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Win VIP Access To Fitness Business Summit 2011

Yo, yo, yo!

I’m gonna hook someone up BIG TIME and give them VIP access to Fitness Business Summit 11 A-N-D I’m gonna pay for the winners hotel room as well.

That’s right, one person will win total access to Fitness Business Summit 11 taking place in Orange County, California March 18th - 20th.

The only thing you’ll have to spring for if you win is airfare… I’ll pay for the rest :)

To apply for this AWESOME HOOK UP just tell me why you want to attend FBS11 and how this will help you and your fitness business in the up coming year.

Let me know below in the comment box below. I’ll be announcing the winner on Monday the 10th.

Good Luck!

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  • http://www.ExercisesForInjuries.com Rick Kaselj

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

    Rick Kaselj of http://ExercisesForInjuries.com

    Message sent from Malaysia.

  • http://www.fitsmart.nl Mart Jansen

    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!

  • Odhran Mccorry

    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!

  • Status-Elite Athletics, LLC

    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

  • Lauren Partlan

    @ 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

  • joseph

    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

  • http://www.hunterfit.com Angelo Hunter

    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!

  • Theo Thurston

    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!!!

  • http://www.finishitfitness.com Tim Detmer

    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.

  • Nigel O’Quinn

    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
    [email protected]

  • Kim

    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

  • http://www.imwithcman.com Clarence Ferguson

    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

  • http://www.optimalhealthperformance.com Brian

    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

  • The Trainer Up North

    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!

  • Timothy

    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!

  • http://www.workoutwithray.com Ray Porter

    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

  • Nadene Beach

    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!

  • Ditanyon

    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:)

  • Litiana

    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.

  • http://www.pavelfitness.com Joe

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

  • http://my40speed.com Marshall

    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

  • http://www.fitbodynaperville.com zack

    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:)

  • http://www.tbtfitbodybootcamp.com Rebecca Tabbert

    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!!

  • Danny

    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.

  • http://www.thunderfitness.net Jeremie

    Bedros,

    Pick Me I’m Cool as ICE!

    Lol - Where do I register…

    Jeremie from jersey

  • http://www.thunderfitness.net Jeremie

    PS: Not the jersey shore….

  • http://www.mtfjourney.com The Power of Faith (Joyce Nichols-Moore)

    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!

  • http://www.StarCityBootCamp.com Jody

    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

  • Ivan C

    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…

  • http://www.fitphysiqueonline.com Rick Streb

    @ 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

  • http://www.corefitnessaz.com Cory Schidler

    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

  • http://www.dptraining.com Jeremy Werner

    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….

  • Mary Ann

    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?

  • http://www.getrealefx.com Mike Lopez

    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

  • http://www.wesleywilsonfitness.com Wesley Wilson

    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!

  • Nathan Yamnitz

    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

  • http://www.southbaysbesttrainer.com Mitch Chase

    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!

  • http://www.muscleworx.com Jason Morgan

    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.

  • http://www.nvfitnessconditioning.ca Nadine VandenHeuvel

    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.

  • http://www.serioustrainer.com Richard Huard

    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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