Insights, Systems & Strategy

Scaling Without Heroics: How to Move from "Manual Everything" to a Business That Runs While You're Offline

The "App-Stack" Trap: Why More Tools Are Making You a Worse Coach

Let's be blunt: this isn't innovation. This is operational debt. You're not building a system; you're duct-taping a Frankenstein monster together, piece by painful piece. And it's making you a worse coach, not a better one.

The Leaky Bucket Audit: Where Your Leads and Clients Are Actually Disappearing

You think you have a lead generation problem. You don't. You have a leaky bucket. And no matter how much water (leads) you pour in, that bucket is never going to fill until you plug the holes.

Hybrid Personal Training

At the recent FitPro Summer Summit at Brentford FC in London, I was invited to speak about where the fitness industry is heading. My topic? Hybrid Personal Training — and specifically, the "Floor to Phone" method that has helped gym and studio owners double client retention in just 90 days.

How to add images to your emails inside PT Distinction

Adding an image to an email in PT Distinction may seem a little strange at first.

How To Build An Automated System For Getting HIGH PAYING Clients With PTD

In this Training with Iggy Odighizuwa to discuss his journey and how he has grown his online business to new heights over the past few years.

How To Brand Your Custom App In PT Distinction

In this video training taken from the PTD Ninja 101 Course, we look at how to set up your custom branded app in PT Distinction.

Creating A Custom Welcome Email

When onboarding clients into PT Distinction, you are asked if you wish to send login details.

How To Add Your Brand To A Print Out Of Your Workout

One of the great features of PT Distinction is being able to brand everything, one very easy area to ‘forget’ to brand is the workout printouts.

Dan Salcumbe talks SEO and Website Design with Ash

Dan Salcumbe, is an experienced personal trainer, web designer and online marketer.

Behind The Scenes Of PTD Ninja 101

Head behind the scenes at PTD Ninja and take a look at exactly what the PTD Ninja 101 course is, what’s involved and how it can help you grow your online business.

The hard truth about technology

Is tech holding you back? Or are you holding back the tech? I see many coaches and trainers overthinking and overcomplicating things when it comes to technology. What normally happens is everything becomes so complicated that clients struggle to understand what’s going on because the coach doesn’t quite understand what’s going on! Eventually, “it’s the techs fault my online coaching business isn’t going well!”

What’s included in the Done For You Packages?

If you’re on the fence about whether or not to use the Done For You service, then this may help you make up your mind. Take a behind the scenes look at what’s included in each package…

EFFECTIVE PROGRAM DESIGN WITH JOE DOWDELL

EFFECTIVE PROGRAM DESIGN WITH JOE DOWDELL

How to Ensure Clients Complete Their PAR-Q form Before Starting Their Program.

I hear all the time trainers want to make sure their clients complete a PARQ (or any other important form) before gaining access to any of their programs.

Making The Most Of PT Distinctions Trainer Calendar

How to make the most of PT Distinctions Trainer Calendar.

The 2 Requirements for Getting Online Client.

I was luckly enough to interview Dave Smith, founder of the Online Trainer Federation and chosen as “Canada’s Top Fitness Professional” for the PT Distinciton Facebook Group.

Using Groups To Create Multiple Program ‘Templates’

Have you created lots of Program Templates in PT Distinction but are finding every time you add these to a client’s account you need to add in multiple Programs, schedule them and add in progressions?

How to Integrate PT Distinction into Square Space.

Want to know how to integrate the PT Distinction login or any other of the PTD Iframes into Squarespace? The video below shows you just how to do this! (apologies in advance, yes I know I need a shave!) Enjoy!

Growing An Online Business With Ru Anderson

Ru Anderson is one of the worlds most influential FitPro’s and I had the pleasure of speaking to him about his journey and pick his brains about growing an online fitness business.

What Goes Into A Great Online Program and How To Maximise PT Distinction To Deliver It.

Working face to face with your clients, you know what to say and what to do to get results.

PT Distinction Fundamentals

In this post, we are going to look at the fundamentals of PT Distinction. These ‘rules’ explain the basics behind how PTD works, using these as a guide you should be able to see how to do most things in PT Distinction.

Attract and Enroll More Fitness Clients’ into your business

Ash speaks to Jonathan Lautermilch moustache aficionado and co-founder of Smart Shark (who create marketing systems and sales funnels specifically for personal trainers).

How To Integrate Stripe with PT Distinction

In this video, we look at how to Integrate Stripe with PT Distinction. So if you would like to use Stripe instead of PayPal but you would like to have clients sign up before taking payments then take a look.

How to Create a Mulitple Online Program Membership area Using PT Distinction

PTD Distinction, in itself, is a membership site. It allows you to offer incredible coaching to your client via a portal based on a program you assign to the client.

Making the most of PT Distinction and Getting Started As An Online Personal Trainer

In this short (and should have been live!) Facebook ‘Live’ from the PT Distinction and Online Trainer University Facebook group I look at all the resources made available to trainers and coaches to help them create and grow their online business.

The Power Of Groups

In this full training taken from a Live in the PT Distinction Facebook Group, we look at how to set up and make the most of PT Distinctions most powerful feature Groups.

The 14 Day Challenge Blueprint

Online Fitness Challenges can be a great way to bring in new online training clients. After helping set up and launch challenges for 100’s of trainers, I’ve seen what works and what doesn’t.

How to Connect PT Distinction to MailChimp Using Zapier

In this video, we look at how to use Zapier to connect PT Distinction to MailChimp or any other email campaign software that uses Zapier.

Are you Drowning in the day to day of your Business?

Do you find yourself drowning in the day-to-day work of your business? Maybe you’re spending all day making sales calls, setting your own appointments, or even cleaning the studio by yourself. Are you unable to grow your business because you don’t feel there are enough hours in the day to run it, much less work on expansion?

How to use PT Distinction as an ‘LMS’ – Learning Management System.

A learning management system (LMS) is a software application for the administration, documentation, tracking, reporting, and delivery of educational courses, training programs, or learning and development programs. PT `Distinction can easily offer all these things, however, some trainers and coach would like to delivery coaching content in the form of ‘modules’ like traditional LMS Systems.

How to sell Pre Made Packages via your PT Distinction Mini Site

Today I received an email asking if you could add in a package to sell via the mini-site, most would say no, but at PTD Ninja, I say Yes!

Free 10 Day Challenge For PTD Users

PT Distinction users? Have you installed the free 10 Day PTD Ninja Challenge? Yes, then you are in the right place.

How to add Integrate PT Distinction into a Weebly Website

Would you like to know how to integrate your client login or any I frame from PTD into your Weebly website? Yes? Cool, then you are in the right place…… Hit play and you’ll be up and running in less than 5 minutes.

The Legal Side Of Online Personal Training

In this interview taken from the PT Distinction Facebook group. Ash speaks to Babs Jamieson, a lawyer registered in both the UK and a number of US states about the legalities of Online Personal Training.

UPDATED: How to Add In Scheduling Software To PT Distinction

In order to save time scheduling clients into consultation and coaching calls, you should be using a scheduling software such as Calendly or Acuity.

How To Check In On Unscheduled Workouts

Would you like your clients to be able to check-In on a workout but you don’t want to schedule the workouts for them in PT Distinction?

Setting up a repeated message to go out on a Particular Day (V3)

With V3 well into BETA testing now, new features are being added and changed all the time.

All about PT Distinction Forms and Questionnaires

How to make the most of the PT Distinctions forms feature.

Stephen Craven Talks Marketing for PT’s, Coaches and Gym Owners

During this interview that was live in the PT Distinction Facebook group. I’ll be talking to Stephen Craven, a Digital Marketing Superhero!

“How To Be an Awesome Personal Trainer” with Ben Coomber.

In this interview taken from the PT Distinction Facebook group, PTD Ninja and resident business coach Ged O’hara chats to Ben Coomber about what it takes to be an awesome personal trainer.

Integration PT Distinction with Clickfunnels

Do you use Clickfunnels?

Ash Chats To AJ Mihrzad on What It Takes To Build An Incredible Online Coaching Business.

Ash chats to AJ Mihrzad from Online Supercoach about the mindset needed to have an incredible online coaching business and how to position yourself to attract new leads into your business.

FREE CHALLENGE FUNNELS with Remote FitPro’s James Moody

In this training from the PT Distinction Facebook group, I chat to James Moody from Remote Fit Pro.

How to use Stripe with PT Distinction via Zapier

In this video, we look at how to use Stripe to take payments that trigger Clients to be added to PT Distinction and Pre Made Packages automatically using Zapier.

Clients adding and selecting their own workouts

Sometimes, our clients may wish to add in their own workout or activities just to let us know what they have been up to.

How to use WooCommerce with PT Distinction

Using WooCommerce with PT Distinction to sell Package may seem like a headache but by following these simple steps you will be up and running selling your packages in Know time.

What Goes Into A Great Online Personal Training Program

Working face to face with your clients, you know what to say and what to do to get results.

Stop Trading Time For Money

“If I buy you a cup of coffee would you work for me for an hour?”

6 steps to powerful and compelling video testimonials every time.

In a world where more and more people buy online based on others' recommendations, testimonials are more important than ever. To stand out from the crowd, why not mix this with the internet's fastest growing form of media, video!