A few days ago I said I was gonna hook someone up with a VIP all access pass and a killer suite for the entire weekend at Fitness Business Summit 2010.
Almost 200 people applied by commenting why they thought they should be the one to win the “hook up”.
There were so many obvious winners…
Truthfully it could have been a fifteen-way tie. But since I could only pick one winner for the hook up… the pressure was on.
In fact I read through all the comments several times. And each time I came to the conclusion that there were at least 15 winners.
This was going to be a hard decision to make…
But in the end, one person’s reason for winning the Fitness Business Summit VIP hook up stood out the most to me.
So without further ado, the person who won the is…
…Aaron Anderson!
Here’s what Aaron wrote:
Hey Bedros Aaron Anderson here..
My journey in the health and fitness industry started about 6 years and I’m going to give you a quick back story as to how it started… About 6 years ago I was very overweight unmotivated and a very unhappy negative person…Till one day I was hit with the news that my father had been diagnosed with a life threatening disease…WOW!! this hit me like a ton of bricks right in the face..
I was devastated to say the least.. And the thing that was tough for me to deal with was that it was so easily preventable with just a healthy lifestyle…It was at this moment that would forever change my life….I began to think just how short and precious life really is…The way I saw it was that I was faced with 2 choices..1- keep doing what I was doing and get the same results of being fat and unhappy or get my ass in gear and stop making excuses as to why
I was fat and unhappy…One year later I had lost around 80lbs and completely transformed my life…I had come to realize what my passion in life was, and that passion was health and fitness… Fueled with the passion and motivation to inspire my farther and others to lead a more healthy lifestyle so they can prevent these diseases.. fitness had become an OBSESSION of mine.. So much so I went to college and got a degree in exercise science and got almost every training cert out there…Once I graduated college I said to myself this is it the degree is what I was lacking to be successful..
Boy was I ever wrong.. Then here comes Bedros into my life and all I can is WOW!!! For the last several months I have been glued to the ptpower blog and soaking up all the info on there…And all the other world class people I have got to know through Bedros….Being able to attend the FBS this year would truly be a dream come true…Much like hearing about my fathers situation years ago that fueled me to get into fitness I truly believe that attending FBS will be the fuel for me to go from good to great and allow me to make an awesome living all while living my DREAM!!
Bedros you are a true inspiration and have told me that with some hard work, motivation and a plan of action (Which I don’t have and FBS will give it to me) anything and I mean anything is possible… I want to go from good to great and FBS is the vehicle for me to do that..
Thanks for this amazing opportunity Bedros and see you soon
Aaron Anderson
Congratulations Aaron!
B-U-T we have another winner too…
Just when I thought there was only going to be one winner I got a call from my buddy Steve Hochman, who said he wanted to sponsor another winner.
Now I gotta tell you, Steve is a generous dude and when he said he wanted to sponsor another trainer I was all for it. And the person Steve chose to hook up is Tom (no last name…lol).
Here’s what Tom had to say about why he should win:
Hi Bedros,
Thanks for this great contest… I really hope that it’s my ticket to your summit. I want to, no, NEED TO go to this seminar.
But unless I win, I can’t go, because I’ve been unemployed for almost a year now.
Why do I feel like I need to go?
Well the answer is quite simple. I’m running out of money, but I’m sitting on a gold mine that I don’t know how to mine. We talked briefly before about my domain… Kettlebell.com.
Yes, I own Kettlebell.com. And I corner the market on a bunch of other kettlebell and fitness domains.
But I’m not making very much money at all on these sites. Kettlebell.com brings me some pocket change. And I’m frustrated… very frustrated. I know that I could probably make a living on this domain alone, but I’m not taking advantage of the potential. I need your help to do so.
I’m running out of living money. I’ve used up my pension (at a 40% penalty), most of my 401k (again, at a 40% penalty), and my unemployment runs out in about a month. HELP!!! I’m really sad, because my 15th year wedding anniversary is coming up and I can’t afford even a small gift unless I start making some money from my site.
I’m not one to beg… but with our 15th anniversary coming up and our running out of money, I really, truly could use the boost. So, PLEASE… can you help me? I’ll be a really good student at the Summit and surely I have the potential of being an incredible testimonial and success story for you.
Please let me win this contest and help me tap the incredible potential of my website, http://www.kettlebell.com
Thanks so much for your time and consideration.
Sincerely,
Tom
Congrats Tom!
Marilyn or Allison will be contacting both of you today to get you dialed in with the hook up.
Like I said, it was difficult picking just one winner with all the great submissions. So I decided to do something very special for EVERYONE who registers for FBS10 before March 3rd (and you won’t see this on the FBS registration page because I just thought it up right now).
I’m gonna host a Sunday morning breakfast breakout session workshop. I’m buying breakfast and doing a killer “Dirt Cheap Client Getting Workshop” that you won’t want to miss.
It’s just my way of hooking all of you up. Just be sure to register for FBS10 before Tuesday, March 3rd to get this EXTRA bonus hook up ☺
Registration opens up tomorrow (Tuesday) at 8:00 AM PST (11:00 AM EST)
Just go to FitnessBusinessSummit.com tomorrow at 8:00 AM PST and get registered for the most unconventional fitness business event ever!