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The PTDC

The Personal Trainer Development Center — a long-running publication and community focused on the business of coaching rather than on programming.

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Visit The PTDCFree articles and newsletter; paid programmes and mentorship

What it is

A large archive of articles on getting clients, pricing, retention and going online, written by working coaches, plus a newsletter and paid mentorship programmes built on the same material.

Best for

The trainer who is good at training and bad at business — which is most of them. The free archive alone answers a lot of the questions that keep coaches underpaid.

Watch out for

The free content funnels toward paid programmes, as you would expect. The advice skews toward the online-coaching business model, which is not the only viable one.

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