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How to Sell ANYTHING With Social Proof

Posted on May 30, 2010 By Bedros

You can sell anything you want to anyone you want… if you can back it up with enough compelling social proof.

See it really doesnt matter what you say about yourself.

And it really doesn’t matter how nifty your ads are, or how crafty your postcards look or how killer your offer is.

And it really doesn’t matter what certification you have, degree you hold, or the years of experiance you have.

All that matters to the potential buyer is that other BUYERS got the results, didn’t regret buying from you, and in fact, recommend you to others.

Social proof, testimonails, success stories… whatever you want to call them, they sell. And they’ll sell in ways that no amount of advertising can sell for you.

See, social proof kills potential objections and overcomes buyers remorse.

Social proof quiets the secondary conversation your prospect is having in her mind about you personal training offer.

And social proof increases perceived value and allows YOU to charge more than your competitors for basically the same service.

There’s a ton of ways to use social proof in your personal trainer marketing.

Here’s just a few things you can use and re-purpose as social proof….


- video testimonails

- written testimonials

- voice recording and 800 # call in lines

- emails that were sent to you

- facebook wall posts that others left for you

- twitter tweets about you, your service, or their results

- comments left on your blog about you, your service, and their results

Here’s an example for you…

I just launched our most kick butt client getting, list building, viral marketing platform ever - FitPro Magazine.

It’s a high quality online magazine that you can private label with your look and feel, and it comes with 16 freash new articles each month, months of back issues, over 100 professionally done exercise demonstration videos, and over a 1,000 healthy recipes and on top of all that it’s designed to do six main things for your personal training or boot camp business.

1. To use the viral marketing components of the internet to get you more leads and clients.

2. To position your as the top fitness and fat loss expert in your community and keep you “front of mind”.

3. To deliver tones of high quality value and content to your clients.

4. To dramaticly increase clients retnation.

5. And to encourage and stimulate clients referrals.

6. Sell more of your other products (supplements, complimenting services, and info products, or affiliate products.)

And since I got a bunch of unsolicited social proof from hundreds of fitness trainers who bought FitPro Magazine on my Facebook page and blog I could use those proof elements to prove to you that IF you don’t get FitPro Magazine by midnight this Monday than you’re going to be left behind BIG TIME when we close the doors for at least a month and when we reopen the price for FitPro Magazine will be doubled (which by the way will still be a killer deal since the product more than delivers on its promise to take your business to the next level.

Here’s one string of comments we got on the day we launched FitPro Magazine.

And here’s what some trainers posted on my facebook profile page…

And here’s yet another string of comments from my Facebook profile about how awesome FitPro Magazine is…

And here’s yet more unsolicited proof elements that FitPro Magazine is a bad ass automatic client getting platform…

So here’s what you should have taken away from this blog post.

1. If you’re not using social proof then I’d bet the farm that you’re leaving a ton of money (and clients) on the table and that you’re wasting a bunch of money with dead-end advertisting that simply not getting you the resutls you want.

2. There are many differant ways of getting social proof. It’s not just about getting before and after pictures. Think outside the box and use all the methods I listed above to build your arsanal of social proof elements.

3. Get FitPro Magazine and start getting a boatload of leads from social media sites, client and subscriber referrals and the power of viral marketing. Becuase on Monday May 31 at midnight PST, we’re shutting the doors the FitPro Magazine, and giving all the new members the first oppertunty to use FitPro Magazine to dominate their market place and get the advantage before we re-open it at a higher price.

Here’s where you can learn more about FitPro Magazine and see if it’s right for you >> http://FitProMagazine.com

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May 30, 2010

dan cook @ 12:57 pm

Hi Bedros

Im trying to sign up via the fitpro newsletter link to fitpro magazine. Im trying to do this using a different card to the one it has listed. It keeps saying transaction declined, but Im sure I have enough credit. I have sent an email to [email protected] but not sure if its got through.

Please let me know what I should do to move forward before the deadline.

dan

Shawna Kaminski @ 1:23 pm

Honestly, there’s probably no hope for those that haven’t jumped on board the FPM band wagon yet. What’s wrong with them? It’s clearly the best thing on the planet and a steal even when the price goes up. Thanks for your forward thinking Bedros, it makes me look like a genius, (not an easy task).

sam @ 7:10 pm

FPM is going to make me a ton and I am working on a secret project that will make me even more. I got KIDS to feed. That’s right PLURAL!!!! I am getting good at this baby making stuff.

Bedros @ 7:26 pm

Sam!! Congats man :)

May 31, 2010

Rick Streb @ 9:55 am

Hey Bedros,

An update for you…

It’s not been quite a full week yet since I purchased FitPro Magazine and the numbers from that simple Facebook post are looking like this.

Visitors…………………….. 457
Page Views……………………2,340
Average Page Views per Visitor… 5.12

I’m sure the holiday weekend has some to do with the slowed traffic from visitors, but the average “time on site” is still remaining at an insane level!

Bedros @ 11:05 am

Awesome Rick!

lee @ 11:11 am

Am I going nuts, Can someone tell me how to add subcribers to my magazine??

I cannot find a subcribers selector?

Heeelp,

Lee

Bedros @ 5:48 pm

Lee FPM is not a database, you can’t add subscribers. If you plug in you’re fitpro newsletter to it or any email delivery platform then you can add subcribers. If you need help setting it up just email [email protected]
or call 877.205.3448

June 1, 2010

Roger @ 10:14 pm

Bedros..Love the mag! Only problem is, my list builders are not working. It is sending people to a page that tells them they need to enter both their name and email, after they already did that. tried the skinny jeans report and the 21 tips..
I tried contacting the service and left a phone message, but no response.
Am I doing something wrong? I don’t want to lose any leads! Help!
You Rock! Chris McCombs too!

When’s the add to cart movie coming out?

thanks!

June 7, 2010

Nathan @ 8:28 pm

Great Post!

Bedros,
FitProMag is great. Very professional appearance and a lot of great information. I’m sure my clients will love it. The configuration screens are a little clumsy to use, but I eventually got it looking like I wanted.

October 13, 2010

Melbournetrainer @ 5:00 am

Thanks for the information guys, keep up the great work!

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