Personal Trainers · Portland ME
Booking software for personal trainers in Portland, Maine
County Business Patterns 2023 counted 112 fitness and recreational sports centers with paid staff across the Portland-South Portland metro: gyms, fitness studios and the other facilities where trainers find and train clients. 52 had fewer than five employees, and trainers working alone with no payroll are not in these counts.
BookAndGo gives Portland personal trainers one booking page for every session type, recurring weekly slots for regulars, and email confirmations and reminders, so the calendar runs itself while you coach.
Online booking around the clock
Clients book from your page any time, and the slot comes off your calendar the moment they do.
Email confirmations and reminders
Every booking is confirmed and reminded by email, so fewer clients forget.
Invoices from the booking
Raise an invoice from the appointment, with the sales tax rate you set.
Built for Portland personal trainers
Portland, Maine, is one of the densest fitness markets in the country by this count: 112 employer fitness centers, 19.7 per 100,000 residents, 15th of 387 metro areas. Cumberland County had 89 of them and York County 18. They are mostly small and mid-sized, with only 15 at twenty or more staff. Many studios close together means clients can switch easily, so the trainer who holds a client's regular slot and reminds them by email before each session is the one they stay with.
Cumberland County's density is remarkable: 28.6 fitness centers per 100,000 residents, against 8.2 in York County. One employer fitness center for about every 5,100 residents metro-wide means trainers in and around Portland compete hard, while York County is comparatively open. That is a reason to list every session location on one booking page. A trainer coaching at a Falmouth studio, a Back Cove loop and a few Westbrook homes can put all three on the booking page, and Cumberland County clients choose where each session happens.
Within Maine, Cumberland County ranks 1st of 15 counties with 20,000 or more residents for fitness centers per 100,000 people, at 28.6; Knox County is at 21.9.
Measured as employer fitness centers per 100,000 residents, Portland-South Portland sits between Fort Collins, CO at 20.2 and Santa Cruz, CA at 19.0, the metros ranked either side of it. For businesses in the class that holds independent personal training, Portland-South Portland has 7.2 per 100,000, next to Harrisonburg, VA at 7.2 and Columbia, SC at 7.2.
Census defines this metro as Cumberland County, Sagadahoc County and York County, so the numbers reach past the Portland city limits. Independent trainers' own businesses fall in a second Census class, all other personal services (NAICS 812990), which had 41 establishments in the Portland-South Portland metro. Within the mixed personal services class, Cumberland County had 31 and York County 8. 36 of its 41 had fewer than five employees.
Cumberland County led with 89, ahead of York County at 18 and Sagadahoc County at 5. That puts 79 percent of the metro total in Cumberland County. By headcount, 52 had fewer than five employees, 19 had five to nine, 26 had ten to nineteen, 11 had twenty to forty-nine, 3 had fifty to ninety-nine and the other 1 had a hundred or more.
A client who reaches three no-shows is blocked automatically. Set up each session type and location, whether a park, a gym or a client's home, and clients pick the one they want; the confirmation carries the location so nobody goes to the wrong place.
Frequently asked
How many gyms are there in Portland?
County Business Patterns 2023 recorded 112 fitness and recreational sports centers with paid employees in the Portland-South Portland, ME metro. That class covers gyms and fitness, Pilates and yoga studios, and also pools, rinks and tennis clubs, so it is a little wider than gyms.
Can clients book recurring sessions?
Yes. Book a client into the same time every week or every two weeks in one action. Each session is its own appointment with its own reminder, and the whole series can be rescheduled or canceled together.
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