Fitness Business Podcast: Leadership, Innovation, and Profit

Amanda Bond is owner of The Ad Strategist and the creator of the StrADedy System. Entrepreneur Magazine calls her a "Facebook advertising genius", Social Media Examiner named her "the brightest mind in Facebook advertising today" due to her unique mix of creativity and her vast analytical experience from analyzing hundreds of millions of client ad impressions. A fiery personality, Bond mixes education and entertainment in a straight shooting way to show people the right way to do Facebook advertising.

Jan Spaticchia is the Chairman, CEO and co-founder of the énergie Group. With a widespread reputation for his entrepreneurial flair, leadership and vision, Jan has over 24 years' experience in the Health, Fitness and Leisure industry.

Ed Delahenty is the Club General Manager of Goodlife Prahran Victoria. He started as a Membership Consultant, progressed to Sales Manager for Fitness First, progressed to Club Manager for Fitness First then Club Manager at FitNFast. Wanted a better understanding of the Fitness side of the business so became a Personal Trainer to further develop skills in the industry and then for the last 4.5 years Club General Manager for Goodlife.

Mike Michalowicz is the entrepreneur behind three multimillion dollar companies and is the author of Profit First, The Pumpkin Plan and what BusinessWeek deemed the entrepreneur's cult classic, The Toilet Paper Entrepreneur. Mike is a former small business columnist for The Wall Street Journal and the former business makeover specialist on MSNBC. Today Mike travels the world as entrepreneurial advocate speaking to groups just like ours. He is globally recognized as the guy who "challenges out dated business beliefs" and teaches us what to do about it.

Over the next 4 shows you will learn:

1. Recourses to improve your knowledge around financial management
2. Tips for improving cash flow in your business
3. Strategies to reduce expenses
4. How to stick to your New Year financial resolutions

During this weeks show, special guest Thomas Plummer talks about how much of your marketing budget should be allocated to social media marketing, how to use social media to market to prospects at different buying stages, how to use video to market your business and 3 tips for fitness business owners marketing on social media.

Thomas Plummer has been working in the fitness business for over 40 years. He founded the Thomas Plummer Company in 1990, which eventually became the National Fitness Business Alliance (NFBA) in 2003. The NFBA is a group of industry vendors and suppliers banded together to bring advanced business education to all fitness business owners operating anywhere in the world.

Currently, Thomas does about 20 workshops a year around the world and is in front of more than 10,000 people a year through numerous speaking engagements as a keynote speaker, event host and private consultant.

He has authored 10 books on the business of fitness, which have remained the bestselling books in the industry for over 20 years and several of the books are currently used as textbooks in numerous college programs as their source for fitness business education. He also has one of the most popular Facebook sites in the industry with over 100,000 followers where he writes about business and life on an almost daily basis.

Thomas is also the creator of the modern training gym concept in the late 1990s, which has led to a complete revolution in the fitness industry. This new gym concept represents the evolution of the industry and this new generation of gym and owner are now the most financially successful fitness businesses in the world.

Due to the over 100,000 people who attended the seminars during the past decade, coupled with the continuing popularity of his books that have sold over 250,000 copies worldwide since first being introduced in 1999, many industry experts feel that Plummer is the most influential person working in the fitness industry today.

He is perhaps best known for helping young fitness professionals understand and master the business side of the gym business and his "no nonsense" speaking style has kept him as one of the most popular speakers in the world of fitness year after year.

Mike Michalowicz* is the entrepreneur behind three multimillion dollar companies and is the author of Profit First, The Pumpkin Plan and what BusinessWeek deemed the entrepreneur's cult classic, The Toilet Paper Entrepreneur. Mike is a former small business columnist for The Wall Street Journal and the former business makeover specialist on MSNBC. Today Mike travels the world as entrepreneurial advocate speaking to groups just like ours. He is globally recognized as the guy who "challenges out dated business beliefs" and teaches us what to do about it.

Over the 4 shows you will learn:

1. Recourses to improve your knowledge around financial management
2. Tips for improving cash flow in your business
3. Strategies to reduce expenses
4. How to stick to your New Year financial resolutions

In this weeks show special guest Emma Barry talks about the key lessons we can learn from boutique studios.

Emma Barry (LA) is an observer and a catalyst. A founding member of group fitness juggernaut Les Mills International and previous Director of Group Fitness Programming for luxury-lifestyle brand Equinox; Emma has inhaled senior roles in programming, product development, global training, and people & culture. Emma is fluent in what happens NEXT in fitness.

Mike Michalowicz* is the entrepreneur behind three multimillion dollar companies and is the author of Profit First, The Pumpkin Plan and what BusinessWeek deemed the entrepreneur's cult classic, The Toilet Paper Entrepreneur. Mike is a former small business columnist for The Wall Street Journal and the former business makeover specialist on MSNBC. Today Mike travels the world as entrepreneurial advocate speaking to groups just like ours. He is globally recognized as the guy who "challenges out dated business beliefs" and teaches us what to do about it.

Over the next 4 shows you will learn:

1. Recourses to improve your knowledge around financial management
2. Tips for improving cash flow in your business
3. Strategies to reduce expenses
4. How to stick to your New Year financial resolutions

In this weeks show: Questions to ask yourself at the start of a new year, Bad habits to avoid, Maintenance versus Progress tasks, Tips for finding focus and avoiding distraction. Greg Sellars work in the fitness industry has seen him speak and present training workshops in over 55 countries worldwide, training over half a million people in the process. He is a ten-time IDEA World presenter and has been recognised as the International Fitness Presenter of the Year 2010 at the International Fitness Showcase. Having worked with some of the biggest brands in fitness including Nike, Total Gym and BOSU, Greg now delivers keynote speeches and his 30-day LIFEHACK program to corporates. He uses his degree in Sports Science and Coaching accreditation to help people better understand what makes them tick in physical and psychological wellbeing.

Mike Michalowicz* is the entrepreneur behind three multimillion dollar companies and is the author of Profit First, The Pumpkin Plan and what BusinessWeek deemed the entrepreneur's cult classic, The Toilet Paper Entrepreneur.

Over the next 4 shows you will learn:

1. Recourses to improve your knowledge around financial management
2. Tips for improving cash flow in your business
3. Strategies to reduce expenses
4. How to stick to your New Year financial resolutions