574. How Gym Owner Amy Jo Palmquest Went From Working In Person 6 Days A Week To 20k Months Online
The Fitness Business Podcast with Erin Dimond and Jordan Dugger
Erin Dimond and Jordan Dugger
4.9 • 670 Ratings
🗓️ 26 September 2024
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
Are you a gym owner that's considered making a full pivot or partial pivot into online coaching? Today's guest was in your exact position, took the plunge, and is now thriving with an online business she loves.
Amy Jo Palmquest helps women over 35 lose 15+ lbs, get lean, strong, and confident without crazy cardio or extreme diet methods. She owned her gym for over 15 years so she built the trust and creditability which does contribute to her initial success but also how she attacked this new phase of business with full force.
Listen in as we talk about the reasons Amy moved online, what her days look like now, her offer structure, and more!
Time Stamps:
(1:41) Owning A Gym vs Online
(8:27) Other Reasons To Move Online
(10:43) What Days Look Like Now
(13:25) Quick Success Going Online
(19:53) The Offer Structure
(24:11) What's Challenging Now
(29:43) Advice To Anyone On The Fence
(31:35) Where To Find Ami
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| 0:00.0 | I would not be here today at all if it wasn't for your guys' guidance. |
| 0:04.0 | And I mean, my prayers led me to this place. |
| 0:06.5 | I prayed about what my next steps were. |
| 0:08.5 | And it was just like seeing your website and seeing like even just the ads and people just getting, you know, becoming such great, have great businesses in such a short amount of time was like there's something to this |
| 0:22.1 | what is up guys welcome back to the fit biz podcast i have a special guest here with me today |
| 0:28.1 | miss amy joe palm quest so amy um she is a mom of three boys six 10 and 15 you just told me right |
| 0:36.8 | yes that's right awesome she is a former gym owner which is |
| 0:41.1 | one of the real reasons i wanted to have her on to highlight her journey um as a former gym owner |
| 0:46.5 | and now she's 100% online and crushing it since she's been an i fca um she went from i think |
| 0:53.4 | she had she had an online offer when she started doing about |
| 0:56.1 | three to five K online. And in her first month of IFCA took off super impressive. 16K collected, |
| 1:05.6 | 17K total generated is what I have here in my notes. So I've seen your wins a lot in our in our |
| 1:12.6 | Slack and like Leslie's bragging about you a lot. So I'm really excited to just have you on |
| 1:17.0 | and just kind of chat through your journey. So first off, thanks for being here. I appreciate you. |
| 1:22.6 | Absolutely. Absolutely. I'm excited to share. I don't I hope I can offer some value. You guys have been amazing. |
| 1:30.4 | Yeah. Well, I think that's the first thing I want to talk about is just what like the difference between owning a gym to online and what made you ultimately transition. |
| 1:42.3 | And then like what's life like now versus when you were in person and |
| 1:46.0 | owning the gym? Yeah, absolutely. Well, first off, I, you know, my dream was to own a gym forever. |
| 1:54.7 | Right. I'm 40. And, you know, I remember when I was 18 and getting my exercise science and |
| 2:01.4 | nutrition degree, I was just like, that's my dream, you know, to own a brick and mortar |
| 2:05.8 | and to have people come in. |
| 2:07.4 | So it was just always the dream, right? |
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