FBU 586: You Can't Create Success If You Identify As Someone Who Is Stuck Or Struggling All The Time

Evergreen funnels and live launches can work together in your business. You can always set up your evergreen offers to run on paid ads and generate passive sales, but while the setup is simple, making them profitable requires one to two months of patient testing and tweaking of ad copy, sales pages, and offer flow. Live launches, on the other hand, work primarily through organic promotion, and follow a three-part structure: a waitlist, a free or low-ticket lead magnet experience, and a time-limited open cart period. Doing both is one of the best things you can do for your business.   Get on the Priority List for Jill's brand new offer, Mini Course Mastery! https://jillfitfree.com/mini-course-waitlist/   Get on the waitlist for FBA: https://jillfitfree.com/fba-waitlist/     Jill is a fitness professional and business coach who effectively made the transition from training clients in person and having no time to build anything else to training clients online and actually being more successful. Today, Jill helps other coaches to do the same.   Connect with me! Instagram: @jillfit | @fitbizu Facebook: @jillfit Website: jillfit.com

Evergreen sales are historically harder than live launches, mainly due to lack of built-in urgency, so today, Jill is sharing practical ways to overcome that challenge. Right now, people are looking for micro solutions for their micro problems—that means focused, low-ticket mini courses priced roughly between $17–$497 that people can consume over a weekend and implement immediately. There are several tactics you can try for adding real urgency to evergreen offers, including flash sales, cohort-style enrollment windows, tripwire offers on freebie thank-you pages, self-liquidating offer funnels, and deadline funnel software, but that urgency should always be genuine and never manufactured. Just because evergreen sales are difficult, doesn't mean they're impossible.    Get on the Priority List for Jill's brand new offer, Mini Course Mastery! https://jillfitfree.com/mini-course-waitlist/   Get on the waitlist for FBA: https://jillfitfree.com/fba-waitlist/     Jill is a fitness professional and business coach who effectively made the transition from training clients in person and having no time to build anything else to training clients online and actually being more successful. Today, Jill helps other coaches to do the same.   Connect with me! Instagram: @jillfit | @fitbizu Facebook: @jillfit Website: jillfit.com

This episode kicks off a brand new podcast mini-series, called "Sell Now" aimed to help you make sales in your business faster and easier. Today, Jill introduces the concept of methodology as a key driver of easier sales. There's a difference between a macro method, which is your high-level coaching philosophy and big "dial movers" that define your overall brand, and a micro method, which is a specific, named roadmap built into each individual product or program. Today's buyers don't want massive, months-long courses; they want targeted micro solutions to micro problems, and when you package your expertise into a memorable system or framework, you make the intangible tangible.    Get on the Interest List for Jill's brand new offer, Mini Course Mastery! https://jillfitfree.com/mini-course-waitlist/   Get on the waitlist for FBA: https://jillfitfree.com/fba-waitlist/     Jill is a fitness professional and business coach who effectively made the transition from training clients in person and having no time to build anything else to training clients online and actually being more successful. Today, Jill helps other coaches to do the same.   Connect with me! Instagram: @jillfit | @fitbizu Facebook: @jillfit Website: jillfit.com

Brand building and business skill development are not the same, so it's important for internet entrepreneurs not to get distracted by shiny-object marketing tactics like miracle funnels and ad scripts at the expense of the bigger picture. Today Jill shares her "three M's" framework for building a powerful personal brand—Mastery (expert content), Methodology (your signature system), and Me (personal, human stories). A strong brand is an anti-fragile asset that compounds over time, while duct-taped-together strategies are easily disrupted by algorithm changes or shifting buyer behavior. Granular tactics like A/B testing, copy optimization, and funnel building absolutely have their place, but only as skills developed alongside consistent brand-building, not as substitutes for it.   Get on the waitlist for FBA: https://jillfitfree.com/fba-waitlist/   Join the Strategy Lab: https://www.jillfitprograms.com/the-strategy-lab   Jill is a fitness professional and business coach who effectively made the transition from training clients in person and having no time to build anything else to training clients online and actually being more successful. Today, Jill helps other coaches to do the same.   Connect with me! Instagram: @jillfit | @fitbizu Facebook: @jillfit Website: jillfit.com

It's not enough to just sell a course anymore. Your courses and programs must have utility—meaning they should prioritize implementation and transformation over pure education. The era of big, robust, DIY courses packed with information is fading, but the great news is that micro courses and action-oriented programs are on the rise. Information alone won't get your clients results. What they need are tools like templates, checklists, scripts, swipe files, roadmaps, and plug-and-play systems that make taking action easy and remove the guesswork.    Get on the waitlist for FBA: https://jillfitfree.com/fba-waitlist/   Join the Strategy Lab: https://www.jillfitprograms.com/the-strategy-lab   Jill is a fitness professional and business coach who effectively made the transition from training clients in person and having no time to build anything else to training clients online and actually being more successful. Today, Jill helps other coaches to do the same.   Connect with me! Instagram: @jillfit | @fitbizu Facebook: @jillfit Website: jillfit.com

Does internet marketing work outside of the US? The core principles of online business—building trust through competency and relatedness, showing up consistently, genuine connection, storytelling, strong messaging, and integrity—are universal. Some adjustments may be necessary depending on the local culture, but these are simply tactical considerations, not reasons to avoid building a business. Don't let your location become a limiting belief or excuse. People everywhere have problems they need solved and are willing to pay for solutions, and that the fundamentals of brand-building always apply no matter where you live.   Get on the waitlist for FBA: https://jillfitfree.com/fba-waitlist/   Join the Strategy Lab: https://www.jillfitprograms.com/the-strategy-lab   Jill is a fitness professional and business coach who effectively made the transition from training clients in person and having no time to build anything else to training clients online and actually being more successful. Today, Jill helps other coaches to do the same.   Connect with me! Instagram: @jillfit | @fitbizu Facebook: @jillfit Website: jillfit.com

In this episode, Jill responds to a listener question about how to keep showing up in your business during major personal upheaval, drawing from her own experience leaving her first marriage in 2015. While a difficult season of life, like a breakup or divorce, can shake your confidence, it doesn't erase your expertise or your ability to help others. Getting out of your own head through service to others is one of the most powerful ways to pull yourself through hard times, since rumination keeps you stuck while action moves you forward. You don't need to have everything figured out to add value to someone else's life.   Get on the waitlist for FBA: https://jillfitfree.com/fba-waitlist/   Join the Strategy Lab: https://www.jillfitprograms.com/the-strategy-lab   Jill is a fitness professional and business coach who effectively made the transition from training clients in person and having no time to build anything else to training clients online and actually being more successful. Today, Jill helps other coaches to do the same.   Connect with me! Instagram: @jillfit | @fitbizu Facebook: @jillfit Website: jillfit.com

You can't create success if you identify as someone who is constantly stuck or struggling. Like on social media, many new fitness entrepreneurs feel frustration when their content gets little to no engagement, but the energy you bring to your business—one of possibility versus pessimism—directly impacts your results and your ability to attract clients. It might be time to reframe low engagement not as failure but as practice, to find gratitude in small wins, and to use tools like visualization to maintain an abundance mindset. The algorithm, the likes, and the outcomes are largely neutral. It's your perception and energy that determine whether you keep showing up and ultimately succeed.   Get on the waitlist for FBA: https://jillfitfree.com/fba-waitlist/   Join the Strategy Lab: https://www.jillfitprograms.com/the-strategy-lab   Jill is a fitness professional and business coach who effectively made the transition from training clients in person and having no time to build anything else to training clients online and actually being more successful. Today, Jill helps other coaches to do the same.   Connect with me! Instagram: @jillfit | @fitbizu Facebook: @jillfit Website: jillfit.com

After 15 years of online business under her belt, Kyra Williams still hit a wall. What she needed was strategy. In this episode, Kyra opens up about restarting her business from scratch after a partnership ended, the stagnation that led her to finally join FBA last September, and how checking her ego was the key to embracing mentorship after years of going it alone. Jill and Kyra discuss the power of committing to a system over piecing together random strategies, the importance of community for honest feedback and perspective shifts, and why posting imperfect content is a necessary step toward finding your authentic voice online.    Fitness Business Accelerator is now open! Join HERE! https://www.jillfitprograms.com/fba-2026   Connect with Kyra! https://www.instagram.com/kyrawilliamsfitness/   Jill is a fitness professional and business coach who effectively made the transition from training clients in person and having no time to build anything else to training clients online and actually being more successful. Today, Jill helps other coaches to do the same.   Connect with me! Instagram: @jillfit | @fitbizu Facebook: @jillfit Website: jillfit.com

Megan Dell went from getting crickets in a local moms' Facebook group to landing a year-long client within seconds of posting, and the only thing that changed was her messaging. Today, Jill and Megan chat about  building a flexible online fitness business that you can literally toggle on and off depending on the season of your life. After leaving a career in the hotel industry, Megan got certified as a health coach and personal trainer, but quickly realized that knowing your craft and knowing how to sell it are two completely different skills. Since joining FBA a year ago, she's nearly doubled her prices, built out an offer suite that includes in-person training, group coaching, and DIY video courses, traveled with her family, spent summers present with her kids, and still managed to sign new clients the moment she's ready for them, all by doing exactly what she learned, word for word, rep by rep, until it became second nature.   Fitness Business Accelerator is now open! Join HERE! https://www.jillfitprograms.com/fba-2026   Connect with Megan! https://www.instagram.com/get.fit.with.megan/ https://getfitwithmegan.com/   Jill is a fitness professional and business coach who effectively made the transition from training clients in person and having no time to build anything else to training clients online and actually being more successful. Today, Jill helps other coaches to do the same.   Connect with me! Instagram: @jillfit | @fitbizu Facebook: @jillfit Website: jillfit.com