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D’Mario Sowah was building a following at New York Sports Club in Blue Back Square when he thought of a way to drum up more business: split exercisers in group classes into two competing teams.
Sowah, like many personal trainers, was an independent contractor. He was paid a portion of his hourly fees, and not a salary, so the more people who chose his classes or to train with him one-on-one, the more he earned. By his last year at New York Sports Club, he said, he was earning about $40,000 a year.
With this team program, Sowah wanted to rent space from New York Sports Club and keep all the enrollment fees, and when management didn’t agree, managers said he could run the classes somewhere else.
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