My name’s Gavin Graham and I’m a fitness professional from Blenheim running my own personal training studio. Kustom Fitness & Kombat is owned by my brother and I.
In 2008 we graduated from NZ College of Fitness and set up our own Personal Training Studio. We’re REPs (Registered Fitness Professionals) specialising in one to one, goals based training from our boutique Personal Training Studios in Blenheim. I’m in the Blenheim chapter of BNI and have been a member for 4-5 years.
When I joined BNI in 2011, my business was already fully booked, however the clients I had were frequently unreliable. I wasn’t sure if BNI would be of value for my business but I went along to a meeting and soon learnt how structured networking could be beneficial. Most importantly, over time BNI assisted me to replace most of my less reliable customers with more dependable clients.
In short, BNI helped me get quality referrals and clients. In my industry this is very important because often, fitness is the first thing to drop out of life, if something else pops up or people just get too busy.
Thanks to BNI, the BNI systems and the excellent types of referrals, our business has doubled in size and doubled the numbers of clients consistently showing up to training sessions.
I also feel I’ve added value to my chapter by training about 50% of the members. One chapter member lost 37 kgs thanks to me. This proved to the other members that I could do what I said I could. Our number one focus is to customise programmes that suit my clients and their individual goals and needs. Since joining BNI I’ve been able to do this for the chapter members and had great results. I’ve also developed my own business and speaking skills since joining the chapter.
I highly recommend BNI to anyone who wants to grow their business. It’s been an amazing tool for us. Quite often when I think to myself: where did all these awesome people come from? I remember – that’s right, they are referrals from BNI!
Gavin Graham – BNI Blenheim and owner Kustom Fitness
