463 - Unlocking Growth: How We Used Bark.com to Generate 53 New Personal Training Clients

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It’s the very first episode of The Big Pitch with Jimmy Carr and our first guest is Phil Wang! And Phil’s subgenre is…This Place is Evil. We’re talking psychological torture, we’re talking gory death scenes, we’re talking Lorraine Kelly?! The Big Pitch with Jimmy Carr is a brand new comedy podcast where each week a different celebrity guest pitches an idea for a film based on one of the SUPER niche sub-genres on Netflix. From ‘Steamy Crime Movies from the 1970s’ to ‘Australian Dysfunctional Family Comedies Starring A Strong Female Lead’, our celebrity guests will pitch their wacky plot, their dream cast, the marketing stunts, and everything in between. By the end of every episode, Jimmy Carr, Comedian by night / “Netflix Executive” by day, will decide whether the pitch is greenlit or condemned to development hell! Listen on all podcast platforms and watch on the Netflix Is A Joke YouTube Channel . The Big Pitch is a co-production by Netflix and BBC Studios Audio. Jimmy Carr is an award-winning stand-up comedian and writer, touring his brand-new show JIMMY CARR: LAUGHS FUNNY throughout the USA from May to November this year, as well as across the UK and Europe, before hitting Australia and New Zealand in early 2026. All info and tickets for the tour are available at JIMMYCARR.COM Production Coordinator: Becky Carewe-Jeffries Production Manager: Mabel Finnegan-Wright Editor: Stuart Reid Producer: Pete Strauss Executive Producer: Richard Morris Executive Producers for Netflix: Kathryn Huyghue, Erica Brady, and David Markowitz Set Design: Helen Coyston Studios: Tower Bridge Studios Make Up: Samantha Coughlan Cameras: Daniel Spencer Sound: Charlie Emery Branding: Tim Lane Photography: James Hole…

about a year ago 43:55

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How can you convert more prospects into clients effectively and quickly using warm outreach services like Bark.com?

In this episode, we'll talk about my proven strategies and tactics that got our strength studio 53 new clients through Bark.com (this will also work whenever you're on the phone with prospects from other sources) — we'll cover the importance of your mindset, your step-by-step approach, and the right way to execute from start to finish, along with the pitfalls you need to avoid.

If you want to get high-quality strength training clients fast, check out this episode! *** 📩 Download a FREE step-by-step guide on how to get endless referrals NOW ♣️ Join the Best HIT Business Membership Here *** 📈 Apply for Exclusive 1-on-1 HIT Business Coaching With Legendary Trainer Pete Cerqua *** 🎬 For the complete show notes, links, and resources, click here

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High Intensity Business

463 - Unlocking Growth: How We Used Bark.com to Generate 53 New Personal Training Clients

High Intensity Business

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517 - How to Answer the Most Common Questions About HIT — Effective Client Communication (with Skyler Tanner) 49:19

2 days ago49:19

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Want to learn how to talk to your strength training clients like the experts do? Smart Strength Austin’s Skyler Tanner talks about the most effective ways to answer some of the most common questions your prospects and new clients might have, like whether cardio is necessary or not, the right training frequency, how to fix saggy skin, along with other common concerns (and a few technical things, too!). If you want to improve the way you communicate with clients and become more confident in delivering talking points, there’s a lot you can learn from Skyler in this one! ━━━━━━━━━━━━ Build a successful strength training business (free trial) ━━━━━━━━━━━━ Not sure? Book a quick clarity call (no pressure) ━━━━━━━━━━━━ For the complete show notes, links, and resources, click here…

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516 - Growth The Simple Way — How To Build a Thriving HIT Fitness Business with Almost Zero Advertising 49:19

9 days ago49:19

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What do you need to do to make your strength training business stand out and attract clients effectively without spending a fortune on advertising? Fitness and More owner Steve McKinney joins the podcast to talk about his incredibly efficient strength training AND client closing methods, how his business is thriving with almost zero advertising, and why he wrote his new book The Gospel of Fitness (and what effect it has had on his fitness business). My conversation with Steve is a fascinating example of what happens when a strength studio owner is so locked in that growth just seems (and basically has been) inevitable — you need to hear this one! ━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🚀 Learn to build and grow your own highly-profitable strength training business FAST — join HIB here ━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎬 For the complete show notes, links, and resources, click here…

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515 - X-Force Body: The Highly Successful, High-Ticket, Negative-Accentuated HIT Strength Training Studio (Interview with Co-Founder Illy Stoilova) 51:20

16 days ago51:20

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Can you create a strength training studio so successful that clients call you the “Ritz-Carlton” of high-intensity training? X-Force Body co-founder Illy Stoilova joins the podcast to talk about the advantages of X-Force machines, how she creates incredible client experiences, why she’s so rigorous when it comes to hiring trainers, and how she’s doing on her ultimate goal of becoming a referral-only HIT fitness business. If you’ve wanted to know what effect having X-Force machines can have on a strength studio’s success or how to have a massive competitive advantage through giving great customer service, this episode is a great one you need to tune in to! ━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🚀 Learn to build and grow your own highly-profitable strength training business FAST — get a free, no-risk, no-obligation trail to the Premium HIB Membership here ━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎬 For the complete show notes, links, and resources, click here…

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514 - How to Start A Profitable Strength Training Business — The Million-Dollar Method (with Pete Cerqua) 53:50

23 days ago53:50

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Want the honest-to-goodness A-Z of starting a successful, profitable strength training business? Learn the 4 biggest keys to starting, operating, and growing your own strength training business fast — Million-Dollar Trainer Pete Cerqua tells you everything you need to know to get started and be legitimately profitable within 30 days. This episode goes over the high-level things you need to get right before you start, and we talk about things like choosing your protocol, getting your pitch right, how to do a consultation, the most effective way to do marketing to get clients, and all the important details you need to know. If you’re serious about starting and growing your own fitness business, this episode is a must-listen! ━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🚀 We help you build your strength training business — start your free trial here ━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎬 For the complete show notes, links, and resources, click here…

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513 - The HIT Machines That Make You Money — A HIT Brand Deep Dive for New Strength Studios (with Pete Cerqua) 54:35

4 weeks ago54:35

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Want to start a new studio but aren’t sure which HIT equipment brands to go with? Million-dollar Trainer Pete Cerqua takes you on a deep dive into which HIT machine brands to consider, how to modify them (and why), and how to get the best deals. Pete goes into the specifics of how your HIT brand and machine choices can affect your client consultations and workouts, and we nerd out on the details and the pros and cons of each, including some manufacturers that you may not have thought about but are worth your attention, and then, why it matters that you love the kit you have to work with. If you’ve ever been interested in starting your own strength studio or want to level up the one you have right now, this episode is a must-listen! ━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🚀 Learn to Build and Grow your own Highly-Profitable Strength Training Business — get a free, no-risk, no-obligation trail to the Premium HIB Membership here ━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎬 For the complete show notes, links, and resources, click here…

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512 - Life-Changing: How HIT Altered Janaya Skye’s Life Forever — The Story of Paradox Strength 1:10:40

5 weeks ago1:10:40

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What does it take to completely turn your life around and become a super successful strength studio owner? I’m excited to have Paradox Strength founder Janaya Skye on the podcast, and you’ll soon find out why: we talk about her amazing story, how she fell in love with high-intensity training, and how it not only helped her get her health back but put her on a path to incredible personal and professional success. We also go into how her simple – but very smart – approach to marketing helped her grow right from the start, making great partnerships that help her bring more clients in, talking to clients the right way when dealing with objections, and even what you should do when clients cry – yes, cry – during intense workouts. We also go over choosing the right equipment, advertising, and complementary practices that help your clients. If you want a template for going from zero to successful strength studio owner with a simple but powerful marketing strategy built in, don’t miss this episode! ━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⚡ Get a Free Strength Training Business Course ━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎬 For the complete show notes, links, and resources, click here…

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511 - Unlock the Secret to Explosive Growth: Leverage Media Coverage Like The Strength Shoppe Founders Melinda Hughes and Arjen Van Eijmeren Did 43:53

6 weeks ago43:53

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Want to know how to get that one big news article about your strength training business that can bring in tens of thousands of dollars worth of clients and sessions? The Strength Shoppe’s owners Melinda Hughes and Arjen Van Eijmeren sit down to talk about how you can cultivate that one big break into tens of thousands of dollars and even more news coverage that can help you grow your fitness business like no other marketing strategy can — it’s a strategy that can keep on giving you results even years after it’s come out! We go over how to handle media in small towns versus big cities and what to expect from each, and Melinda and Arjen share advice on reaching out to journalists, what to say in interviews, and how to position yourself as an expert so smaller publications (and even bigger ones) are more likely to write about you. If you want to grow your strength training business and attract more clients like no paid ad campaign can even dream of accomplishing, then tune in to this episode! ━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⚡ Get a Free Strength Training Business Course: https://www.skool.com/hib ━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎬 For the complete show notes, links, and resources, click here…

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510 - The Best Machines and Training Protocols for Starting Your Own Highly Profitable Strength Studio Fast (with Pete Cerqua) 55:16

7 weeks ago55:16

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Have you ever wondered which are the four best strength training machines for starting your first strength studio? And not just any 4 machines — but the most bang-for-your-buck , make-your-clients-love-you-and-make-you-profitable-fast machines? Million-Dollar Trainer Pete Cerqua returns to walk you through everything you’ll need to start a new strength studio successfully: your first set of machines, your first workout protocols, the most effective marketing campaigns that build the most excitement, and how to do it all the right way and avoid the mistakes that can slow you down or set you back, and we go into all of it in great detail. If you want to know the absolute key essentials for starting and growing a successful strength studio that lets you hit the ground running from day one, tune in to this episode! ━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⚡ Tap here to join the FREE HIB community now and get access to great courses and strength training business experts, no-nonsense, no strings attached ━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎬 For the complete show notes, links, and resources, click here…

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509 - From 2 Strength Studios to 200 — Interview with Exerbiotics and The Exercise Coach CEO Brian Cygan 47:42

8 weeks ago47:42

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What’s it like to go from just owning 2 strength studios to growing a worldwide business with over 200 outlets and counting? In this episode, I finally get to sit down and talk with The Exercise Coach and Exerbiotics CEO/Founder Brian Cygan, and we go over his fitness business journey and the lessons he’s learned when it comes to highly successful strength studios and another company that supplies high-end equipment to all of these globally! We go into what makes Exerbiotics machines unique, how The Exercise Coach approaches client workout design, what “Concentrated Cardio” is and why they offer it to their clientele, why he’s big in Japan, and more! If you want to know how someone goes from not being sure whether they want to really do anything in the strength training industry to becoming a wildly successful fitness business owner, you should tune in to hear Brain’s story in this one! ━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⚡ FREE Blueprint: Get a no-nonsense guide to starting or growing your own strength training business here ━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎬 For the complete show notes, links, and resources, click here…

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508 - A POWERFUL Guide To Managing Money in Your Fitness Business: Earn More, Grow Faster, Retire Early (With Pete Cerqua) 48:13

9 weeks ago48:13

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Personal Trainers and Strength Studio owners: are you making the most out of the money you’re earning in your fitness business so you can earn in your sleep and not worry about going bankrupt if you’re unexpectedly forced to miss a few weeks of work? Million-dollar Trainer Pete Cerqua explains the right way to manage your financials so you can earn more money faster, minimize risks and avoid business-destroying unexpected events, how to invest it all in the right things that can support your work instead of distracting from it, and more. If you want to build a highly profitable career as a strength trainer and studio owner while avoiding the biggest problems that can torpedo your dreams, tune in to this episode. ━━━━━━━━━━━━ Disclaimer: The information shared in this podcast is for informational and educational purposes only and does not constitute financial advice. The views expressed are personal opinions and should not be considered as recommendations for your specific situation. Always consult with a qualified financial advisor before making any financial decisions. ━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⚡ Get a FREE Blueprint That Helps You Build (or Grow) A Great Strength Training Business FAST ━━━━━━━━━━━━ 💪 Get Great HIT Machines from Imagine Strength Here ━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎬 For the complete show notes, links, and resources, click here…

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507 - Can Lengthened Partials Supercharge Your Clients’ Muscle Gains (and How Can You Break Out of Training Plateaus)? Dr. James Steele’s New Study 48:37

10 weeks ago48:37

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Have you been looking into boosting your strength training client’s results using advanced training techniques and come across lengthened partials as a possible approach to bust out of plateaus? Dr. James Steele returns to the podcast to talk about his latest study that goes into whether it’s worth your time or not, and how you might be able to use this information for your strength studio clients. Our conversation goes through what most trainers think versus what the results of the study actually say, and we also go into whether older exercise studies still hold up, if there’s more room to improve when you think you’ve hit your genetic ceiling, and more. If all roads lead to Rome and you want to know which one an exercise scientist would take, then check out this episode. ━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⚡ Get Your FREE, No-Nonsense Guide To Growing Your Own Successful Strength Training Business ━━━━━━━━━━━━ 💪 Get Great HIT Machines from Imagine Strength Here ━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎬 For the complete show notes, links, and resources, click here…

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506 - The Best Time Management System and Growth Strategy For Strength Trainers and Studio Owners 1:07:20

11 weeks ago1:07:20

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How can you run and grow a successful strength training business without burning out and losing your personal freedom? Strength Trainer and Business Coach Dave Bess returns to the podcast to teach you how to structure your time so you can get the most important things done and have more time for yourself and your family so you can grow your fitness business in a way that doesn’t overwhelm everything else in your life. If you want to make sure that you’re ready to be as successful as you can be as a strength trainer now and in the future, this is one episode you need to tune in to. ━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⚡ FREE Guide: Learn to Set Up, Operate, and Grow Your Own Strength Training Business — visit my free HIB Community here . ━━━━━━━━━━━━ 💪 Get Great HIT Machines from Imagine Strength Here ━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎬 For the complete show notes, links, and resources, click here…

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505 - A Personal Trainer’s Guide To World-Class Customer Service That Wins You New HIT Clients FAST (with Pete Cerqua) 48:18

12 weeks ago48:18

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How can you tell if your customer service is great (and if it’s not, how can you make it great)? The best way to know that is if you can get up to 20 client sessions a week in 30 days, and million-dollar trainer Pete Cerqua walks you through exactly how to do that in this must-watch episode. Pete is a legendary strength trainer, bestselling author of books like The 90-Second Fitness Solution, and a business coach who has helped many strength studio owners get up and running fast , and his tried-and-true methods can help you do the same. If you’re serious about becoming a successful fitness business owner as quickly as possible, you need to tune in to this one (seriously, you should). ━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⚡ Get 20+ sessions per week in 30 days with our free, proven HIT business system ━━━━━━━━━━━━ 💪 Get Great HIT Machines from Imagine Strength Here ━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎬 For the complete show notes, links, and resources, click here…

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504 - A HIT Studio Owner’s Guide on How to Train Great Trainers (with Discover Strength CEO Luke Carlson) 31:42

13 weeks ago31:42

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What does it take to develop your HIT studio’s trainers into great ones? Discover Strength CEO Luke Carlson walks you through the exact steps you need to take with each of your trainers to make sure that they are putting your HIT clients through the best possible strength training experience. If you want to develop the best possible strength trainers for your HIT studio, tune in to this one! ━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⚡ Get a FREE HIT Business Blueprint (and more) when you join the free HIB HIT Community here ━━━━━━━━━━━━ 💪 Get Great HIT Machines from Imagine Strength Here ━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎬 For the complete show notes, links, and resources, click here…

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503 - The Power of Becoming an Award-Winning HIT Studio (and How To Do It (with Ed Collins and Katie DeRego) 25:35

14 weeks ago25:35