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Cost dossier 8 min read Updated September 23, 2026

What we quoted a coached strength gym on the New Jersey side of Philadelphia

In short

For a coached strength gym on the New Jersey side of the Philadelphia metro area, month one opens at $1,000, moving to $2,000 once the gym's own management software shows $40,000 in monthly revenue and to $3,000 past $50,000. A new site, Google Ads, and SMS lead capture rode inside that fee, sent September 12, 2026.

Key facts

  • Sent September 12, 2026, this proposal opens a coached strength gym on the New Jersey side of the Philadelphia metro area at $1,000 USD for the first month.
  • The fee steps to $2,000 a month once the gym reaches $40,000 in monthly revenue, and to $3,000 a month at $50,000 or more, verified through the gym's own management software reports rather than site traffic.
  • The ladder is built to step back down in a slower month, so the fee tracks the gym's revenue in both directions rather than only ever climbing.
  • The gym's existing class scheduling, membership, and billing software stayed untouched; a live version of its own booking screen was added directly into the new website instead of being replaced.
  • The gym's own published rates carry a small inconsistency between its main pricing cards and a separate rates FAQ; the proposal used the main cards as the source of truth.

The business behind this proposal

This proposal was written for a coached strength gym on the New Jersey side of the Philadelphia metro area, built around small group and one on one training for adults in their thirties and up, plus a separate program for teen athletes. The gym runs no long term contracts, charges by the block of weeks or by the session, and offers a recovery add on with cold plunge and sauna access.

The request that started this came from the gym's owner with a specific, ambitious goal stated directly: growing the gym to fifty thousand dollars in monthly revenue. That number became the anchor for the entire pricing ladder in the proposal that followed.

What was actually proposed

The offer bundles Google Ads, lead capture with automatic text message follow up, a new website, Google Business Profile work, SEO paired with AI search optimization, email and text marketing, and access to a reporting dashboard. A section of the proposal walks through the math behind reaching the fifty thousand dollar goal in plain terms, based on the gym's own published group rate.

The gym's existing scheduling, membership, and billing software was kept exactly as is. Rather than replace it, the new website embeds the gym's own live booking screen directly on a dedicated schedule page, so a member books a class exactly the way they already do today, just from the new site.

The price and its ladder

In US dollars, with nothing owed before work begins, month one opens at $1,000. From there it climbs to $2,000 once the gym's own revenue reports cross $40,000 in a month, and to $3,000 once they cross $50,000, stepping back down again if a slower month drops below those marks. A 30 day guarantee runs the whole time. The proposal went out on September 12, 2026, and a short follow up message followed that same day calling out the no upfront payment and 30 day guarantee terms specifically, after the main proposal had already gone out that morning.

What shaped this price

Pinning the ladder to a dollar revenue figure, rather than to lead counts or site traffic, is what sets this proposal apart. Because the gym already tracks its own revenue through its management software, that same number could be used directly as proof for stepping the fee up or down, rather than SearchPod needing to build a separate way to measure results.

The gym's own rate sheet has a small wrinkle: its main pricing cards and a separate rates FAQ page state slightly different numbers for some sessions. The proposal used the main rate cards as the source of truth for any pricing shown to prospective members, rather than trying to reconcile the two.

Related questions

This dossier comes from a proposal SearchPod actually sent, anonymized before publication so the gym cannot be identified. Every dollar figure here is a record of what was quoted that day, not a current offer.

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