 Hey guys, it's coach Ben from soccer entrepreneur and welcome to the video. So I'm gonna dig straight into this and I think this is really important for me to create a video about this topic so back in 2010 when I was first starting to get going with my training a lot of people out there wanted to give me advice and these were people who did not have a business that Thought they could give me advice about what I should be doing to grow my business here and Unfortunately because I was kind of naive I would listen to advice from people who never walked the walk And what I mean by that is I was taking an advice and implementing what people were telling me Based on just what their thoughts were without them actually ever proving that that's gonna work or not and so time and time again, I got advice from people who Were not in business. They just had good ideas. They were either friends or you know family members, whatever And it got to a point where I started taking people's advice and just doing whatever they said without Understanding that okay, this person actually knows what they're talking about. They've actually run a business before They're actually in business right now and they're doing something that's kind of similar to what I want to do and The people that I was listening to at the beginning did not need any of those three Qualities and once I started to hang around and be around Other trainers or other people who were in business that could actually give me sound advice That's when everything changed and that's why I want to create this video because I know right now There's a lot of people out there who have asked me they said hey Ben I've gotten a lot of advice from these people this marketing agency or you know people who are not involved in soccer What should I do and my answer is always turn and run the other way That's why I've created this channel is to actually give you advice because I've personally gone through all of these stages that I would say 100% of trainers have either gone through or they're about to go through and I've gone through all the ups and downs I've gone through so many failures with my business at the beginning because I didn't understand the Business I did not understand how anything worked I didn't understand how to market myself and I don't want to keep repeating about how I didn't understand anything in the beginning But I do that my videos because I want you to know that you know, I had zero knowledge about anything at the start and the biggest advantage I ever had was learning through other people who were actually in My arena people that were in sports marketing or sports business Specifically and it's a lot easier to learn from someone like that who has actually trained someone who's actually run a business Then learn from someone who's never done anything like that in their life and getting bad advice is the worst thing That can happen to you because then you're following something you're following a road map That's gonna get you more and more lost and for me personally when I started soccer entrepreneur I knew that I could genuinely help anybody who's looking to create anything soccer related because I've already done that and If I hadn't done that before then there's no way I would ever want to have an advice channel like this Or create our program programs or have our one-on-one consulting I wouldn't feel comfortable doing any of that and Unfortunately, there's people out there who do that they do that bull crap where they sell something that they've never done and I don't like that And I hope you never run into someone like that because they're going to basically just manipulate your thoughts and your actions and for me personally I Want to really just bring the truth to what it takes to build a successful soccer academy and yes, it's not easy It takes time. It's not gonna happen overnight. I mean, I've been doing this for almost nine years now And I'm still learning. I'm still figuring out stuff This this isn't something that I just figured out and then you know, I don't have to learn anymore I still learn it every single day and because I've had the experience it makes me feel way more confident and comfortable helping those who actually get help with that and This is why when it comes down to something when when trainers ask me something that I've never personally experienced I will tell them. Hey, I don't know you might need to go ask somebody else I'm not gonna make up something and give them an answer just to make them feel good that oh Ben told me this I don't I don't like that. That's not my philosophy and I feel like I needed to make this video Just so I'm very clear about that the way that I learn is through people who are At where I want to be in a year or two years or ten years from now these are people who have gone through similar things that I want to do and Why would I want to learn from anyone else and if I'm trying to learn from someone else that? Hasn't done what I want to do. What's the point? And that's why I feel like for me. I find so much enjoyment Helping trainers who really want to do this because I know that our visions are aligned They want the same thing that I've already done So it's easy for me to teach someone that and so this video. I'm gonna end it very simply if you know You need help with building your training academy. You want to do training full-time, maybe you're sick of your job and You know that you have a passion to help others with soccer if that's you I want you to contact me Below there's gonna be a link where you can apply to get on the phone with me I've never really offered this on any of our YouTube videos. This is only really reserved for people who go through our programs But I'm gonna give you opportunity where we can jump on the on the phone together I'm gonna have you fill out a short application form where you're gonna fill out some answers this way I can be very prepared on our phone call, but I want to help out five people So this is only for the first five people who take action And I want to make sure that I'm doing everything possible to help you out on our phone call So all you have to do is go in the first link in the description It's going to take you to a page where you just fill out a short Questionnaire you submit that and then you're gonna go to the next page where you're gonna pick the time where we're gonna talk And then I will schedule to call you and we're gonna talk for at least 45 minutes About how I can help you out Any questions you have I want to answer them I want to I want to help five people five serious coaches who really want to do this as a full-time thing So if that's you go ahead click on that button below. I would love to be your mentor I would love to give you advice about how you can do this I've already helped hundreds of other coaches So I'm gonna extend this to five coaches right now So click on that first link in the description and that'll take you to that page And we can schedule our call within the next 24 hours. All right. I'll see you next time