Today we’d like to introduce you to Justin and Joshua Marcus.
Justin and Joshua, let’s start with your story. We’d love to hear how you got started and how the journey has been so far.
My name is Justin Marcus and I’m one of the two founders of a new mobile business site called Webhead Fitness. The other founder is my older brother Joshua Marcus, and we’re both originally from Macon, GA. Webhead Fitness is a fitness site for people/athletes to find a trainer that’s closest to them based on their location as well as for trainers to be marketed for free on the same platform. Being from Macon, GA, I realized there are many overlooked athletes in my hometown and even more so across the entire world. Therefore, we started Webhead Fitness to help anyone in need for preparation of a healthy lifestyle or athletically skilled for the next level.
Two Fun Facts about us:
1. We were just recently on channel 41 NBC news | WMGT-DT
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2. We both are professional athletes playing Arena football. This past 2019 season was my rookie year with the Orlando Predators NAL
While Macon, Georgia, is a great city in many ways, it has taken a Downhill turn in the last 10+ years. In recent years it has been featured on lists such as “worst places in America to live” due to high crime per capita rates and declining home values and high unemployment and fewer job opportunities. We realized that without the right opportunities and tools available for them to utilize, they would turn to the streets instead. So we created a platform where not only athletes but also potential clients can find trainers close to them based on their location.
Having that mindset and always staying active in sports is what got us to where we are today. Together as a family, we plan to make the world a healthier place through fitness. In addition, they also help athletes discover the right individuals to push/elevate their skill sets so they can perform at the next level. The majority of athletes now in Macon rely on training themselves to prepare for college or either traveling miles out of town to train, which leads us to our second & ending goal, providing an actual pro-level fitness training facility for all upcoming athletes in Macon, GA. Eventually expanding and branching other facilities’ other places, our trainers will train the youth, high school, college and pro athletes, if any.
Webhead Fitness has a double meaning broken down in half. WEB refers to how we most want to reach out to our clients, being that we do not just want to be hindered to just training people in our area, location, or state. Our biggest way to reach a broader clientele is through the web. HEAD symbolizes that fitness is not just physical but also mental. As we tie our heads together, partnering with high performing, proven leaders/trainers around the world, together, we are a FAMILY.
Here’s our site below if you are a trainer, looking for a trainer, or know of an individual that can relate between the two previously mentioned. God Bless
https://webheadfitnessllc.com/
Overall, has it been relatively smooth? If not, what were some of the struggles along the way?
NOT! I wish I could say it has, but no journey would be a successful trip without bumpy roads. It’s a scary ride down that road of success. You lose the people you love, and you gain the people you hate. To realize that in the end, it’s a trip that you’ll always make.
Some of the struggles that we faced first were MONEY. It takes a lot to invest in a business and also beat the odds of statistics that states, “it takes businesses five years before they are successful.” So not only do we want to make a change for the community but also in society.
The last struggle I would say that we faced along the way is actually getting trainers to sign up. Whenever there’s something new that hasn’t been blasted all over the TV on commercials just yet, people become hesitant. They feel as if they can not trust something just because of that when in reality, its Quality over Quantity. Instead of asking, why ask why not. Why not choose to be marketed/advertised on a fitness platform to be discovered by potential clients to increase your clientele all for FREE?
Please tell us about your business.
Webhead Fitness allows clients to find trainers that are nearest to them based on their location. Doing so permits working out to become more convenient to a person’s schedule is always busy. Webhead Fitness also authorizes trainers to receive marketing/advertisement of their skills or brand if already established on the same platform for FREE. Doing so enables trainers clientele to increase without them having to lift a finger.
My brother and I scout for the best trainers that we feel has a passion for fitness and enjoy encouraging clients to become a better version of themselves. We specialize in the recruitment and are known for promoting employee referrals. The initial step to building a recruiting machine is to transform each employee into a recruiter by soliciting referrals. Which forges us most proud of as a company to be able to greet new people/trainers with an opportunity that makes you want to tell your friends & family about to come to join.
What sets Webhead Fitness from others that may execute similar duties as us is the PRICE. The majority of other companies charge the trainers for promotion and even give them a limit of how many clients they can have before being charged again. Webhead Fitness does all promotions for FREE and only asks for 10% of what a trainer charges the client per session/package. The quicker the client makes their payment, the quicker the trainer receives their money as well, no standard mandatory weekly or bi-weekly payments.
If you had to go back in time and start over, would you have done anything differently?
If we were to start over something that we would have done differently was make Webhead Fitness an app instead of a website. We get a lot of people asking if we’re an app whenever we first tell them about the company. It’s okay, though because we are receiving feedback just from being a site, so once we convert over to an app in the near future, there’s no stopping us.
Contact Info:
- Website: www.webheadfitnessllc.com
- Phone: 803-851-8215
- Email: webheadfitness@gmail.com
- Instagram: webheadfitness
- Facebook: Webhead Fitness LLC
- Twitter: webheadL
- Other: Snapchat: webheadfitness
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