February 4, 2012

Buying Domains At A Discount

I’ve spent some of this afternoon chatting with one of my Fast Implementation and Web Angels clients about domains, about how and where to buy them from.

Whilst there is a science behind buying the “right” domain, there is also some sneaky ways to make it cheaper to buy your domain from certain domain registrars (the guys who basically look after your domain).

Weird Name Great Domain Host

GoDaddy NASCAR TeamI choose to use GoDaddy (yeah I know weird name!) as my domain registrar for my domains as it is one of the largest and probably the most powerful registrar on the market. These guys sponsor NASCAR teams and have adverts during the SuperBowl, they are really that BIG.

This helps for many reasons, one of which is the ability to make changes to where the domain points if you decide to move your hosting. I have had numerous issues before where domain registrar’s have taken up to a week to change a domain, which can really mess with your website go live dates!!

Anyway, the other reason for using GoDaddy is I can use what is known as “PROMO Codes”

What Is A Promo Code?

Promo Codes are a great way to get a discount on your purchases… and if you’re buying lots of domains for multiple years this can save a reasonable amount of cash.

For example the long standing PROMO code for GoDaddy is “PROMO749

If you use this during the checkout process when buying your next .com domain name, your investment is reduced from over 10 dollars a year per domain to about $7.49…

I say about as this does vary, because the tax may need to be applied and also the price does vary from time to time… Ultimately you’ll get about 25% discount.

If you are in the UK you can still get discounts on .co.uk domains, but you may need to hunt for a different PROMO code… one that’s working right now is “gda948a

Normally a quick search on Google for GoDaddy Promo Code will bring up all sorts of entries, its just you may need to search a bit for an up to date code, as they do expire.

Anyway I’ve included a link below which will take you to GoDaddy.com with the PROMO code already applied… just go hunt for your domain and the discount is already applied.

In the comments below put your domain name that you’ve just bought, if only to get the back link to your website for Search Engine Optimization purposes.

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What is FTP, And How Can It Help Personal Trainers Part 2

Here is the second video for FTP. This really is all there is too it with FTP… just a simple application that lets you drag and drop your files to your website hosting account.

Drop your comments below… I appreciate that FTP is not the most sexy of topics, but hey anything can look sexy if it saves you some cash :o )

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Boxing Class Sold Out In FIVE Hours

Imagine what it would be like to sell out your bootcamp this month in less than five hours. 4000 dollars in five hours is something I think all of us would get excited by.

But this is exactly what one of my trainers has achieved just a few days ago, following the blueprint of the Group Training Success System.

It comes off the back of 6 months of selling out her boxing fitness class since implementing the blueprint, and she sent out a single email to her list on Friday at 3pm and she asked me to shut down her sign up page just before 8pm the same day.

The thing is Luxembourg is not the biggest place… in fact go look on a map to find it. It is about 40 miles wide east to west and about 70 miles north to south and that’s the whole country!!

To sell out a boxing class, NOT a bootcamp or spinning class, or pilates, but Boxing is something very specialised, appealing to a certain type of person… sold out in just 5 hours.

The Group Training Success System is available right now. Take action today and implement this incredible system to fill your groups and your bank balance every month!

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Why Does Google Not Tell Us About This?

Today is a really busy day for me, I am frantically pulling together the last details for the launch of the Group Training Success System which starts tomorrow afternoon! (and I have a full day of Personal Training tomorrow as well!)

Anyway I came across a great little resource the other day. It came right from Google itself, and it is a guide to website Search Engine Optimisation

It doesn’t release any of Google’s algorithm secrets, but it does cover Google’s best practices for title tags, meta tags, URL structure, navigation, content, anchor text, headers, images and of course, Robots.txt, making this a good way to review the basics and make sure you have that stuff down correctly.

Hope you find this little gift useful and I’ll speak to you all again tomorrow, with details of the launch. I hope you are ready for all this?

Official Search Optimization Starter Guide (PDF)

Tim

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Can Community Really Do This For Your Bootcamp?

Yesterday I was telling you about what happened on my first bootcamp and how I lost 50% of my profits without getting people to pay up front!

Ouch, I was annoyed and angry with myself for making that mistake!

However there was one aspect I did get right from day 1 of my bootcamp and that was my focus on community!

…and for once I am not talking about those online communities like Facebook, Twitter, or your NING sites (however all of these can, and do, play a part in this)

Do you think this was a powerful interaction?

Do you think this was a powerful interaction?

As much as I embrace technology for many things in my business, I recognise that real human face to face interaction is 100 times more powerful, and something to truely nurture and embrace at all possible occasions.

I have been to fitness classes in commercial gyms where no one talked to each other, the changing rooms are deathly quiet before and after the workouts. No body exchanging telephone numbers, email addresses or even comments about what they thought about the music the instructor played!

What a shame!!

So when I started the ForestFit bootcamp I was adamant this would never be the situation in any session EVER.

You can easily implement exercises that require interaction between participants, getting them up close and personal with each other, sharing the experience. This can happen in the warm up, the actual workout and in the stretches at the end.

I have found simple tricks for everyone to learn everybody elses name within 2 sessions. It really doesn’t take too much imagination to implement this in to your programs.

The key now is in the experienced members of the group knowing exactly how this works. They now introduce themselves and actively find people they don’t know at the first workout of the month.

This support role, as a community, is what creates retention in my bootcamps at extra ordinarily high levels.

Team spirit on the worst day of the year!

Team spirit on the worst day of the year!

The community is strengthened yet further with joint sporting goals, doing a 5km run together, creating a touch rugby team for a local charity event, organising social occasions and celebrating group members birthdays.

Once you have created a bond between your clients they never want to miss a session, they never want to be left out the teams, and the socials are something really special.

If someone was to ask me why my bootcamp has been so successful, I would say just one word…

Community!

Tim

PS. On Monday you’ll hear more about community and why it can boost your bootcamp retention and referrals. Keep an eye on your email over the next few days for the big announcement. This is no 35 buck e-book, it is full blueprint to success with setting up and running a group training program.

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