We’d love to hear what you think about our plans and more importantly what should we build into the app that would help you to use The Trackster? If you have any suggestions or feedback please leave a comment below.

Invoice – When you log into your account you will notice that there is a new navigation item called Invoice.  You can now send out invoices from The Trackster to all of your clients and also send a copy to your bookkeeper to save time later.  All your invoices will be in one spot and guaranteed to be delivered to your clients.

Email Marketing – Another new navigation item is Newsletters.  From here you will be able to send out Email Newsletters to all of your current, past and even prospective clients.  You can even target specific groups, for instance you might want to let all your current clients know about a special you are running, or just let your prospective clients know about an exlusive offer.  After the email campaign is sent you can then get access to reports about who opened your emails and where they clicked – invaluable information for future newsletters.

We hope that by introducing these two new features that The Trackster will become an integral part of your Personal Training business.

If you already have an account, there is nothing to do but simply log in and these new features will be available.  If you don’t have an account, we offer a 30 Day Free Trial with full access to all the features to see if it suits your business.

If you have any feedback or suggestions for new features please feel free to get in contact.

In an article on stevehochman.com, Craig Ballantyne has written a guest post about 5 Marketing activities a trainer should do each month.  It’s a great article with some great tips for Personal Trainers (or anyone in business really) that’s well worth your time.

I want to concentrate on tip 2 – Increase and improve consistency of client contact.  This one is close to my heart, because it’s the very reason why we built The Trackster – to help Personal Trainers communicate with their clients.

Excuse me for 10 seconds while I give you the sales spiel – By using The Trackster in your Personal Training business, you can send email messages to one or all your clients, send sms text messages to one or all your clients, send email marketing newsletters to all your clients plus prospective and past clients, along with tracking your clients training programs and goals, plus much more.  End of sales spiel

Another great tip is using Facebook and setting up fan pages.  There is plenty of great information out there about using Facebook for your business.  Mashable.com has one of the most comprehensive guides to using Facebook for your business, from the basics right through to using Facebook apps to promote your business.

With all the free information available to anyone on the internet, and through local libraries and through tv shows etc, anyone can find information about getting fit, keeping fit, eating properly and being healthy.  Personal Trainers are a great source of this information, but let’s face it, you can get it anywhere.  What a person can’t get anywhere is motivation and support.  That’s where the Personal Trainer comes into their own.  Motivation and support.  And communication is a crucial part of that.

Communication is where Personal Trainers can differentiate themselves in this business.

Do you know of any other ways trainers can communicate better with their clients?

One piece of advice that is constantly thrown around when people advise others on what business to start or what web site to build, is to “eat your own dog food”.  This essentially means to work on something that you want to use.  Solve a problem that you have.  If you have a certain problem that you need solving then it’s reasonable to believe that others will have the same problem – solve that problem and there you have the start of a business.

Like I said, I’m not a Personal Trainer.  However, I have been to many PT’s in my life time.  Most of them were good trainers, and I have enjoyed doing it.  Although I have enjoyed working with PT’s, I always felt that there was something missing.  You do your session and then that’s it, off you go until next week.  I was looking for that extra motivation to help me continue the program or keep going along to the trainer.

If you do a quick 5 minute search on google about motivation, you’ll quickly discover that some of the keys are to set S.M.A.R.T. goals and to keep track of your progress.  Also having someone help you (the PT) and giving you a kick in the pants when required is extremely helpful.  This is where I thought The Trackster could help.

Obviously the seed was started there and after a lot of research and talking to PT’s, The Trackster developed and was built with the intention of helping Personal Trainers run their business and also help their clients become more successful in achieving their goals.

The Trackster is a communication tool at heart.  Helps keep the communication between the trainer and client ongoing and consistent, without being overbearing and time consuming.  We have many more ideas to keep adding to The Trackster, and if you have any suggestions or comments please get in touch or comment below.

I did one with The Trackster’s concept plan.

I thought this was pretty cool, so I’m actually using it on my business cards.  Something a bit different anyway.

Check it out and have fun with some of your own text.

We built The Trackster with the purpose of helping Personal Trainers communicate with and motivate their clients.  Helping their clients get the most out of the Personal Training experience.

We have provided a 30 day free trial for all new sign ups, so get in and have a look around, add your clients and start communicating and motivating.

Please feel free to get in contact with any feedback, good or bad, and help us make it the best online software for Personal Trainer’s out there.

Also like to send out a big thankyou to Myles at MadPilot Productions who has worked really hard to help put it all together, and also Levi at Clever Starfish who has helped with the design.

We hope you enjoy.

Just want to quickly introduce the website, let you know who we are and what we are trying to achieve.

The Trackster is an online tool for Personal Trainers to communicate and motivate their clients.  As part of the site we are also launching this blog.

We have some ideas for how we want our blog to work, but mainly we want to use it to help Personal Trainer’s out there with their business.  Don’t worry, we’ll be keeping you up to date with The Trackster and any news and updates that come to hand as well.

Some of the things we want to have an our blog include:

• Feature articles about the business of being a trainer
• Links and quick tidbits from around the internet that would be of interest to PT’s.
• Interviews with successful trainers and practitioners in the industry.
• Quick hints and tips.
• Product reviews.
• News and updates about The Trackster.

Hopefully the blog might be useful for all Personal Trainer’s out there.

If you have any suggestions or feedback, please feel free to get in touch with us, either through commenting on posts or on our contact page.