
Jesse Schmidt and Liam Bauer
Liam Bauer and Jesse Schmidt are the owners of TNT Strength, a strength training studio in Oakland, California. TNT Strength has been in operation since April 2021 and currently features 3 strength training coaches serving 65 clients with HIT influenced exercise protocols.
Liam and Jesse are passionate about the life-changing and performance-enhancing effects of strength training, and they look forward to expanding their influence to help even more people in the future.
In this episode, Liam and Jesse share their business journey (starting and growing TNT Strength), client acquisition tactics, marketing strategies, business systems, and much more.
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Show Notes
- 4:06 – The transition to becoming studio owners
- 8:26 – Finding the studio space and equipment
- 24:20 – Client acquisition and growth strategies
- 33:39 – The value of systems and customer experience
- 48:00 – TNT Strength’s referral program
- 50:53 – Thoughts on training/business dynamics
- 57:47 – Marketing tactics, referral conversion rate
- 1:08:47 – Having a business partner: Yes or No?
Selected Links from the Episode
- TNT Strength
- Truth Not Trends Podcast
- COVID
- Black Iron Strength®
- Entrepreneurial Operating System (EOS)
- Traction: Get a Grip on Your Business by Gino Wickman
- eBay
- Nautilus Nitro
- MedX Machines
- Live Oak Strength
- Technogym
- BodyMasters
- Star Trac®
- Nautilus Nitro Evo
- IHRSA
- Harambe System
- TRX
- Business Network International (BNI)
- Rotary Club
- #114: Strength Therapy with Brian & Peter Collins!
- Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies by Jim Collins
- Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap and Others Don’t by Jim Collins
- Exercise.com
- SuperSlow
- Metronome
- Discover Strength
- Yelp
- Facebook Ads
- Bark.com
- Quantify Fitness
- Profit First: Transform Your Business from a Cash-Eating Monster to a Money-Making Machine by Mike Michalowicz
- The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don’t Work and What to Do About It by Michael Gerber
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