Hey… something pretty cool here I think you’re gonna dig… especially if you like free stuff and making lot’s of money…
I’m opening up the doors to my Market Annihilator Program this coming Monday Feb. 23
I’m accepting 75 new people (last time I opened it I took 150 members and it sold out in just a few days)
In case you don’t know the Market Annihilator is my step-by-step online coaching program that shows you how to get TONS of clients from the internet for your personal training business, boot camp, fitness studio, mixed martial arts studio or weight loss program.
It’s a one year program and covers search engine optimization, copy writing, video marketing, social media marketing, blogging, pay per click advertising and EVERYTHING else you need to know to get a ton of business online just like I do.
Now, I’m gonna run a little contest here and award two winners… and the prize is pretty damn big…
If you’re already a Market Annihilator member you’ll get one year of coaching from me for no charge ( you get this coaching program right here which cost $2997 a year)
Or…
If you’re NOT a Market Annihilator member yet then you’ll get one year of access to the Market Annihilator Program for no charge at all… which normally costs $1997 for the year upfront or 12 monthly payments of $197 each (over $2300)
Here’s what I’m looking for…
Leave a comment in the comment section below.
Let me know your story. Include any specific results you’ve achieved from something I taught you... could be from the Market Annihilator Program or from tips on my blog… whatever
Tell me HOW you did it, the results, etc.
OR… if you’re new to my stuff and haven’t had a chance to apply any of it yet… then tell me…
WHY you think marketing your fitness business online is super important, exactly HOW you’ll use the information in the Market Annihilator program and WHAT you’re gonna do with all the extra money you’ll be making once you join.
I’ll be picking the winners Thursday February 19, 2009 from the comments on the bottom of this blog post (so please be sure you include your email address so we can contact you if you’re one of the winners).
It’s SUPER EASY to enter the contest… all you gotta do is just post your comment below. Good luck! ( I might use a few of these as testimonials… so please only comment if that’s ok with you)
Hint: I like details and specifics.
Hi, my name is Chuck I have been training now for a little over 2 years. I train at a small studio gym we don't have very many members there. I am competing with 5 other trainers there & struggling to get clients. check out my website & blog tell me what you think I need to do. Please help me I am really struggling now to even stay in business. I am wanting to start up a bootcamp this spring I hope it will kick off.
Thanks,
Chuck,
First of all your blog showed me many many things that helped me place my website on the first page in google
Everybody knows how important this is.
Your tips are specific and to the point and that's what makes me coming back to your site Chris and read again and again and again.
I need to learn more though. I need to learn what to do now to improve conversion ratio on my site and how to get more traffic.
It's now like sort of video game for me. It's exciting. It's like trying to "kill" as many enemies as possible. You know what I mean. I am not going to kill anybody ha ha… but every day I get up in the morning and check my email to see if there are more members on my site that I could help improve their fitness.
I know the power of the Internet and I need to learn more from you so I can help more people out there. I will teach them how to become fit and healthy. All I need is your mentorship. I would have bought all your products if I had enough money left after investing into website and all the technical stuff. Now my website needs kick in the butt to jump as high as possible and I am sure your program will do it. What would I do with ALL-THE-MONEY I will make? Man,,, I would finally take vacation and take my wife-to-be soon on the nice honeymoon. Then I would invest in the new online business.
I hope you will pick me because I really have a great product for people out there and I am ready to receive some 'love'. I hope this time in my turn.
Thanks Chris
I love all the information you have put out on this website. Through the past year and a half as a trainer I have been riding the roller coaster of success and failure and pretty much it sucked. I have done a lot of research online to figure out what to do to market myself and my personal training business. Over the last few months I have seen more action then I have in the past 2 years. I think all the information on the SEO has been the biggest help. At our training studio we have done all the advertising (paper advertising), and plenty of local magazines, but nothing seems to work. I think the internet is the best and only way to get your name around as the fitness guru. Through posting press releases and other ads online I have seen alot more action. Now after seeing your information on the PPC marketing, blogging, and SEO I am beginning to see the light at the end of the tunnel. It is very new to me seeing your website and trying to put everything together and get there, but I would love to get more information from you, the success you have and had is something I would love to follow! Keeping posting great information!
Chris, the amount and quality of Free content you give out is more than a lot of things I have Paid for! And not just your stuff – you get others to contribute incredible value as well!
Probably one of the most important things I have learned here is to be myself when writing, otherwise it is miserable. You also make seo stuff a lot simpler to manage with your tips on what to concentrate on.
My favorite stuff has been the 7 Things Pick-Up Artists and Savvy Marketers Have in Common, and 43 KILLER Fitness Marketing Tips. Brilliant stuff.
I have also put to use your strategies for me marketing my business and having others fulfill it – best thing I have ever done!
(if only you could have a web department to do all the IT stuff for us =)
Thanks Chris!
Greetings,
At this point I have simply watched the video clips and they all have become extremely useful. I love the outside the box approach and also the obvious, which trainers don't even realize without your help. I always looked at marketing my services believing I knew what my clients/patients wanted. It is so easy to simply ask and do a survey to find out what the clients/patients really want. By using this simple principle my business has grown substantially. I am looking forward to utilizing many other principles you provide to assist me in growing my business to the sky. Thank you so much!
Paul J. Ciacci, LMT
Thank you
I used your tips to secure 3 spots on the first page of google search for "women bootcamps in michigan". I am a pure novice to this internet stuff and have a long way to go. With your tips and mentoring i want to dominate the michigan market and kick every one elses butt. I am 50 years old, been in business 30 years and don't have time to mess around. What will i do with the money–enjoy the rest of my flipping life, give my wife security, and donate my fitness center to my church.
Chris
I haven't been exposed to you information for all that long but have found usable nuggets in everything that you send out! You put out a lot of great and applicable information for free which is something that most in our industry are not willing to do.
The 2 things I have gotten from you that has helped me improve my business has been search engine optimization basics and writing more compelling copy. I am definitely not there yet by any means but have seen my website rank higher in google (first page) for my keywords, both PT and boot camps. I am currently working on getting my WP blog set up and getting started with adwords. Also, areas in which I have gained understanding from you.
I have a great interest in learning more in depth about these online strategies because I recognize the fact that internet marketing is such a powerful time leverage tool. Time is key to me as I am newly married and have loooong honeydo lists if you know what I'm sayin'. I work full time and and run my business as well so creating leverage is key to me in my goal to create lifestyle, which means less work time to me & more dollars in so I have more time to spend doing the things I want to be doing. I believe the Market Annihilator System is the tool that can allow me to create the type of automated leverage that I am talking about.
As far as what I will do with all the additional money, what ever I want!
Thanks for the opportunity!
Monty
Chris,
I found your blog about a month ago and have loved it. It is part of my daily reading for many reasons but the most important for is the attitude that you carry and the encouragment to be "BAD ASS" trainers. The one thing I struggle with most is confidence at times because this whole process is overwhelming at times. I starting a basketball development company 11 months ago with 1 player and am now training over 75 players per week while coaching a couple of times. I love what I do but at times am really hard on myself and lately been having some problems with the gym I am in. Your blog gives me hope that one day I can live the kick back life.
Thanks for all you do.
Mark
Hey Chris,
Thanks for the killer information you give out every time I open my email. What you did was give me the final kick in the A** to get my website up and blog (http://terry-womensworkouts.blogspot.com/). Now I am about to launch my first product. Before I came across you and your products I was thinking way too much and not acting… Although I am not the best web designer or blogger,what i did was put in the basics so that i could build my list and develop a following and then follow up with them. This is just one of the things i got from you… so far it has produced a lot of new business. I have gotten emails from all over the world commenting me on my site… i took a no holds barred approach on some topics (just like you) and women loved it! Thanks… a million (dollars hopefully)
…Terry Stokes
Chris,
I just discovered you last week, but I've already been able to apply some of your advice. I listened to your opening video at a time I was planning an adolescent coaching program. You said you offered your first classes for free for referrals and you talked about the law of reciprocity. It really hit home for me. I am offering the coaching to some kids for free to get the program going and to learn more about what I want to offer in working with them. I really appreciate your guidance and look forward to more good stuff.
Thanks! Alissa
P.S Check out my website, my story is inspiring people but I need to SEO it so I can reach more people and monetize what I offer. The content is excellent. Thanks and I hope I get to work with you!
Chris,
Man what can I say, I've been following the posts and implementing the ideas and it has made so much of a difference! I started my camp last week with 5 people and doubled attendance in a week! I have the first 5 spots on Google and I feel like I'm just getting started! My wife and I are both trainers and we are having our first child in May. I really want to be able to build my business and work smarter not harder. I know having the coaching course would really help take it to the next level, I just wouldn't be able to pay for it right now with our baby girl, Riley, on the way.
Thanks for everything and please pick my name!
Ryan D
http://www.EdmondBootcamp.com
Ryan@edmondbootcamp.com
Chris,
been following just about everything you write now for about 5 months and I have notes and notes of all the info that you have provided. Just using some tips from the 47 strategies blog that you posted I got two new boot campers and I used your SEO tips to get on the first page of Google for Renton bootcamps.
The truth is I feel like I could do so much more but get overwhelmed with all the things I learn. I only have so much time since I work 40 hours at a bigger gym while also just opening my own facility where I run bootcamps and train athletes.
If I get picked for your program I will make sure I apply everything you are talking about to generate more business so I can transition to just working at my place and freeing up my time, which will help me service my clients better, I can start working on some info products, and most importantly spending time with my wife and family who I barely even see throughout the whole week!
I really do need this and I if I can get in the program I promise to bust my ass and apply, take action on the things I have learned.
Regardless of what happens though, thanks for the info that you have been putting out, as it is seriously some of the best and also entertaining info.
Luka Hocevar
http://www.HocevarPerformance.com
http://www.RentonResultsBootcamp.com
Hey Chris! HELP!!!!
I have been a Personal Trainer since November 2006. I have been sooo busy getting educated the past three years that my business has suffered. I am certified through ACE, I am a rehabilitative exercise specialist and lifestyle and weight management consultant, certified aquatics instructor through the arthritis foundation and I am currently finishing my massage therapy school!!!! Now it is time to get serious about my business and I know that you and Berdros are the two individuals that can help me get where I want to be…..wealthy and lazy…ha! ha!! We all want to have free time to enjoy life!!!I am living from client to client/month to month. You and Bedros Keuilian are my mentors. Because of my financial situation I am unable to purchase alot of the programs that you and Bedros offer….so, I utilize all of the emails that you both send me to the best of my ability! I am currently building my web site by myself and ….it is kicking my ass!!! I know that internet marketing is soo important but I suck at it. I know that I am a good trainer….I have had most of my clients for two years. I need some help and I would greatly appreciate anything that you could do for me!!! Thanks!
Sincerely,
Danny J. Sell
lifestylebodyfitness@hotmail.com
Yo Chris whats up man.
It seems like everywhere I go that someone is talking about how the sky is falling and they are running around like Chicken Little.
Every so often I feel like I might start falling under that trap sometimes to…..but I don't let it paralyze me.
I know the money is not rolling in right now like I want it to be and that I already spent more then I bring in on programs such as the Market Annihilator and others, but I know it is an investment and I truly know that I am going to make things better.
I see the light at the end of the tunnel.
The Market Annihilator as well as reading the Kickbacklife blog everyday gives me the tips and hope and the extra boost I need to keep on keeping on.
With your program I have been learning alot. And although things may be hard and very challenging right now and I may not have the money to implement all of the tons of tips right now, I know I am saving and investing what I can to be able to implement the tips.
I believe you have the ultimate online fitness marketing program out here and I hope to continue following implementing the tips you bring us.
And I hope to one day meet and kick it with ya crazy off-the wall ass one day.
Check out what I have done with my bootcamp site so far.
I know I haven't implemented many of the tips you offer….but that is only because of some crazy debt that I am in right now, but that doesnt matter….I know what I have to do and the economy or anyone for that matter will not stop me from my goals and my success. Our success!
http://www.Bootcamp2GetInShape.com
Chris,
Beyond the x's and o's of strategy and implementation there are certain intangibles I have learned from following your posts and advice.
Above all else be yourself. ALWAYS. I used to write content that may have been correct – but did not show people who I am or what I am all about. You taught me not to care about what other people might think and I definetly learned to be consistently unashamed as to what I want to share with my readers.
Supplying sound fitness "advice" and giving the skinny on what it actually takes to get it done can be two very different things.
Quality content is an absolute must, of course, because without a personality behind it the information is like reading another newspaper article about the economy – same old crap wrapped in different paper.
I may not be experiencing killer numbers – yet – but by following your lead I know for a fact that I have loyal followers, because I hear from them and their feedback makes every word I write worth it. It is then that I know I am making a diffence.
With Gratitude,
Dave
http://www.HomeWorkoutExpert.com
Hey Chris ,
I'm am super motivated. I want to thank you for taking my motivation to the next level. Since I've been reading your emails and using the Market Annihilator Program made a complete shift into learning everythiing I can about marketing. Unfornutantely I was unable to keep up with the monthly payments at this time but I've taken enough to get me at least started. I can definitley say I worked around the clock studying between your strategies, Bedros, and Zack Esh. I've been to the Fitness Summit 2 years ago and started my own boot camp. Recently anttended Zack "Kill It Seminar" and registered for Bedros "the Thumb" lol Mentorship Meeting. I scrambling trying to find funds to make it to the Summit this year just to meet you. I really don't think that it's going to happen though. To be honest, i have a stronger connection to you. I have the same passion ,same aggressive attitude towards life, same hunger for success and I also ride a motorcycle. I just need a little assistance from you, that will take me over the top. I can't sleep some nights just knowing how close I am. Thanks for everything, I'm out for my hunt looking for a location to run my boot camp.
Chris,
Wow… this competition is awesome. Thank you for putting it out there.
Just a quick background on me. Originally from Australia I got myself a Canadian girl, traveled back and forward from OZ(75000 miles all up) eventually moving to Toronto (April 2008) with basically my suitcase and clothes on my back and stayed at her place for a bit before getting my own. (we are still together and although its bloody cold here, all is great) Upon coming here I Got back into Personal Training at GoodLife (like Ballys)and first few months was a real struggle. Since Ryan Lees Bootcamp I have linked up with soo many great ppl in this industry. This eventually brought me to this blog, and Chris McCombs.
After seeing the kind of value Chris was delivering at this blog I jumped on board for Market Annihilator. What an AMAZING program.
Through Market Annihilator ideas from Kick Back Life and a fellow fitness pros assistance, I have achieved the following page and position rankings on Google with these key words…
Fat Loss Tips for Women: Page 1 position 3
3 Top Fat Loss tips for women: Pg 1 No. 1 & 5
Womens Fat Loss Videos: Page 1, no. 1, & 2
Womens Fat Loss Series: Page 1, no. 1,2,4,5,6 and 8
Etobicoke Personal Trainer: Page 1 no. 10
Personal Trainer Etobicoke: Page 2 no. 1
GoodLife Personal Trainer: Page 1 no. 7
Personal Trainer GoodLife: Page 2, no. 1
Womens Fat Loss Tips: Page 2, no. 5
Toronto Fat Loss: Page 1, no. 3
Fat Loss Toronto: Page 1, no. 7
I have done this through ideas I got from some of Chris' posts at this blog, as well as tips from MA.
For example the post Chris put up for Killer Fitness Marketing Tips.. I took this one step further and had fellow fitness pros guest post on my blog. A series of Videos or Vlogs with them sharing their best fat loss tips for women, and 3 things to avoid.
I also took some tips from MA when Chris spoke about the importance of Offline Marketing. I am currently doing this with My GoodLife Giveaway. I am putting up $1000 worth of PT to members in my gym. All they need do is fill in the entry form, and answer 3 questions on my Blog. This builds up credibility and visibility within the gym, and boosts my rankings in Google for the keywords GoodLife Personal Trainer and Personal Trainer Etobicoke (my local area) so it's somewhat of a blend of offline and online techniques.
Even when I get out of GoodLife, there are thousands of GoodLife members locally and if they seek a trainer in GoodLife and I come up in Google, then there is a great chance they will seek me out regardless of the fact that i may not be there.
It has certainly not been an easy road making the big move from OZ and starting from scratch. Thanks to Chris McCombs and others, I have achieved more in the last 6 months than the last 6 years.
Within the next few months I am making the jump from employed position at GoodLife to running my own Bootcamps. It's a steady transition thanks to a non competition clause that prevents me from almost doing anything outside of GoodLife. (I get fired for running bootcamps as an example) Having said that, the wheel is certainly turning. The grapefruits are strapped on and I have a specific niche that I will be targeting and with the help of MA and this blog I have no doubt I will dominate this niche and the Bootcamp Market in TO and after the past almost year of hard slog, really start to see the fruits come to bear.
I also have a monthly dvd and print newsletter in the works, as well as a micro membership site, and my first info product. First things first and that's the bootcamps.
Thanks again Chris for putting this out there, goodluck to all of you guys and I wish you all the success you can handle in 2009. And then some.
Cheers,
Adam Toohey
adamtooheys@gmail.com
Chris, I am a current Market Annihilator member and would like to win a year of coaching.
Results I've gotten from the Market Annihilator:
Currently getting an average of 4 new personal training clients a week from your "stealth" craiglist strategy. It worked the first time I tried it. I barter it out just like you advise.
I also use the sneaky google local trick to rank # 1 in google local listings, which brings in another 1-2 clients a week.
Plus three of my sites are now on the top of page one of google for many of my most important terms. It's hard to tell exactly how many clients this gets me, but it's quite a few.
I have surveyed my market the exact way you suggest in the program and now have much better conversions, because I talk about what they really want not what i think they want or should want.
The Market Annihilator paid itself off within one month for entire year and has allowed me to go from approx 48k per year to six figures. ( $9510 a month now and growing)
My goal now is to build my business to seven figures in 2009. I have no doubt that with your mentoring i can do it.
I will give approx 10% of the money to help starving children right here in America. when i was young we didn't have a lot of money and i know what that can be like, so I really want to make a difference right here in the USA
I believe you have to give in order to receive.
I also believe one has to take action in order to get results in anything in life. When you teach something in the Market Annihilator I almost always I act on it and I will do the same with your coaching program should you choose to award me the winner.
Even if you don't choose me, thank you for everything you have helped me achieve.
Sincerely thanks,
Ron
Certified Personal Trainer
I signed up for the Market Annihilator when you first put it out. I had only been following you and heard about you maybe a month earlier but I saw the content you were putting out. Law of reciprocation, I had to pay you back! I was actually still in university at that point and just training a couple hours here and there so I didn’t keep up with the new content you were putting out. I actually took out a loan just to purchase it the program! But I finished school in December and got back on track a few weeks ago and things are finally starting to roll. Right away I bought a domain and got a guy to develop my sales page. I wrote the sales copy myself based off of tips you had given out in the first couple months of the program but I will be getting a copywriter to revise it once I get the money. So I have my basic sales homepage developed and up with a blog (which still need revisions and layout changes), I am advertising online at elance and guru.com to start getting my back end pages written for me.
I just started reading Cialdini’s book you recommended (almost done) and like you said I am now understanding much more why and how certain tactics are used when advertising or trying to make a sale. And seeing the tactics I’ve been victim to. I have not benefitted financially from the program yet but I know it is coming. My marketing and website knowledge has increased dramatically and I am only about halfway caught up in the program.
You give out wicked info and I love the way you put it out there. Since getting back into the program I have definitely taken action on everything you have said. Things are just running slow on the tech side. Camera is broken so just waiting till its fixed so I can start getting testimonials and putting video on my blog showing people who I am. But I could only imagine what it would be like to work with you and learn from you. Without market annihilator I would have been completely lost on where to start and even how to start but you make things so easy and walk through them step by step. Let alone actually working with you one on one!
This is the new age and you have to be on the internet giving high quality content if you want to succeed and become a 1%’er. I am just starting into the social networking and haven’t used it properly but just listened to your interview with Tousignant and his tips are what I’ll be starting today.
Once I get some money the first thing I want to do is pay off my debt from school and then get rid of my POS car. Console is busted, heat doesn’t work, paint chipping and rusting and list goes on. Then I’ll take a vacation and start outsourcing more so someone else can do the work for me!
I would love to be able to work with you Chris and get the chance to have a real business mentor. Thanks for what you have helped me with already and I know there’s more to come.
I'm new to your information, but not to the fitness game. My partner, Joe Garcia, and I opened our fitness training studio in 2003 and have since been able to create a great facility that is often called "The Best Kept Secret in Town." We were recently voted one of the Top 5 Personal Training gyms in Los Angeles.
The profitability has never equaled the praise, though. The term "Best Kept Secret" is as notable for the "Best" as it is for the "Secret." We don't want to be a secret anymore. Our product offers a tremendous value to the public and deserves to be wildly successful. At the outset of our business I spent a lot of time trying to build up our online presence, but in the course of working in my business I forgot the importance of working ON it, and let that practice fade terribly. As a result, we're playing catch-up with regard to dominating our market area online, and that is an unacceptable situation for a brick and mortar business that has been open for 6 years.
We have always been on the edge of "breaking out." It's time for us to make it over the edge and experience the success that our company and clients deserve. We just need a little help.
As for the question, "What would I do with the material rewards," that's easy. I would sleep better! I would know that the reward is proportionate to the quality of my company. I may be in the minority, but I'm not interested in a 4 Hour Work Week. I love working, but I want to work from a position of inspiration instead of desperation. I want to take more vacation time. I want to expand and grow my business. I want to improve and streamline my business so that it continues to provide a greater and more rewarding experience for my clients, staff, partner, and me. I want more funds to enjoy the things my wife and I like to do outside of work. I'd like to mentor and teach. I'd like to enjoy the rewards that I believe the quality of my work deserve.
Your program seems ideal for achieving the online presence that any successful company must have in the tech-age.
Thank you,
Jonathan Aluzas
http://www.arenafitness.com
Hey Chris,I just wanted to say that your videos and kick back life has indeed helped my business on the internet,but mostly it continues to motivate and kick me in the ass each an everyday to continue doing what I do. I'm also very appreciative of your no nonsense style. I want to say this because I've been in the industry over 20 years and still find your information valuable. I can also relate to your own personal story becuse mine isn't so different. I was raised on the streets of the South Bronx in NYC amongst the pimps,dealers, hustlers and murderers that inhabited my hood, and was able to get out.I've seen what drugs and that type of environment can do to people from first hand experience.I can go on and tell you about the amount of friends and family who have done time and never escaped the life,but I just want to say that statistics don't tell you all of the stories. I have beaten the statistics, a young hispanic male from the ghetto should never have seen as many birthdays as I have.
Even though my father was locked up during some of my prominent years growing up, I drew strength from my mother's perserverence and work ethic, and I always believed that I didn't have to be relegated to a life in the hood. There was so much more out there that I could get a piece of. I believe that's why I'm still around today, and successful within my field. From the South Bronx to Master Trainer, author,trainer to professional athletes, featured in dozens of national magazine publications,news telecasts and owner of a very successful personal training center in Colorado. I think I've done well for myself. I'm not writing this for any free gifts or mentorship,I've mentored and given back to many young successful trainers in my day. The reason I am writing this is to inspire and will other young men and women that may be in a similar situations to keep fighting the fight, and that good things do happen to good people who are willing to work hard to achieve their dreams. Stay strong Brother, and keep doing what you do and how you do it.
Best of luck with your candidate search.
Richard Ruiz
http://www.stac-fitness.com
stacfitness@hotmail.com
(720)810-2657
Chris,
I've always been skeptical about long copy websites but I went through yours to get on MA and haven't regretted it one second.
My story starts when Kaiser "F the gym" Serajuddin makes me dump the gym – and I can’t thank him enough for it. Once I was independent all the traditional marketing and prospecting seemed so 'intangible' to me that I wanted something proven to work. Hanging up my business card at the grocery store didn’t feel right, and that's when MA came.
So far I’m amazed by how in-depth this program is. I’m taking action on all the steps and for some cities I’m already on Google’s 1st page.
I'm not going to lie by telling you that I got dozens of clients out of it, and that money is falling out of the sky, because it isn't yet. I just started independently 3 months ago so all is still a work-in-progress for me.
And at the moment I'm still in the trenches with a million things to so. For the next few weeks I’ll be optimizing all my city pages for their specific keywords of "Personal Trainer (city name)".
Besides that I'm riding the 'law of reciprocity' phenomenon as I'm training many people for free – just like you did when you started. Though all my friends are calling me nuts for doing this, I can see how this tactic will bring me large income in the end.
Also, and I don’t know if I even should be at this stage yet, but I try to wear the entrepreneur hat as much as I can….though, the 2 things holding me back are:
-1- It's counter-intuitive (Rookie Entrepreneur mistake of wanting to do all by myself – “The Lone Ranger” as Bedros calls it)
-2- $ is low right now (already on a business loan) so I want all my article writing to come through bartering (and I need someone that'll give me guaranteed unique content).
Now with this said I'm confident I'll be successful within a year. It's not the money – it's the lifestyle that I'm in this for.
Also, my compliments to Ron T. – those are some insane results you got, keep up the good work.
Hi Chris,
First off, no matter how strong of a seller you are. It doesn't mean jack if you can't attract people, let alone the right type of people to your service. I'm new to your services so I haven't had the pleasure of immplementing a lot of your proven tactics to attract loyal cash paying clients.
My name is Michael Hamlin and I've been a fitness professional now for almost 7 years. I've gone through periods where I've made 75,000 to 100,000.00 as a personal trainer but I've also had plenty of times(well most) where I've only mad made 30,000.00 per year. I know I'm a great trainer and I have a before and after book 2 inches thick to prove it but when it comes to marketing I keep tending to fail backwards instead of forwards.
I'm positive that being a member of your marketing Annihilator program will help complete me as a fitness professional. I'm tired of having an income stream better than 90% of most personal trainers one year and then close to living out of a box the next. My marketing is killing me.
If I were to be picked as one of the lucky winners for your program I would take full advantage of your services to grow my business to it's full potential. There is so much I want to do with in the fitness industry from starting a successful boot camp, to creating my own fitness info product but most importantly, just to be able to stabilize my one on one personal training business would be a blessing in it self. Thank you for your time and in all that you do.
Michael Hamlin
Transition Training Inc.
Atlanta Ga.
Chris,
Dude, where do I start? Man, to be honest, I have to physically remove myself from the laptop cuz I can't stop checking out your site. I'm still new to your stuff and the content you give us is incredible. It keeps getting better. I really can't believe you give so many damn golden nuggets.
Marketing my business online is so important because that's where the money is. 90% of my clients come via Google. I WANT MORE!!!! The advertising pubs in my market are all folding and I hate working with them anyways (they blow). Google isn't going anywhere and I want to annihilate all my competitors and dominate my market while I sleep. The biggest reason is, I am GOOD at kicking back and enjoying life and I want more time to do it. I have an incredibly smokin-hot A$$ wife (just check my site), I live at the beach…nuff said! She is starting on her master's next year and she deserves not to worry about moolah.
What am I gonna do with phat stacks of cash from Market Annihilator? I'm paying off the plastic, finally…College was fun fun fun. I'm bringing my wifey out to Cali. She's been dying to hit Socal. Putting money away for my future family…it's almost baby-time.
I own 50+ domains (ready to conquer!)and I'm primed to annihilate my market online in everything fitness. Man, if you choose me I will ABSOLUTELY utilize all the goods you share. I've already built time into the day to implement your strategies. I want this so bad, if you pick me I will stop by your casa when I'm in Cali and personally wash and detail your rides………SIKE, I'll have so much extra scratch, I will pay someone else to do it for me so we can 'kick back' and live life.
Thanks for everything!
Adam P.
http://www.VirginiaBeachBootCamp.com
info@VirginiaBeachBootCamp.com
Hey Chris
Im actually enrolling under your coaching program sometime soon to really nail this years target of earning over 200k. It will be great to see if i can get there, hey if its free its better right?
Ive learnt alot from your blog, your an inspiration to trainers who are typically like me who work to hard for the money they earn.
your blog has taught me, enough is enough, you need to make a stand and take adequate steps to achieve your 'kick back life'.
it has helped move me towards massive action, and will be interesting to see where i end up..
Thank you once again
The AUS kettlebellkid
Tommy Leigh
chris just coach me
Marketing a fitness business online is crucial because so many people turn to the internet for information; probably more than any other source. I would use this information to build an affiliate marketing website. The reason I would promote other peoples products is because I want to have an internet based business because I’ll be traveling for the next few years. Plus, I have used all of the products I would promote and I would only promote the products that are tried and true that come from people on the top of their game. (Eric Cressey, Mike Robertson, Craig Ballantyne, Alwyn Cosgrove, Mike Roussell, John Berardi, Jason Ferruggia, etc)
Since I won’t have my own “bricks and mortar” business for a while, I still want to help as many people as possible. I want to supply people with the information they need to make the right decisions when it comes to training and nutrition. Too many people (especially women) still engage in exercise (i.e. long, slow cardio) that doesn’t bring them any closer to their body composition goals. I have important information that needs to be shared, and I know I can make a big impact, especially with the female population. Women need to know that it’s okay to lift heavy weights. They should be determined to do bodyweight chin-ups, dips, pistols, and push heavy weight. Women need to know that they don’t have to spend any time on machines doing endless cardio. Women (and men) need to know how to get more results in less time. There are too many important things in life to do; no one should stress over finding the right training and nutrition programs. I strongly believe that I know who the best of the best are, and these are the people I want to promote. These are also the people I will learn from.
With the money I would make from an affiliate website, I would continue learning and improving my craft. I would travel to gyms of experienced strength coaches (I FAST, Cressey Performance, Results Fitness, etc) and increase my knowledge. The more I learn, the more I can share. I would also continue to test out my own training methods on people and create my own info products. I will create products specifically for women: and I know I will help many. I want to help women realize their true potential in the gym.
niashanks@gmail.com
Hi Chris,
I have only been fortunate enough to have been a part of your blogging advice for the last month, but during that time I've already been able to apply some of your advice and i am glad to say i am already number 1 with google for my Bootcamps in Australia.
After reading some of your material and learning how to write specific content for the website and how google picks up the wording has been invaluable.
Also after taking your advice we set a new budget for google ad words, and even though we are spending an extra $400 per month, we now average up to $1000 per month in increased income for my business( great to be able to do that and really do nothing for the extra income to our Bootcamps).
I listened to your opening video at a time I was planning our upcoming Bootcamp season here in Australia. You said you offered your first classes for free ( or get current clients to bring a friend for FREE), which we did for the month on January. I am pleased to say that this also took our Bootcamp numbers of referrals from 19 for our last 12 week program to 48 for this 12 weeks ( a total increase in income of $12900 not bad for 12 weeks!!!!).
I believe marketing your fitness business online is super important as it can really become a great way to generate a steady income whilst giving you more time to focus on other things in th ebusiness( or relax if you like).
With the extra income we will make my goal is to open 'The Succeed Child Care Learning Centre' here in Australia which is a complete different world to other child care facilities.
They will receive lessons in fitness, cooking, prosperity( teaching them they can be, do or have anything they desire), gratitude, NLP, meditation, amongst many other things.
Our focus for the centre will be working with some of the fantastic programs around the world at the moment like 'The Secret' ( which we have distribution rights for here in Australia)etc….
I really appreciate your guidance and look forward to the very basic down to earth information that you provide on a regular basis.
Many people choose to not give out information like you do for FREE for fear they may lose work, but they do not realise the more you give out freely the more it will come to you.
Regards,
Scott Williams
CEO, Managing Director
Succeed Personal Development
http://www.succeed.com.au
Hey Chris, thanks for all the value. As far as I’m concerned, you’re already giving us so much for free it’s ridiculous. You must be crazy.
I am 25 years old. I quit my job as a trainer at a gym 6-8 months ago and started my website http://www.workout4results.com. I thought I would be successful right away. Bad idea, lol. To be honest, it was perhaps the worst decision of my life. I was a train wreck and lost my girlfriend, my money, my job, and even my health for a month. I was selling coupon books door to door and had to humble myself in some serious ways to survive. Things were hard because I was and I still am a full time student at SJSU. I was trying to do too much with no money☹
Fortunately, I graduate this semester! I have a steady source of income working a J.O.B. Anyways, I learned some valuable things from your website and I still believe I can be successful. I have applied your idea of training people for free for referrals, many of your videos, and I even had a question answered by you specifically on how to make my website better.
My plan is to make a paid for site that allows members direct and quick access to individual experts in specific fields. I have even talked to successful entrepreneurs here in Silicon Valley about my idea and they liked it. No personal training whatsoever! This is all web based. I don’t want to train anyone personally because this is money for time. No Thanks…
Once I get together with someone who can really help me, I will make bank with my website idea. I will have people following my program at personal training studios across the country. I will use the money to pay off my two school loans, move into my own pad, get a car that won’t break down on me, and I will go on a vacation. Yes, a much needed vacation. I will become one of the greatest entrepreneur minds on the planet.
Yes, I am crazy. Yes, I will do whatever it takes. Yes, it is only a matter of time before I make this work. Why not now?
I can relate to your old lifestyle,(my old). I've been getting info from you and bedros for some time but:
I've gotten lost in the vast sea of awsome info that you guys have given so I end up picking bits out. Partly due to the fact that I'm so busy spinning my wheels trying to get up to par and ahead. I just started facebook yesterday and I came home to 22 emails for it. I started a blog as per you ,but again spinning wheels so I cant get regular content on it. Trying to pick a starting point seems to be a challenge. Like getting to the food store to buy some f@#!ing soap and you don't know where to start so you go with the same old shit!!! Yeah! I have gotten good response from the ideas but there in the back ally and I need to get them up front. Only because people have said to me so often: I "smart as F#@!". But I suck because I might be able to sell a raft to drowning man. Help man! I love the industry and I wont give it up but I don't want to "police" the drunk and disorderly by night either. Getting a little tired of that.
Thanks for your help thus far.
In good health. Alan Alansbodyrevolution.com
Hi Chris,
Your information is straightforward and sensible, but of course its absolutely useless unless its put into action! And unfortunately that has been my problem lately. I've oversubscribed to far too many 'How to' guides, filled notebooks with pages of grand ideas, domain names, and dreams, and maxed out credit cards; but until I can laser in on one idea and get started I'm dead in the water. I love what I do, but I need to get systems in place and train instructors before I start dreading the 5am wake ups and have it ruin my enjoyment of the business. I've been searching for a mentor to take my business to the next level – hopefully you can help Chris.
Damn you Chris,
I gave the day off to my assistant Julianna and now you take this day to ask for a comment.(she usually types everything for me)
I am way too busy to comment on every blog. I wasn't going to comment on this one. It takes me a long time as I can't type worth a crap.
But my conscious wouldn't let me. I had to leave a comment to let everyone know that your program is already paid for itself 10 fold.
I don't want to sit here and keep typing about specifics things that I learned from you because that will take me 30 minutes the way I type.
No offense Chris obviuosly I am not trying to win the contest here becaue you already thought me pretty much everything I need to know. I enrolled in your super advanced program. (But for some reason I still think that you have a few more tricks up your sleeve you bastard)
It's a no brainer, what if I told you to give me $200.00 and I will give you $2000.00 GUARANTEED in one year. Who wouldn't take that deal? Well that's what I think of the Market Annihilator program.
Damn it Chris I am going to get carpel tunnel from typing all this.(Where is mu assiatant)
P.S. To all trainer reading this I DON'T GET A DIME ENDORSING THIS OR ANY PROGRAM. I just tell it like it is.
Hi Chris,
I am in your Marketing Annihilator program. We just talked the other day via phone for one of the bonuses. The first great tting you tought me was how to make my website more simple and how this would get me more contacts and prospects.
Since then I have been just making some small changes in my front page. I added more before and after photos, eliminated the navaigation bar etc. (I would be more detailed but this wasn't free information) I am getting a client a week on average from my website. Before I did this tweaking that you recommended I was not getting any reponse from my site. I was very frustrated back then but now I am excited finding a new prospect each and ever week!
The next thing you have taught me is how to advertise effectively on Craigs List..I just started doing this and am already get responses!
Marketing your business online is crucial and most trainers still do not even have a website in my area! Marketing face to face is good, but there are only so many hours in the day and your website and online marketing can market for you around the clock! Do you ever think how many prospects search online each day?
If I would win the coaching it would be great because the stuff online and the Marketing Annihilator is new to me and sometimes I have to watch the videos 2-3 times for me to understand everything and put it right into action. Having the step by step walk through would be a huge lift in my business and finally take me to the level I know I can be.
thanks Chris! For everything and the your consideration!
David Modderman
http://www.davidmodderman.com
Hi Chris,
I am a current member with Market Annihilator and am loving it. I am a mum with 3 children under the age of 9 so in order to be able to find the time to study your content, I stay up really late at night and get up hours before daylight. I remember I didn't even know how I was going to pay for your course when I signed up (I had already signed up to Boot Camp Blue Print)but I read your story about how you studied, got coaching and just plain worked hard, and I knew if you could do it, you could teach me how I could do it.
I am all about having a kickback lifestyle – to me that means having multiple streams of income that are systemised. In the last 12 months I have launched my boot camp business and now have 10 camps. I am about to launch a membership website in my area of expertise and the information you have provided about how to dominate google has given me an action plan. I cannot wait to get it up online. I have plans for another 2 membership websites, a teleseminar product and plans to double my boot camp business in the next 6 months.
Along with Dan Kennedy, Frank Kern, Jeff Walker, Jim Labadie and Pat Rigsby, you are an essential part of my education. I want to thank you for all your posts. Even though, technically I am not your target audience, I learn so much from your blog posts and look forward to more in the future.
Hi Chris
I have been reading your Kickback Life blog because it has provided me ideas on how to market and get clients for my women boot camp in Perth, Australia. And I'm a member of your Market Annihilator as well which has been instrumental in my bootcamp business. The program had helped me get my Women Bootcamp on the 1st page of the google for Perth and I can never say enough how your critiquing of my Perth Women Boot Camp website has helped. It was disastrous but you were very kind to put it in a nice way to me and I appreciate your unbiased opinion. With the website completely overhauled, I'm getting hot prospects that turns up at the boot camp. In the past, people just called and never turned up. Joining your Market Annihilator definitely has been the turning point for me. It was extremely difficult before because I moved from Singapore to Perth, Australia and has no client base and know nobody at all.
TC
http://www.perth-women-bootcamp.com.au
Hey Chris
My name is Michael Rinsler-Let me please say this- we have had some e mail contact in the past. You warned me about Jeremy from Fitness leads. I called him on it- and he gave me some b.s. about having a falling out with Bedros- bottom line- still never received leads. I have been a personal trainer for 28 years. I had received my start at the famous mens Mid-City Gym in Manhattan- when I first joined there in 1980 as a member- I was a skinny 158 lb kid- after learning from the owner- Tom Minichiello- how to train myself- and saw the confidence it gave me- I knew what I wanted to do with my life- I wanted to help people get in shape- body and mind- . I started working there in 1981- and I was cleaning mirrors- making protein shakes- putting away weights-and also- when new members signed up- I would give them 3 free training sessions (as Tom taught me how to do custom program design)-bottom line- We never heard the word personal trainer ever in 1981- so -even though I was doing it- I had no idea what it was called- because the word was not even "coined" yet-we called it 3 free training sessions with a years membership- but- lol- that was what it evolved into- so you could say I got into it into personal training in its infancy. Chris- I paid my dues- as alot of your people entering this contest of yours have- and I have had a hell of a lot of hard luck and major money promlems as I am sure lots of your contestants have.I am no different- and am not looking for friggin pity. since my divorce- most of my money has be givin to my ex for child support. I want fight for custody-and need to make lots of money-for a top lawyer- and Chris- I do not mind hard work- I work many hours as a home trainer and I am burnt out-at 53-I need to work smarter -not just harder. I know everyone talks of the internet- and from signing up on your e mail list- I know one thing you speak of that is so important- that is marketing. I am the worst businessman-and want to do multiple streams of income-as you say- and I know you have like 10 trainers working for you- and you have alot of free time to live life- well- I bought courses from Allen hill- Jim Labadie- Rocco Castellano- and believe me- they were great courses- my problem is- with all my personal nonsence going on- it is hard for me to read and follow- I need classroom instruction. When I first heard of your program "Market Annihilator"- I was so excited- thats what I needed excatly to take me to the next level- but then I saw the cost- and I am sure it is worth 20 times that- but it wasn'tgoing to happen now-then I got Jim Labadies e mail- about the "Fast Track To Fitness Millions"- the 3 day event being held in New Jersey- and once I saw you were going to speak- I went friggin nutts- and said I gotta go- saw I could make 4 payments of 50 bucks-and last Friday- signed up for it- gave my down payment of 50- and my main guy to see was you- I dig your style- you are a real person- and you have had your hard times as alot of us- but- it made you stronger- I even loved the part of how you will probably be dressed- dude- you are real- you can wear your t shirt and flip flops and shorts- you have nothing to prove to nobody- you made it- I want to hear you speak- and take a ton of notes since I could not afford your system at this time- now today – I get your e mail for this contest- and again- I know you will have a ton of entries- But I am just as deserving-I paid my dues for many years-and need your 12 month program to take me to the top of my game. I promise you this- I will treat your schooling as if I am gettin a masters deree at Harvard- and do whatever it is I am asked by you- You have to show people you give a damn- and prove yourself- and I need you Chris- a street guy like me- to Mentor me. A guy can only be kicked down so much- and I am done with bein down-so- all I ask is that you please consider me for your contest- Livin in NY- money is tight- and I need to do this for me- and my 7 year old son- thanks Chris for your consideration- and look forward to meeting you and shaking your hand in New Jersey at the end of May- very sincerely- Michael Rinsler
Hi Chris,
Let me start by saying that my life has changed dramatically since I first ran across your blog.
Here's what has transpired since finding your blog in October.
October
Read your post on your blog describing how you originally built your business by training people for free.
Thought about it and said: "What the hell, I'll give it a try."
November
Marketed a free group training series for the month of December.
December
Started December classes with 7 paid clients and 18 "freebies".
Joined Market Annihilator
January
Retained my 7 original clients and added 8 more paid clients from the 18 freebies.
Total of 15 paid clients.
Also, offered recurring billing at the beginning of January, which most of the clients opted for.
Used SEO tactics for generic listings and started utilizing craigslist.com to generate leads from the internet.
February
Utilizing market annihilator and your kickbacklife.com website.
Have 7 new paying clients and 2 more 1 week free trial prospects obtained in the month of February.
I've gone from 7 paying clients in December to
22 paid clients in the month of February.
Most of which are now on recurring billing.
In other words, I tripled my business in less than 3 months.
I've done everything that you have asked me to do and took massive action to implement it.
I have even read the books: Influence, No BS Marketing to the Affluent, and The Game (felt weird buying that one).
I want to win the year of coaching. I'll do everything you ask and take action quickly.
Thanks Chris for everything.
Your systems work… and they work extremely well.
Chris,
I had seen your name attached with many events put had never thought about getting an internet presence so I never read any of your material. Yesterday, Alwyn Cosgrove was helping with my sales copy for my website and had suggested I look at your materials. I am a former fat boy that has lost over 100 lbs and your wesbite was exactly what I wanted to convey to prospective clients. I spent about an hour looking over your welcome page and it obvious the attention detail. I am awaiting the Sports camp empire with your information and to see your presentation at the Fast Track to millions seminar. Working with Alwyn's mentor group has improved my business and would love to have the opportunity to work with you on building an internet system for my business.
Regards,
Darren Garland
"Oh, Diane has so much potential". I've heard this throughout my life. Potential is NOTHING unless you tap into it, just like an idea. You tap into an idea through marketing, marketing, and more marketing. Chris, I finally got it from just being exposed to you and your teachings for the past three months.
I've been a personal trainer working full-time for the past 11 years coming from a non-fitness background — plus-size fashion model with one of the best in the world in NYC and opera! I know it's a strange mix…but I finally found my passion and it's in fitness specifically empowering women through body transformation — fitness and weight loss. My passion has inspired me to have endless product and service ideas and I finally went ahead and launched a boot camp for women in the fall. Boy, the realization that marketing is EVERYTHING slapped me in the face. I not only have great ideas but I'm always bombarded with opportunities. From having a QVC contact (who chooses products for the show) who came to me about wanting to talk about my boot camp idea to being asked to host a Wellness Weekend at a five star resort by the resort owner in Costa Rica to working with a friend to launch her Online Weight Loss Program for her network of over 35,000 members to having a friend who has been a big PR person in the Sports/Entertainment Industry then just last week another friend came up to me wanting to partner with me to open up a one-on-one personal training business in the city. The bombardment is insane!
But I figured out it's not just about having the contacts. I don't want to be a public fitness star. It's not about being the center of attention. It's about tangible results in business. What I'm getting from you Chris IS that — tangible results and knowledge applicable to getting results in business and that is by far the best opportunity I can use so far. I will take advantage of my other opportunities but building a following, a network, is extremely important and gets me a lot of leverage when I'm in front of these contacts.
I finally got my weight loss blog up (catering to a very specific niche). The technical stuff really got to me but I DID IT and I still have some hair left! The site needs a lot of help — cornerstone content, etc. but it's up and I'm so proud that I did it. The information that I get from Market Annihilator blows me away and at times can be very overwhelming and cloudy but I plan to plug away and eventually the clouds will part seeing clear skies. It'll only be a matter of time.
Thank you so much Chris for helping me and others launch our dreams.
Diane Williams
YOUR PROGRAM SUCKS!!!
Chris your programs…all of them suck the life out of any other programs out there. I've just started following you information and I'm trying to use as much of the free material as I can. All I can say is that it's amazing! I've studied all the other fitness internet marketer "experts" out there and you stand head and shoulders above them all.
I'm looking forward to seeing you live at the Fitness Business Summit in May. Hopefully I will gain a better insight as to what it takes to improve my fitness and financial situation.
I want to win your coaching program….so I'm telling everyone I meet that "YOUR PROGRAMS SUCK!!!!"
(Of course I then have to explain that I mean that in a good way.)
Keep the great material coming. It's exactly what the fitness industry needs.
Thanks
Billy Carney
BCFitness, Inc.
Boca Raton, FL
http://www.bcfitness.net
Hey Chris,
Let me tell you how I got to where I am now. I was an unmotivated, beer drinking, fried food eating(Micky D's and I had a long relationship) 285 pound guy during college and early post college. I never worked out in my life. I'd get tired walking up the stairs! I would think and sweat!
and I was only 21! Growing up in the inner city was a challenge. I ran the streets and hung out with some hardcore cats!!
I had no direction in life until I was told to join the gym (doctor's orders)and was exposed to not only working out but I also saw a different lifestyle outside of the hood!
The Market Annihilator program has helped my partner and I focus a lot more on the business side of Personal training, the right way! I've added two camps to my schedule, am sending out bi-weekly newsletters filled with the content that my clientele desires and outsourced some of my blog work which will also be loaded with the hotness!! The program is really pushing me in the right direction and helping me to leverage the market in my area! I'm even writing a book!!
Thanks for everything bro!
You really helped me see, even more, the power of the internet and the right way to dominate it!
Rich
Hi Chris,
I was thrilled to find your website a few weeks ago. I've implemented some of the things I've read, and have had at least some interest in my business. I had no interest whatsoever before. Receiving your email regarding this opportunity was the best of them so far. Even better would be to receive a notification that I won
) Does it help me if the 19th is my birthday? (just kidding)
I just moved down to San Diego, after training in Orange County for 4 years. Before moving I landed several training jobs, only to find out later for one or another reason they were just ridiculous situations. Feeling desperate, and knowing that I would have to find a whole new client base regardless, I decided to start my business. I'm excellent at networking, but I'm having issues turning those opportunities into profit.
My favorite place to train is outdoors, in parks, at beaches or even back yards. My greatest stregth is my creativity, my clients really enjoy seeing what I'll come up with week after week. Not to mention I get results. So when I thought about starting this business, I decided to always incorporate the things I love about training. However, I've spent more time staring at my computer screen than I have the views of the city while training. I want to change that, but don't know what I'm not doing.
The one skill I seem to lack is the marketing knowledge to start landing clients via online marketing, or even neighborhood marketing for that matter. I'm struggling to get each client, and a few weeks ago when I found your website I had almost decided to get a job and give up on the business for now. Once the idea actually hit my subconscious, I hated the idea, and I decided it was time to put my researching skills to the test.
I've been reading, taking notes, watching all your videos, and checking out your colleagues sites as well. It's an amazing group, and I truly have learned alot. I developed a website, using templates, and tried to incorporate all the ad words suggested in several of your posts. Signed up for Google Adwords, and listed myself on their Google Local Advertising. The business listing I posted on Yelp now pops up 2nd on the list when you type in "fitness balboa" You should have seen me dancing around the house when I saw that one :O) It wouldn't have happened without my incorporating the techniques you suggested in your initial video. I have tried to incorporate everything I can afford, and have done everything I can that is free.
While I have been working hard, and doing everything I can, there's a lot I'm not doing. The clients are not knocking on my door, and because of that I do not have a steady income from this business yet. I want one, a good steady income – my goal is to hit a 6 figure income by 2010.
I offer several items. One that I'm very successfully promoting and landing clients for is my monthly Health and Wellness Consultation. Its not even listed my website! I'm doing something right, but honestly I couldn't tell you what it is.
I hope you'll consider me for this prize. I work very hard to learn and achieve success, and while I'm thrilled to have just found your website, but to receive your assistance and have those clients start rolling in would be AWESOME!!!
You dominate, and I'm ready to dominate too! So…when can I get started :O)
Bonni
Hey Chris
THANK YOU !!!!!
Ok so I'm a year and a half into my business,I'm on your mailing list, I know of you from PTU and I've loved listening to your webinairs for the BCBP program. I haven't even begun getting into all your amazing technical content yet.
BUT even with out all that…here is what I've learned
from YOU
I love your stuff for a few reasons:
1. You are easy to listen to because you are YOURSELF
and have no BS….who wants to listen to some boring person!
Lessons I've learned from you?….not everyone has to like me so don't try to please..BE YOURSELF, write like you talk, talk like your a confident superstar and wear your comfy flip flops whenever the hell you want!
2. Leveraging your time…a kick back life is definetely where I want to be so I'm going to work my ass off to get there. I'm on the Freedom 35 plan (6 years)to be financially free to enjoy!
Lessons learned from Chris: I leveraged my PT time and moved them all into Group sessions, they pay less per hour but train more and that EQUALS more $$$$
Second, I went after all the big talkers in my neighborhood to be walking billboards (hairdressers, realestate agents, teachers, spa ladies) and filled my group peronal training classes… Thanks!
Thanks so much for rocking the marketing world I can't wait to meet you in NJ at fast track to millions
I LOVE everything here so far and would LOVE to be in the market annihilator program.
I've got what it takes and the will to work HARD!
Chris, man I don't know what to say. I guess I can sum it up in a short sentence or 12:
After applying what you've taught me I now own pretty much own the whole first page of google. Well, 8 out of 10 slots for my main keyword, at least when I last checked. But hey, I won't be satisfied until it's 10 out of 10. Going from $39.00 for an entire hour of training to now upwards of $237.00 for training just 40 minute group sessions and I now take off completely 4 days each week.
Chris's coaching and Market Annihilator program are without a doubt the best investment I've made into my business, paying itself back 10x every month. You have truly given me the shortcut to Fit-Biz success saving me years of trial and error.
The only thing I don't like is the possibility that my competition might find out about you, can we split a deal if you take your site down? Probably not, okay.
I just feel bad for any trainer or instructor who doesn't take advantage of Chris's programs and coaching.
Zach Hunt
Hey Chris,
My story is simple. I need more clients. Currently, I work for a company that feeds me clients. Lately, the feed has died down…even during the busiest time of the year. This leaves me with three choices. I can quit, wait for clients to slowly trickle in, or go out and get 'em myself. I choose to go out and get 'em myself because I love what I do. I only need help getting started.
I just recently started a newsletter and online training. This weekend I plan to start a blog. What I need is the know how to funnel prospects my way. Eventually I want to open my own studio. My first step (as I see it) is to develop a demand for my services.
I live in a town that is wide open for the fitness industry. Obesity is a HUGE (pun intended) problem (I live in the south) but there is only one fitness professional in town that seems to get it somewhat. I plan on adding my name to that short list.
If I could afford your program, I would have already jumped on it. One day soon, I will be able to afford it, but I won't pass up an opportunity to get it for free. Hopefully you'll pick me but if you don't, I'll most likely join on the next go round. See you at the top!
Hi Chris,
I'm a fat loss expert in Sydney and gradually getting more and more proficient with online marketing through Craig B, the PTU team and your tips. I came across you on PTU and ventured over here late last year.
the biggest thing I have learnt from you is how to run a blog that has personality and compels people to leave a response whether positive or negative.
As a result, I signed up for your kickback club last when when it launched and have a guy putting the finishing touches on moving my blog over from blogger to wordpress.
I am making 2009 my most productive year, especially online and through my press releases alone I am starting to command a bit of good google rankings for various keywords.
thanks for your stuff mate, keep pumping it out and i'll keep on reading and applying.
cheers,
Daniel
Hello,
My name is Deborah. I have been a trainer for almost 8 years. It has been hard since I moved to L.A. from Arkansas because there are so many wanna be trainers here…I have just drained myself trying to be the best and be above and beyond the trainers where I train and teach bootcamp and cardio kickboxing classes. I struggle day in and day out, trying to figure out how I can move to a different level of training to help people reach goals. I am always trying to reach out and help some people without charging a dime. I am so frustrated with myself knowing that I have so darn much to offer, but I don't know how to get there and I feel like I could just go over the top if I just had a chance. I have a huge amount of love for training and helping people reach goals, but just stuck in a rut.
If I had this chance to get this kind of coaching, it would put me on a great state of mind, and a level that I never thought that I could reach on my own. I would have already bought all your stuff if I could afford it..Everytime I read something of yours, I get so excited and then I think, you can't afford it so stop. I have lost some self confidence here lately and in a rut of do I keep doing this or do I just give up…I love training and don't know anything else and don't have a love for anything else but this. Just give me a chance and I promise you that I will make your business proud that you chose me to give the gift to.
Thank you for this chance….
Chris,
I swear this post was meant for me. I have had what one would call a “tumultuous” year. I owned a health club in the Boston area up until September of 2008. We had an awesome sports performance business and did anywhere from $25,000 – $60,000 per month just training athletes. In addition, we built up a $30,000-$40,000 per month personal training business with only 1,000 paying members. Sounds decent right?
Therein lies the problem. We were in an overloaded market and the membership numbers were just not there. We had the sales systems and personnel in place, but it was all too little, too late. Financial details aside, we had to close our doors.
Only one person got stuck holding the bag. Me. So there I was, solid reputation, no job and one gigantic six figure debt. So I quickly reestablished myself at my home studio and got to work. I was quickly as busy as I want to be with clients, but am still trading ‘hours for dollars’. This pace will NOT take me to where I need to be.
I had zero knowledge of real marketing, but began following Jim, Nick, and Pat’s stuff along with your internet marketing info. My background as a system and network admin geek will be invaluable here.
Within 1 week of putting an account on Facebook, I now have an inexpensive web designer putting up my site (main site and boot camp site) for short cash. I have my accounts established on all current sites will be driving folks that way to find out more about me. I am already establishing revenue through the internet via my Prograde promotions in my newsletter. Multiple revenue streams are poised to follow. I already have 35+ athletes signed up for my summer session, all through on-line newsletter efforts.
Additionally, I got a press release in the paper this week in advance of my first ever Boot Camp for the town next week. More importantly, I now know I have a shot.
I am not a Market Annihilator member at present only because I simply lack the capitol to do everything at once.
I firmly believe that by employing the correct techniques, I will erase my debt, crush my local competition, and start living the life I should be. All in short order.
I suppose if you are looking for a challenge along with the person with the experience and motivation to carry it out, you got it.
Keep up the great work.
Art McDermott, CSCS
Hey Chris,
My name is Kevin Valluzzi. I've been a trainer for 10 years now and have recently been reading your blog for the last couple of months. I have been to the Ryan Lee bootcamps, Phil Kaplan's seminars, Craig Ballantyne's seminar, IDEA conventions, etc. I have worked in a gym, done one-on-one in home training, and am starting a bootcamp class in an upscale area of Bergen county, NJ.
I have a self published book, "Stop The Fitness Confusion", as well as an e-book, "Busy Woman Fitness".
I have been featured on Channel 7 ABC News, in the USA Today, and on several radio shows across the US. I am also shooting a fitness segment for Channel 9 News and FOX 5 News next week. So far all of this publicity has done NOTHING for me!
I have 2 small children and GOD BLESS my wife for sticking with me throughout these trying times in my own little "fitness world". I don't want to paint a horrible picture and give my sob story but the truth is that I am strictly trading my time for money and I am barely paying the bills each month. I have had ups and downs and the last few years my yearly income has declined each year.
My wife was recently diagnosed with a degenerative retinal disease which has affected her vision and thus is no longer able to continue her career as an English teacher. Although she gets disability money each month (basically only half of what she was making), this puts the onus on me to really support the family.
I can't begin to tell you how ready I am to stop trading my time for money. I am dying to make money from the internet. The internet is the future, I realize that, and I want to be a part of it. Marketing on the internet is not only more cost-effective than traditional marketing, but I realize that it can reach far more people. I don't really know how to get started with it but I do know that I NEED TO GET STARTED!
I plan on using the information in the market annihilator program to get my bootcamp programs overflowing with clients and even forming a waiting list. I also plan on using it to sell hundreds of thousands of copies of my e-book and paperback book. I plan on getting more publicity and turning it into more sales, more bootcamp members, etc.
Now the fun part–what will i do with the extra money? First I will buy a bigger house for my family and I. Then I will look into buying a house down at the Jersey Shore (right on the beach–this has always been a dream of ours). We will take 4 vacations a year. I will buy a large flat screen TV. I will also spend some of that new money on educating myself even more with fitness business products.
Well Chris–that's what I have for you! Thanks so much for putting on a contest like this. So far I have really loved reading your blog and all of the great information you put out. And I will continue to be a loyal reader regardless of what happens from this contest.
My email address is; kevin@thefitnessleader.com
Thanks again Chris,
Kevin Valluzzi, B.S., ACSM