Win VIP Access To Fitness Business Summit 2011

I want to attend FBS11 because I see it as my God-given responsibility to provide for my wife and our four beatiful foster/adopt children, and I have recently transitioned from a corporate big box gym to starting my own business.

It will help me because I’m driven to be successful in this market. I have gone door to door, business to business, etc, and I follow everything that you, Steve Hochman and Chris McCombs say. I’m fully there with the passion, drive and energy, but I just need to be pointed in the right direction and I love the content that you guys provide.

I am fully convinced that I will one day blow past the six figure mark. I know that if I can make it to your summit, I’ll get there much faster.

Bedros, we are looking to double our sales in 2011 and I am sure FBS will help get us there. How do we register? CB

Me, me, me, pick me!!
Bedros,
I attended FBS last year and was just overwhelmed by all the info presented. I came back home pumped with so much ammo to kick off a fantastic year.
The first thing we implemented was the ’21-Day Rapid Fat Loss’. This program alone throughout the course of 201 brought us 72 new clients with about 60% of those staying on to continue with us. At $89 a pop, this program generated over $6000. We ran it about once every 2-3 months.
I want to attend this year because I KNOW every little bit I gain from it will help up my game.
This is our 3rd year in business as a personal training studio, but the majority of our revenue comes from CrossFit. When listening to you about implementing these programs for boot camps, I realize that I can do everything just about the same way to attract and retain CrossFitters.
We are growing by leaps and bounds and could always use more insight from the big guns in the industry to continue to develop.
Thanks for your consideration!
Shelly

Attending the FBS11 would be a great oppourtunity to learn different techniques or strategies that i can apply to my business. I know for a fact that it`ll help catapult my business to a level beyond my imagaination.Ive already seen great results from implementing your marketing ideas through your products.

I have heard of the legend, need to meet the legend

I have created a substantial business North of the border. Would love to meet and share with others… wins and losses.

Good times and bad.

It’s time to celebrate!

I would love the opportunity to come and meet the successful guys or business guys in T-shirts. I know i can make my bootcamp the best but hearing info from someone of the pro and speakers, instead of e-mails can bring new ideas to the table. I have heard about your fitness summit and have heard nothing but excellent reviews. I even became a FBBC member a little after 2010 FBBS and was disapointed cause i missed out. I want to crush it and grow big. This will allow me to gain ideas, look at things in a different perspective mentally, meet other fitness professionals like me and what helped them, and i want to have the very first standing location for BC only in my small little city, oh and make 1/2 mill in my first year of business. I can and will.

After meeting you October, 2009 in Orlando, FL I knew I wanted to attend more of your mastermind events. I was actually enrolled in your first mastermind group but had to withdraw when it coincided with the move of my personal training facility. Since that time I was involved in 6 months of searching for my 10-year old daughter who was abducted by her mother and you can imagine the strain that put on my business (to the point of near bankruptcy). I don’t regret that because my daughter was most important to me, but now that I have my her back from that ordeal, I am ready to focus on my business again and take it to the level it was on the brink of. I know you are the person that can help me get there and I’ve always appreciated you for how you’ve helped me in the past.

Hi Bedros,
This is so exiting to think I could possibly win a free pass to the business summit! I have been following you for sometime and love all the info you give trainers!

The reason that I would love to win this is because I can’t imagine myself doing anything else in the world other than working in the fitness field. It is my passion, I love helping people seeing the light in there eyes when they achieve a goal that I helped give them the confidence to achieve themselves, but the business and marketing side gets frustrating! I know I can be successful I feel like maybe I just need a little help from someone who is successful!
I have recently opened my own studio too and just want to make this work more than anything! I have worked so hard for years and I know my clients love me its just getting the word out to enough people to be successful!
Thanks Julie Prince~

Bedros,
I will attend because there is no better investment than the investment in yourself. Every year I have put more time and money into my education, whether training, business, masrketing, etc. and it always pays of way more than what I have put in.

By coming to this years FBS11 I will take another 3-5 things that I will diligently apply and put into my business. Application is key! Knowing it is not enough….

I will focus more on some of the info product tactics as I am looking to add it as a revenue stream to my business this year.

I have no doubt that FBS11 will be another unbelieveable event and even if yod didn’t listen to the presentations, just the networking is more than worth it!

Luka

From attending FBS 2010, I was impressed with the professional, fun, casual way in which it was executed, being reminded that one need be themselves and enjoy giving their clients the best possible service. When doing this, you shine through in the best possible way with honesty and integrety. It creates an infectious atmosphere that people want to be a part of. Bedros, Steve, Josh, and all the guest presenters did this to perfection! Now that I am done with the shameless adulation.

I would love to attend FBS 2011 (12,13,14 etc) and will either by your generosity, or my own savings and thumb.(I figure 5 days should get me to OC pitching down I 10. If I don’t show…. CALL 911, but don’t pay any ransom, send the A Team!!! I KID.)
I will be moving my family cross county in April from New Orleans to MT Vernon Washington State, I learned so much last year I feel totally confident doing so knowing I have the tools to start a new business! Attending this year would only serve to add some more weapons of kick ass and ammunition to my gun belt that I am certain will only ensure my success in my new life in WA State.
LIMITED TIME OFFER! If you select me today to attend FBS 2011 at your grace, you will have my complete cooperation in any and all shenanagns that will serve to make this the most kick ass FBS yet! I will hoot, holler, applaud wildly, laugh loudly and with total sincerity at any and all jokes, even cry on command. Generally make myself your one man dog pound.! LIMITED TIME OFFER! ONLY ONE SPACE LEFT!
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Bedros,

In 3 years:
2008 - Just started working, became a trainer at a big chain gym
2009 - #1 trainer for a Health and Fitness chain which works with a hospital for 6 months
2010 - General Manager of a fitness center
2011 - READY TO OPEN MY PERSONAL TRAINING STUDIO!!

You don’t owe me this. My resume isn’t why you should choose me. It’s my passion to win. I am a winner. I want you to invest in me and my ideas for the fitness industry, and I have a TON of them.

It’s been a dream of mine to be in this event, and if I wasn’t saving every penny to start my training studio, I would be the first to go. I have bought your close clients DVD and your fitness business course, and my next purchase is going to be Fitness Studio Formula (although I have thought of Fit Body Boot Camp).

I strongly believe in myself, and I believe this event will help me achieve my goals much faster, and I also believe in the future I can even help someone like yourself when my dream is a reality.

Am I deserving of this? I believe so, but I know by having an opportunity to go to the event that an investment you would make by letting me attend this event for free will be reciprocated in the future, and I want to give back to everyone who has helped me become better at what I do.

Appreciate the opportunity-Joe “JD” DelVecchio

@August, very cool and compelling copy… lol

B

Hi Bedros,

I have a substantial goal to achieve and I want to take as many people with me as I can! This year, my goal is to begin taking classes for naturopath and holistic nutrition to add to my personal training business and have a select group of people I am looking into to create a fitness & wellness center with; such as chiropractors, other like-minded trainers & holistic nutrition-oriented people, fashion stylists, life coaches, etc.

I admire your enthusiasm and passion to help other people achieve their dreams, goals and intentions and would be absolutely blessed and totally stoked to be able to experience the extreme energy, amazing & generous people, and like-minded individuals who all want the same thing - to change their face of the world! I lost my dad almost 2 years ago to cancer and want to teach people that there is a way to eat properly, exercise and have fun, gain confidence and strength and get results when the “know-how” is there and the proper support system is in place; so that others do not have to lose their loved ones as I did.

I’m a 3 1/2 year old trainer, have been working with nutrition for about 5 years and have learned so much on the home front. I know I have a lot to learn yet and am excited to brave the journey! I look forward to learning from you!!

Thank you,

Alicia

Hi Bedros!

I attended FBS09 & FBS10. Wether or not I win, I will be there. I’ve learned sooo much each time that I’ve been there, that I would be an idiot if I didn’t go.

I have pretty big goals this year (and failure is not an option I will ever consider). About a year and a half ago i opened my first training studio because I was motivated and felt like I had the ideas and the tools to put it all together after reading your tips for over a year. While I had a fair amount of success, I know I have a ton of room to grow. FBS09&FBS10 helped me considerably and I know that FBS11 will be a great catipult for my business.

There is sooo much energy in the room at the summit… so many valuable proven business plans, strategies and marketing tactics…. I will arrive at FBS11 as an action taker, but when I leave, I’ll be an amped up action taker with a bug fat supercharger strapped on my back.

My goal is to max out capacity at my current studio (low 6 figures right now, soon goin up to around $360k), and open up my second location by my 31st b’day July 1st!

I know I will leave the summit with all the tools, motivation and positive energy I need to make it happen… And it’s always a great time hanging with all you big shots! Especially cuz you’re all just cool people.

Thnx in advance for my VIP

Chris

Hey Bedros!!! I bought a tix to FBS ’09 but was never able to go because of work. I would love to be able to get out there and meet you guys. I would love to pick your brain! And have a few drinks lol!

I need to get out there! I need to get help for better lead generation..

Thanks!!! P.S. I would love to see that car you have lol!

Bedros’s, Steve’s, and Chris’s advice has taken me from a laid-off commercial club floor trainer in a heavily gym saturated market to a full-time independent trainer with a ever-growing client base. My marketing expenses have dropped, referrals are exploding, my business continues to grow and I am ready to take my joefitness brand to the next step and open my own studio. I’d love to win VIP access to FBS11 to 1) get me out of the -10 degree weather of Fargo, ND and 2) Take my business and brand to the next level and beyond!

Bedros(and friends) your generosity of solid information has been absolutely awesome! Thank you, thank you, thank you!

Well….I will be there without question whether I win or not

I want to go because, as an extremely young trainer, I am aware I have SO much to learn, especially about marketing & growing a business. I love what I do and have a passion to change lives, and I need to learn exactly what to do to get people in the door soo I can help them!

FBS11 will help me to grow my business because I am an action taker like no other. I’m 19 and spend every moment I have working on growing my business and networking with influential people in the community. I have already gotten my bootcamp on the local news station & published articles in the local paper, and I know that the info I’ll learn at FBS11 + the opportunity to network with other go-getters will inspire me with 10x more energy, drive, and brilliant ideas!!

Hey Bedros, here’s why I want to attend FBS11:
I have left my “corporate gym” with the help of you, Steve and Big Chris. Since then I have made some serious strides and taken big time action thanks to all the awesome content you guys give (buying lots of products to help me along the way
Now I know it’s my duty, my responsibility, to make my business as big as possible. Why? Knowing what I know I have to get as many clients as possible to HELP them solve their problems, HELP the trainers who work with me and the future ones I will hire and HELP my friends and family with my success.
I’m determined to make this happen. No matter what. But FBS11 would be a nice shortcut

I would love opportunity to attend FBS11. I know it will help me in 2011. I need help! I know that I am doing alot of things wrong and I want to do them right and grow my business. I have worked at a gym for 3 years and I was bring in 40,000 a month for them in a small location. Then I said to my self that I can do this on my own. So I started my business Xtrav Fitness. I have not came close to that mark and I don’t know what it is. So I really need some direction in this fitness world. I do in-home training know because I can’t afford a building. I would love to have a building. I want to learn how to maximize my time. I would love to see a six figure income. I love what I do. I wake up every morning trying to find somebody to help or motivate. So it would be an honor to be apart of FBS11.

Thanks for the Opportunity

Travis Hemphill

Bedros,

Last year I was unable to attend FBS…

This year I will attend…

And while I’m there I just might hug you, Chris and Steve for helping me make over $12,000/mn with my 2 Fit Body Boot Camp locations.

Thanks Bro.

P.S. If you’re not a Fit Body Boot Camp owner already you’re missing out BIG TIME. To get on the fast track to 6 and 7 figures click here => http://www.1shoppingcart.com/app/?Clk=4060277

Hey Bedros,
I plan to be picked as the 61 year old Coach who took his lagging FBBC from 26 to 60 members in two and half months. Having accomlished this I would be delighted to speak about how your encouragement and coaching made it possible.
P.S. Don’t let the fact that I just blew my supraspinatus and infraspinatus and following surgery I will require lots of love and recovery.
Show me the love B
Coach Terry

Seriously this would be amazing! I have just started out in the business. I decided to skip the gym and go solo right from the beginning. It is fabulous! I want to be able get more people into the Fitness Lifestyle. I love your emails and the information you so readily make available to those of us in the industry. From a little gal looking to go big this would be an amazing opportunity! I am an open book ready to learn how this business could be the most rewarding career there is, I would love this opportunity for me, my clients and my family!
Shannon

I would love to attend the 2011 Summit. This would give me the tools to take my business from the ground floor to over the top. There will be so many top pros from the fitness industry that can make my dream of making it on my own a reality.

Bedros,

Wow! What a great opportunity you are offering. Thank you.

For me, the most important reason why I would like to attend FBS2011 is to learn how to go from where I am to where I want to be. I want to learn how to go from inspiring and helping 4-5 people per day to helping hundreds or thousands per day. For me, success is about making other people successful. Yes, making money is important but when you listen to people like Chris McCombs, Vince Delmonte, and even your story, it’s about building relationships and those relationships pay for itself. I become successful and my business becomes fruitful when I put others before me. The Law of Reciprocity. I believe the individuals that you have put together at the Summit can teach me just that…how to be more aware, more engaging, and more present with the people I come in contact with everyday. In 2011, I have my eye on this little 1200 sq ft studio space next to a Safeway, with the nearest gym 15 miles away, in a community of 5000 people waiting for me to open it up to them. Show me how.

Thanks Bedros,

Shawn Forzetting

Bedros, PICK ME! PICK ME!
I don’t want to go to FBS11, I NEED to go to FBS11!! I need to go becauase if I don’t I will be broke, lose my house, lose my car, and be living on the streets like you did back in the day! You don’t want that on your shoulders, do you? (I’m batting my sad puppy eyes right now) Lol. But really, I just recently left my “secure” career in corporate fitness and ventured off to create my very own small group training studio exclusively for women. I sank every penny I had into making this dream come true and have been borrowing money to pay my bills because we’re not making a profit yet, so to win this may be the only chance I have of going, so it really means a lot to me. I have been following you and your “prodigies” for a long time and am trying to learn everything I can so that my studio will be a success! We have only been open a couple of months, but I feel like I am drowning! I’m trying to build my list, I’m using FitPro newsletter, I’m trying the human billboards…I’m willing to work for it, but I can’t even seem to give away training! It’s like pulling teeth to get someone to come in even for free! I mean I know I live in Lousiana (the laziest state, recognized by research last year) but come on! Also, in Louisiana I feel like I’m cut off from the awesome, inspiring fitness culture of the world! We are an extremely rare breed out here being smothered by fried foods and etoufees! So please, save me from the mosquitos and send me to Cali for a weekend so I can soak up some of the excitement and expertise of yourself, your speakers, and all of the other awesome professionals who will be attending and bring it back down here with me to get these people fired up and make shit happen! Thanks in advance!

Eternally Grateful!

Lauren Partlan

FBS 2010 clearly has changed my life and my trajectory in life! There is simply no doubt about it. My business is transformed I just had in Dec a month more than double what I did in April or May 2010 the month before and after FBS 2010. I should have doubled my business by FBS 2011. If you want to double your business you should be at FBS 2011! If you are wondering if you should attend…..stop wondering and start finding the money to get there no matter what it takes!

Bedros, this opportunity is the most exciting thing I’ve heard of in a long time. I don’t play the lottery or enter contests because the rewards are usually not worth the time it takes to apply for said contests, but as soon as I saw your announcement, I went on my break at work and sat down and replied. I have never been given anything in my life and I have worked and scrapped for everything I have. I am a personal trainer(in-home/bootcamps) who is too busy working at a restaurant(Applebees) to actually train! This opportunity would be the catalyst that would launch my personal training career in the right direction and take my ability to help others to a whole new level. I have dabbled in a few of your awesome products but I have not been able to afford your more expensive products even though there is no question they are worth far more than what they cost. The opportunity to meet you as well as the other fantastic trainers would truly be a dream come true and I am very excited to be considered for this once in a lifetime opportunity. Thanks for all you do Bedros.

Sincerely,

Kevin Teagarden

[email protected]

Bedros…I want to attend your summit to learn from the best in the business…I have been struggling at my own personal training/boot camp business since 2005, just living from month to month (barely) I’m a good trainer but I suck at marketing…i would love to hire you or Steve, …but…don’t have the money. I’m sure i would get the advice that I need to make 2011 a better year for me and my family. Thanks!

It’s not complicated: when I surround myself with much more successful people, it drives me. When I learn from these successful people, it improves me. My business goes from average to amazing. My passion and excitement to kick major f*’in a** every time my feet hit the floor goes day goes up. Where else could I be March 18? There’s only one answer…

@Dustin, I love that link! Everyone should click on it

B

Bedros, I am coming regardless.

I don’t need the free Summitt (but thx for offering, cause its not like I am making millions - lol) I am compelled to vote for either Marshall, Rick or Lauren to get it - pls! Crazy stories and tough luck. I’ve got 3 little girls and I feel for the guys and admire Lauren’s courage to open a business - all in!

Is anybody willing to help these Trainers come? Pitch in for half their hotel, help bunk with them for free, or offer food paid. I would offer if need be. They need to be there @ FBS 2011!
Marshall, Rick or Lauren - if you can get there, lmk how I can help one of you.

Excited to come.

Bedros,

Looking for an opportunity to break through the clutter. Give me a shot, so I can be as sucessful as you.

Hmmm,

So I can finally interview the man, the myth, and the legend himself.

@Erik, I am the legend.

I just spent an hour writing and it said ” type the right email address” and every thing got deleted

Going to the Summit will help me TOP all my competition, I will be able to conquer new levels of being a mentor leader and get the best of every single speaker and person there!

alright i just spent an hour writing and it got deleted so here is the short version

I think I deserve this ticket because i allign my purpose and vision to benefit the highest good, I am the most disciplined person that i know and i am an action taker, and i will over 10% of all my profit after march for 12 months to your fav charity.

after years of addiction and running from DARK to DARK, i had a 2nd chance to life after a Near death experience which totally transformed how i see the world. I left my corporate work in 09 and been on my own as a solo trainer.

only in the past 6 months though let go of all the other things i was doing because i felt my calling was to help human suffering though brining health in to my community.

after years of irresponsible life i realized my power comes from discipline and though the love of god i was able to do what i consider a miracle (for me) to do .

for example:

- leaving steroids, cocaine and other crazy drugs
- setting a discipline to avoid conscious ejaculation for 12 months (jan 2010 to december2010)
- no porn for 10 months (jan to october 2010)
- attending two, 10 days silence meditation courses which was life changing for me ( search vipassana on google if interested )

- doing 2 hours of meditation since april ( did almost every day except few days while on vacation, where i reduced to half hour ect)
- daily prayer and good will towards all.

Hope the BEST person who REALLY deserves this WIN THis

Blessings to all of you

I want a shirt that says I’m with Bedros, shake Stevie Hochman’s hand and thank him for doing what he does.

I’m already doing everything right, I’d love to hang out amongst like-minded people, share ideas, and learn more about the thing that consumes my life, yet never feels like work.

It will cost a pretty penny to get to the OC, and I’ve always wanted to go to this event, so if I had a ticket, well then….see you in March.

After losing my 5 year old son to cancer I had a physical and mental breakdown . Over 2 years I built myself back up and promised my other 3 children I would give them everything.

I decided I wanted to help other mums to improve their lives .

This is what I did , I started a bootcamp for mums . My first camp had just 8 women in it ( all still with me today), it was a huge success and the word spread ! I now have over 300 sign ups a month over 6 camps !

The camps have been life changing for a lot of the women , giving them back confidence to achieve what they have been to scared to do for years : exercise , getting back into the work place , finding love .

Mum’s are so often forgot about , and a lot of us put our hopes and dreams to one side for our children . My aim is to keep improving the lives of women through positive physical and mental well being. If I won the pass this would help me expand ,and reach out to more mums.

Happy Mums = Happy Children

I just had an idea that came to me while meditating…

On the top of what i said on the top, If i get accepted i will make this a win / win / win for all, here is my plan:

After getting my blueprint / plan of attack for my business, i will create an online report of my progress through some type of weekly / monthly video update with the actual results and the actions taken.

This way A) ill get to share my learnings with the rest of you and you get to follow me and dublicate my plan

B) Bedros will have a real live actual case study to add to his products, this can be an adition to one of his info products

This is a big commentment on my end to follow though, create the weekly / monthly vidoes / updates and post them for all to see, this shows that i have skin in the game and walk my talk

WOOSH

Hey Bedros,

I qualified last June in Spain as a Personal Trainer after being a Snowboard Instructor all round the world for 4 years. I now live in East London, UK and am setting up a boot camp and personal training business. It’s going pretty well but I know I need and want to attend FBS11 to explode my business to the size I want it to get to!

I’ve followed your teachings since I started in June 2010 and you’ve seriously helped me get on the right track. I can only imagine what would happen if I learnt from you face to face.

I have that tingling feeling that I’m on to something with my business here and would really appreciate the opportunity to come out to the states again, take MASSIVE ACTION and SMASH IT OUT!!!

Looking forward to meeting you and all the State-side Fit Pros one day,

Sam Feltham
Future Fitness Guru

Hi Bedros.

Hopefully you´ll be reading this.
I am 23 years old and come from Norway.
Since I was a kid I´ve been among the best soccer players in my age and played for the county team without even training for soccer, my real passion was track and field. And I did it good too, I´ve been winning the nationals in sprint (400meters) for my country, plus several medals in a varity of distances (100m 200m 400m). I was a former athlete for the national team, and I´ve been competing internationally for my country.
I had a training buddy for years, and we been going to training camps together in spain when the winter is too cold for us here in skandinavia. This guy was not only my training buddy, but also a very good friend outside of the sprint. in 2006 I lost him in a car accident, and it was very painful for all of us that was around him. rip.
I promised myself that I would win the nationals for him, and so I did the same season.
But after a while after his death nothing was like the same in training and competitions, and slowly I started backing off bit by bit.

I started collage and the studies took over most of my time, I stopped doing track that I loved so much for so many years.

This is about 4 years ago now, and still I wake up everyday thinking about track, but I know it´s too late to go back and be really good at it.
My coaching experience is as follows:
I´ve been a coach for something called “sportsschool” for physically impaiared people who want to be in activity - this is also in track for like 4-5 years. I had to quit when I moved to another city.
I´ve also been coach for kids who want to try out track for the first time, same thing here: had to move.

Now I am working as coach at a local gym in Oslo, Norway.
Here I am doing my best to sell Personal Training sessions, and I think I am starting to get the hold of it thanks to you.
I am currently starting to coach a soccer team next week, and I am still going to do 1on1 PT. And I am starting up Bootcamps in the spring of 2011.
All of this is to save money for what I REALLY want, which is a gym.
Hopefully I´ve made enough money to either go an investor or the bank to get the rest of the money I need to open my gym, which is gonna kick ass btw.

It´s not before the last 2 months I´ve really started to get the hold of the Personal Trainer thing, that´s when I started to read your stuff. =)
I´ve been living like 3-4 months in this appt. I am living in now with my girlfriend, and we´ve been living here without any other furniture than a bed to sleep in. No couch, no chairs, no tables (we ate of the floor). haha!
And I can tell you that the earlier rents, and a lot of other bills is building up for me, that´s why I simply CAN´T afford your seminar in 2011, but i will for sure get the money in 2012

Thanks to you I sold training for 5grand incl. nutrition and training plans Yesterday.
Thank MAN! I really appreaciate your help.
I know my product is great, just need to learn how to present it to people, and get some new ideas. That is why I want to come to your seminar.
Because I know that with your help I will be one of the greatest coaches in my country! I also want to open something big around Europe.
Later on I will share my ideas
You surely make me think outside the box.

Thanks man!

Take care and be blessed.

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Hey Bedros,

I love what you and Steve do and I have been following your guys’ advice for a few months now. Everything has been good except for this last month of January (all 6 days).

About a month in a half ago, the guy I paid rent to at the studio, told me I had to leave because I wanted to bring in another trainer to train my one-on-one clients opposed to giving those clients to him (I had started up bootcamps following Steve’s fitness formula 5 program and wanted to focus all my efforts on that.) Initially I was freaking out because I have a 3 year old daughter as well as a 8 1/2 month old daugther.

So after looking for a place on my own with no luck, I got a text from the studio owner saying ‘no training this weekend per landlords request.’ I was actually at the studio when I received the text and conveniently, the landlord was there too. After talking with him for about an hour, it was decided that the previous “owner” of the studio was out (he was 9 months behind on rent), and I was the new “landlord”. I actually allowed this guy who tried to kick me out to stay and train his clients (big mistake).

This same guy, who promised me that he was going to keep paying rent, tonight actually, came in to the studio with a bunch of his friends after I had left, and took essentially all of the equipment that wasn’t nailed to the floor (which was everything.)

So, that being said, I really feel that I would benefit more than those people who saw your 21-day program and tried to run with it. Again, I have 2 babies and a wife who has to get out of the navy in August. I am a sworn follower of you and Steve. I just don’t want have to be living out of my truck with 2 kids and a wife because I was fucked over by someone who was jealous of my success. Either way, I will follow your advice no matter what you decide to do. I look forward to hearing from you.

Thank you,

Matt Johnson
619.481.2284

Started group training in big corporate gyms doing boot camp class. I now own my 3,000 sq ft studio in tampa fl and going on 3yrs.

Bedros,

First off, I want to thank you so much for the amazing content you deliver on your blog. It has given me tons of ideas and inspiration.

This month I bought my first personal training studio and it has been a great challenge getting my entrepreneurial feet wet. Following your blog and soaking up all the great info has given me the confidence to do some things I otherwise would not have ever thought of. Even acquiring the $$ to buy the business would have never happened had it not been for you. I could only imagine that the FBS will take my business to the next level.

Bedros,

I have never been to FBS, and I know it will help me grow my business. In 2008, I deceided to go out on my own. I have slowly built up my clientele, and have recently started a Small Group Training Program. Doing everything on my own can be overwhelming at times, and I need to learn easy and effective ways to promote my program so I can suceed as a Fitness Professional. So many other Trainers are suceeding, now it’s my turn!!!!

Lisa Gordon
BFF Personal Training
[email protected]

Hey Bedros,

This will be my 3rd FBS I’m attending. I will be flying out there from New Jersey again. In 09 I was that over-worked and under paid health club trainer, when I got home I quit my “job” and went independent. Last year I attended again and now I’m ready to open the doors to my own studio. This years Summit wil be perfect timing because I open in March. I feel like everytime I come out there, I keep taking myself further and further.

Thanks dude!
Greg

Bedros,

So pumped to go to FBS11!!!! I can’t wait to see everyone there. If you are on the fence about going, I have been to a good number of conferences, and Bedros’s was by far the best I have ever been to and will continue to go. Plus we have a lot of fun and you get to meet the some of the top people in the industry!

See you all there.

Dustin

Bedros,

WHAT YOU HAVE DONE FOR ME WILL BLOW YOUR MIND!

Since following your advice, blogs, info products over the last year or so you have motivated me to crush FEAR and DESIGN my life the way I want as I recently SOLD my house in the small isolated Northern town of Labrador Canada (where you have to drive 8 hours on a gravel road just to get to the nearest city),

I QUIT by high paying secure job with benefits and pension, (where I would listen to your info products and success audios during my 12 hour nightshifts and dayshifts for motivation)

MOVED us (my wife and 2 year old daughter) across the country to beautiful New Brunswick Canada and BOUGHT our dream home.

To make a living with my long time passion for health and fitness and to help others I signed on for Fit Body Bootcamp during this time and I am now in the process of securing my first location.

Attending FBS 2011 will put me in a room with success driven people who will further empower me to live the life of my dreams while helping others enhance their life.

Bedros your values for FAMILY, FITNESS, FINANCES and FREEDOM shine through and I would be honoured to attend FBS 2011 and learn from you and personally THANK-YOU for how you have changed my life…

Looking forward to meeting you,

Sean Barker

Bedros, my name is Marco and I live in Tempe, Arizona. I had a chance to meet you at a seminar here in Tempe with Joe Polish. You did an hour presentation and I was truly inspired and blown away. I recently read an article that stated that the yoga industry is closing in on $6 billion. I would love to attend your summitt because I want to learn how to do what you’re doing with personal trainers in the yoga industry. Joe Polish once said to me that opportunities are always in front of you if you just look. This industry is getting bigger and I want to be a big part of it. Thank you for all that you do and I look forward to being selected and meeting again at the summitt. Marco

I want to go so I can spend more time with Bedros.

Rick Kaselj of http://ExercisesForInjuries.com

Message sent from Malaysia.

Hi Bedros,

After ordering your products I’m convinced you are the one who can help me.
At the moment I’m working as a self employed personal trainer in a health club. I want to make 2011 my best year ever and would LOVE to start my own facility! I’m eager to learn and defenitly want to come to the States for this summit!

Hope to learn from you again soon!

I am from Northern Ireland and am trying to get a PT business and bootcamp set up. I predict that with the recent tax hike in the UK to 20% even less people will be spending money on personal training. Your seminar would be a huge help with starting up a profitable business within the global recession.

Northern Ireland is a region to my knowledge out of your circle of global domination and I feel with your help for marketing the entire N.I and even the whole UK know the power of your system and the name Bedros Keuilian!

To win VIP access would bring out the trainer that I know I am. The teaching - the learning - the growing and improving the lifes of all around you. Let me know if i win. Thanks.
Status-Elite Athletics, LLC

@ Robert Foster

Thank you so much for your support Robert! You are a godsend! I hope that next year I am in the position to do what you are suggesting for someone else. You are the best! You made my day, so thank you! I hope to have the chance to meet you in March!

=)
Lauren

hey Bedros; I deserve to win, simply because I have had almost nothing all my life; even been out working in the US in 04

I need to meet you & you’re amazingly awesome team, as I am just in awe of you guy’s and run my personal training business in the uk

TAKE IT EAASY FELLA

Joseph
3way Training

My thought process has changed so much in the last 3 years, I started with a biz with a partner . we decided it was best to separate and dissolve it 50-50. I started group training 2 years ago and the testimonials are coming in, started HunterFit LLC. took over Stamford Boot Camps which was part of the partnered biz and in November joined FBBC. I know I can do better than I’m doing now. The support from clients is crazy, awesome when others believe in you as much as you believe in yourself!

To top that off I have a 6 month baby boy Cassius who I want to give the world to along with my lovely wife. I’ve realized my destiny and I want to share my passion with as many people as possible.

I hate complacency and believe in changing lives. With that said I feel the the strength in numbers when like minded individuals are together. So I truly believe I’m worth it God knows you guys are too!! Would love to come. It would be my first and sure not the last! Godspeed!

PICK THIS GUY . . . HE’S COOL, THINKS BEDROS IS COOL AND LIKES ALL OF HIS STUFF! Just watched Frank’s video you posted on New Years, and am now projecting into the future and aligning my core identity with everyone’s core identity at this year’s 2011 Business Summit.
Should have your PT Business course on my doorstep today, but I’m really looking forward to hanging with other cool people at the Summit! I’m from California, so would love to get a run in on the beach and go shopping at Fashion Island!!!

I don’t have a sob story, I don’t have anything to complain about in my life, but that doesn’t mean I don’t want more. My story is a pretty steady rise, I started where so many end as trainer in a big box gym, then found The Art of Selling Fitness and quickly became booked as an in-home trainer, where I spent 3 years working 80 hour weeks until I opened my Personal Training Studio in Feb. of last year. Almost a year in and I have no problem filling my schedule but I struggle with filling others. My wife and I have started “trying” to have our first and my goal has always been to have a business that will allow me to spend the time I want to with my future children. With the rate I am moving now I will probably never be able to move far enough away from the training side to maintain our income without a serious and swift kick that I believe FBS 2011 will provide.

Bottom-line, when I have my path to freeing myself from my business, I will embark whole-heartedly and with reckless abandon. I just need to see the steps, I need to talk with others that have done it, I need to absord the knowledge and mindset that will be required. I’m a sponge looking for a puddle of knowledge and mindset to absorb.

Hey Bedros!

I don’t have that “hand out asking for things” mentality, I do like winning things however. The real reason for this comment is to thank you and Steve on the last video you released, “Six ways to get more bootcamp clients”. Awesome stuff man, really do appreciate it, and if I can just man up and get the work done I’ll have no problem paying my own way to you Business Summit.
So thanks again Bedros, I look forward to meeting you guys someday. Cheers,

Nigel O’Quinn
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Hi Bedros,

I would be so appreciative of the opportunity to come to Fitness Business Summit 2011. I have just recently been introduced to the incredible power and knowledge that you possess and share with all of us. The amount of information you give away for “free” is amazing and extremely generous. I have been training and running boot camps for a short time just on a part time basis but want to take my business to the next level.

I absolutely love what I do and I am so thankful everyday that I am able to work in this industry and help so many people. My clients have become like family to me and we do things together outside of training. We are such a close group and many friendships have developed because of the common interests and goals. I want to continue to grow my business and really can’t imagine doing anything else.

Unfortunately, I am at a point in my life where I need to work full time and make a lot more than I am now. I don’t want to be forced to work at a different job…I can’t even imagine a desk job. How boring!! But, my husband and I have recently decided to separate and he is giving me three months to figure out a way to support myself. Since I have been a stay at home mom for 11 years with just some part time training on the side I am terrified of the thought of being on my own. I know that I cannot fail because I have three children to support so I am going to work my butt off and follow all your advice.

I believe in fate and creating my own circumstances and therefore believe that you came into my life at a time when I most needed your guidance and programs.

Even though I have only been doing this on a part time basis I have managed to double my business each year for the past few years. It is still a small operation but I am very optimistic that I will change that in 2011. I have to…it isn’t an option!

Thank you for everything you do!

Kim

Hey Bedros
I attended the summit last year and it was an amazing experience. Wether I win or not I will attend again. This time is crucial because I need to find some success and get out of the grind I’m in. It would help me tremendously if all I have to do is come up with the airfare.I want this year too be my biggest yet and I know based on last year this would be a huge deal to attend. Right now I’m currently contemplating a second income to invest in the business where my heart is. So attending this event would definetly point me in the right direction. I support your company 100% and the Newsletters, dvds have been a god sent but my goal this time is too walk away with one thing that I can run with and build on that!
Thank you kindly for all your help over the last few years
Clarence

Bedros,

I use many of the systems you offer us as trainers. Having trained for almost 20 years I fully appreciate the newsletter system, the marketing concepts and boot camp programs! I have only been on my own for about 1 year and have generated 6 figures this year. I know your systems that allow me to be efficient with my time and purpose is critical to my success. The value is incredible. Even though I already use many of your systems, I know being around the energy of this group will blast me into hyper speed for this next year!

As many have already done in the comments I read, thank you for your work and your team! I would greatly appreciate the opportunity to come and soak up more knowledge and make my business even more effective.

In Health,
Brian Waldo

There is one thing every successful person I ever met recommends. To be the best, you have to learn from the best.

The stories of those who went from being overworked and near bankruptcy to financial independence and enjoyment of life are legit and an inspiration. I have met a few myself.

I have attended a couple of the summits before and implementing only a couple of strategies started to make a huge difference in my business. Life being life, I got involved in a venture which created huge road blocks to further progress and set me back worse than I was before.

I was witnessing other fitness professionals build their dream business while out of a skewed sense of loyalty I started falling further behind, wiping out any form of progress I had made in the past. Those road blocks are now gone and it is time for me to start over with a clean slate. I seek to learn from the best and once again, get inspired by their success and surprisingly straight forward strategies. My financial situation is one in which putting out the cash up front would be a difficult one so the pass would ease my burden tremendously. Regardless, pass or not, I will be there because I know the ROI will be tremendous.

My aim is to be on that Podium in 2013 telling others how I built my wealth from humble starts but with unparalleled guidance and hard work.

Thank you guys for putting together an amazing event!

Bedros,

I don’t like beating around the bush, so I’ll get to the point. I am an 18 year old student starting college this fall. I spoke with Steve last month when he was giving away free 15 minute phone calls, and since then my mindset on what I wanted to do with myself has really ignited, and I have been more motivated than ever to make my dreams a reality.

I’m a really modest kid, so I’m not bragging or wanting sympathy. When I was in elementary and middle school, I was overweight like others, so I know first-hand what it’s like to feel worthless, to feel like something you’re not, and to have the anxiety and depression that goes along with it. Through many fights lost and until recently battles won, I was able to find my true passion in health and fitness at a young age. This month last year, I organized a 5K walk/run which alloted my several awards (one being a NATIONAL award) and media attention that I didn’t plan on or even ask for. In fact, at the time I didn’t want it - I just wanted my purpose out there.

Sounds crazy, I know. An 18 year old kid in high school wanting to go to a fitness business summit… what the hell?! Do I have a life? Well, on the weekends, sure. I don’t do this because I’m a biz wiz or a geek that likes money. I’m your average teenager with ABOVE average desires, ambitions, wants, and a passion for something that I wish others would find. At such a young age, I’ve already done more than people do in a lifetime, and apparently I deserve merit (again, I’m modest).

I’ve dedicated my life 100% to progressing further and showing others that their way of life doesn’t have to be like this forever. In fact, it’s within THEM that change occurs. I can’t offer change, but I can offer the opportunitiy.

We all know that you and Steve are the men. Rock on guys!

You are the BEST Trainer with the BEST Fitness Business Products!
I am new (as of July 2010) to the Fitness Business. I am a clean slate. I want to learn from YOU. I have never been more driven in my life.
Thanks Bedros,
Ray

Yesterday a very dear friend died as a consequence of extreme obesity, the 2nd such friend’s death in less than 3 months. I have worked for various fitness & nutrition companies. I have created a unique, strategic system of TOTAL HEALTH that motivates individuals not to simply modify their behavior, but change their mindset to BE & STAY healthy. I’m not looking for a J.O.B.(just over broke!) I’m on a mission! I am passionate to reach as many as I can in motivating them to SAVE their lives & not suffer the same fate as my dear friends!

I need to sell MYSELF - motive people to choose ME (not my program)over someone else. It’s about RELATIONSHIP, not just the transference of information. In watching your video clip, I am convinced that this Summit would provide that final connection for successfully putting myself out there. I’m a wild card! I don’t have any business habits to break and EVERYTHING to learn - like a dry sponge!

Thanks for offering such an incredible opportunity!

So I am going to be brutally honest and set my pride aside for a moment. The reason I want to win a free pass to the business summit is because I am Flat Broke! If I did have the money to pay to come to this summit I would surely pay for my place. I believe in supporting the people whose work I admire. I would happily support and pay you for your knowledge and experience. However, I am afraid I am that trainer you always talk about who has been running their fitness business the wrong way for way to long and don’t know how to turn things around. I am living session to session right now and can’t afford to purchase any of the wonderful business concepts and ideas you guys sell that I know will take me out of this hole. I am married with a 10 month old son. Since his birth my wife hasn’t worked and all the financial responsibilities have been placed upon me. However, due to the lack of structure my current business has my income is all over the place. I have followed you guys for the past year trying to soak up any free information you have to offer. I have even been able to apply some of the things you’ve offered and seen results. I use your fitness newsletter in my business as well as the online training program. However my current financial wall is preventing me from receiving the information I know I really need from you to really turn things around. I know this summit, and a chance to meet you guys in person will be the boost I need to turn things in the right direction. Every time I see a video of you with one of your mentored clients, I get inspired. I want the chance to be on the other side for a change. I would like to inspire people with my success. Isn’t that why we all got in this business, to help and inspire people to change their lives around for the better? I just hope you guys are able to give me that hand up that I am sure you once received from someone. If you do I will not only to pass it forward but be a leading force within this field.
I am driven and fitness is my passion. I know with your help I will be attending Summit 2012 not as a listener but as a speaker!
Rock On!
Thanks:)

Hi Bedros,
I live on the beautiful islans paradise of Fiji.Fiji is located in the South Pacific,close to Australia and New Zealand.Fiji is quickly becoming very modern and people here are just embrassing this modern lifestyle with open arms….trouble…
I see toruble sneaking in slowly with the growing rate of diabetes,high blood pressure and heart attack.Our friendly people don’t deserve this.So, if i were to attend the FBS,this is definitely going to boost my knowledge in the fitness marketing field,henceforth,gives me the opportunity of preaching the fitness gospel.I know i can still do something about my beautiful paradise now,and being in the summit will definitely save my country.I am also planning to open up a gym(maybe a boot camp gym) sometime soon.A boot camp gym will make it the 1st of it’s kind in Fiji,or maybe in the Pacific.Going to the FBS will definitely give me ideas on how to go about this.
Thanx for all the useful informations that you have been sending me.Appreciate it very much.

Because I need the missing link of marketing and your motivation to help me make my passion for fitness my full time gig.

Robert!

Thanks for the vote! What can you do to help? Errr, keep voting? Just so you know, your vote of confidence shows how much you believe in Bedros, and a true testimony that you believe in what you do. Perhaps you should win out of generosity. Just sayin’! Be blessed Robert!

MC

There is lots of reasons to win that, but I don’t care. I just know I want to be there no matter what. And I’ll:)

Bedros -

Well, I’m going regardless. BUT, being the cool guy you are pick me anyway! I went last year for the first time and it has completely changed my life! Literally.

Since FBBS 2010; I went from working in a gym to owning a personal training studio and Fit Body Bootcamp. Scott Tabbert went there as a “couple”, we were married what a month later?

Last year at the workshop, Samantha’s speech helped me that very day get an investor to buy into FBBC. You, Steve, Josh, Michael, Sam and Leanne were motivating and inspirational. Joe Polish was freaking incredible.

Since then, you and Steve had been amazingly supportive and I am eternally grateful. I am your next greatest prodigy, I am your next biggest success story! Because you speak, I listen and take action! Oh! btw, listened to your closing 9 out of 10 every day since December - I’m closing 9 out of 10 now!! BOOYAAA - can’t wait to get 2.0

2011 will be the best year ever - I plan to change hundreds of lives, open Multiple FBBC locations, take your lead and give back endlessly!

Can’t wait for Fitness Business Summit!!

I want to attend FBS11 to obtain the wealth of knowledge I know will be presented. I want to be surrouned by the people in the fitness business who think the biggest and take the most action.

I have regularly viewed your videos and blogs for the past two years and last week I decided it was time to get the Close Clients system. I was literally signing online to invest in it when I got the email for Close Clients 2.0. Talk about a sign ey? Ha ha. So I took action, studied the hell out of it for a couple hours, and tried the presentation the following day. Closed my first consulatation that day like it was nothing. I don’t even need to tell you how kick ass it has been since.

I want more. I want it all. I want to grow and open my own studio. I don’t have an amazing story to tell..just the ability to act and make things happen. There’s a small possibility I can pull together some money to attend anyhow. I’ll do everything I can to make it happen either way.

Bedros,

Pick Me I’m Cool as ICE!

Lol - Where do I register…

Jeremie from jersey

PS: Not the jersey shore….

Hey B!

What can I say…I am motivated! Last year was so tough financially and I couldn’t figure out what it was for the longest. Once I started visiting your Facebook page and reading everyone’s success comments I realized that the problem was me!

I was getting in my own way. I had a little success here or there but when I started seeing how many people were literally destroying their competition just because they went to Fitness Business Summit…I was inspired!

As a matter of fact my New Year’s Resolution is to finally be able to go to Fitness Business Summit. But not just to go, I want to absorb every morsel I can and apply it immediately!

This may sound a little crazy but, I don’t want to just be a taker…if I am blessed with this opportunity, I am going to pay it forward by totally killing it this year so I can pay for another fitness professional to be able to go to the summit next year. Because I know how it feels to really want to go but you just can’t afford it. And the feeling in the pit of your belly that if you could just get to the summit, feel the intense energy in the room and take action, your whole world would change.

So there you go…no sad story…but I have unwavering faith that this is my year and I want to be in the position to be able to give someone the same gift I was given.

Thanks B!

I’m cute, I’m funny…and doggone it people like me!

Okay, that’s the best I can do. No sob story here. I’m blessed to have a healthy family and have worked very hard to ensure that I have a successful, happy career by surrounding myself with like minded people.

I do live in Nebraska and lord knows we need a lot of help here…we’re FAT (not PHAT)!! So can’t wait to meet you at the summit…you’ll be changing not just my life, but the lives of so many others that are truely in need!!

Thanks for having such a fun competition!!

In fitness and health,

Jody

Bedros,
The information produced on your seminar will help create the mental foundation upon which I will build an immense winner mentality, that will propel me to higher places, and ultimately to freedom, yes Liberation…..

Looking foward to it…

@ Robert Foster…

Thank you for the kind words.

I appreciate your generosity as much as I appreciated Bedros’ and Steves’s.

I hope to get to meet you this year.

Rick Streb

Hey Bedros,

My BHAG is to create 10 fitness jobs in 2011. It would be cool to say that FBS helped me create those jobs.

Thanks,
Cory

If you guys don’t win you have to go anyway, the information and content you will get will change your life. I implemented one piece of the info from last year, and made 6K in one week, at the time I was doing 5K a month. Now I am a Fit Body BootCamp owner opening my second standalone location and making 16-18k a month, that’s right if you play your cards right you can triple your income in less than a year after FBS11 just by taking action and doing what Bedros and Steve and all the other presenters tell you to do. This year I plan on tripling my income again, and I know the content from FBS11 will help me do that and if you really want to crush it sign up for Fit Body Boot Camp. Ask me how….

You had asked this question before (in a previous blog you had via facebook) and I responded then. Are those responses included in the draw?

I have been in this industry for better part of 10yrs. I have trained and managed some big corporate gyms during that time. What I learned and the reason I started working on my own is I have come to terms that they are full of B.S.

I have been on my own for the last year and opening my own studio with enough room to run bootcamps in March. I have learned so much from you, Scott,& Chris in the past few months and i can not even begin to thank you.

The many B.S. IRSA’s i have had to attend have never come close to teaching me an ounce of what you guys have. I want to attend FBS11 to finally and collectively learn from the best by the best. This is the year i will make 6 figures. That is my goal and my commitment. I owe that to my son, so i can spend more quality time with him.

And when I attain that goal, I will pass that knowledge forward to someone else so they can be just as successful. You Guys have helped so many trainers better themselves. Why shouldn’t we show our gratitude to you by giving someone else the gifts you have given us. Knowledge to succeed.

I have so much more to learn and I am not afraid to say i will make mistakes and learn from each one. I have so much futher to go and i know attending FSB11 would be a great step forward in the right direction.

You Guys Rock,
Mike Lopez

Hey Bedros, I have been following your blogs for the last year, and received your pt business course. My business has grown to a quarter million a year thanks to you and your knowledge. I want to make it to the 7 figure club by 2015! I’m 20 years old and I’m confident that the Fitness Business Summit will branch me to do just so! I’m looking forward to this year of fitness success, thanks for all your help!

Bedros,

I am a Personal Trainer and Massage Therapist who has recently just decided to take the plunge into running my own business and getting out of just working a job. I have you to thank for that. You have inspired and taught me more, in six weeks, than I could have hoped to learn in years. I’m hungry for more.

Less than 6 weeks ago, I saw an add on facebook, clicked on it, and became hooked. That first day, I ordered System 9. Since then, at the advice of you, Steve Hochman, Chris McCombs and many other speakers who were at FBS ’09 (I watched all 12 hours of the videos withing 24 hours of donating to help out Scott at Christmas), I have read The Secret, How to Win Friends and Influence People, The Ultimate Sales Machine, The Four Hour Work Week, and (of course) The Art of Selling Fitness, among other things. I will soon be using FitPro Newsletter to grow my ever expanding list even further, and I hope to open a Fit Body Bootcamp by May 2011.

From the very first click, I’ve been inhaling everything that you and your associates teach. It has been my obsession. As an athlete, coach, and trainer, I give my all, every day, to help my teammates, competitors, clients, family, and friends to find the fire in their lives and to harness it’s awesome power. Thank you for making my fire burn brighter, Bedros.

You have done so much for me. Please allow me to do something for you. Please allow me the next BIG testimonial; the one that makes everyone else say, “Wow!” I have to make it to Fitness Business Summit. The job that I will be leaving in the coming weeks, in order to fulfill my dream- a dream that you have allowed me to believe in so much more fully now- has limited me financially and made growth extremely difficult. I have poured every resource I have (and even some that I don’t have) into learning from you and acquiring the necessary equipment and other pieces to start my business. Body Coach, will succeed, and it will be because of hard work, motivation, dedication, determination, and surrounding myself with the best of the best (You and everyone else whom I will meet through my interactions with you).

I have been so blessed to have traveled the part of this journey that I have already completed, and I can’t wait to continue. I know that the things that I learn along the way and everything that I accomplish will be owed in large part to you and your team.

Every day seems brighter than the next. I can do this. We can do this. We WILL do this.

Hoping to see you in March,
Nathan

My Story

Hey Bedros,

I’ve been working as a personal trainer since age 15 (I’m now 37). No shit. I had just gotten serious about fitness after spending almost a year in juvenile hall and a boy’s home for burglary. I also spent a couple of years doing lots of drinking, smoking pot, doing cocaine and acid. I thought that working in a gym would be a nice “low pressure” job after school, and get me a free membership.

I quickly found that I enjoyed helping people in the gym, I also found that I had to actually show up to work sober, so I could actually carry a conversation with the members. (Up until that point, I was smoking pot 6 times a day. I don’t think I spent more than 4 days sober my entire sophomore and junior year).

At the gym, I started hanging out with other trainers who didn’t drink or smoke, and I found I felt better and was having more fun staying sober. Also, it was much easier hooking up with girls when I was sober. By the time I was 17, I realized that I could make personal training a career. I became gym manager of the club and really developed my personal training program doing lots of one-on-one sessions. And I was doing very well for many years. I was even voted the South Bay’s Best Trainer 4 times in our local paper! Until recently, the club paid me a $30,000 salary and I was earning almost $70,000 from my clients. I was just clearing 6 figures!

Then 3 years ago, the club I worked at for 20 years felt they needed to cut costs. They cut my position and practically eliminated my salary. Oh well, I thought. My personal training was doing well, my wife and I had bought a house and just did an expensive addition on the house and business was doing okay.

Then my wife’s job began to fall apart. Her boss was stealing money from her company, but the president didn’t seem to care (which didn’t make a lot of sense), but when the parent company discovered this, my wife did some digging and showed them all of the proof of her boss’s years of stealing and charging on expense accounts of over half a million dollars! Her boss got fired, but the president of the company resented my wife for exposing her and it became a hostile work environment. My wife wanted to quit and buy a thriving gift shop that she loved.

I thought after what happened to both of us, it was time to stop working for others and be our own bosses, in charge of our own destinies. We took out some loans, borrowed from my parents and bought the gift shop for her in May 2008. Then, what seems like only days after, the economy crashed. All of our financial projections for the store went out the window. The store was losing money every month, my wife hasn’t drawn a salary in 2 years, and we can’t close or sell the store, because my parents put up their house as collateral on the loan. I need to make the store succeed and get loans paid. (In hindsight, we should have listened to Bedros, bought a fitness studio and the two of us run boot camps and personal training, hire trainers and have a thriving business).

After the economy crashed, some of my clients lost their businesses, and some were laid off. I lost 40% of my clients. I went from earning $100,000/year to $40,000/year, and my wife went from $60,000 to $0. That’s when I realized that it would be my business that pays the bills for us and supports the store paying back loans.

That’s when I got serious. First I got the Close Clients DVD, then I got System 9. After some time, I also got FitPro Newsletter and FitPro Magazine. Over time, I have built back my training business and started my website. Using Bedros programs, I began billing credit cards monthly and I’ve raised my personal training rates by 25-40%! Now I’m selling much easier than before, I’m retaining clients for much longer, earning more per session, and best of all… I know exactly when and how much I am getting paid each month! No more wondering if I will get paid this week. My website has been giving me regular referrals, and FitPro Newsletter has been helping turn these people into clients.

It’s crazy, but now that my income is back to roughly $100,000/year, I’m still broke. Saddled with debt, and the store’s continual drain on our bank accounts, I still need to make changes. I’m training clients 7 days a week, and spending my nights doing bookkeeping. I know that to grow, I need to stop working IN the business and work ON the business. My next plan is to launch a boot camp in the coming months, figure out my niche and create some fitness products for sale on my website, then get out of my club and open a studio and hire trainers to do the training for me so I can really concentrate on the business, and grow my business like “7 Figure Sam”. This is what I want in my future in the next 2 years. But, I need help getting there.

I know this conference will be a big part in helping me get to my goal. I don’t want to spend another 23 years in this same rat race, I need to get ahead in this game. I need to get my life back! I need to keep my wife from worrying whether or not we can pay our health insurance this month. I need to get my debts paid, so I won’t keep my parents worrying that they will lose their house! I know my future is meant for far more than this!

Help me Bedros!

I have wanted to attend FBS for the last couple of years, specifically to learn to step out of my business and work on it instead of in it. In just the past two weeks, this has become a necessity more so than a desire.

After not feeling well for several days, I went to my doctor. Being diabetic they wanted to rule out all potential issues. In the process, it was determined that my HDL levels were EXTREMELY low therefore leading to blocage in my heart (one that is 100% and untreatable, a second that was 80% and was treated with a stint).

In order to keep doing what I love, I must create multiple streams of income, step out of the training end, and most importantly, focus on my health and well being by taking more time for me.

I believe FBS will provide me with all the tools I nedd to do just that.

Bedros,
Ive been thinking for the last couple days about what I could write. And I don’t think words can express about why i deserve I should get this opportunity. But I want to try my best explaining that I just started out with FBBC - living in a small rural town (prob. your smallest). I give so much to people just to make them healthy - prior to FBBC i met people at the gym for free bc I knew they couldnt afford it but they needed help. I have so much energy and ambition to be successful in this business and I feel that if I just keep giving I am going to run out of that energy. FB Summit will provide me with the energy I need to keep doing what I love doing best day in and day out.

Lets take over the fricken world and make everyone healthy adn fit.

I would also like to invite you up to beauty ontario, Canada to see how we rock it over here. Anytime!

Thanks for all your inspiration thus far.

Hey Bedros,
So far any of the info I get from you is gold. I appreciate it.

I would love to attend FBS11.

If I could come to FBS11 I am sure I could make my fitness Boot Camp flourish in other cities and not just the one I live in. I have a few info product ideas that would surely be quite successful, especially with your advice.

I am not looking to get rich and famous. Sure it would be great. I want to earn enough dough so I do not have to look under my seat for change to get a coffee. Yes, sometimes I really have to do this.

I want my two daughters to have everything I did not have growing up. They mean everything to me and deserve the best i can give them.

Lots of people tell me I am crazy for sticking to my fitness dreams. Guess what they can go… you know what I am saying.

If I win this, Bedros, I would figure out a way to team up with you and RULE THE WORLD! haha

If I do not win, someday i will make it to FBS. With all the change under car seats, I may find enough cash to make it to FBS.

Cheers.

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