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Understanding the Importance of the Feedback Loop
At the end of the day, CoachNow is only valuable if it helps shorten the feedback loop with your athletes. To maximize the platform, you need to clearly communicate HOW you want your athletes to interact with you on CoachNow.
02-06-2025
Why Relationships Are Integral To Your Coaching Business
Success doesn’t just depend on the progress or performance of our athletes. The relationships we cultivate are just as important, if not more important.
01-21-2025
Reaching Your Moonshots in 2025
Start small & be consistent. Don’t overanalyze. Nothing’s perfect at the first go & you’ll never know what works for your business until you try.
01-20-2025
Monitor Your Progress With These 3 Simple Steps
Learn how to effectively track your training progress with tags, frequency, and angles to accelerate your growth and reach your goals faster.
01-08-2025
Set Yourself Apart From Your Competition With These 3 Steps
I know how challenging it can be to set yourself apart from competition. I want to share my advice on how to make your coaching offer stand out.
01-08-2025
Revisiting “How to be a Great Coach in 2024: Moonshots”
Reflect on the importance of setting ambitious goals for your coaching business in 2024 and beyond. Learn how to dream big and make impactful changes.
01-02-2025
Our CoachNow Year in Review: 2024
CoachNow's 2024 Year in Review highlights features like Coach Profiles, and improved athlete experience, setting the stage for an even better 2025.
12-19-2024
Hype the System Not the Tool
Learn how to leverage tools within a system to enhance athlete performance and build a successful coaching business.
12-12-2024
Choosing A Video Analysis App? Here’s What To Look For
Discover what to look for in a video analysis app and how CoachNow’s features can enhance your athletic training and communication.
12-05-2024
SwingU Review: CoachNow Analyze Gives the Power Back to the Player
Check out SwingU's review of CoachNow Analyze!
11-21-2024
How to Get Started Digitizing Your Coaching Expertise
You’ve heard me say it a million times: move away from selling time for money. I want to expand on this idea & give you tangible examples to get started.
11-21-2024
3 Ways to Level Up Your Training Sessions
Discover three key strategies to enhance your training sessions, including collecting feedback, documenting progress, and setting clear goals. Optimize your practice with CoachNow's advanced tools and tips.
11-14-2024
How to Train Effectively for Different Seasons
Learn how to optimize your athletic training for different seasons with periodization, ensuring peak performance when it matters most.
10-31-2024
Remote Coaching Best Practices: 3 Tips to Maximize Athlete Engagement
There are 3 critical aspects of successful remote coaching: providing video feedback, the importance of context, and maintaining momentum.
10-30-2024
How to Train Your Athletes to Practice like a pro… Even if They’re an Amateur (INTENTION & RETENTION)
In my 10+ years of coaching both amateurs and pros, I’ve noticed some key distinctions between how they approach practice and training..
10-24-2024
IG October Round Up - CoachNow Featured Coaches
Discover how top coaches use CoachNow’s tools to elevate their coaching techniques and student performance in our latest Instagram Round Up.
10-17-2024
What “The Talent Code” Taught Me About Coaching
Discover the secrets of elite athletes and why every athlete should read 'The Talent Code' to elevate their game and maximize their training with CoachNow.
10-17-2024
The Hidden Power of Micro-Touch Points: What Athletes Need to Know
Discover how elite athletes leverage micro-touch points and advanced tools like CoachNow Analyze to enhance their training and achieve peak performance.
10-10-2024
Mastering the Art of Managing Your Team
Learn tips from CoachNow founder Spencer Dennis on effectively managing your coaching team to boost productivity, retain talent, and encourage innovation.
10-10-2024
How to Conquer the Forgetting Curve
Learn how to conquer the "Forgetting Curve" and accelerate your athletic development with effective practice strategies and CoachNow's innovative tools.
10-03-2024
How to Land Your Dream Coaching Job
Discover essential tips for landing your dream coaching job, from follow-up strategies to showcasing your skills and choosing roles with longevity.
09-26-2024
Looking to Grow Your Coaching Business? 3 Top Tips For Hiring New Talent
Top tips for hiring talent to grow your coaching business, focusing on specialists, diversity in roles, and recognizing potential in rising stars.
09-19-2024
How Do My Athletes See My Coach Profile?
The latest features in CoachNow's iOS Update 6.14 include customizable Coach Profiles & a new athlete layout for improved communication and pro branding.
09-12-2024
The 3 Components of a Compelling Coaching “Story”
Coaches aren’t confident about making the leap from lessons to results…For today’s blog, I want to dive into what makes for a good coaching “story”.
09-07-2024
3 Mistakes Holding Your Coaching Business Back
I want to help you grow your business (and avoid quitting) by letting you in on three additional mistakes that I see coaches make all too often.
08-29-2024
5 Key Benefits of CoachNow for Organizations and Academies
World class academies, camps, national teams, olympic teams, and gyms rely on CoachNow every day to ensure business runs smoothly.
08-27-2024
Tour Striker Golf Academy Founder Martin Chuck On Digital Coaching And Scaling A Coaching Business
Tour Striker Golf Academy Founder Martin Chuck On Digital Coaching And Scaling A Coaching Business This week, CoachNow founder Spencer Dennis interviewed M
08-22-2024
Update 6.14 NEW CoachNow Features: Profiles, Athlete Experience, and more!
Update 6.14 NEW CoachNow Features: Profiles, Athlete Experience, and more! Before we get started, I just wanted to share that earlier this week CoachNow su
08-15-2024
3 Key Ingredients to Level Up Your Live Coaching Sessions
A ConnectedCoaching session should include 2 recap videos, before and after technical video or image comparison, and a concise written practice plan.
08-01-2024
7 Keys Of A Winning Coaching Business
Discover the 7 keys to building a successful coaching business, from identifying your ideal customer to maximizing referrals & creating offers.
07-31-2024
The 3 Skills CRUCIAL to a Successful Coaching Career
Coaches ask me all of the time about how they can round out their coaching offer. Coaching has so many different aspects to it that it can be hard to know where to begin. These are the 3 skills coaches must have...
07-25-2024
CoachNow for Multi-Coach Organizations - Key Benefits
CoachNow for Multi-Coach Organizations - Key Benefits Before we start, just know that this blog is for a more specific audience than our normal weekly post
07-18-2024
How to Introduce Long-Term Development Programs into Your Coaching Offer
Don’t fall into the trap of creating custom programs for everyone you work with. Create the program templates first, then determine which makes the most sense for each individual athlete to reach their goals within their budget.
07-03-2024
IG June Round Up - CoachNow Featured Coaches
This week, we're highlighting 3 stellar examples of CoachNow members showing how they use the platform in real-world settings.
06-26-2024
What’s Passive Transparency? Keeping Parents in the Loop
If you’re a coach for young athletes, you know how important it is to keep parents in the loop. There’s just SO much that goes on between a coach and athlete during a session. How do you keep parents informed while not getting bogged down?
06-19-2024
Unlocking the Full Potential of Video Analysis for Your Coaching
Video analysis is an incredibly powerful tool, but it’s only ONE piece of the puzzle when it comes to helping your athletes improve. We'll dive into the specific mistakes to avoid and the benefits you'll reap by sidestepping them.
06-11-2024
The Surprising Power of Collaboration
While I'm skilled in many areas, I don’t have the depth of expertise that these trainers have. By bringing together specialists, you build a holistic team.
05-30-2024
The 3 P’s - A Framework for Coaching Success
The coaching industry is fundamentally broken, but with "The 3 P's", you can build your business and empower your athletes to thrive.
05-16-2024
What Simone Biles Taught Us About Burning Out and the Importance of Stepping Away
When Simone Biles pulled out of the Olympics, people said she was a loser. Let's dive into the importance of mental health in the sports industry.
05-09-2024
2024 So Far: The New Features Available NOW
In the last year, we’ve been releasing new features faster than at any other time in the company’s history. Here are the most exciting features we’ve launched so far in 2024.
05-09-2024
Coaching Habits to Implement for 2024
Creating the right habits is crucial to your success as a coach and a business owner. Follow these three and watch your business soar to new heights, for 2024 and beyond.
04-18-2024
Sessions, Not 'Lessons': Know the Difference
Words reinforce mindset. And outdated nomenclature reinforces a passive, unrealistic structure to your coaching offer. Replace this word to offer a true win-win-win for your athletes, yourself and your business.
04-04-2024
See the Coaches Championing Skills Development via CoachNow
These are stellar examples of CoachNow members using the platform to improve their coaching delivery, engage their athletes, and showcase their skills to their audience online.
03-28-2024
Asynchronous Coaching: Build Better Athletes Faster
Discover how asynchronous communication can revolutionize your coaching strategy, save you time, & accelerate athlete progress.
03-21-2024
Group Coaching 101: 3 Novel Things to Consider
Group coaching should not function as a standalone offer, but also as an integral part of a broader coaching strategy that’ll enable you to help more athletes, more efficiently.
03-14-2024
Remote Feedback In Action: 3 Examples from Real CoachNow Golf Coaches
If you’d like to be featured, give us a follow and tag us with your videos: @coachnow_app
02-22-2024
How to be a Great Coach in 2024: Moonshots
Every New Year, I like to write a philosophical blog covering "How to be a Great Coach in the New Year". This year I find myself coming back to one thing: Moonshots.
02-15-2024
CoachNow Has Been Acquired by Golf Genius
With Golf Genius & our friends at Golfshot we’ve got some plans in the works that will benefit our entire membership & especially those in the golf world.
02-14-2024
In-Person Coaching Sessions: Top 3 Best Practices
This post is all about how to optimize your in-person sessions to maximize your time with your athletes, expedite their improvement, and help them perform at their best (all while minimizing your workload).
02-08-2024
Hook, Story, Offer: What it is and Why You Should Care as a Coach
The Hook, Story, Offer framework can be a powerful tool for growing your coaching business.
02-07-2024
Is Your Coaching Job Burning You Out? Here's Why
Every day I speak with coaches who are on the verge of burning out. Since creating CoachNow I’ve made it my mission to stop it from happening to you.
02-05-2024
CoachNow in Action - 3 Stellar Examples from REAL Coaches
I handpicked three Instagram posts from the last month that really highlight the diversity and effectiveness of CoachNow in various coaching scenarios. I hope you enjoy the inspiration!
01-25-2024
A Year in Review: The Milestones That Shaped CoachNow in 2023
2023 was the most transformative year for CoachNow since our founding over a decade ago. In fact, I’m pleased to report that our app now has an average 4.8 star ratings, with over 5500 5-star reviews.
12-15-2023
Coaching 101 - Bridging the Gap Between "Feel" vs. "Real"
The first step in any athletic journey is giving them the tools they need to think objectively about their performance, so they can improve every time they practice, even if you aren’t there with them.
12-10-2023
CoachNow Coach Analysis Examples
From state-of-the-art video analysis to streamlined communication channels, CoachNow coaches utilize every tool at their disposal to connect with and elevate their athletes.
11-16-2023
How Do You Organize Content in CoachNow? AMA Session May 12th, 2023
This week's AMA covers a range of topics, from organizing content in CoachNow, to unique use cases from celebrity coaches.
11-05-2023
January 2023 Featured Coach: Lukas Exner
Video Recaps, moving away from lessons and into long-term development coaching, coaching athletes and coaches, scalable business models, and more.
11-01-2023
What’s a Sport-Skills Coach?
The term coach can mean a lot of things. There are different types of coaches out there, each with their own unique roles, goals, and areas of expertise.
10-26-2023
Sports-Skills Coaching: Dos and Don'ts
To help you navigate the challenges and opportunities in the sports-skills coaching industry, I’vs compiled a list of “dos” and “don'ts”. Let's investigate ways to prosper as a coach in the upcoming year.
10-19-2023
Rapid Fire Overview: Spaces, Groups, Best Practices
Whether you're a seasoned user or a newbie, this short YouTube video will give you everything you need to know about adding your athletes, creating Spaces & Groups, and using both the Web Mobile Applications to streamline your business.
09-20-2023
CoachNow Best Practices: Unlocking the Power of Groups
Think of Groups as a central hub where coaches, athletes, and other team members can come together, share videos, photos, notes, track progress, and track performance.They allow for more customization in HOW you and your athletes interact.
08-06-2023
CoachNow Video Analysis Tools for Coaches: Rapid Fire Overview
At CoachNow, we seamlessly integrate Video Analysis into your Spaces and Groups - it doesn't stand in isolation and only acts as a mechanism to help your athletes when it's needed.
07-27-2023
Top 5 Tips to Unlock the Power of Spaces for Your Coaching Business
Unlike communication channels like text, email, & video analysis apps, Spaces are perfect for 1-on-1 development in a very specific area of development.
07-20-2023
What Do My Athletes See When I Invite Them to CoachNow?
At CoachNow, we empower you to onboard your athletes with ease. Regardless of your sport, training plans, or particular athlete expectations ,our aim is to provide you with a flexible, easy-to-use platform to empower YOUR coaching relationships.
07-13-2023
Coaching 101: Mastering the Art of Goal-Oriented Practice
Far too often, coaching and practice sessions become reactive. But this approach lacks a key component to any successful coaching session: Goal-Orientation.
07-12-2023
State of the Coaching Economy - Where Do We Go From Here?
I’ll be honest - right now the coaching economy seems to be in a bit of trouble.In fact, where I’m standing, I’ve been seeing quite a bit of panic coming from the coaching community.
06-15-2023
CoachNow Best Practices: Unlocking the Power of the Cloud Library
Knowing how to leverage your Cloud library’s tools will streamline the organization & ease of communication around your posts, documents, videos, & photos.
06-07-2023
The "Assessment Funnel": A Step-By-Step Guide
Big picture, the idea here is to offer a free assessment to your potential customers in exchange for their email address.
06-04-2023
Assessment Funnel Deep Dive: Converting Your Coaching Leads Into High-Ticket Clients
Whether you're a new coach looking to build your business or an experienced coach wanting to increase your revenue, the assessment funnel is a perfect way to acquire high-paying coaching clients.
05-18-2023
Digitize Your Coaching Business: Evergreen Vs. Live Products
For today’s post, I’m sharing a sneak peek from the CCB Level 2, our latest flagship course.
04-20-2023
The Assessment Funnel: Your Blueprint for Coaching Success
This week, I wanted to resend one of our more popular blogs of 2023, where I explained a marketing strategy known as the "Assessment Funnel".
04-05-2023
Should Athlete's Add Their Parents To CoachNow? AMA March 16, 2023
This week's AMA covers a range of topics, from whether coaches should add parents to their spaces, to what role CoachNow should play when marketing your coaching offers to potential clients.
03-16-2023
March 2023 Featured Coach: Riley Dudar
February's featured Member is Riley Dudar, Founder of Evolution Hockey. He's a certified Hockey Canada skills coach & a High Performance 1 coach.
03-03-2023
February 2023 Featured Coach: Doug Mills
February 2023's featured CoachNow Member is Doug Mills, Founder and Owner of Training Thru Trust, a coaching business geared towards helping horse owners bond with and train their horses like never before.
03-02-2023
How to Create a Shared Library on CoachNow: A Step-by-Step Guide
Learn how to create a Shared Content Library on CoachNow using the Copy and Move feature to enhance collaboration among coaches and athletes.
02-03-2023
Nurture Relationships and Convert Leads: A Proven Strategy for Growing Your Coaching Business
I argue that capturing email leads and providing consistent value to those leads is THE most important thing you can do to grow your business.
01-26-2023
Monetize Your Coaching Expertise with These 3 Strategies
These are the top 3 offer categories that time and time again make the most money for coaches in both the short- and long-term.
12-15-2022
See CoachNow in Action
A few weeks back, we published a blog on our top 3 ingredients for leveling up your Live Coaching Sessions. Here we add video examples so you can see those ideas in action.
12-05-2022
Getting Started with Long-Term Development Programs - 3 Key Components
I’ve had lots of coaches ask me how they should approach long term development. How do you actually begin the journey away from the “Lessons” model?
10-20-2022
How to Make $100,000+/ Year Coaching Less Than 30 Hours a Week (Yes, Really)
The $100k Coaching Offer is an outline of the exact offer that’ll get you to $100k per year as a coach. It’s really simple when you break it down.
10-13-2022
You're a Coach AND an Entrepreneur
You’re an entrepreneur 1st, a coach 2nd. Entrepreneurs always think about ROI, they don’t sell their time for money, they collaborate with others, and they take risks. Be Bold. You never know what’ll work until you try.
10-02-2022
How to Create Your Million-Dollar Message
For more on CoachNow and the ConnectedCoach Academy, Click below. Do more with CoachNow + and CoachNow PRO.
09-22-2022
7 Steps For Creating and Scaling a Successful Coaching Business (Are YOU Doing All 7?)
I know this post is long, but I can’t stress enough how important these points are. I strive to be your resource for organizing these thoughts and concepts, so I hope you learn something here!
09-15-2022
Digitize Your Coaching: The Top 3 False Beliefs That Prevent You From Creating Automated Revenue Streams
Digitizing and automating that expertise is the first step to creating highly valuable and lucrative products. So today I want to highlight 3 of the false beliefs I hear most often when I encourage coaches to create alternative revenue streams.
08-25-2022
Social Media for My Coaching Business: Where Do I Begin?
You don’t need to be a social media master or influencer to grow your coaching business. In fact, social media is a huge distraction unless it’s used in conjunction with other marketing strategies
08-09-2022
Use Cases and Advice from CoachNow Power Users: Olympic Weightlifting Coach Spencer Arnold
Today, we’ll be profiling Spencer Arnold, Head Coach and Founder of Power and Grace Performance as well as the Strength and Conditioning Director for Hebron Christian Academy.
07-28-2022
Unlock the Power of Automation & New Revenue Streams with CoachNow PRO
Scheduled Posts and Advanced Group Controls may seem like a small thing, but to me they highlight the proactive steps we’re taking to empower you.
07-20-2022
How to Establish Boundaries With Athletes
Here are my top pieces of advice for setting boundaries with your athletes. My goal here is to help you save time, increase your impact, and avoid burnout.
07-01-2022
Do You Know The Best Kept Secret of Video Analysis?
From day 1 of CoachNow, I knew that video analysis on its own was insufficient. You can do all the analysis in the world, but that doesn’t necessarily translate into improvements in your athlete’s performance.
06-23-2022
The WHY Behind These Foundational Video Analysis Features
CoachNow is an industry leader in video analysis, and utilizes 4 key features that can enhance your coaching workflow: Slow Motion, Voice Over, Comparison Shots, and Dynamic Annotation.
06-16-2022
December 2022 Featured Coach: Nicole Fougerousse
Nicole's north star has always remained constant - developing youth players into powerful athletes, resilient young women, and our future female leaders. She is a fantastic example of the power of ConnectedCoaching.
06-12-2022
Focus On What Athletes WANT, Not WHAT YOU THINK THEY NEED
Today I wanna cover an often overlooked messaging tweak that can make a huge difference for your business. It’s very simple but powerful: lead with what your ideal customers WANT, not what YOU THINK THEY NEED.
06-10-2022
Don't Worry! Athletes Won't Fire You if They Get Too Good Too Fast
You'll learn the difference between calibrative and directive feedback and how to leverage calibrative feedback to make your athletes more autonomous.
05-19-2022
3 Reasons Why You’ll Quit Your Coaching Job DON’T MAKE THESE MISTAKES
Back when I was coaching, I burned out and ultimately quit doing what I once loved. I don’t want to see you do the same.
04-21-2022
3 Tips For Crafting an Irresistible Coaching Offer
Learn from others, listen to your own data, and be entrepreneurial when building your offer.
04-14-2022
November 2022 Featured Coach: Andrew Banner
Andrew is a rockstar golf coach who has revolutionized the way golfers upgrade their golf swing through his proprietary Tour Proven Pathway Program. He’s spent 11+ years in the golf fitness industry, helping golfers lower their scores.
04-11-2022
Why Does CoachNow Care So Much About the Business of Coaching? And What’s Wrong With Selling My Time for Money?
In the last 10+ years since I founded CoachNow, I’ve noticed a clear trend with “digital coaching” platforms. I’ve done my best to stay on the bleeding edge and learn from them to better address the real-world concerns of the modern coach.
04-08-2022
Coaches! Here are Our Top 3 Ways to Attract Your Ideal Customer
Defining and narrowing in on your ideal customer is an incredibly important process and will help you earn more and be more fulfilled in your job as a coach.
03-31-2022
Onboarding Your Athletes to CoachNow: Top 3 Best Practices
Transitioning your clients to new software can be hard. This advice will make the transition smooth & help you realize the potential of the platform.
03-16-2022
Art of Surfing Olympic Coach Matt Scorringe CoachNow Interview
CoachNow Interview: Matt Scorringe is a rockstar coach who boasts over 10 years of professional sponsorships from internationally recognized brands like Billabong. In 2012, he founded The Art of Surfing Ltd, helping the next generation of New...
03-10-2022
The Power of ConnectedCoaching with Mark Govier & Spencer Dennis
This week, CoachNow Founder Spencer Dennis interviewed Mark Govier, founder of Elite Golf Coach and High Performance Coach at Altus. We're confident that all coaches will gain some valuable tactics and tips, regardless of sport or experience.
03-03-2022
Video Analysis: What Most Coaches Get Wrong (4 Major Misconceptions)
Today I'm going to talk about the 4 most common misconceptions surrounding video analysis.
02-06-2022
Try Making Video Recaps in CoachNow!
This week, I want to dive deeper into a specific form of video recap that's worked wonders for me. I wish I'd known this simple coaching hack sooner!
01-28-2022
5 Unique and Unexpected Sports in the CoachNow Community
Discover five unique and unexpected sports in the CoachNow community, from Skeleton to Netball, and learn fascinating facts about each.
01-21-2022
The Magic of Video Recaps | Change Your Coaching Business in 2 Minutes
There is one thing that stands above the rest when it comes to helping coaches transform their businesses overnight. It’s one of the most important elements to include in every coaching session, and it is incredibly underutilized.
01-12-2022
3 Ways to Eliminate Repetition in Your Coaching Business: The “One and Done” Method
At CoachNow, our #1 goal is to help coaches save time, make more money and be location independent when delivering their expertise to their athletes. Read this post to learn how we do just that.
01-09-2022
The 3 Key Benefits of Video Analysis + Most Common Mistakes
My objective is to help you understand best practices for video analysis. I hope the advice here helps you save time and leverage modern technology.
12-27-2021
Common Video Analysis Mistakes
I see coaches going down the video analysis rabbit hole, losing sight of its potential & creating unnecessary work for themselves that goes unappreciated.
12-17-2021
Keep Your Coaching Specific
Just knowing the sport you coach isn't enough information for most clients to choose you over the competition. It's far more helpful to focus on the outcome that you help your clients produce.
11-26-2021
Coaching with Micro-Touch Points
The most successful Coaches within the CoachNow universe are incredibly adept at delivering timely value in small doses. As ConnectedCoaches, we call that a "Micro Touch Point"
11-19-2021
Spencer Dennis + Chris Jenkins
Get insights from CoachNow's Spencer Dennis on effective website audits and marketing strategies to enhance your coaching business. Explore more at CoachNow.
10-29-2021
Is Video Analysis Helpful?
I want to help you understand best practices for video analysis. The advice here helps you save time & use technology to help athletes reach their goals.
10-12-2021
What's the ConnectedCoach Pathway?
Over the last 10 years, I have noticed a few key patterns that differentiate early stage coaches and 6-figure+ coaching businesses.
05-11-2021