Land $3K Gym Clients

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🔥 FRESH IDEA

Many gym owners are incredible trainers but make terrible marketers. They've tried Facebook ads, bought leads from aggregators, and watched potential members ghost after the first contact. Their follow-up systems are either nonexistent or embarrassingly bad.

This gap is your opportunity. You don't need to be a marketing genius. You need to be slightly better than the disaster they're currently running. That bar is low.

The audit approach works because it's risk-free for them. Walk into any gym, offer to analyze their lead flow for free. Within an hour, you'll identify at least five places they're losing potential members. Slow response times, broken automations, and confusing booking processes. The problems are always there.

GoHighLevel is your secret weapon. The platform enables you to build comprehensive CRM and automation systems that integrate seamlessly with your existing setup. No migration headaches. No learning curve. You configure it once and it runs.

The system you build is simple: lead comes in, automated text goes out within 60 seconds, follow-up sequence nurtures for 14 days, booking link makes scheduling frictionless. Most gyms don't have this. They are missing calls, take hours to follow up with leads, and waste money on bad FB ads. When you install it, their close rates jump immediately.

Price the setup at $1,500 to $3,000. Include 90 days of support while they learn the system. Offer ongoing management at $500 to $1,000 monthly for gyms that want hands-off operation and fulltime Facebook Ad management..

Gym Launch case studies prove the model works at scale. Alex Hormozi built an empire serving this exact market. The demand is validated. You're not creating a market. You're serving an underserved one in your local area.

🔎 MARGIN HACK

Stop quoting individual projects that require constant selling. Start selling monthly retainers instead. Here’s why: a $2,000 per month retainer beats a $6,000 project because it renews automatically without requiring you to close a new deal.

The math compounds. That $6,000 project takes three months to complete, then you're back to zero. A $2,000 monthly retainer generates $6,000 in three months—then another $6,000 the next quarter without additional sales effort.

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💸 HUSTLE WINS

Greg Rog - (LearnUX): LearnUX is a UX/UI learning site built around straightforward training that helps people level up specific design skills without the “big bootcamp” vibe. Greg started it by turning what he knew as a UX practitioner into a focused curriculum people could actually finish, then used search + creator distribution to keep demand consistent.

Bruce Jones (1ON1 SEO Training): Bruce teaches business owners (and teams) how to do SEO and digital marketing effectively, instead of selling endless implementation. He built it by packaging years of client work into repeatable training formats (often 1:1-based), then selling that expertise as an ongoing service.

Tracie Fobes (Blogging products + courses): Tracie’s business is “blogging as a skill” packaged into courses and bundles that help people start, grow, and monetize blogs (plus tactical trainings like sponsored content and WordPress). She started by building blogs herself, learning what actually made money, then turning those repeatable systems into products people could buy instead of hiring her 1:1.

💥 CASE STUDY

The Shopify App Store is basically an “add-ons marketplace” for Shopify merchants. Shopify handles the core storefront, checkout, and payments, and merchants install apps to add the stuff they still need: upsells, subscriptions, reviews, bundles, shipping rules, support chat, WhatsApp automations, and more. Shopify itself pitches this as the “Shopify app advantage,” with 8,000+ apps and a vetting/review process before apps appear in the store

Why this is such a good business if you can code: distribution is built in. You’re not cold-emailing random companies. You’re putting a solution where merchants already go shopping for solutions. And because apps usually charge monthly subscriptions, you get compounding revenue: one build can sell to hundreds or thousands of stores with near-zero marginal cost.

The economics can be strong. Starter Story’s dataset estimates an average Shopify app does around $893K/year with an estimated ~45% gross margin (directional benchmark, not a guarantee).

And real examples show the range:

Shopify apps aren’t “apps.” They’re recurring revenue wrappers around one painful problem (returns, shipping rules, bundles, invoices, attribution, CRO). Build the narrow fix, price it like it saves time or makes money, and let the App Store be your distribution.