for what you're doing, but it's important that you are insured because it not only protects you and your business, but if you go and hire out a facility which is indoor or a school, wherever it is, most indoor facilities will require you to have public liability insurance. In the US, there's a number of companies as well that coaches that we work with are currently using within their business. So if you want to learn more about that, then get in contact with me. I'll be able to share with you a couple of the companies that the coaches who are in our Sports Accelerator Program are using to ensure their business when they work with clients and when they hire out venues and facilities all around the US. So the first one is setting up the business legally, either as an LLC or a private limited company. If you're in the US or the UK, the second one is having business insurance so that you are secure, you are protected and also it protects you if you go and hire out a facility and one of your clients accidentally smashes a window or something breaks within that facility and you and your business are liable for the damages. And then the third one, when I look at setting up a business, the third most important thing that you need is a secure and consistent location to train your clients out of. So this might be a school, this might be a park, this might be a center, somewhere where you can market and promote your training sessions to clients and somewhere where clients are coming to you for training. What I see a lot of coaches do is they have multiple locations where they train at. Now that works great if you have assistant coaches that are working with you and they maybe live closer to these centers, but if it's just you at the beginning then what we want to look at is we want to try to find a reliable and secure location that you can use on a weekly basis to train your clients out of and so that way you're not having to travel everywhere to do your training sessions, your clients can come to you for the training. Also this is important because if you decide to grow in scale you will need a location to be able to do that. And essentially what I look at when I think of location is can I use that venue, can I use that facility all year round in all seasons? So if it's winter and it's raining, it's snowing, can we use that facility when it gets to summer? Is that facility available? Because I know for example in the UK with a lot of coaches we're working a lot of them use parks in the summer, but what happens is those parks sometimes get packed out with teams using them for other sports. So in the UK, if you're a UK coach, in the UK the summer is normally cricket season and a lot of the parks get set up for cricket season. So there'll be a lot of cricket matches going on during the summer which maybe in some situations can limit the space for a lot of trainers who are looking to use parks as a way of saving money rather than hiring out an actual facility where they've got to pay a higher fee. So having a secure location where you can use all year round where parents come to you for the training, you're not going to them, they're coming to you and you can run even your one-on-one sessions out of, you can run your group sessions and you can grow and scale your business. This is also important in the US because again the US has seasonal sports when it comes to the summer season. There'll be multiple sports using different venues and different facilities around the country. So as a trainer you need to make sure that if you're going to transition your business from one-on-one training to groups that you have adequate space to be able to run your sessions out of. And make sure that venue, that venue, that location, whatever it is, if it's a park, if it's a facility that is available during the times that you have been marketing and promoting your training sessions to clients. Right, there's been a lot of cases with a lot of coaches who have gone to use parks to do group sessions. They haven't got a permit, they didn't book the park beforehand and midway through the session a lacrosse team comes in and they have to move the entire session somewhere else because that team did the right thing, they got a permit, they booked the training area and they were allowed to be there when that trainer who was doing the small group sessions wasn't meant to be there. Now what happens is that ruins your session because it ruins the flow of the session with your clients. Also it looks very unprofessional because it shows that you haven't done the right thing in finding a permit, booking that place, that spot and also in terms of concentration from your clients, if they have to keep moving every 20 or 15 minutes because a team's coming on then it just again it just ruins the flow of the session, it looks very unprofessional and it looks like you're just kind of winging it rather than actually having something set up properly within your business. Right, so invest the time, invest the effort, invest the energy to find a secure location that you can use every single week on a regular basis. Okay so if you want to learn more about our sports accelerator program this is the number one program we have at the moment for coaches in all sports especially soccer who want to grow and scale their business to the next level. Currently we've got content there from how to start, how to grow, how to scale and we've got a community there where coaches can post their questions, there's accountability and also we've got a weekly coaching course that we do live every Tuesdays at the moment with the coaches that who are currently part of our program. Right, so this is something you want to learn more about if you want to get your business to the next level okay two ways you can get in contact with me the first one book a call with me we can jump on zoom I can ask you a couple of questions see where you are with your business see where you want to get to and then we can discuss whether our program is a good fit for what you're currently doing and if it's not no problem at all you can take away the call that we had and some tips to go and implement into your business to get to the next level and then hopefully join our program later down the road okay or if you want to get in contact with me without getting on a zoom call you can do that as well just simply get in contact with me through email to makemoneycoachingsportsatgmail.com okay thank you for watching and I'll see you on the next one