Hitting · St. Cloud, FL · 2h ago
Worked front-side rotation today. Big difference by the third round. He stopped drifting and started turning.
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Coach the game you love, full time.Be one of our first 50 founding coaches.
From day one you get a booking page and a scheduling link to share, 5- and 10-lesson packs, cages and facilities nearby to teach in, nothing taken from your own clients and 5% on athletes we send, a Background Check Verified badge parents can see, and a spot in the coach directory. The first 50 to clear verification are listed there as founding coaches.
Every coach is reviewed by a person and passes a Checkr background check. The $29.99 goes straight to Checkr and is refunded in full if you're not approved.
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St. Cloud, FL
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- Teaches
- Hitting · Infield
- Levels
- Travel · High school
- Coaching
- 8 years
- 4.9
- Rating
- 78
- Reviews
- 312
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What you actually get
Not a listing in a directory. The operating pieces of a coaching business, in one place.
A profile families can find
Photos, video, reviews, your socials and a book button. It is a real indexed page rather than a row in a list, it sits alongside the cage pages families already search for in your area, and you can see how many people viewed it.
Somewhere to hold the lesson
Every backyard cage, facility and field we know about, on one map. Book the space and the lesson in the same place instead of texting around for a cage.
Money that just arrives
Onboard with Stripe once. Families pay through the platform, funds land in your bank, and you stop being the person asking for cash at the end of a session.
Clients who rebook
Scheduling, reminders and a history for every athlete you train. The difference between a good month and a real income is retention, not new leads.
New athletes, when you want them
Families search for lessons in your town every day. When we hand you one you keep 95%, on the first session and on every session after it.
Income you can write off against
Every lesson leaves a record, which is the part most coaches are missing at tax time. Bats, buckets, nets, cage time and mileage are things you are buying already, and your accountant can do more with a statement than with a shoebox.
Built for lessons
Run your lessons here, not in a spreadsheet
Scheduling, packs, clients and payouts in one place. The things you use every week in a booking tool, plus families who can actually find you.
Your calendar, your rules
Weekly hours, days off and one-day changes
Open more hours for a camp week, shorten a day or take a stretch off.
Notice, how far ahead, and caps
Set minimum notice, how far out families can book, and most lessons a day or a week.
Start times on the hour or the half hour
Families see 5:00, 6:00, 7:00 if you want it tidy.
Book anyone at any time
Add a lesson outside your hours when a family texts you, and send a pay link if they haven't got a pack.
More than one place
Every spot you coach, one booking page
A park, a facility, a cage down the street. Families pick the spot when they book.
Facility fees pass through
If a venue charges you per lesson, the family sees it before they pay and it goes to you.
Several times in one go
Repeat weekly or every other week, add another time, and give each its own spot.
Packs that keep families coming
5-packs and 10-packs
Families pay once and book one lesson at a time. 8% off a 5-pack and 20% off a 10-pack, set so every coach's packs read the same.
Fair when plans change
Cancel in time and the lesson goes back on the pack. Cancel late and it counts as used, and you are paid.
You can extend a pack
Give a family more time when life gets in the way.
Moving over from another system
Add a family with the lessons they have left
They paid you already, so no money moves and CageList takes nothing. You text them one link.
Import from a spreadsheet
Check the rows first. Nothing is sent to anyone until you send it.
A Clients page
Search by name, email or phone. See lessons left and the next lesson on every row.
One link to share
Your booking link, and a separate link for your own clients so you keep 100% of their lessons.
The part no booking site has
Most platforms end at the transaction. Cage Log is where the coaching itself lives, and because every post carries a book button, the work you did last Tuesday is also how the next family finds you.
Every session leaves a record
Photos, video and your notes attach to the athlete, not to a camera roll. Six weeks in, a family can see the swing they started with next to the swing they have now.
Parents see the work they're paying for
The hardest part of private coaching is that families only ever see the hour. A log of what you actually worked on is the difference between a client who renews and one who drifts.
Last Tuesday's work is next week's booking
A post is not just a record. It carries a book button. The families reading it are the ones already looking for a coach in your town.
Your job is to coach
Most private coaches spend more time on scheduling, chasing payments and finding cage space than they spend teaching. That is backwards, and it is the part we take off you.
We market you
Your page is built to be found, and it sits inside a site already ranking for cages, facilities and lessons across the country. You get the traffic without buying ads.
We coach the coaching business
What to charge, how to turn a first lesson into a standing weekly slot, how to write a profile a parent actually books. The things nobody teaches you when you start taking clients.
You keep three things current
Your availability, where you coach, and the gear you bring. That is genuinely the whole job on your side. Everything else runs itself.
Not sure what to buy?
We keep a running list of what a coach actually needs to run sessions (net, tee, throw-downs, a bucket of balls) and what is worth adding once you have steady clients.
See the coaching starter kitWant to coach it the MADE way?
Philosophy, pitching and hitting principles, drill curriculum, and the language we actually use in a lesson. Take what is useful for how you coach.
Browse coach resourcesWhat it costs, in full
You should be able to read this once and know exactly what you'll be charged, for as long as you coach with us.
Once · when you apply
Passed straight through to Checkr for your background check. CageList keeps none of it, and it is refunded in full if you are not approved.
Clients you bring yourself
Bring your existing athletes and we take nothing. Your client covers the card processing, and you keep your full rate.
Athletes we send you
You keep 95%. CageList pays the card fee out of its share. The family pays a one-time $10 finder's fee. CoachUp charges the family $24.99 for the same introduction.
Every year after
No renewal and no annual fee. CageList re-runs your background check every three years and pays for it.
Checkr is the screening company we use. You can read about who they are before you hand them anything. You enter your details with them directly; CageList never sees your Social Security number or date of birth.
How others do it
- CoachUp runs an ID check, a basic background check and a sex offender screen on every coach each year, charges the coach $49.99 to join and $9.99 a year after, takes 43% of a first session with a new athlete sliding to 6% by the fifth, and provides coaches $1M in general liability coverage.
- Pro4mer runs a sex offender registry lookup only, says in its Terms that it does not represent instructors as having passed a background check, takes 17% plus card fees, and requires coaches to carry $500,000 per occurrence and $1,000,000 aggregate in liability insurance.
- CageList runs a Checkr criminal background check for $29.99 at cost, takes nothing from your own clients and 5% on athletes we send, and asks you to carry the same $500,000 / $1,000,000 cover Pro4mer does.
What we don't cover
CageList doesn't provide liability insurance. You're an independent coach running your own business, and we'd rather say that plainly than let you find out after something happens. Before your first lesson you'll need general liability cover of at least $500,000 per occurrence and $1,000,000 aggregate; you confirm that when you apply. We'll point you toward the carriers other CageList coaches use. Ask your accountant how the premium is treated against your coaching income, because that depends on how you file.
Why a flat share matters
CoachUp pays a coach 57% of the first session with a new athlete and works them back up to 94% over five, then resets to 57% with the next athlete. We don't do tiers. When we send you someone you keep 95% of that lesson and of every lesson after it.
| Situation | CoachUp | CageList |
|---|---|---|
| A client you bring yourself | You keep 97% | You keep 100%, client covers the card fee |
| An athlete the platform sends you | You keep 57% of session one | You keep 95%, every session |
| What that family pays to be matched | $24.99 | $10, once |
| To join | $49.99, then $9.99 a year | $29.99 once, refunded if you're not approved |
Those two columns are not quite the same shape, so here is the whole of it. On a client you bring, we take nothing and your payout is your full rate. The card processing, roughly 2.9% plus 30 cents, is added to what your client pays rather than taken out of what you get. It is a real cost in both places. We would rather show you where it lands than let a bigger number do the talking.
One new athlete, $60.00/hr
What the coach takes home| Session | CoachUp | CageList |
|---|---|---|
| Session 157% vs 95% | $34.20 | $57.00 |
| Session 272% vs 95% | $43.20 | $57.00 |
| Session 382% vs 95% | $49.20 | $57.00 |
| Session 487% vs 95% | $52.20 | $57.00 |
| Sessions 5–1094% vs 95% | $338.40 | $342.00 |
| Ten sessionsSame athlete, same rate | $517.20 | $570.00 |
$52.80 more per athlete, and on CoachUp the clock resets to 57% every time you take on someone new.
How you get on
Four steps, in this order. You're not disappearing into a queue.
01
Tell us who you are
Where you played, who you've coached, where you're coaching now, and one person who'll vouch for you. About six minutes.
02
We read it
A real person, usually within two days. We're looking for people who know the game and can teach it, not only people who played it.
03
Background check
Pay the one-time $29.99 fee, refunded in full if you're not approved. Checkr runs the check and you enter your details directly with them; CageList never sees them.
04
Go live
Once you've cleared and we've approved you. Set your rate, add your photos, and your page is searchable the same day.
The cage I had to ask for
MADE Baseball started as two travel teams, a 13U and a 14U, before it was ever a lesson business. Getting fields was a constant fight. The parks and rec department was not interested in working with me, and every slot I got came from being persistent and working the relationship. What saved us was a dad whose son I coached. He had a cage in his backyard and he let me use it, and we ran more team practices in that cage than I ever ran lessons. I was grateful every time. I was also aware every time that I was on his property, using his equipment, and that I had to ask. I would have paid him twenty or twenty five dollars an hour to never have to ask again, and it was never about the money. It was about a price and a time instead of a favor.
Later the lessons took over, a hundred and twenty dollars an hour in Los Angeles and booked out, and by the end I was hiring other coaches and filling their calendars too. I hired good coaches, and the ones who stayed booked were the reliable ones: good with kids, good with parents, and they showed up and did what they said they would do. I worked with plenty of coaches who did not, and I heard about it from parents all the time. So this page is the thing I wanted back when I was the one asking: a profile a parent can hold up against the next one, your rate and your hours, the booking and the money handled, and cages you can book by the hour instead of borrowing. Nobody should have to be a guest to do this work.
Founder of CageList. Seven pro seasons in five countries, and a decade of lessons since.
Your lessons are a business.
Start running them like one.
The first 50 coaches to clear verification are named founding coaches on the CageList directory. On day one you get a booking page and a scheduling link to share, 5- and 10-lesson packs, cages and facilities nearby to teach in, nothing taken from your own clients and 5% on athletes we send, a Background Check Verified badge parents can see, and a spot in the coach directory.
Your background check costs $29.99, passed straight through to Checkr. CageList keeps none of it, and it's refunded in full if you're not approved.
