How do you market your health club or spa?

Fit Small Business, Fitness, Fitness Marketing, Public Relations, spa marketing, start up marketing, Start up Success

If you are launching a new gym, health club, day spa or healthy destination retreat, check out these marketing strategies at FitSmallBusiness.com that are specific to the health and fitness industry that will give you an edge over your competition.

From embracing the newest in technology to automate your marketing efforts – to creating standout treatments and programs that offer results and make headline news, these tips are guaranteed to help you boost brand awareness and sales.

FitSmallBusiness has established extensive networks of industry experts who bring years of experience and a variety of perspectives to every subject imaginable for startups in health and fitness.

Instagram Basics for Business. A Tutorial

Brand Awareness, Digital Newsroom, Fitness Marketing, future of marketing, growth hacking, instagram, instagram insight, Instagram marketing, marketing on smart phones, Marketing Technology

In May of this year Instagram officially announced it’s new business tools, making it easier for startups to pay to reach their target audience.

Before you start buying Instagram ads, be sure to watch this quick and super helpful tutorial on how to get your business started on Instagram.

I am in the process of filming a full series on how to grow your fans, followers and customers on Instagram and as soon as it is ready, I will add it to ThePRPlaybook.com

In the meantime, I thought I would share this first lecture with you so you can develop a great profile, bio, content and hashtag strategy.

If you have any questions, please comment on the video on my YouTube channel. I look forward to hearing from you.

How to Work with a PR Agency without Losing Your Mind.

Communications, Content management, digital content strategy, Earned Media, PR Agency, press liaison, social media marketing

These tips are for those entrepreneurs and startups who’ve decided to hire a press liaison, or a freelance social media marketer or a larger retainer-based agency.

Note: It’s best to heed this advice before you actually decide to hire one.

However if you’ve decided to blow your marketing budget on a digital agency and you are just not seeing the results you’ve expected, then tune in and follow these recommendations.

Need help navigating the world of PR for your brand? Comment with questions below. I would love to hear from you.

How To Score Media Coverage for Your Brand

collaborations, creative collaboration, Digital Newsroom, Earned Media, Fitness Marketing, growth hacking, Integrated public relations plan, marketing muscle, media relations, Public Relations, The PR Playbook

Yes you need press coverage. No you don’t need a press release. What you need are answers to the most important questions that writers, reporters and bloggers want to know.

In this video, I quickly move through the top 20 questions on every media influencer’s mind.

The Top Three Questions on every writer’s mind. . .

What makes your story newsworthy right now? Why is it so timely?
What problem does it solve? And, is it a big problem?
Will readers and viewers want to share your story?

If you need help reaching out to bloggers, vloggers and writers about your brand story, check out The PR Playbook, a crash course in winning over the media and collaborating with influencers.

Making Money While You Sleep in the Fitness Biz

Brand Awareness, Content management, Fitness, Fitness Marketing, marketing muscle, marketing plans, Uncatergorized

Make money while you sleep? While it sounds to good to be true, it really isn’t. The fact is, a personal trainer can only make a finite amount of income training clients one-on-one. How about scaling that to help thousands of people all over the world get fit and healthy? In this short video, which is a part of my branding, marketing and public relations series for FitnessMentors, I share ideas about how to grow your fitness empire, the importance of planning your social media activities and how to differentiate yourself from the rest of the fitness world.

Links include –

Scale your fitness business with video courses on Teachable
or UStream.

Jillian Michaels inspiration for fitness brands Sweat Inc.

Why a simple marketing outline and calendar will work in the beginning even though there are so many new marketing tools to help you too.

A simple solution called Evernote to keep you organized.

I’m curious, do you have a fitness brand your launching? Share it below!