How To Start A Personal Training Blog To Attract Clients Quicker Than You Think

By Mike Gates | January 28, 2010 | Popularity: unranked (?)

How to Start a Personal Training Blog to Attract Clients should be part of your business plan if you are a personal trainer. A blog is short for web log. It is a great way to establish your online presence. A blog is not a website but you can use a blog in the same way as a website to promote your business. A blog has many advantages over a website.

But a blog is easier and cheaper to build. You can go to a free blogging service and build a blog for the cost of your time. A website costs you money to rent hosting space.

There are many free tutorials available online to watch and see how to build a blog. You can be up and running in well under a half an hour. And if you are used to using a word processor you can easily keep your blog updated with new and fresh content.

This is the key to an effective blog site. Keep your blog updated with fresh and new content and the search engines will reward you with a high ranking on their results pages. The higher your ranking under a specific search term and the more likely you will be seen when somebody searches online for information about personal trainers. A website that has become static will not rank as high; one that has no new content. But your blog will be ranked high when you commit to adding fresh content daily.

You can blog about fitness tips and diet tips. You will establish yourself as the expert in physical training as you offer valuable content to your blog visitors. You will have your contact information on your blog like you would if you had a website. But because people will see new content each day on your blog you will have more traffic than a static website. They will be more likely to contact you because they are on your blog regularly.

Also have an about yourself page on your blog to list your qualifications. Post fitness tips and information on how you help people get in shape and better their lives through health and fitness. And try to make a post if not every day then at least three to five times a week.

You can offer discounts to those who visit your blog daily. You can invite people to contribute to the blog. Ask people to list what is there three concerns about fitness and diet. When you answer they will see that you take their concerns seriously. This will make them feel like part of the community.

Once you have your blog up you can then go to online forums that people looking to lose weight and get into shape visit. Do not go on these forums to promote your business. Instead go on with the plan to help others looking for answers to their training questions. Then you can put a link to your blog in the signature section of your forum post. As people read your forum answers they will want to know more about you and visit your blog. You might pick up some new customers with your forum posts.

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