394. Unpopular Opinions: Should You Discount Your Coaching For Friends & Family? - Here's Exactly How To Handle This Scenario in an Ethical & Profitable Way
The Fitness Business Podcast with Erin Dimond and Jordan Dugger
Erin Dimond and Jordan Dugger
4.9 • 670 Ratings
🗓️ 26 December 2022
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
Should you discount your coaching services for your friends and family? This can be a complicated area that I want to give you some perspective on. I gave away my coaching once before and I learned a valuable lesson from it.
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(0:23) Should I Coach Family and Friends for Free?
(1:00) Quick Rundown of My Experience
(5:03) True Commitment and Investment
(7:26) Free or Full Price
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| 0:00.0 | We would never go into a large box gym like Equinox or LA Fitness and go to hire a personal |
| 0:05.4 | trainer and start haggling with them on price. |
| 0:07.5 | Like, ah, my car broke down. |
| 0:08.8 | You know, I'm in this tough financial spot. |
| 0:10.6 | Can you do it for a little bit less? |
| 0:11.9 | But for some reason, people do that with friends and family, right, whose businesses aren't |
| 0:16.2 | generating millions of dollars a year and we expected them to give us a discount. I think it's asked |
| 0:21.5 | backwards. What up guys? Welcome to the FitBiz podcast. Jordan here with a episode all |
| 0:28.4 | around the common question that we get which is should I discount? Should I even go as far as to |
| 0:35.7 | coach family members for free? |
| 0:38.8 | It's a great question. |
| 0:39.9 | And I'm going to share a quick story about my experience with this. |
| 0:43.1 | And this is also going to apply just in general when it comes to discounting. |
| 0:47.5 | And there's some nuance here, right? |
| 0:49.0 | Because at the end of the day, it is your business. |
| 0:51.1 | And we're in the business of helping people. |
| 0:53.0 | And so you can 100% make a choice, |
| 0:56.4 | that choice being, hey, I'm just going to help this person for free or I'm going to help this |
| 1:00.1 | person at a price that otherwise they can't afford. And I have nothing against that. But as long as |
| 1:06.1 | you make the decision with ample information and ample understanding of the downsides, the upsides, how this might impact |
| 1:14.6 | you, the client, the results, and just a perspective shift around this whole thing. So I'll share |
| 1:19.9 | my experience with this. So let's see. Quick rundown. So when I first started personal training, |
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