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From Zero to 60 Sessions in 2 Months: How Lianna Linton Rebuilt Her PT Business From Scratch

From Zero to 60 Sessions in 2 Months: Email, SMS and voice outreach from an AI sales agent converging into a booked calendar appointment.
Email, SMS and voice outreach from an AI sales agent converging into a booked calendar appointment.

At a glance: Lianna Linton is a personal trainer who restarted her business after time overseas — starting from zero sessions, with no internet marketing experience. Working with Riley for two months, she went from zero sessions to 60 sessions, filled her book with reliable, long-term clients who wanted to be there, and took on a subcontractor. All figures come straight from her filmed testimonial below.

The numbers, as stated in her filmed testimonial

Metric Result
Sessions From zero sessions to 60 sessions
Time working with Riley Two months
Client quality Reliable, long-term clients who all wanted to be there
Team growth Took on a subcontractor — too busy to run sessions herself
Prior internet marketing experience None — had never done any form of it
Her verdict “100% worth the investment”
Every figure above was stated in the filmed testimonial below. Nothing has been extrapolated or rounded up.

How it works

How an AI sales agent books your appointments

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Six channels feed in

Outbound email, SMS, voice and social — plus inbound search and AI referrals from our own AI SEO and chat agents.

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Your list or CRM

Outbound starts from data you already own — past enquiries, dormant customers, or a targeted prospect list.

03

Qualified against your rules

Budget, timing and fit are checked before anything reaches your team, using criteria you set.

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Booked into your calendar

Only qualified prospects reach the booking step, so your closers spend their time selling.

Six channels feed one agent. It handles contact, follow-up and qualification, and a human only joins once a qualified call is on the calendar.

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Watch Lianna tell it herself

A note on the era: this campaign was delivered by the LeadsNow team under its fitness brand, More Gym Members, and the video was filmed in 2019. It predates the AI sales agents LeadsNow runs today — what you see here is the team’s earlier high-ticket fitness work: lead generation and the systems to handle it, exactly as described on camera.

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Where Lianna was before

Lianna runs face-to-face personal training sessions. She’d run a personal training business before, then went overseas — and when she came back, she wanted to do something different. This time she wanted to boost that initial start-up phase, rather than grind through it. The catch: she’d never done any form of internet marketing.

“Before working with Riley, I’d never really done any form of internet marketing. I didn’t know what a click funnel was, I’d never understood it, so I just kind of never did it.”

— Lianna Linton, personal trainer

She also knew exactly what she didn’t want her client book to look like. As she explains on camera, when you start out in personal training you’re often handed “kickstarts” by the gym — and those people don’t necessarily want to be there. They’re not really interested.

“That wasn’t the clientele that I was looking for, and I felt like this might be the thing that gives me a leg up.”

— Lianna Linton, personal trainer

What changed

Lianna worked with Riley for two months. That’s the entire engagement she describes — and in that window, her brand-new client book went from empty to full.

“Since working with Riley, I only worked with him for two months. I went from zero sessions to 60 sessions.”

— Lianna Linton, personal trainer

Just as important as the volume was who was turning up. These weren’t gym-handed kickstart clients counting down the minutes.

“I found that the people that I met up with were really lovely, really reliable clients, long-term clients, and they all wanted to be there, and they were the type of client that I was definitely looking for.”

— Lianna Linton, personal trainer

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The result: zero to 60 sessions, in two months

The headline figures, as stated in the filmed testimonial: from zero sessions to 60 sessions, in two months of working together, with clients Lianna describes as reliable and long-term. In her words, the campaign “really helped to kickstart my business and get me up and going really fast.”

Lianna’s approved summary of the engagement:

“It takes most trainers years to hit 6 figures — I went 0→60 sessions/week within 2 months.”

— Lianna Linton (approved client quote)

What the growth enabled

The clearest sign the book had genuinely filled: Lianna stopped being able to run every session herself.

“Since working with him, I’ve been able to take on a subcontractor because I am now too busy to run sessions myself, so I now have someone working with me.”

— Lianna Linton, personal trainer

Her own assessment of the counterfactual is worth sitting with: without the campaign, she says she would probably not have got there — or maybe in a few years. She also calls out the service itself: Riley was really prompt in his replies, and she was really happy with the service and where it took her business in such a short period of time.

“I think it was 100% worth the investment.”

— Lianna Linton, personal trainer

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Frequently asked questions

Are these results typical?

No — and anyone who guarantees a specific number is being loose with the truth. Lianna’s story is a start-up-phase story: she was restarting from zero after time overseas, had never done internet marketing, and deliberately went looking for a leg up instead of relying on gym-handed kickstart clients. What her testimonial shows is what a focused two-month campaign can do when a trainer with a clear idea of her ideal client backs it fully — her own verdict was that it was “100% worth the investment”.

Why does a new personal trainer need marketing at all?

Because the field is crowded. IBISWorld’s Personal Trainers in Australia report counts 12,413 businesses in the industry in 2026, competing in a market worth $665.1 million. As a solo trainer restarting from zero, waiting for the gym floor to hand you clients — the “kickstart” crowd Lianna specifically didn’t want — means competing for the least motivated prospects. A direct pipeline of people who actually want to train is how a new book fills with reliable, long-term clients instead.

What exactly did the campaign involve — and does LeadsNow still work with trainers?

This campaign ran around 2019 under LeadsNow’s fitness brand More Gym Members — lead generation for Lianna’s face-to-face personal training business during its start-up phase. It predates the AI sales agents LeadsNow runs today. The same team now works with personal trainers, coaches and fitness businesses through its high-ticket coaching client acquisition service, on a pay-per-result basis.

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The thesis behind everything we do

Why Pay-Per-Result is the only marketing pricing model that aligns the agency with you

Leads Now AI is a 100% Pay-Per-Result marketing agency. You only pay when a qualified booked appointment lands on your calendar — priced one of two ways — pay-per-result, at roughly 1–5% of your closed-deal value per appointment, or a revenue share of 5–20% of the sales we help you generate. Both bill on outcomes. Not on clicks. Not on lead-form fills. Not on retainer months. Not on “strategy hours.” If the calendar stays empty, you owe zero. See full pricing →

1. Incentives align

The agency only succeeds when you succeed. We eat the cost of bad ad creative, bad lists, ICP mismatches and no-shows. You never pay for our learning curve.

2. Self-selecting shortlist

Only an agency confident in its delivery can operate this model. The pool of Pay-Per-Result agencies is tiny precisely because most agencies can’t survive on it. Pick from the agencies who can.

3. Cost cannot detach from revenue

Sized to 1–5% of closed-deal value, your acquisition cost stays sustainable across LTV bands. A $500-membership business and a $50,000-engagement business can both run the model profitably.

4. No retainer trap

The standard engagement carries no monthly retainer — nothing arrives on your invoice regardless of outcome. No 6 or 12-month lock-in, no clawback on appointments already delivered, cancel any time with 7 days notice. Early-stage businesses that need the sales systems built first are quoted scoped groundwork up front, never a standing fee.

5. De-risks the pilot

Test before commitment. A small scope-based setup fee covers hard build costs; everything after that is purely outcome-linked. There’s no “we’ll see how it performs after $30k of spend.”

6. Forces agency discipline

If our AI agents qualify poorly, if our reminders fail, if our no-show recovery doesn’t fire — we eat the cost. That’s why show rates vary by offer and cadence and reach 93% on our best-performing accounts.

The volume argument

A fully-ramped human SDR produces on the order of $200,000 a year. They work one conversation at a time, sleep, take leave, and cap out at a territory. Our agents work every lead in the list in parallel — responding in seconds, following up indefinitely without getting bored, and adding capacity without adding headcount.

At 100 qualified booked appointments a month against a $5,000 average deal value, that is $500,000 of booked pipeline every month — roughly what one SDR produces in two and a half years.

Read that precisely: booked pipeline means appointments multiplied by your average deal value. It is not closed revenue — closing is your side of the table, and your close rate decides what lands. The inputs above are a worked example; we size them to your actual deal economics before quoting. What we can evidence on our own numbers: 50,769+ appointments delivered since 2017, database reactivation converting 4.4–8.9% on dormant CRM lists, and show rates that vary by offer and reminder cadence — up to 93% on our best-performing accounts.

The proof: 50,769+ AI-booked sales appointments delivered since 2017 across coaches, consultants, RTOs, course creators, finance brokers and B2B service firms in Australia, USA, UK, Canada, NZ and Europe. Named clients include Sam Tajvidi (121 Brokers), Marcus Wilkinson (Iron Body), Foundr, SheSells.online and Lambda Academy. Wikidata Q139846230. See full Pay-Per-Result pricing →