Being a Fitness Influencer vs a Fitness Business Owner

<p>Apply for The Personal Trainers Business Incubator:</p> <p>https://zakkcolburn.typeform.com/to/UDoxri</p> <p>Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/zakkcolburn/</p> <p>YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/ZakkColburn/videos</p> <p>The Journey Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/6T4hYvQB8CAVzpXn6tLzVm</p> <p>My Book Cutting Strings on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0933MQRCZ?pf_rd_r=AKKS5XHRQV63Z1FVP9A7&amp;pf_rd_p=5ae2c7f8-e0c6-4f35-9071-dc3240e894a8&amp;pd_rd_r=972d9327-8a84-44ca-9bb1-a1fa78ec2cf2&amp;pd_rd_w=oYdeY&amp;pd_rd_wg=RZ2Xw&amp;ref_=pd_gw_unk</p> <p><br></p> <p>Today I want to talk about the difference between being a fitness &nbsp;influencer vs being a fitness coach, or more specifically being a &nbsp;fitness business owner. &nbsp;When I first started my fitness journey I wanted to be a fitness &nbsp;influencer. &nbsp;I wanted to be sponsored and I wanted to have hundreds of thousands of &nbsp;followers because I thought that is what would lead to my monetary &nbsp;goals. &nbsp;As I got deeper and deeper into the influencer side of the fitness &nbsp;industry, I realized that a lot of influencers weren’t actually making &nbsp;that much money. &nbsp;A lot of my friends who had much larger followings than myself were &nbsp;actually making less than me. And working a nine-to-five job to just make ends meet. This is when I realized that being an influencer doesn’t automatically &nbsp;equal the monetary success that I was striving for. &nbsp;And then what blew my mind was I had friends who had fewer followers &nbsp;than me but were making more money than me. &nbsp;All because they were offering a service with their instagram pages. &nbsp;So I switched my focus from being an influencer to being a business, and &nbsp;THAT is where I got the monetary success that I wanted.</p>