 the cops kicked me off the field for trespassing and I had to cancel my session and I got really embarrassed in front of my clients. What are my next steps? Alright so I got this question from a coach. It's not the first time I've seen this type of question and I experienced something actually very similar early on with my business and we're gonna get into today's best message here in a second. Welcome to the build my sports biz show where we talk about how to create build and scale your own local sports training business. Let's go. It's time to get started with your host Ben Neighbors. The show starts right now. Alright so I got this message this is from a soccer trainer and basically what happened is he snuck on to I think a high school field and shouldn't have been there. I think they had signs probably on their field saying like don't use our field unless you are part of our athletic program and he and I getting kicked off the field had to cancel all the sessions that day it's really embarrassing in front of the client. Yada yada yada I've personally experienced this in the past and I've gotten a lot of questions about this sort of stuff recently from new coaches that are you know they don't have a location they are just trying to be scrappy and use whatever space they can now I think this is a good piece of advice I can give to anyone out there who has is training in a spot that they shouldn't be or they have already gotten caught which is that you want to be scrappy but you need to be smart right if you are scrappy that means you will find a place you'll find a place to train during COVID like I talked to a guy he literally trained kids inside of his home garage so he was scrappy and he was smart because he could control his environment right I also talked to people that were trying to like bust into schools during that time to run their own training programs a lot of those guys got caught some of those guys didn't great but they will eventually getting caught they'll eventually get caught right so the goal here is be scrappy but be smart and if you're gonna be smart about it that means you need to talk to whoever is at the top of the school or whoever is top of the park that you're you're going to and a good example is like one of the parks that I've used for for my training program I use them for almost 10 years like I talked to the people that run it I talked to the cops that are there I'm friends with them like they know my name they know what I do they don't care about what I do because I made a relationship with them all right so this comes down to creating relationships with people who run these parks or run these schools and getting permission to use it right and I always laugh about it because it's really the same as you know me trying to go to the Apple store and try to start my own small business out of there like they're gonna look at me be like dude what are you doing like get out of here right and it's like that when you go to a school or you go to a park if you have to get a permit we'll go get a permit he has to talk to someone go talk to someone but a lot of coaches are afraid of confrontation and and we all assume oh well it's an open space so I'm just gonna go use it and then you get arrogant cocky about it and then what happens is you run into a bigger problem like this where you get kicked off by the cops and a lot of coaches have messaged me send me messages about this sort of stuff so again be scrappy but be smart go talk to people like it's if you're running a business your business should not be stopped by a police officer right and also to just think about the long-term that effect that has on anyone who's at that park that sees that happen there's zero chance in the future that they will become a client because they might not even think that that cop was there to kick you off because you're using their space they might think that you got busted for something else right so this is why you need to talk to people you need to understand I have permission to use this space and here's the thing when you have like real permission you have more confidence to use that space in the future which means you will market yourself harder right and you know a lot of coaches will half-ass market themselves because they have a half-ass location that they don't know that they can use they're like yeah I can go at this time because no one's there but I can't use it at this time because someone is there right so gotta stop half-assing it right and you start communicating run it like a business right and you know worst-case scenario is well start paying for a location right think a lot of coaches are afraid to start doing that sort of stuff and you know if the numbers add up then you should pay for a location have a set spot that you can run your thing out of otherwise like you'll run into problems like this if you're not smart about it so it's all I have to say about it be scrappy but be smart start talking to people and have a solidified spot that you can do your training program otherwise you can't do this full-time you can't do it long-term all the excuses I've seen from coaches well Ben I can't do it full time well let me look at your location all right where are you doing this from all right so big problem coaches run into I want to talk about today and hopefully if you're in that spot right now we're and I know I know there are coaches watching us right now who are like gosh I need to actually figure out if I can run my thing from this spot or not like I know there's coaches watching us that are in that those shoes right now so go talk communicate figure it out and start paying for for a spot if you if you need to all right that's it for today's video if you are not on my email newsletter right go to my website build my sports biz comm scroll the bottom of my page get my free newsletter that I send out two three sometimes four times a week I give more tips more strategies that's something I've 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