 Hey, it's Coach Ben from Soccer Entrepreneur and in today's video I'm going to go through and talk about how to set up a summer soccer program. So if you are a private soccer trainer or let's say you do camps or clinics, all of this is going to be relative for you. And the first thing that we want to talk about is the summer should be the peak season for your training academy. A lot of the questions I get from coaches are about they don't know when to train players or how many sessions they should be doing. The summer though is my prime time where I know I have more hours during the day where I can train simply because kids aren't in school. So during the year, let's say it's in the spring or the fall, I'm typically training players between the hours of like three o'clock and six o'clock, something like that Monday through Friday. In the summer, you can start training players in the morning. And I know for me, I live here in San Antonio, Texas, it gets really hot in the summer. So typically I don't train players after I would say 2 p.m. So anything before that I can do. But that allows me to get way more sessions in the summer rather than waiting for the fall or waiting for the spring to try to pack that many sessions in. That's just not doable. You don't have enough hours in the day to do that in the fall or the spring. So the first thing we got to do is think about what type of program you want to offer and who it is you're trying to train. Once you lock those things in, what I'm about to show you is very simple. And the big problem that I know that a lot of trainers have is they're training players who aren't committed. And maybe this is you. Maybe you're training someone, you're training players who show up late or they don't want to commit to a month of training or three months of training. When I offer anything in the summer for players, everything is a three month minimum commitment. This shows me that they're committed for the whole summer. And instead of me wondering and thinking about how long they're going to train with me, I only work with committed players and I only work with committed families. And if you watch any of my other videos, you know I'm very strong about that. I don't want to surround myself around kids who aren't committed or families who are not going to truly invest in my program. I like to weed out families who are not the right fit. And so in the summer, that's a great way for me to work basically for 90 days. If I have sessions once a week, but I'm giving players homework or anything to do on their own, this allows me 90 days to get to know who they are and hopefully extend their training into the fall. But the summer is where you should have the biggest surplus of players that you train because you have more time. Most teams out there, I mean it might be different in your talent, but I know here most clubs, most rec organizations, any soccer players who play on a normal team, there's nothing offered in the summer. This is why summer soccer camps are so big. Private training is so big. These types of things are big in the summer because there's dead time for players. So this is where players need to be developing more. This way they don't go back to the fall season worse than how they entered off in the spring. So here's a tip that I would implement if I was in your shoes right now. Number one, only work with people who are super committed. So only work with players that are going to be able to train for at minimum, I would say two to three months out of the summer. You're going to find a lot of parents are going to go out of town and that's okay. You can still reschedule their sessions in a way that's comfortable for you on your schedule. But even if someone goes out of town for a week, that doesn't mean that they can just leave your program. You want people to either prepay upfront for the summer or pay monthly for your summer program. But if you don't have any terms and conditions, you don't have an online registration system. If you don't have these things, this is really hard to do. This is why I've created a system. It's a four week accelerator program where coaches can simply watch videos that I've created that are going to walk you through how to set everything up, how to get super committed families into your program, how to raise your prices for private training, how to structure camps, clinics, small group training. Basically everything you need to know is in my four week accelerator program. There's going to be a little light that flashes across the screen. So you can click on that there. You'll go to a page that's going to walk you through more information that's about that specific program. So that's it for today, guys. If you have any questions about summer training, how to structure it, leave me a comment below this video and I'd love to help you out. All right, I'll see you next time.