My boyfriend wants to be a private soccer trainer when he’s older. He’s 18 now and is already starting off. He is getting a website made and sending a mass email to the people of the local soccer organization. he’s planning to start at charging about 20 to 25 dollars an hour. he is later going to study sports management in college and is going to spend a lot of money on helpful equipment once he gets some promising clients. now here are my questions.
1. If he markets himself well, how many kids do you think he could get for the summer?
2. Could he later make a full time job with this?
3. How many clients do you think he could get by the time he gets regular with this later in his life?
4. how much should he charge after a few more years of experience
5. What are some good tips and advice for starting this business up?
6. How long should he expect to work at this for it to really become a serious job?
7. when he does this way later in his life and has more time, how many kids do you think he would be able to get with his experience and marketing.
By the way, he is planning on having an extra job on the side like teaching but if its possible for him to rely on just this he will. So i guess thats just what were trying to figure out. If its common and how hard it would be to have this be his main job. he is on some of the best teams in the state and plans to play college soccer as well.
December 22nd, 2009 at 5:06 am
He should be a qualified football coach and be trained in child protection, first aid, and health and safety (he could do these courses at college). It is indeed possible to do this job full time. He should contact local schools. He would then be able to go into schools and coach the children during their PE lessons or free time. This happens a lot in England. Your boyfriend could then coach all year round. Even in the winter, he could hire an indoor venue and still make a profit. A friend of mine does exactly this. Good luck. Oh, your boyfriend will need a car.
December 24th, 2009 at 6:26 pm
Loki is right about going into schools, your boyfriend could have another job because alot of the coaching can be late on during the day when kids get out of school…
but it depends on were abouts in america he is because getting kids to come to sessions in the summer will be tricky in certain places as there is alot of soccer camps set up all over america…
what i think he could do is set up his own business and book leisure centres all over the state maybe were he lives and just takes 1 hour sessions in these centres, a car will be needed to get to these, but if he can get about 15 20 kids to each leisure centre and charge a couple dollars per kid he will make alot of money, what i do in northern ireland is i work for a soccer company and that’s what we do we have centres all over northern ireland and have soccer sessions everyday of the week and at some leisure centres we have 15 kids and at others we have 30, and the kids have to sign up for 6 weeks and pay £30 which is £5 a week then, and after the 6 weeks they sign up for another 6 weeks again at £30 per child, and we go from ages 2-13 years old, so we have a toddler session which is ages 2-5 we take them for an hour doing soccer activities then then older kids 6-13 come on for an hour and for them 2 hours you cold have 30 or 40 kids…
he really needs to think it all through work out what way he wants to set it up and think of a realist number of kids he could get, and check for any other companies doing the same…