Fitness Business Summit Scholarship

Hey Bedros,

Every year I attend your event, I take myself further. The first year I attended I was just a trainer at a big corporate gym and after that breakthrough event, I went back home and quit my “job” and went independent on my own. I practically had to start over but implemneted what I learned and built up an independent business enough to hire a trainer underneath me. The next year I again attended your event and when I got home immediately implemented what I learned and was able to build up my biz to open my first personal training studio. I now have 4 trainers under me. I believe by attending this year, I have a great opportunity to really explode and make a name for myself in this industry.
I deserve to win because, with the help of no one expect the fact that I know where to go to learn from the best, I have always taken immediate action and implemented what I learn. This year because I invested everything I have in my studio, the free VIP one would be a HUGE help.

Thanks!

If I won the scholarship it would mean the difference of my current 125k salary to growing my biz to earning over 300k annually. I think I deserve to win because I would have to credit the Fitness Business Summit as the catalyst to what launched me from a recognized trainer in Las Vegas…to a recognized trainer in the US!

This would mean everything to my business. I took the leap of faith just about a year ago when I quit my job and went full time into the fitness industry. I have experienced many ups and downs and have not quite found the correct path for me as a business owner. I have used some of your products with great success, but I want more. This opportunity will take me from owning a job to owning a business. This will allow me to create a complete blueprint that can be copied and repeated to realize true success.

I deserve this more than anyone else because of a few factors. I could go into the rough times I have had to pull myself out of, but I have come to find out we all have one of those stories, so lets move on.

1. I am a fighter that loves a challenge. I actually enjoy when something gets the better of me because then I have something conquer. If life was easy it would be way too damn boring!

2. I am a true believer in reciprocity. I believe that you have to give and recognize people for their efforts. When we talk about human billboards, well that is me. When I believe in something or someone I shout it to the rooftops. I want to help the next guy just as much as I want to be successful.

3. Passion, passion and passion. Guys, this is my life. I eat, sleep, shit, and read business development and fitness. I have a problem that I call “Mini Obsessions” its an OCD thing of mine. I immerse myself into a project or challenge until I hit my goal and then I move on to the next. I might come back to revisit an old obsession, but only for a bigger badder goal!

So, if you want to have a person on your team that will fight, bring the giving hand and so much passion that it hurts, then I am your guy.

To Believe, is to Achieve!

Ryan Ehler

Wow, It would be amazing if I would win the VIP scholarship to FBS12. I would be inspired to apply everything I have learned at this Summit to my business and learn from real living examples - trainers who have made it big. These trainers definitely think differently from the rest. I would imagine that they are extremely focused in their thinking and effort, committed to success, and courageous in facing adversities and learning from their mistakes.

I always get what I set my mind to in life, although I can’t say I deserve it more than the next person. I believe that if you want something, and want it bad that it will come to you. I want to be very successful, have an insane drive, and I am willing to make things happen.

Thank you Bedros for all the videos. I always feel so inspired by your advice.

Im all over it man!

1. What would it mean to your business if you won this VIP scholarship to FBS12?

It would mean the WORLD to me if I could win a VIP scholarship to FBS12! We went to our first time ever FBS11 and was overwhelmed with quality content. We purchased our Fitpro Newsletter which is a HUGE value-adder to our current programs, as well as the The Art of Selling Fitness. These amazing products in combination with the presenters at helped explode our bootcamp business. I would do almost ANYTHING (yes I said it!) to win myself a spot in the VIP section!

2. Why do you deserve to win over everyone else?

I went from teaching 12 classes a week myself trying to rent crappy space in the winter to teach these classes, to hiring 4 trainers, a part-time assistant, having my own fitness studio and we are on track to break 100k this year. Largely in part due to the 8 months of implementation of the stuff I learned at FBS11. I haven’t even implemented 25% of the content and I am still blowing past all my sales goals. I have a waiting list for PT clients, and several private contracts approaching me to come speak, motivate and educate their corporate groups. I have never been so busy in my life. I am ready to learn new tools and move towards the next 100K.

I am a walking billboard of what FBS can do for a business and I believe I deserve to win one of these spots!

I think going to this event would mean the difference between doing what I love for the rest of my life and supporting my family with that love and giving up on a dream and getting a day job. I have started and stopped 3 times with very little success to show for my efforts. Although I did learn valuable lessons and have grown from the experiences my family cannot keep treading water while I keep stumbling thru trying to make my business support them. To be able to have the what,why and where of making my business thrive from the get-go would be such a LIFE changer for me,my wife and two boys. I believe I deserve one of the scholarships because unlike many of the people who follow your blog I have not yet had success in a fitness business. You could be the sole reason for a business to succeed from the ground up and what an amazing testimony that could make for your programs and the summit(and trust me I would shout it from the roof tops who is responsible for my success). I want to change peoples lives for the better and giving people their lives back thru better health and wellness is the best way I know how to do that. No matter what the decision thank you B for all that you do. All the free content and the chance to win such an amazing opportunity shows how much you care for the fitness industry, I hope one day to follow you down that path. Thanks for taking time and I hope to hear my name as a winner

Winning this scholarship would mean everything to my business. It would take me from barely getting by to financial freedom, the way I believe all fitness professional should live.
I deserve to win this scholarship because I already believe I will be come successful in my head.. I just need your help with the skills this scholarship will teach me to show the rest of the world, that want or need to become more healthy see what I already see in myself

Every time I take a new client I look for potential. potential to make goals, potential to demonstrate the discipline to travel toward goals and the potential to surpass what they imagined possible for themselves. If I can find those qualities in clients I know I will have raving fans, more income, and I can wake up each day saying I GET to go to work.

I can be that person for you! I live in the Gillette Wyoming ( you might have to google or mapquest this one) . If you still love a challenge I am THE ONE! We can do this together, inspire others and help people. Let’s show people how well your systems work!

Winning this would mean that the impossible will become possible for me and entire business and will prove to losers that sitting down and just imagining success will not help.
I am not saying i deserve it because i have just started thinking big and i believe big dreamers deserve this VIP pass. If i’m among those big dreamers and successful people, i will be the next heavy hitter in fitness industry.
Your blog alone changes people’s live, let alone your fitness summit

Hi!

This summit could be the AED to resuscitate my business. I have a lot of vision and passion but little in the way of guidance; for the past several years many decisions that were made for the sake of my business were near fatal. I am not going to make any pompous claims such as “I’m going to change the world!” But, I am a very competent trainer that has worked very hard on my education and even started to develop my own corrective, training modalities- this summit would mean the chance to give what I can offer (a chance to move pain free and be proud of their physiques) to a larger base, and give me a second chance at life and comfort (aiming for the win-win).

I feel I should be picked because I listen. No, I “hear” my teachers. I participate and most importantly, I commit to perform what is taught without question nor challenge. I’m excited to walk the talk!

Thanks for the opportunity and consideration,
Alex

Winning VIP membership would be a lot more than just exploding our business. It would give us hope and the opportunity to have the business Andrea and I have always dreamed of. Both of us have worked at commercial gyms as underpaid trainers - doing the best we could to get by. We have followed Bedros and Steve throughout our years training, watching all the videos, buying all the books; Andrea used to coach all the trainers at Gold’s gym, and we have probably been your biggest fans for the past 3 years. Once we finally got the courage (and a little money saved) we started our own Fit Body Boot Camp, took a leap of faith and quit our “jobs” at the gym and we are finally doing what we have always dreamed of doing. We are 3 months into our business. Doing great - but we are only at 20 boot campers. We are working our butts off - teaching 6 days a week - running ourselves into the ground. We want more than anything to come to this Fitness Business Summit, but right now every penny we have is going into marketing our business. This would give us the opportunity and knowledge to explode our business and get to our goal of 80 bootcampers and allow us to open our own FBBC location! We want this more than anything and we will do whatever it takes to be successful in this business! We know this would be the only way for us to get there and make it happen - we just want the oppurtunity to learn and grow and we want the opportunity to meet the people that we have been stalking for the past 3 years!!! WE LOVE YOU STEVE AND BEDROS!!!

B.,
I want to take my fitness business to seven figures and beyond…and I need your help. Everyone knows that money is the vehicle to freedom, but getting to that point means a lot of trial and error.

It would mean so much for me to win the scholarship because I was “almost there”… I’ve climbed the mountain and rubbed elbows with many of the top people in the fitness industry…I’ve tasted what it’s like to be super successful, even if it was just by being around successful people, but I still seem to be missing the ‘secret ingredient”. I’m still not doing all the things I need to do to make the income that would allow me to be doing just 5% of the things and allowing others to do 95%. I need more assistance.

I think I deserve to win this because I continue to push forward no matter what. Some people just talk the talk, and when things get tough, they quit. I’m not giving up because I will be successful. I will have a 7 figure business and I will help shape and change the lives of so many people in my region.

I’ve experienced a significant loss of income, maxed out credit cards, had landlords hunting me down to pay the rent, could not purchase groceries for weeks , lived off the generosity of others, had multible bills pilling up, ect.(Yet, over the past year, I still traveled across country over 12 times to be around the top fitness experts).

I WANT THIS BADLY AND YOU SHOULD JUST STOP THE CONTEST NOW AND LET ME WIN. Thanks — BC.

1. What would it mean to your business if you won this VIP scholarship to FBS12?

If I was selected to win the VIP scholarship to FBS12, it would mean that I will have to tools to take me from working for someone else’s dream to working on my dream of owning my personal training and/or boot camp business. I’ve been working for this particular company for 15 years now and needed the expertise and guidance to strategically open my own business.

2. Why do you deserve to win over everyone else?

First of all, thank you for offering this awesome scholarship program to FBS12. I really appreciate your generosity.

The reason (I believe) that I deserve to win this scholarship program is that my kids and I went through a lot of crap and I need to pick up my balls and pursue my dreams so I can take care of them. Never worry about if the heat (gas) is going to be turned off, never worry about if the electricity is going to be turned off and never worry about it there will be food on the table for dinner.

Let me give you a brief background on my situation and/or circumstance.

Six years ago my martial arts studio closed down and my wife (now ex) had a mental breakdown and she made the decision to move to Montana with our 3 kids (I live in Seattle).

As a result, I was homeless and living in several of my friend’s couch and my car. I lost everything – my family and kids, my business, a roof over my head and no money.

So I got certified as a personal trainer and currently working as a personal trainer. Four months later I found an apartment near-by.

Life was extremely hard but I know I will prevail because I’m a fighter and survivor. Currently I am working 7 days just to get ahead financially and I know I will be successful in the near future.

Winning this means that I will have the knowledge and tools to strategically change my financial situation. It also means:

- My financial situation will change for the best and will gain massive momentum forward.
- I would feel excited when I go to work.
- I would make more than enough money for myself
- I will able to buy myself some new wardrobe, ipad, laptops, be in a mentorship or mastermind group and not worry about how much it cost.
- I will be able to pay for my car payments and insurance payments on time
- I will be able to pay my bills on time so there will always be heat, electricity and food for the kids
- I will get the respect from my peers, friends, clients and my 3 beautiful kids (by the way, they live with me now)
- I will be a better father and provider to my kids and not stress out all the time
- I will learn from the best to attract clients to my boot camp or personal training
- I will be able to be mentored by the best of the best in the fitness industry.
- I will be able to associate with 6 and 7 figure income earners.
- Beautiful women will be attracted to me

Thank you very much for taking the time away from your busy schedule to read my email and to offer this awesome opportunity. Even if I didn’t get it, I am filled with gratitude because you offered it. So thank you again.

Sincerely

Cliff Lee
206-818-3739

1. What would it mean to your business if you won this VIP scholarship to FBS12?

My business in essence is the people I work with. I have a powerful positive impact on my clients, and I want to reach as many people as I can. I’m pretty certain my eyes will be opened as to the most effective ways to gain clients at this summit-not only gain regular clients, but expand my reach to people. Going to this summit on a scholarship would mean that I can actually attend this event and grow my business much faster with Bedros to thank.

2. Why do you deserve to win over everyone else?

I have a knack for personal training. I’m young and in some eyes “inexperienced,” but I pick up on things very quickly. I deserve to win this over anyone else because I have so much room to grow in this industry. That’s not the only reason… I’m humble but confident; I work my butt-off 24-7; I get shit done; and I appreciate that others in this industry do the same things as me so I want to support them. I’m really interested in this summit but right now, I wouldn’t consider taking three days off work to spend money. I really want to change my situation with my income, and I am but the process is slow (too slow). I’m hoping that if I can go to this conference, I will come back not only a much better trainer, but more driven with a clear focus on which direction I want to take my business.

Holy cow! Hasn’t even been an hour and all these entries all ready! Keep them coming gang! I wanna totally hook two people up!

B

What would this mean to my business? This would me me taking what I do and transforming it from a job into a true business.

Why do I deserve this over other trainers? Simply put, I know am the best at what I do! I just need the tools to take it to the next level and have the clients and the business to prove it (not to be cocky towards other trainers but what I have to believe in my heart to achieve the success I’m looking for).

If i were to win this vip scholarship, I truly believe i may be able to take my passion full-time. See i currently have a full time job as an auto mechanic, and therefore i cannot run classes throughout the day.
Why should i win? I opened my business in late 08 and have been doing everything i can to go full time with it. Unfortunately i have a family of five and can afford to quite my job. I currently have around 26 regular members but still don’t have the means to make nearly enough to open my own facility. Training is my life and fiance really hates it. But i will do everything in me to make it one day.

1. What would it mean to your business if you won this VIP scholarship to FBS12?

If I won the VIP scholarship it would mean freedom from always hearing about how people love the way they look and feel. Plus it would mean that I get more time with my family all year by learning from the best that there is in this industry.

2. Why do you deserve to win over everyone else?
I have struggle personally and in business. Now that I have the time to concentrate and follow everything that is suppose to be done we can achieve anything that we set out to do.

I’m a new trainer and need all the help I can get.

Hey Bedros,

Thanks for putting so much great info out there…..

i have purchased and USED products from you…..

LOVE the Fitpro newsletter…. Saves we alot of time… THANK YOU…

I own an ALL womens studio…… I Love what I do…. BUT I DO IT ALL….

Having the opportunity to work with you at FBS12 would be amazing……Have not be able to attend in the past for 2 reasons…. money and money…. since I do it all that means I would lose money to go, because I would have to close…..

I feel working with you would allow me to free myself from the chains of my business and help me get on track to opening more locations hiring trainers and enjoy life again…..
nothing fancy…. just plain and simple facts…..
Hope the rest of your week ROCKS…..
Linda

Hi Bedros ,

Here are the answers for your questions :

1. Everything - I’m a fitness expert from Israel , bought several of your programs and trying to implement as we speak. I must say though , I feel as if things here (Israel) are 10 years back from what you teach.
I am trying (and probably the first one) to implement EFT , incorporate facebook marketing , email lists and closing sales techniqes.
And that is only from several of your online products. I can only imagine what a boost I can get from being live at your summit.

2. I want to create a change in Israel in a way people relate to fitness and training . You wouldn’t believe , but the concepts of training 3-4 times a week for 6-12 months and committing(!) are far far away from reality.
Bottom line is , I’m struggling , you’ve changed things in the U.S and I need your help to help me change things.

Thanks ,

Michael

Firstly, thanks for everything you have put up here week after week and for devoting your life and energy to helping us all in our pursuit to helping people attain their dreams and become incredibly prosperous at the same time.

Winning your VIP Scholarship would make ALL the difference to my business in the future. I’ve been busting my hump for the last three years and making steady gains in the fitness industry. I only went independent one year ago and am at the point right now where I NEED the guidance from you and all the amazing people that you are surrounded by. I want to go from doing great, to destroying the competition in my area and delivering the absolute best in fitness and nutrition. In a nutshell, winning this, would change my life and as a result 100′s if not 1000′s of people that I will help and influence in the future.

I deserve to win simply because I’ve devoted all my energy and heart to this field and my clients and have the right intentions in how I want to grow in this field. I’m not a money-monger but I love being WELL compensated. If I don’t get picked I will still be in your circle in the future, no matter what it takes. Help me to help others.

Thanks,
Ryan Lucero

My first FBS here I come! Its been about 4-5years that I have been following, purchasing not only Bedros’ products and business modules but Steve Hochman, Chris Mccombs, and Craig Ballantyne.Now guys like Sam B, and Samantha are following the systems and killing it. You guys are the shit!

Ive been training for 6 years and getting people into the best shape of thier lives. Now I want to duplicate many Kyles(that’s me) that run the business on the inside, while I work ON the business from an outside perspective. Ive been at a corporate gym all of my Training career. We all kno the limits and restrictions these corporate Gyms have. They still sell packages, pay their employees dog poo twice a month, and worst of all micro manage! I look at the manager sometimes like who the FRICK are you!

POINT BEING…I have finally landed at a open minded gym-Anytime Fitness up in the Bay Area. I’m so excited because the owner is allowing me to implement systems that you and the other gurus have established. I know MIKE GELGOT is a mentoring client of yours and putting up crazy numbers at his Anytime Fitness Facility in Indiana.

It would be my CRAZIEST PLEASURE and DESIRE to be at this FBS. We currenlty have a no systems in place at Anytime Fitness. IF I WERE TO RECIEVE THIS SCHOLARSHIP TO FBS, 6 months from the FBS event, I would be your next “rags to riches” TESTIMONIAL. Going from in debt 10k, no business experience- typical corporate trainer- to 6 FIGURES and within years closing on 7 FIGURES. What a testimonial right? I feel like most of your clients and mentoring clients have worked hard and although I don’t know thier backgrounds or war stories, My current situation is only on the rise. My business is right at sea level at this point and have visions to send it to the moon. You my friend, are the navigation. My crew and I are ready to fuel the rocketship up and take off! Thank you for your time Bedros!

Your newest testimonial and mentoring client,

Kyle Barker

Hi Bedros, Thanks for the opportunity to tell everyone what a great weekend this will be!

I had the opportunity to sit down with Bedros and Craig B (the other Craig B) at the mastermind group prior to TT Summit 2011 in San Diego. It was an amazing weekend where your learn real in the trenches strategies that will bring you more clients and an opportunity to help more people reach their health and fitness goals. I walked away from that weekend with lots of tactics and strategies that were immediately put into place in my business. Bedros and his team of presenters are amazing (other than Bedros I though Josh Carter was amazing). If you are on the fence about this event I can whole heartedly say it’s worth the money and then some.

1. I think the Fitness Business Summit 2012 would have the same if not better impact on my business allowing us to further grow and reach more people in our community. It would also allow me to share what has worked in our business that we learned at the last summit with other attendees.
2. I think there are potentially lots of deserving winners. If I win I will share what I have learned at the last event and mastermind enriching a few people’s experience making their fitness Business Summit 2012 even better.

I have no doubt that attending FBS12 will increase my annual turnover turning my Personal Training business into a 6 figure one. By winning the VIP scholarship it will propel my outdoor business to new heights where I can finally look to establish my own local training facility and build a team of trainers around me so I can focus on being a business owner and not just a Personal Trainer.

I deserve to win because my passion for the industry and drive to succeed in business is greater than anyone else who is applying. I will absorb every bit of information and guarantee to apply it… if I don’t achieve the goals I set at FBS12 I promise to pay the full amount. I need this! I want it even more!

Shoot! Ready, Aim What would it mean to my business if I won the FBS VIP? To win one of the VIP passes would allow me to attend the event that is about to be the springboard that will propel me to new and exciting places with my small business. I would learn and implement ideas and systems to kickstart the growth of me and my business. Just thinking of how many more lives can be positively affected when things are in order & folks want to join you on their path to health and wellness and to move forward in their lives! Providing a safe and enjoyable(pun intended) workout to as many people in the community as possible!! Great stuff!! Go Team Fitness!!
#2
Why me?
Because even though we are all winners-only 2 lucky people get to be picked to attend this life changing and enriching event at a more affordable rate I’m very inspired by what I see and what I’ve heard about THE summit. I really want to increase my income, strengthen my business and be able to give back to my community and my family. Thank you Bedros for all that you do. I hope to follow in your footsteps and to become a part of something much larger

1.Pure and simply one word Success
2. I dont deserve it over anyone one else who applys in my eyes but it would be one of the greatest birthday presents id ever recieved as my birthday falls on the 11th of March and to share it with some of the greatest minds in the industry would be insane.

Hi Bedros,

First of all, thank you for offering such an awesome opportunity.

To win the VIP Scholarship would mean more to my business than I can even imagine. I know that I will learn new ideas and meet new people that will take my business places that I didn’t even know was possible. I have a great vision for my business, which launches on November 28, and I have a plan in place to make my vision happen. I know 100% in my heart that my vision will come true. You and many others in your network have helped me believe in that vision. However, I know I have so much to learn. I need to learn things that I don’t even know I need to learn. The VIP Scholarship would allow me to go from driving my vision in the school zone in my mini van to driving down open roads with the wind in my hair in my silver camaro convertible. Winning the VIP Scholarship would also allow me the opportunity to network with some of the greatest minds in fitness and business. That to me would be one of the greatest parts of the entire summit. I have learned through reading blog after blog about how intertwined your fitness network is. I often wonder how you end up mentioned on every blog I read!

It would also mean that I could help more people in several ways. By propelling my business to the fast track of success with the information, tools and ideas that I know I would get from the Fitness Business Summit, I would be able reach more women, create jobs, and most importantly give more to charities.
I am passionate about fitness. I know that it can give you confidence and a sense of self worth that can make you a better person in all areas of life. Through the Sexy Girl Fitness Club I want to help as many women find that confidence and be the best that they can be. Because at the end of the day, a woman wants to feel sexy!
As my business grows, I will be able to hire people to help me manage the business. We all know that the creating a job for someone is a great blessing today.
And the greatest benefit of growing my business would mean that I could give more money to the church and charities. There is no greater benefit of being successful than the opportunity it provides to help others.

Bedros, I am ready to absorb all the information and knowledge and put it to work. I will be a walking, talking testimonial for your summit because I am that positive of how great it will be. I deserve this VIP Scholarship because I am a very cool chick trying to make it in a nerd’s world. I have put together my whole business on my own. I have turned my garage into a fitness studio where I film the workouts for my website. I have created my entire website on my own. I have added all the content all by myself. I am networking and marketing the best I can. I have researched your blogs and the blogs of your network for guidance. I have a small budget. I know the importance of building a strong network. I deserve this VIP Scholarship because I am a wife, a mom of 2, a business woman and a fitness advocate. However, all of my time is going to being a business woman. I need leverage!!! I need your Fitness Business Summit!

Thank you in advance for you consideration!

Sincerely,

Erin Schwein
Founder and Trainer for the Sexy Girl Fitness Club
http://www.sexygirlfitnessclub.com

Hey B!! Im coming to FBS12 no matter what but here we go:

What would it mean to my business if I won this VIP scholarship to FBS12?
My goal to leave my other job, open my second FBBC location in April 2012 and only work on running my bootcamp businesses would DEFINATELY happen with the knowledge I gain from FBS12. I would learn so many answers to the many questions that have evolved since opening my first FBBC 9 months ago. I read and implement what you teach me every day but FBS12 would give me a huge dose of answers and information all in one weekend. When I ask you a question B, you give me an awesome answer and I listen, take action immediately and make it happen. FBS12 will make me unstoppable on the path to multiple 6 figure bootcamp locations!!

2. Why do I deserve to win over everyone else?
I deserve to win because although I work full time outside of my bootcamp business, I have achieved great success in the past 9 months since opening my first FBBC location. I started on day one with a partner and 10 prospects in a gymnastic facility. Now 9 months later, I am the sole owner (leaving my partner was a big decision but the right decision), have 4 trainers working for me teaching bootcamps and an assistant. I have 42 Bootcamp clients and just moved to a larger space!! (another brave yet right decision ) I live, eat and breath bootcamp (just ask my very patient and supportive husband)and give more than my clients pay for every day. No one has more love and passion for this business and I truly have an art for helping people. My bootcamp and myself are nominated for the Best of Long Island 2012, my bootcamp team is the featured team for the rugged maniac adventure race and I write a monthly editorial for a local magazine. There is no limit to the success I will achieve!!

WHEN I win your VIP scholarship to FBS12 it would mean that I am one step further to achieving my business vision of generating 1 million dollars in PROFIT by November 1st 2016. My business focuses on a micro niche of nutritionists actually, not personal trainers but professionals who require the information you will be providing at your summit. I am in the same business as you Bedros; I have created turnkey products (holistic weight loss and lifestyle change program, detoxificaiton program and professional certification/license arrangement) that I license and sell to other RHN’s/food coaches and Dieticians. I am in the business of helping others become very successful in their own private practices, which is why it is imperative that you choose me as your scholarship winner. As you are “committed to our success”, I am committed to theirs with the same passion and energy. My business has grown in the last 6 months from 3 certified and licensed nutritionists to over 40. I have taken the tools you teach and use them with great success. My micro niche has grown rapidly because I provide the PRACTICAL tools that the schools do not teach. I have complete faith in my business and my goals and KNOW that the only way to achieve my vision is to continue with personal development courses that keep me one step ahead of everyone else.

I am going to win your VIP scholarship to FBS12 over everyone else because I believe in my goals so completely. I know everyone has a story…weight loss wouldn’t be the billion dollar industry that it is without a personal story. However, my story has helped me propel forward and focus on what I want out of my life and accept nothing less. I am a 30 year old, single mother of 2 children (3 yrs old and 8 months). I went back to work when my son was 6 weeks old. I am telling you this not to gain pity but because despite the circumstances I have thrived and have created a company that in just 6 months is profitable and successful. Napolean Hill said that if you want to think and grow rich you must have complete faith and always invest in yourself. I am asking you to invest in me so that I can take the knowledge and skills taught at FBS12 and use them, not only to further my business and career but for all of those who put their faith in me as your “list” puts their faith in you. Thank you in advance and I look very forward to meeting you on March 9!

I need to be better. I want to be better. And what you are offering will bless me and my company. I must learn the keys to achieve this business

I have considering leaving the fitness industry due to my frustration of not generating the kind of income I desire. This would be a tragedy because I know I have amazing gifts to share, I just need better systems to generate cash-flow. I know I can impact so many peoples lives, if I just stick w it. So to answer your question, ‘what would this mean to my business?’…IT WOULD SAVE MY BUSINESS!
Why do I deserve this over others?
I live in Louisiana where many people are unhealthy and have had to deal w many tragedies…hurricanes, oil spill, floods just to name a few. People around here need something to feel good about. We tend to lag behind when it comes to information and technology. The information I learn at your Summit will allow me to truly make a lasting impression on the world by impacting the people in my community!!

1. What would it mean to your business if you won this VIP scholarship to FBS12?

First, it would be an excellent excuse to visit the U.S of A, and meet some of the most influential fitness professionals in the world. If you want to succeed, you have to be surrounded by the best, and this would certainly send my Personal Training and Boot Camp health facility into the stratosphere!
To put it bluntly, there is nothing quite like this event down here in Melbourne, Australia, and I am planning on attending this even either way, but if i do get chosen to be apart of this amazing VIP scholarship, then I will booking my flights upon winning
After already purchasing and implementing a lot of the systems that Bedros and Co has come up with, it isn’t a time to lift the foot off the pedal, you have to keep going and keep the momentum speeding as much as you can. This is where the VIP program can help launch my business into being on of the most recognised pt and boot camp businesses in Melbourne. It’s going to be a shite load of work on my behalf, but its going to be worth it. The one thing i want to be able to do is plan for my future, my plan of working on the business, not in the business is a goal that I hope to achieve very soon, if not sooner with the help of the scholarship program

2. Why do you deserve to win over everyone else?

I believe that everyone is a deserving winner because lets face it, we all put in a heck of a lot of work into the business, but I think that with all the blood, sweat and tears that I have already put into the business I deserve to be given the opportunity to be in the scholarship,.
The amount of times I have been knocked down, but you gotta get back up again has been a long tough mental and physical toll, but what doesn’t kill, makes you stronger, right?
So, lets just see… I’m 31 years old, had to move back home with the parents ( I feel like George Costanza), and even sell my prized car just to keep the business afloat much to my girlfriends angst… I have hit the bottom of the barrel and am working on building a successful fitness business, because it’s not of the money we make (although that is a very big positive), it’s that we are helping people live a healthier life. If this can help my business succeed in doing that, then it is worth it…

I will try not to make this a long disertation.

I started training nearly 17 years ago. I’m a one man show. I do all the training, marketing, sales, books, etc. By most standards, I do very well. But being that I just recently got married and we plan to have kids, it has made me reevaluate my weekly routine. I don’t exactly live a life that lends me to do the work that I currently do, but also spend quality time with a family. I am probably in need of a change. That means opening a studio, doing less hands on training sessions, hiring staff, etc. These are big jumps from what I currently do now. I’m a little apprehensive. So guidance would give me great confidence. I have invested in a lot of business building material. The one thing I haven’t done is gone to a Summit. I’m thinking it could be the key towards taking that next step.

As for the second question? I can’t say that I am any more deserving than others. I’m sure there are many deserving individuals here. To think I am more so would feel a little narsacistic. All I can say is I know I am a deserving person that has been in this industry for a long time. I have served my clients well. I love what I do. But now I have a new motive - to balance it all with providing for a family (with time and money). I have no doubt I will be successful. And as much as I am a little nervous about taking that next step and there are many unanswered questions right now, I am excited about the journey.

I know you have a lot of reading to do so I will keep this a brief as I can…

I have never been fortunate enough to attend one of your fitness business summits in the past, but it is quite obvious based on all of your positive feedback that it will benefit my business in more ways than I can mention here! I am a Physiotherapist living in a rural area of Canada (Physical Therapist in the States), and have devoted the last 10 years of my life to becoming a very skilled, highly sought after manual therapist with more referrals than I know what to do with. However, due to my passion for learning to be a great Therapist, there was little time spent learning the craft of BUSINESS!!! Despite this, 3 years ago, I took the plunge and opened my own clinic and fitness center. On the therapy side, my knowledge and skill in the craft have made up for my lack of experience/training in many different aspects of business operation. On the fitness centre side however, I know things could be much better – especially with marketing to keep my classes full and trainers as busy as possible.

You asked what would it mean to my business if I won this VIP access?? I in turn have to ask what would it mean to my business if I don’t? Based on what I have read in your blogs, my reviews of your products, the benefit I have gained from using your fitpro newsletter, I honestly don’t think I could provide a subjective report as to the benefits me and my business would gain, as there are too many to mention!! Spending even 5 minutes with an expert like yourself, undoubtedly would be invaluable to me, my business, and the people in and around my community!

You also, asked why I deserve to win over every one else?? I could give you the typical “I’m the most motivated, passionate, hard working blah blah blah….” That goes without saying – otherwise business was a poor career choice to start with!! These traits are apparent in every single successful business person on the planet. Quite simply, I deserve to win it because I NEED IT more than anyone else!! And I guarantee that the information you provide me will be put to good use! I need you to show me how to take my already successful business to the next level as I have NO BUSINESS or MARKETTING TRAINING!! And at times I feel like I am guessing as to which step to take next.

So, I am on bended knee! Begging you to pick this lifelong fitness enthusiast who lives in a far reach corner of Canada! Please SHOW ME THE WAY as I know without a doubt you have the capability more than anyone else to do so!!!!!

Hey B. I can see myself at FBS12 with a Starbucks in my hand and a huge ass notebook. I’ll drive my husband crazy every night telling him everything and I mean EVERYTHING I learned. He’ll say, “Do it!” and we’ll make more money because that’s how we roll in our house.

I’m very excited to go because I’ve purchased your dvds of some of the past conferences and always am bummed that I missed the parts of the speakers that didn’t end up on the dvds. LOL

I’m more of a “make things happen” person so begging, whining or telling you how much “I NEED” to go isn’t my style.
My business is doing excellent but I’m not satisfied. I want 2012 to explode and having gone through many of your programs I know it will. Bottom line, I have this achievement brain that wants ALL the info, even the stuff that ends up on the cutting room floor. So I’ll see you there and the Starbucks is on me.

T

It would mean the difference between 2012 being the start of something unbelievable or just good. I don’t want to be just the average trainer any more. I gave up my job earlier this year because I had a shift in mind set and believed I could be successful, I just need the right guidance and support to make my dreams of owning a successful business happen. It would mean knowing exactly what to do and how to do it from the get go instead of wasting my time trying stuff that just doesn’t work which is what i have been doing since I left my job until stumbling upon yours, Steve’s and Chris’s sites recently. I just think I need that extra push to get me there.

I don’t have a family to support and I don’t have a house to pay for unlike a lot of the guys who I appreciate might need the financial rewards (that comes with spending time with you) more than I need it right at this moment in time but I do want to give my Mum and Dad something back for all there support they have given me. I keep saying to myself that when I become successful I will pay it all back and I want it to be sooner rather than later! I want to break the mould for personal trainers in my area (I live in one of the poorest and fattest city’s in the England (Hull), no joke ) and I don’t mean that to sound like a sob story at all i just know that If i where to win the VIP scholarship to FBS12 I could make a huge difference to people in my area and finally repay my parents.

I have always wanted to attend one of your events but being over on the east coast it gets expensive with the travel.A Few years back I opened up my own studio and havent had the time or money to even attained any events even around this area. This vip membership would really help me get back in the grove to get my business on track. I spent so much time on my craft of training and not enough on the business side of things. I realize it is a whole new art. I have some of your products and they have help me so much. I can just imagine if I could get to one of these events what it would do.Im not to sure what else to say cause this is out of my comfort zone to ask for help that may be one of my biggest problems. But I really think this is what I need and cant explain what it would mean to me to make my buisness explode!

Thank you for everything you do and have already done for me.

As a long time fitness professional, I’ve hit a slump within the past 2 years. I simply ran out of working capital and need the resources you provide in building my fitness business. It’s been a slow rebuild and all I’m missing is that one thing and maybe being at this event is just what I need.

I know I am a great trainer. My years of retaining the same clients and getting new referrals frequently have convinced me that I must be doing SOMETHING right. But over the years, I’ve realized that exercise ‘skills’ and a great personality with people can only go so far. When it comes to REALLY marketing yourself properly, there is often a missing link that I feel only the FBS can provide. There are techniques and tactics to be learned and applied that no amount of exercises can substitute. At the age of 37, I’m not getting any younger and I never thought of a ‘back up’ plan because I have all intentions to continue to grow my fitness business to levels beyond one on one personal training and group classes. Everyone may ‘deserve’ this in one way or another but I can only say that I am standing on the 9th step of a 10 step ladder of success and just need one more push to get me there.

So i get the guts to go out on my own as a pt and went to a bank to set up an account and when I told the guy I was aiming to turnover $100k he smirked at me and said “we only deal with PROPER businesses that turn over atleast $500k.”

at first it gutted me but it was just the kick in the butt I needed. you can imagine what one of my goals are- smash $500k!

Now I have 2 trainers and a new bootcamp but I’m still lucky to turnover $200k, I work atleast 65 hrs a week and make about the same as when I earned a wage from the gym.

Even then i recently had a businessman say to me-” you don’t really have a business- you’re just self employed.”

I have a great studio, bootcamps setting and team but not a client getting system. I feel like I have the best kept secret in town. I need the tools to get the word out.

I should get this scholarship as I would be a converted skeptic! I used to be so anti sales and marketing but since reading all your blogs etc I’ve realized that I can’t be helping people if I’m burnt out just trying to make ends meet. ive always figured that if you do a good job the word of mouth should bring all the new clients- but I’ve learnt the hard way that you need more than that. the clients don’t just appear out of no where.
I’ve put strain on my marriage and family life by being so pig headed and believing that I could make it all happen myself. I feel like I’m pregnant with some massive ideas but I need so much more than hard work to get them off the ground. I need proven systems and the minds of people that have done it to help me deliver these fitness business babies!

hope to hear from you.

Hey Bedros,

I own a 5,000 square foot group fitness & personal training studio in the Catskill MTNS of NY.

My community was devastated this August by Hurricane Irene. The town ( we are a resort community) was destroyed and many people who are my clients, lost their business, jobs and homes. My business was affected as well and I was basically “out of business” for 2 months.

My husband and I mortaged our home to open this studio and we have a son in college.

Because many people lost jobs and their major source of income, my attrition rate was huge. I need to recover from this.

When I first opened in October 2007, I encouraged everybody to take group fitness classes because I didn’t have much time to train people. Now I have another trainer and she’s able to take on training clients.

I would like to learn how to move my business from a membership based operation to a training facility. I know I need to convert at least 10% of my current membership base over to group or semi private sessions and need a blue print to get this done. I would like to learn how to sell “time” rather than memberships, so that I can train my staff to do the same.

Thank You for Your Consideration

1. As I’m starting off in the fitness industry FBS 2012 would quite simply be an unbelievable oppertunity to my business.I’ve been putting the money into your info products but I know none of that matter’s it’s the fact that I’m taking action on the info I’m recieving and will take action on the info I could recieve at FBS 12 with this scholarship.

2. I dont have any story to say I deserve this oppertunity, I know I’m young and have not gone through the struggle’s alot of trainers have but I want to be learn rom others in the the industry. My finacial aims for my business is to have the freedom to be able to travel train and fight(combat sports are another passion of mine). Next summer I want to send my parents on a cruise.

Cheers from Ireland

Darren

Hello Bedros & Staff:

1. What will it mean to my business if I win this VIP Scholarship to your amazing FBS12?

WOW! The thought & realization that I CAN win is awesome and incredible! THANKS for the opportunity & for your time!

Winning would mean one thing: SUPERIOR BRAND-RECOGNITION! HOW? B/c, I’ll learn/implement strategies and lessons that will create an even greater recognition for my company. Bodies By Smiley will become THE fitness company that people hear/read about and immediately know these people will motivate to fast and permanent results! I’ll become the top fitness expert in my area (& beyond), and give our individuals and bootcamp classes an even better WOW experience!

Bedros, winning your scholarship will do all of this; and as a result, make me a greater provider for my beautiful wife and our 4 precious children. SUPERIOR BRAND-RECOGNITION will do this for me…& your Scholarship and Summit will take me there. I’m so so ready, Bedros!

2. Why do I deserve to win over everyone else?

Because of one thing, Bedros: MY PASSION!

One night 18 years ago (at 25 years old), I held a knife to my throat ready to end my life! Four years prior, I hurt my knee my senior year at the University of Missouri. NFL teams and agents literally slammed their doors on me. I then settled to play in the Arena Football League for a very short 2 years. I was a hurt, washed-up, depressed, former college football stand-out. In that dark closet, I felt like I would do my new wife (& the world) a great service by just not existing any longer!

But, as I held that stainless steal knife up to cut my carotid artery, I realized the words of my dear mother. “Son, keep getting up! Keep getting up! Keep getting up!” And, I then threw that knife down and I became more passionate than ever before!

It’s not just enough for me to have received Heisman Trophy fanmail in college & for a time was the 2nd leading rusher in the nation behind a little guy named Barry Sanders. It’s not enough that I graduated with honors from college, and earned my Masters and PhD & a list of other academic/athletic honors.

I have a passion to do abundantly more! I liken myself to Rocky who although totally exhausted and seemingly had nothing left in his 1st fight with Champion, Apollo Creed; he just kept going after the champ! Rocky knew what he wanted and wasn’t going to stop until he got it!

I know I want to “go beast” in the fitness industry & highly excel. I’m not stopping at earning my 2 Pro Natural Bodybuilding Cards (Masters and Open divisions)! I’m not stopping at starting my own fitness company! I’m not stopping at having clients say I’m awesome and very gifted at what I do! And I’m not stopping at having only 22 people at our bootcamp classes!

My goal for Bodies By Smiley is to help 1,000+ people a year reach their absolute physical best, Bedros. And in doing this, I desire to make the kind of money that causes me to work only 12 hour-days 4 days a week vs 15.5-hour days 6 days a week! That’ll be the kind of money that makes my wife’s eyes pop open!

This is my goal and, like Rocky, I’ll keep going after it, Bedros! Life thought it had me knocked out for good. It dropped me hard to my knees. But oh no! I got back up! And I continue to get up each and every morning with Passion and Purpose to Pray & Persevere to greatness in the fitness industry! This is why I deserve to win out over everyone else!

THANK YOU BEDROS & STAFF! GOD BLESS! Smiley, PhD.

1. What would it mean to your business if you won this VIP scholarship to FBS12?

I first met Bedros when my brother invited me to the Turbulence Training Summit in August of this year. During that event my eyes were opened to what was actually possible owning a bootcamp business. I had already created a six figure fitness business simply through hard work and a shit ton of trial and error but I never considered making a seven figure business until that weekend. After that weekend was up I came home with a fury to apply all that I had learned the only trouble was I ended up destroying my knee in a gymnastics accident a couple weeks later and had to go in for emergency surgery. After the surgery I was faced with 8 weeks of wheelchair time and couch rest (perfect time for me to work on my business rather than in it). From my couch I used the information I learned from Bedros to generate $3423.00 not in sales but in cash!! and added $2060.00 to my EFT each month. From there I decided to attend the client apreciation seminar which was again filled with a goldmine of information that I wanted to immediately apply. I came home and rebuilt my client intake process and planned out the next 3 promotions as well as a strategic price increase. Everything is set to go for the next few months now all I have to do now is test and tweak and keep moving forward. So to anwer the question simply, the way I see it is if Bedros can teach me how to generate $3500.00 in cash and add $25,000 a year to my bottom line in a weekend seminar then he absolutely knows how to help me get to my goal of owning a 7 figure fitness business. Going to the summit with a VIP pass would keep me moving forward a lightening speed and would allow me to build the business and lifestyle of my dreams!!!

2. Why do you deserve to win over everyone else?

I deserve to win over everyone else because I am a massive acion taker!! I will take the information I learn and apply it to my business faster than anyone else and I am driven to achieve my financial goal of $20,000 take home within the next year because I wan’t to start a family with my wife and I want her to have the option to stay at home with our child. And I want a 2013 BMW M5!!

P.S. Seriously Thank you Bedros!!! With mounting medical bills for 2 knee surgeries coupled with the inability to walk much I am really grateful to have met you. Because of that meeting I feel OK financially and I have a burning desire to achieve my goals! Thanks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Tyler

1) What would this mean to my personal training business?
It would take my bootcamp to the next level. It would help me to better understand how to sell clients on more secure packages so I can pay the bills. I currently have a bootcamp going with 8 and 10 bootcampers who are about to start their second month. I need to learn the systems to put in place for the people who want to keep coming back to do so. I need to learn the cutting edge marketing tactics as I stare at a stack of bootcamp flyers that you have just said do not work anymore in a recent email. I think the FBS can give me the knowledge needed to attract more people to my bootcamp and keep them coming back!

2) Why do I deserve it?
I would like to share a bit about my life over this past year. Upon graduation from A&M, I decided to do something a bit crazy to most, but completely necessary for me. I decided to sell my car along with many of my belongings and buy a one way ticket to New Zealand. I had no plans on how long I would stay, I was just going. I picked NZ for the simple reason that I saw some pictures and I wanted to meet Froto. I knew I needed to get out. It was that something in my gut that said, go. I like to refer to this gut feeling as my sixth sense. From that point on, I put a lot of my trust in my gut to help me through situations. Within the first week of my job there, my boss tossed a pair of keys to me and said, “here take my truck to work in the mornings.” This was a stick shift truck that had to be driven on the left side of the road as is customary in NZ. I took a big gulp and replied, “no problem!” For that first week, it must have been a miracle that I didn’t drive that truck into a ditch and total it.
I lived in 5 different locations in a 9 month period. I went through close to 7,000 earthquakes. 2 of my former homes were completely destroyed. I made dozens of close friends who I still keep in touch with. I jumped off a cliff (with a rope tied to my waist). I used my contacts to go work for the best rugby team in the world (NZ All Blacks). I travelled my ass off. I went anywhere I could think to go and did all the things I ever dreamed of doing. I sea kayaked in the Abel Tasman. I almost got swept away by a 70 mile an hour wind. 2 weeks after I decided to come back home, the worst earthquake of them all hit the city of Christchurch (my dwelling). I made it back home literally by the skin of my teeth.
I often think about what I learned from all this… I haven’t been able to put my finger on it until recently. First, I got to those places in my life by TAKING chances. Not wondering, what if I bought that plane ticket to NZ? I made it through those situations because I decided to make my life an adventure. I enjoy the challenge of it all. I am getting that sixth sense again, “I have not yet begun to define myself” (Doc Holiday from Tombstone).
Starting up a bootcamp is my next adventure!

What would this mean to my personal training business ?
I am a client who dreams about my “perfect body”..Why aren’t there personal trainers out there who can communicate?Why aren’t there personal trainers out there who can create the same amount of motivation Tony Robbins can?..I live in New Zealand and we have the best opportunity to be the fittest nation on earth, we just need more trainers to communicate the message in such a way that makes us listen..you think we don’t know weir fat,WE KNOW! we just need more SUPERB communicators to change our nation.

Why do I deserve it ?
New Zealand deserves it, we come from a long line of warriors(similar to the native indian), these days we are more worriers than warriors..What a change a few great communicators could make on the culture, the people, the nation! People visit New Zealand to see the native Maori people-and these days my fellow brothers and sisters aren’t strong enough to keep the physical attributes of our powerful race while controlling the influence of western society (x-box, K.F.C, television)

P.s I don’t know what relevance this is to your competition, I just love reading your mails and WILL change the health & fitness of New Zealanders (with or without your help)
Thanks for the humongously powerful things you do, your a genius who I think doesn’t sleep much (based on how much stuff you put out) I respect that!!

1. What would it mean to your business if you won this VIP scholarship to FBS12?

Hi Bedros, I’ve really been thinking hard about this because I really want to win and I really want to be there and so I’ve been thinking really hard and long about what I was going to submit for this writing contest. When I first read this post there were no replies up yet so I knew I could take some time to think on this. But the truth be told I just can’t think of anything really amazing to say other than just being straight up.

So here goes…..Last year was absolutely pivotal for me and (my wife) and I learned so much at last year’s event in that 5 days that I’ve been fired up and moving forward for the last 9 months so hard and fast it makes my own head spin. I dropped everything going on in my life including my clients to attend last year and drove up with my wife in our shitty little car with a flat tire and stayed in a shitty hotel about 20 minutes away. So on the first day after we arrived my wife took the car with a flat to go get it fixed while I concentrated on the event. When she got back she stayed by my side the whole time and took a lot of notes. She isn’t a fitness professional like me and so I was really surprised to see her take so many notes. Now here is the really awful part of that whole experience. Before we left I knew WHY I was going…I knew I was going because I wanted my wife to see why it was that I was so hell bent on working so many hours to grow my business. She was not on board with me before we went at all and wanted me to quit training independently and get a J-O-B! HA!

I basically told her she was going with me to this event so that she could learn to help me with my business. But that wasn’t really the whole truth. Because the truth was that I was planning to leave her. I was tired of her not supporting me and my dreams and at the end of the 2nd night when we got back to the room I basically came clean with her and told her that if by the end of the weekend she wasn’t on board with me I was going to leave her. She suddenly took on a whole new interest in my passion. But it wasn’t because of what I said…It had to do with things she heard at that summit. So I know that if you can get a bunch of fit pros fired up AND my wife…I just have to attend again this year.

Well a few days after we got back we actually found out she was pregnant. So after the event and seeing what was possible she was really fired up and she has been helping me with admin duties all year long. I’ve been able to grow my business and am now approaching the 6 figure mark. I am quite certain that I am going to be at or above the 6 figure mark by the time the event rolls around. But I am still broke and that is just the real truth! In the last 9 months since attending the event I have made more money and in fact I’ve nearly quadrupled my income , but I also have more expenses. We no longer have a roommate and with my wife not working I cover the entire rent instead of just 1/3 which I could not even barely cover my own share of the rent last year! And so with my growth I now actually pay studio rent instead of doing classes for free at the park, AND…I pay an assistant to help us with our admin work…and so even though I have more clients… I actually make LESS money! OUCH! LOL…I laugh because I just find it funny that I seem to have made such a huge mindset shift and I’ve got all my systems dialed in but yet I still am not taking home much of anything. I know I will if I just keep working at this and I am more than determined to do just that.

At anytime now we will have a baby in the picture and as of this writing my wife has actually been in labor on and off for several days. (We’re doing it all natural, so that is totally normal). So not only am I fueled by my passion to help others but I now have yet another mouth to feed. So what would it mean to me to win? Well for one, it will mean that I can continue to focus on what I have already been doing and it will mean that I will be able to continue helping people achieve their dreams as I continue to work towards mine. It will mean that I will have more freedom and more time to help the people that I’ve come to know. And if I win I will pay it forward in more ways than I can count.

2. Why do you deserve to win over everyone else?

Well I can’t really say much about anyone else but I can tell you that it is 1:19am and instead of being in bed with my wife I am here writing this for you, and tomorrow when everyone is at church I’ll be working on my business, and this Thursday while everyone is having Turkey, I will be working on my business, and on Black Friday while everyone is out shopping, I will be working on my business, and on Saturday when everyone is at the beach, I will be inside working on my business, and next Sunday while the family is at Church, I will be at home getting ready for my work week and working on my business. Basically Bedros, I work non-stop around the clock on my business. I don’t even know how many hours a week I work…all of them I guess….. I am either delegating to my admin, returning calls I need to that she can’t, sending emails, returning emails, meeting clients for consults, meeting with business owners, attending business lunches, writing material for my blog, recording video for my blog, developing programs for my clients or training clients around the clock. I squeeze in my own workouts and a few lunches here and there, write posts like this and read a few books about business, and read blogs about business, and watch videos and DVD’s about business…… but I quite honestly don’t ever stop. I don’t watch TV, I don’t go out, I don’t lolly gag…I don’t waste time… ALL of my time is dedicated to being the absolute best personal trainer and business person I can possibly be.

While I am certain that many persons who are applying for this deserve to win I can tell you that I am beyond dedicated to being the absolute biggest success I can be and helping as many people as I can along the way. If I win, you can trust that it is well deserved of someone who has worked their ass off to achieve that success and not some who is simply looking for a handout. I have taken action on every tip you have given me to date and as such this is where I am today. I will continue to do my very best and then some… and most important is that I will pay it forward when I get there….

Going to FBS would allow my business to go to the next level and begin to positively affect many more lives. I truly know that 2012 is the year that my business is going to take off and going to FBS would only accelerate this. It would also help me start to step out of my business more to grow it, thru meeting a number of other fit pros who have already done this. Basically I know that this will allow me to achieve similar success as the eckermans and cabel and the countless others whose lives and businesses have totally blown up from this experience.
As far as why I deserve this more than everyone else, well I think that anyone who is passionate about really helping others transform their lives and is going to implement what they’ve learned 100% deserves to win. I know that this describes me, but I also know that there are a handful of others out there that are the same so I think that anyone who fits that criteria deserves it just as much. Not that this makes me deserve it anymore, but living in Australia, winning a FBS scholarship just makes the flight seem cheaper
Hope to see you there!!

One Saturday morning, a couple years ago, I got dressed to leave for work. I was the sole trainer/owner of a 500 sq ft fitness studio operating around 30 hours of work per week. This was in addition to my full time job working for a local gym. I had to cancel my sessions for that Saturday – My truck was stolen. Or so I thought! It took a couple of hours to figure out what had happened, but as it turns out it was repossessed. That was the beginning of a downward spiral that felt never ending. My home was foreclosed and auctioned off. My wife, daughter (Chloe) and I moved in with my in-laws. A year later I filed for bankruptcy. During all of that time, I went to work and put on a smiling face. I was so grateful for all of my hard working clients and for “working for myself.” Eventually I was able to rent a beautiful townhome in our local town of choice. This home was a key component on my “dream board.” I had found pictures and a description of it a year before being approved to rent it. I’ve always accomplished things that I attach to my dream board. Sometimes the only thing waking me up in the morning during my darkest days was the ongoing goal of operating a successful 6 figure studio in the perfect town with an abundance of perfect clients. This, too, has come to fruition. One key goal, yet to happen, is to attend 1 live event each year to help me grow my family business. What would it mean to my business to win this scholarship? It would prove to any doubters that dreaming big is the only way to grow! Please help me accomplish my goal of attending an amazing event to help me grow my business. This is something I could not afford to register for on my own. Thank you for the opportunity to share my story.
Why do I deserve to win over everyone else? This feels like a trick question. I couldn’t argue that I deserve to win over anyone else. As a matter of fact, I tell all my clients that if I win the lottery, they probably wouldn’t know until at least 1 year went by! If I could give away my time and expertise for FREE, I would (and plenty of times do). I’m fully appreciative that you are even considering providing 2 scholarships for 2 lucky winners. I’ve read a lot of the entries left by others, and I know it will be challenging to choose only 2! Thank you for considering me for this “award”. We’re looking forward to this being our FIRST FAMILY VACATION! Be Well, Steve, Melissa, Chloe and Kaylee L.

Bedros,

Please click the link below to see why I deserve to win a FBS 12 Scholarship!

http://www.yideserveafbs12scholarship.info/Site/Why_Emily_Napier_Deserves_to_Win.html

1. What would it mean to your business if you won this VIP scholarship to FBS12?

I’M YOUR STUDENT! I would have been OUT OF BUSINESS 2 years ago if if was not for The Personal Trainer Business Course. When I took action and started implementing the different suggestions you provided, it kept my studio from closing its doors! Two years later, everyday I try and take action on at least one thing that Bedros, Steve, Josh and Justin have provided to me! The challenge I am faced with now is that I feel overwhelmed with ALL the information and I’m having difficulty developing a plan to implement all of the suggestions. I need guidance and feel that the Business Summit 2012 can provide me with the additional direction that I need. This business means so much to me because it is not just a place for people to workout, it is a place that CHANGES LIVES EVERYDAY! I want Fit For Life Personal Training Studio to be the best it can be for my clients. Hearing them say that “Fit For Life is Life Changing” truly touches my heart and it reminds me why I opened in the first place. I feel blessed to have such an amazing job and successful business, BUT I WANT MORE! I need to be at Business Summit 2012 this year. Please choose Fit For Life Personal Training Studio so we can honor the clients whose lives we have affected so far, as well as the ones we have yet to touch! Thank you, Bedros, for giving ME this opportunity!

2. Why do you deserve to win over everyone else? I DESERVE TO WIN because I focus entirely on improving the lives of the people in my community. The ONLY thing that will make me happier is to expand my business in such a way as to reach MORE people who need my help. I’m extremely passionate about what I do, I just feel a little “stuck” and need your help. I look forward to meeting you, Steve Josh and all the others!! Please consider me for this scholarship!

“Why you? Because there’s no one better. Why now? Because tomorrow isn’t soon enough.”
— Donna Brazile

Please choose ME and Fit For Life Personal Training Studio!

Stacey Cutler

I am going to answer these questions together, for my future, and that of my business, are inexplicably linked. After too many years of procrastination brought on mainly by fear, during which time my business failed to meet its potential, I am dedicating the next 12 months to making my business support me, and not the other way around. I realise that I need systems and methodologies in place to allow my business to be a success, when it is not just me putting in the effort on a day to day basis.

I cannot work much harder, so evidently need to work smarter! I am being pulled in all directions, stretching my time and energy resources so thinly that I am being forced to neglect my personal needs and goals. I am not ashamed to admit that I need help to get out of my rut (a shallow grave with the ends kicked out), and make the required changes.

So what holds me back? I am a no excuses person, yet there is always an elephant in the room with me which no matter how hard I try, continues to affect my choices. I was born with a number of heart defects, and in spite of several open heart surgeries over the years, I am finding that my health which I have worked so hard to maintain, is slowly being taken from me. Income security is no longer a ‘nice to have’ but a ‘need to have’ to protect my financial future.

I am emotionally strong, with an independent streak which it now turns out is negatively affecting my ability to move forward. I have shied away from using the skills of others to work in my business, wrongly believing that it is necessary for me to be all things to all people. My client base has been predominantly people with long term medical conditions, some of the most disenfranchised in the fitness community, but I am diversifying into more mainstream small group exercise to allow my business to reach more people. I never want to stop working with clients, but ultimately I need to employ other trainers to relieve me of some responsibility.

I am an achiever in life, and it frustrates me that I do not have a clear vision of how to move forwards. I am blessed that through a combination of hard work, and set of circumstances which others may consider unlucky, I own my home. Yet still I have no savings, no investments, and no financial cushion when things go wrong. Until recently I supplemented my fitness business income with work as a freelance journalist, just to make ends meet. I have now realised that in order to leave a legacy which I am proud of, I need to fully commit to what makes me happy, and that is the world of fitness. Within me is the ability to completely change peoples lives through exercise, and it is both an obligation and an honour to share that passion.

It is hard to read the other inspirational stories listed here, and say that I deserve your scholarship more than any of them. Being English I suffer from a natural reserve about shouting my own case, but my situation will not change unless I take action. My life has taught me the value of humility, but also the clear understanding that we need to plan for the future but live for today. I have no-one else to blame, no excuse to replace a sense of personal responsibility, and no circumstance which I can allow to let me deviate from my course.

I have never sought personal accolade, great fortune, or untold possessions, yet I should not be ashamed of wanting more from my life. Only by securing my own future, will I leave myself the ability to reach out and give more time and energy to help others. I am laughing as a write this……perhaps I don’t need to attend FBS2012 after all, as I already have the skills within me to make the required changes. It’s just that by learning from you, your fellow presenters, and everyone at FBS2012 I can take some shortcuts on the road ahead. Time is not on my side (I’m 39), and I am unlikely to make old bones; the time for action is now!

What would it mean to win this scholarship?
I’m planning on quitting my $90K/year + benefits + 401K + etc., etc. job in April to become a fitness business owner. I currently am a very part-time independent fitness trainer - teaching 2 boot camps, and working with 2 personal training clients and 4 online clients. But I love it!! I sleep, eat, and dream about it. I’m smart enough to know I need your help, direction, guidance, and experience to give me the processes, standards, and support for me to be successful, and soften the huge financial blow I’m going to take. My husband has finally found the business he loves (SEO, internet marketing, etc.) and now I want it to be my turn.
Why me?
The success of your student is going to reflect directly on you and your methods. I’m dedicated and excited to make this change, but I will also ask lots of questions, challenging you. I don’t do this out of disrespect, but instead I want to learn as much as I can so I can fully and deeply understand what you are teaching and embrace it. I don’t want to just follow directions like a “yes man”. I want to succeed, I actually need to succeed, then I want to help others do the same. What better way to show you what you have helped to build?

Well…It’s crunch time! Good luck everyone Let today be the best!!

Go Marshall!!!! Proud of you for all you have accomplished since we were just kids in college. I know you have the drive and skill to take over that town. Best of luck kiddo

Who Else wants to Steven Hadley get VIP access
to some of the most under the radar, top secret
client getting tactics, sales strategies and fitness
building systems that not only helps him become the
go-to place for fitness and fat-loss in the state of
Alabama. But also helps him live a do what he wants
when he wants kind of lifestyle?

From: Steven Hadley
Nov 20th, 2011
Daphne,Al

Dear Fitness Building Empire Guru,

There is no need to tell you this….you know everybody wants
one of the two scholarships that they heard about through Facebook, Email, and here on your blog.

We all know the FBS 12′ will THE single biggest event to not miss for fitness trainers who want to create the ultimate personal training or boot camp business.

But don’t take my word for it, just look how many
comments you have already gotten and will continue
to get here on your blog, as well as on Facebook.

Well all now know how this thing came to be. You found out there wasn’t a single event that offered fitness pros useable information that would insure us financial success. Soooo you created an event would be fluff-free, business-boosting, profit-multiplying, competition-crushing systems, strategies, and tactics to bring in massive fitness profits. The event we now know to be the one and only Fitness Business Summit!

This year however you decided to do something unprecedented! To give away not one, but two paid scholarships that would include VIP access to all workshops, paid hotel, and one on one coaching from yourself to get ideas and strategies that are simply priceless in our industry! All we have to do is answer these 2 questions:

What would it mean to your business if you won this VIP scholarship to FBS12?

Why do you deserve to win over everyone else?

Introducing THE answers you are looking for to
these questions to decide one of the winners of
this contest!

11 reasons why it would mean everyhting to my business to win the VIP scholarship

- I’ve grown up in a family where nobody in me immediate or extended family has ever earned over six figures annually! Not one! I’m ready to break this trend in my family and provide a new way of thinking for not only them, but also my future family to come.

- Like I said, I grew up in a semi-poor family, I’ve never known what it’s like to have a new car, eat at a 4 star restaurant, take a long vacation outside of the U.S, or even
get on a plane to go anywhere! Yeah you heard me right, coming to FBS will be my first time on plane.

- However this doesn’t mean I’m not capable of massive success. Since starting my own boot camp at age 24, two years ago and getting on board with FBBC back in April I’ve been able to go from never making over 20k a year to now earning just over 6k a month! A huge accomplishment for me, but I’m not done!

- I have unreal aspirations to build my dream business and be earning well over 15k a month at this time next year. This will allow me to open my second FBBC location here in Alabama. My two of six I have plans for.

-Being the winner of this scholarship would also allow me to be around the highest achievers and brightest minds in our industry. This is something I have never experienced before, and know that being around other successful people will help me be more successful.

-It would give me the tactics to have enough revenue to get completely out of debt, but also help my parents do the same. A goal I’ve had since I got out of college 3 years ago.

-I would be able to have the income and lifestyle to start my foundation to help kids who slip through the cracks to earn money to school, aid them with funding, and mentor them on how to get jobs and manage money while in school

-Because of the implementation of the things I would learn, I would have the time and money to start my online fitness business as well. I want to start a membership site, based on physique enhancement through science. Think “Simply Shredded” only with more studies, a daily blog, and of course a paid access.

- It would fast track me to the success that would allow me take trips every 3 months to recharge, restore, and come back to serve my clients with even more appreciation, passion, and enthusiasm.

- By being a massive action taker after learning what I would on a VIP scholarship, I could go bed each night with a sense of peace, gratitude, and happiness because I am able to be financially secure, serve others, and fulfill my purpose on earth.

-Lastly it would allow me to finally meet, connect, and learn from someone who I have followed on Facebook, here on the blog and other venues for over 2 years now. As well as other fit pros and coaches I “know” the same way. It’s past due that I get out there and start becoming one of the clients you text about and share their successes with to everyone else!

7 reasons why I deserve it more than anyone else

- Because most of the following that I just previously wrote is from my businesses vision that I read 3 times a day. I visualize the success I want up to 45 min a day with great detail.

- I have a BURNING desire to succeed and build my dream business. It’s not a matter of “if” it’s a matter of when. It’s undeniable for me.

-Because of the things I do daily, and the help I have gotten from you and the FBBC family I have already tripled my income, and plan to do again with what I learn at FBS.

- The Law of Attraction is working on my side, and has been since I started learning from you. It will continue to work and draw success to me as I win this contest, and implement the strategies I learn at FBS.

- I’m the biggest massive action taker you have ever seen! I hang on every word I read on this blog, and what I hear from you and Steve which is why I have done so well in place other trainers told me I wouldn’t have more the 25 members in my boot camp.

-Nothing will stop me! I know the meaning of hard work, I have never had anything given to me, as I have had to work for everything I have ever gotten in life.

- I’m the ultimate over-achiever! In everyhting I have ever done, I’ve been successful in spite of crippling disadvantages.

More reasons why I DESERVE this!

- I have everything to lose, and everyhting to gain by being successful in this industry.

- I’m ready to take my ship to FBS, (uncharted waters) and then burn it behind me and take a step into greatness!

- I’ve already visualized myself winning this, and I already know the questions I want to ask you in our one-on-one 30 min consultation!

- I’m finally ready to take the next logical step in building my dream business so I can achieve success my parents only dreamed of, to serve others with a passion like no one else, and to leave a legacy that will inspire others after me.

Still not convinced?

My Pull No Punches, No-Weasel Clause Unconditional Guarantee

If for any reason, I do not triple my income from FBS 12 to FBS 13, I will refund EVERY dime you paid to award me one
of the scholarships to FBS 12!

I know it’s a bold statement, and it holds my feet to the fire. But I am SOOOO confident that if you award me one of the scholarships to FBS 12, I will come with unheard of focus, be a massive action taker, and implement each of the strategies I am taught to at the very LEAST triple my income in 12 months!

Sincerely,

Steven Hadley

P.S Don’t miss out on awarding the MOST driven, focused, and deserving individual one of the scholarships to FBS 12.

P.P.S The way I see it, you can award 2 other people the scholarships, and maybe they will be action takers, and maybe they won’t be. But NOBODY is gonna come with ruckus like me and then back it up with a refund!

Seriously I know a lot of this is written in humor, but I deserve this, and most importantly I WANT it more than anyone else as it will completely change my life! Plus I’m a pretty cool guy to hang out with

Steven

Bedros, it is truly a fantastic thing you are doing here in providing scholarships to two insanely fortunate individuals to your Fitness Business Summit 2012, kudos to you and your kindness.

Clearly the opportunity is that of massive proportions and the winners will gain immeasurable networking possibilities, acquire invaluable tools, tactics, strategies and applications that will surely catapult their careers.

As others have stated and as obvious as it is, any and every fitness professional that attends the Summit will become beneficiary to not only the event and its treasure trove of value, but years and years to come of invaluable knowledge, applications, experiences, friendships and all the trimmings that accompany the blessing of attending such an event.

Truth is Bedros, you are one of the rare breed that not only believes, but bleeds the creed of give more than you take. To over deliver is to BE, & you and giving are synonymous. I too subscribe to this mindset; it is the foundation and fountainhead of both my personal and professional existence.

So, it goes without saying that mutually my business, as well as I will surely receive the gift of a lifetime if I am chosen for one of these special scholarships. Each and every aspect of my business will indeed realize a windfall of infinite and incalculable significance. The systems, the operations, the productivity & performance of my business will be Keuilianized and I personally will realize all the grandeur of growth and evolvement from the experience. Both I and my business will emerge from the Summit empowered, enlightened and evolved.

As for deserving to win over everyone else, well, I do not…generally speaking. I am no better and no worse. However I am as deserving as anyone else in the respect that what I do, how I do it and the people that I contribute my time, effort and energy to can all stand to gain from a becoming a better me. The more I know, the better I am at providing what my clients and customers need. As a fitness professional I am already positioned in the driver’s seat of the vehicle for change and with your inclusion into my life and the kickin’ Keuilian business-building bandwidth to access, my mission to touch the lives of one million lives in the next 10 years will surely be rapidly racing forth.

In Passion, Purpose And Prosperity,

Kurt Lee Hurley

http://www.BoundlessBook.com
http://www.SixPackInSixtyBootcamp.com

BEDROS,
Currently I am one of those sad trainers in one of your previous blog posts tat makes under 50k a year. Although I am considered to be the best performance enhancement trainer in the area.

I am actually not ashamed of the money I make because I love what I do. Surprise Surprise. I work at 2 gyms and run my own in home training business. I am still trading time for dollars and have a plan to transfer it all to EFT. I have also finished a product but do not know how to launch a product,maximize my website ect ect. I have bought some of your products and each one has broken me free of chains.

I would apply everything immediately as I have thus far. I have applied each post you hav posted in the past 3 months and have increased my income but more importantly decreased the amount of vampires and bad people.

I also subsribed to Early to Rise and the blend of PTPOWER and that just changed my days. I script my days, script my life. I make 30k a year but I know where I am going now, my purpose to serve and now I want reap the monetary benefits of free time.

As a wimmer I would give back 100% what I learned to all my little training mignons. Pass the torch as you would say.

Here goes nothing,
Adrianne Ortiz

Bedros!

I CANT WAIT for FBS 12. I will be there whether I win or not as I know what being there means for my business period. More priceless client getting tactics, more creative solutions, more ways to continue to grow my business, more incentive to get outside of my comfort zone…all a given. But perhaps the most priceless part of FBS (and of working with you in general) is the opportunity to be around someone who is living proof that it doesn’t matter what your background is, who your competitors are, or what your perceived limitations are, if you can train yourself to be bigger than your excuses and to consistently take ACTION, you will be successful. This has been a HUGE tremendous gift that you have given me over the past year and I can’t thank you enough for all you do to help people who are ready and willing to be helped. The shift in my mindset over the past year of working with you and Steve has been incredible and I look forward to continuing to learn from you guys and all the awesome people in FBBC and the industry.

As far as deserving to win, if I’ve learned anything lately it’s that I don’t deserve anything except that which I set my sights on and achieve through my own hard work and persistence. It’s that same hard work and persistence that will get me to FBS no matter what, but I can’t deny that it would be a wonderful treat and a great honor to win a VIP scholarship to FBS.

Thanks for all that you do Bedros. You really are one of a kind

Hi Bedros, thank you so much for offering us the opportunity for a scholarship to your event next year. That’s quite generous of you, and I’m going to take full advantage of it

As you asked, here are my responses for you:

1. If I won the scholarship to attend, it would be a significant jumping off point for my business, and would provide me with the leverage I need to continue to promote goodness into the world. I’ve learned from experience that I do much better when I have the support and guidance of a mentor, and by attending FB12 me and my business would be given the opportunity to meet mentors that I could learn from both from a far and hopefully in a more personally way. I consider myself a leader and mentor to my clients, family and friends, and in order for me to help them and the world, I know that I need the support and encouragement from other successful leaders in our industry. This scholarship would be a blessing for my business.

2. Why do I deserve to win over everyone else? That’s a really good question, and I really had to think about my response. Reading through the comments already left, there are so many people who are deserving of this opportunity. I wish I could share the opportunity with everyone, but I know that is not the point of this. Why me? Because I feel, deep inside my core, that my egg is just about to hatch. My purpose in this lifetime is to promote goodness, to pump love and compassion into the world, and to inspire people to break out of their self-limiting beliefs. I feel that I deserve to go because it is my time. Plus, I make a pretty awesome guacamole and would make some for all the presenters shall I be picked )

Thank you again Bedros, and I look forward to seeing you at FBS12.

Best,

Sirena

This scholarship will grant me the opportunity to SERVE my community by teaching the skills to combat the pervasive
Destruction of diabetes, heart disease, obesity, and cancer. I graciously appreciate your
Consideration.Thank you.
Phyllis Taylor