baseball coach for quite a while.
I doubled as the head S&C coach at the
University during that same span.
Oddly, that volume of work never paid very
well.
In fact, for my first 4 years as a head coach,
I never earned as much as 20K from the
school in a year. They made each of those
jobs 'part-time' so they could pay me less and
not offer me benefits.
I was young and wanted to make a name for
myself as a coach so I sucked it up and
decided I'd do other things to make ends meet.
So I began doing a lot of coaching 'on the side.'
I'd work with groups of 4 athletes at a time
to bring the price point down so that it was
manageable for families in Portsmouth, where -
as I alluded to Friday - the avg household income
is a whopping 23K per year.
I had a pretty simple system really.
I'd run 3 hour clinics for $35 per person or
$125 for a team.
I'd then offer the group coaching for $15 per
session, but they had to commit for a month
minimum (2 sessions per week.)
$15 per session may not sound impressive, but
that's 60 bucks an hour - which was incredible
for a 25 or 26 year old guy making 18K per year.
Probably made an extra 10K per year, every year
for 5 years straight.
Could've easily done more, but was traveling 1:30
each way twice a week to get my Master's Degree
for 2 years and spent a lot of time on the road
recruiting.
So this is what I've never figured out:
Why don't more fitness pros spend more time at
least creating a 'niched' part of their business
targeting baseball players, softball players, etc.
Volleyball, soccer, basketball, tennis, golf - pretty
much every sport outside of football.
They all get pretty much ignored by their high
school's S&C program.
If I could do 10K per year in a town that is in the
poorest area in Ohio as a side business - imagine
what could be done elsewhere.
In fact - if you're not working with the youth
population in some capacity - you're probably
missing out on the biggest opportunity you have.
Why do you think the IYCA has grown over 500%
this year?
So give some serious thought to working with some
baseball players or a different niched athletic
market.
Dedicated to your success,
Pat
P.S. - Some friends of mine that also happen to be
some of the best baseball performance guys in the
world are putting on a clinic that will help you
build the exact type of side business I'm talking
about. Check it out here:
http://tinyurl.com/baseballclinic
P.P.S - If you worry about all this 'economy stuff'
this is probably a great fit for you as parents will
always continue to spend on their kids. Heck, a
new baseball bat is about 300 bucks now.
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