Business & Clients
Today's Two Posts Both End In A Client Saying Yes, And PT Manager's Booking Room Keeps It
From the FASTER syllabus: this article is taught in full in PT Manager, free with any FASTER course →
In short: Today's first post gave the four-step method for coaching a bird dog properly. Today's second gave the feel, felt, found method for answering a client who says the price feels high. Both end at the same moment: a client saying yes. PT Manager's booking room is a trainer's own booking link, their own calendar and their own Stripe account, so that yes turns into an actual session on the calendar and money in the trainer's own account, not a third-party app's, without either skill going to waste.
Two skills, and neither one books a session by itself
Knowing why a client's hips rock toward the reaching arm on a bird dog, and being able to fix it by cueing resistance instead of balance, is useful. Knowing how to turn "it's quite costly" into a yes instead of a lost lead is useful too. Neither one puts a client on a calendar or a payment in a trainer's account until somewhere exists to do that.
Where the yes gets kept
PT Manager's booking room is a trainer's own link, their own calendar and their own Stripe account behind it. A client who's just heard the feel, felt, found answer to their price worry clicks that link, picks a slot, and pays, all in the trainer's own name, on the trainer's own calendar. Nothing routes through a third-party booking app first.
Whose money this is
Payments run through the trainer's own Stripe account, "the money never touches FASTER." That's the difference between this and the booking apps most trainers already pay a monthly fee to use: no cut taken on the way through, no separate login for a client to manage, no second subscription eating into the margin a well-handled objection just won.
Why the two things belong together
A trainer who's read today's earlier two posts now has a movement worth coaching properly and a way to answer the one thing that usually stops a client signing up. Without somewhere for that client to book and pay, both stay exactly what they were before reading this: things a trainer knows, not sessions on a calendar.
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Also worth a look: Fitness Business Accelerator, today's second post in full.
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Does PT Manager take a cut of the booking?
No. Payments run through the trainer's own Stripe account, so the money goes straight to them, not through FASTER first.
Can a client book and pay in the same step?
Yes, the booking link carries both, a client picks a slot on the trainer's own calendar and pays through the trainer's own Stripe account in one place.
How does this connect to today's earlier two posts?
The bird dog post gave a trainer something worth coaching well, the objection post gave a way to turn a client's hesitation into a yes, and the booking room is where that yes becomes an actual session on the calendar.
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