{"podcast":{"title":"Behind Gym Doors | A Fitness Business Podcast","slug":"behind-gym-doors-a-fitness-business-podcast-1118024","podcast_index_feed_id":1118024,"rss_url":"https://thegsdshowaudio.libsyn.com/gsdaudio","website_url":"https://www.gsdgyms.com/podcasts/","image_url":"https://static.libsyn.com/p/assets/f/f/c/6/ffc6c987a65af69a16c3140a3186d450/New_Artwork.png","author":"Mike Arce","episode_count":446,"summary":"We cover the most common challenges in the fitness industry to help you overcome them and GSD! This podcast is also available in high-def video and audio only formats. -- Read the show: https://gsdgyms.com/podcast Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/GSDgyms Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/gsdgyms YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@GSD-gyms","last_synced_at":"2026-07-17T08:18:54.397949+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/behind-gym-doors-a-fitness-business-podcast-1118024"},"episode":{"title":"#438: 9 Sales Mistakes Your Gym is Making","slug":"438-9-sales-mistakes-your-gym-is-making","published_at":"2026-05-07T20:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/behind-gym-doors-a-fitness-business-podcast-1118024/438-9-sales-mistakes-your-gym-is-making","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/behind-gym-doors-a-fitness-business-podcast-1118024","url":"https://thegsdshowaudio.libsyn.com/438-9-sales-mistakes-your-gym-is-making","audio_url":"https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/thegsdshowaudio/438__9_Sales_Mistakes_Your_Gym_is_Making_-_Audio.mp3?dest-id=498498","summary":"🔥 Fire Your Ad Agency — LIVE Workshop for Gym Owners — June 16th, 1pm PT Learn why most gym ad agencies are costing you more than they're making you — and what to do instead. Limited seats. Register → GSDlive.com —————————————————— 80% of gyms are making at least half of these mistakes. And the brutal part? They're subtle. You won't catch them on your own. But once you see them, you can't unsee them — and you'll feel it every single time you're about to make one. In this episode, Mike Arce breaks down the 9 sales mistakes gyms make that quietly kill close rates, drain leads, and keep studios stuck at $15k, $20k, 25k a month — while the gyms that fix them are the ones hitting $80k, $90k, $100k and beyond. These aren't big obvious blunders. They're the small, subtle habits that get baked into your sales process and never get questioned. The words your staff uses. The way they handle objections. The stories they tell themselves about whether someone can afford it. The gap they're creating instead of closing. In this episode you'll learn: Inversion thinking: the Charlie Munger framework that fixes your sales process faster than any tactic Product over problem: why talking about your gym is actually hurting your close rate Why assuming someone can't afford it is costing you members — and what $6,329 in average American credit card debt tells you about that belief The one-word difference between a salesperson who closes and one who doesn't (this one will stop you cold) Why creating a \"big gap\" is paralyzing your prospects — and the small gap reframe that actually works Visual specific outcomes: why \"3 to 6 weeks\" means nothing — and how to anchor results to real dates The first domino: what your salespeople think they're selling vs. what they're actually selling How most sal…","meta_description":"🔥 Fire Your Ad Agency — LIVE Workshop for Gym Owners — June 16th, 1pm PT Learn why most gym ad agencies are costing you more than they're making you — and…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":1969,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/behind-gym-doors-a-fitness-business-podcast-1118024/episodes/438-9-sales-mistakes-your-gym-is-making/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/behind-gym-doors-a-fitness-business-podcast-1118024/438-9-sales-mistakes-your-gym-is-making.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}