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I recently wrote a newsletter about how much GUILT holds us back.

It’s such a powerful emotion.

And I’ve told you before, if you can’t control your emotions, they will control YOU.

A trainer wrote back to me about that newsletter. See if it applies to you.

“Good message, Jim!

I have your sales series, have been in pt and professional bodybuilding for the last 20 years.

I’m a single Mom, and thought that I didn’t have the energy or time to market myself-when, really, I had GUILT.

Sure, the guilt was coming from outside sources, but I took in in in a subconscious level.

Thanks for the message-I’ll be talking with you, soon!

Sincerely,

Jackie

Again, I cannot stress this enough:

Control your emotions or they WILL control you.

Who loves ya?

Yours in prosperity,

Jim Labadie

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I got this question yesterday. Please read it and my response.

“Hi Jim,

I want some TYPICAL examples of earnings for fitness pros who are making money in corporate wellness.”

thanks,

Chris

JL: First, please understand that I write this with a pleasant smile on my face. Email does a lousy job of relaying the tone of the conversation.

Second, why in the world would you want to know the TYPICAL earnings?

Why?

I don’t care what the typical is. I want to know how much loot the BEST company is raking in.

Typical is not what I want from my life.

And if you think I’m making too much of this…

Words are powerful. Self-talk is powerful.

Watch everything you say. Watch everything you write.

Who loves ya?

Yours in prosperity,

Jim Labadie

PS - By the way, the best corporate guy I know is my buddy BJ Gaddour. I interviewed him for the whole scoop in my http://SixFigureBootCamps.com program.

PPS - Yes, BJ is the trainer who takes 15 weeks of vacation each year. That takes the cake, huh? http://SixFigureBootCamps.com

I didn’t grow up dreaming I would be at work at 5:30 am.

I didn’t grow up dreaming I would leave work at 8:30 pm.

I didn’t grow up dreaming I would be eating dinner at 9 pm.

I didn’t grow up dreaming I would be listening to clients treat me like a therapist.

I didn’t grow up dreaming I would be making $29k each year.

I didn’t grow up dreaming I would forego vacations because I didn’t get paid if I didn’t train clients.

I didn’t grow up dreaming I would hope to find 30 seconds to scarf down some food in between training sessions.

I didn’t grow up dreaming I would always just be “getting by.”

I didn’t grow up dreaming I would be unhappy with my career.

Did you?

If you choose to bite the bullet and change, and want help starting your own boot camps - http://HowToProfitWithBootCamps.com

Plain and simple, if you run camps already and want to go through the roof, instantly download our http://SixFigureBootCamps.com

Walk out of your speaking engagements with cash, checks and kredit kard numbers, instead of empty promises - http://AmazingFitnessPresentations.com

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Who loves ya?

Yours in prosperity,

Jim Labadie

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..you’d better walk the walk.

I’ve been talking about how powerful video newsletters are for a long time now.

I meant to jump on the bandwagon a long time ago, but things just kept creeping up. Mostly the lousy computer I was banging my head against the wall with.

That computer was dealt a final blow, so to speak.

I explain everything in this “make a long story short” VIDEO newsletter.

Be sure to check it out as there’s a “no brainer” link you’re going to want to click, too.

It’s all right here: Video Personal Trainer Marketing

- Jim

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Just received this question for a more-than-satisfied http://HowToGetMoreClients.com customer.

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Hi Jim,

First of all I’d like to say a thank you for the information that you send in the emails, I keep them all and read some of them again when I’m about to sit down and take action against some of my goals for the day. Very motivating and inspiring!

Also got Ultimate Sales kit a couple of months ago and that has also helped me to no end. While I thought I was pretty good at sales, the information has helped me convert even more clients but just as important to me, saved time by not doing long drawn out consultations.

Hell, I even convert the email queries by tackling them differently. A lot more to be implemented but progressing all the time.

I’d like to ask you a quick question as to where you stand on advertising your prices/packages on your website for PT services please. Do you think it is something you have to do, worth doing or to stay away from and by doing so concentrate on the service, USP’s, pain etc and then getting into the numbers as part of the prospecting.

One of my thoughts is that you may deter a prospect contacting you because they get more influenced by the price than they ought to be when the exact same prospect could contact you via the website with no price information and not be deterred by the price because the sales meeting has worked it’s magic.

Where do you stand on this, Jim.

Thanks again.”

Michael Bach
Manchester, UK

JL: First, I’m very happy to see the Ultimate Sales Kit for Fitness Professionals kit is money in the bank for you.

And you’ve hit the nail on the head. The amount of time that kit saves you is worth a King’s ransom.

Now, on to your question.

At the end of the day, the answer is, you have to test to see what works best for you.

Some trainers will testify until their blue in the face you MUST put your prices on your website to get rid of the tire-kickers.

Others will swear up and down you should NEVER have them on your site.

Personally, I think if your prices are in line with your competition you CAN have them on your site. But again, test and see.

At the same time, if your prices are WAY more than the competition your best bet will probably be to keep them off the site.

When in doubt, test and analyze the results.

When all is said and done, that is the ONLY way to know for sure.

Who loves ya?

Yours in prosperity,

Jim Labadie

PS - When YOU own my Personal Trainer Sales Kit, YOUR competition is in for a world of hurt.

You hear it over and over again:

“Just one little thing can turn your world upside down.”

In this case, I mean upside down in a good way.

But it really is true. And it really is plain and simple.

One idea can take you from barely scraping by, to making moolah hand over fist.

But some people seem determined to reinvent the wheel.

Dustin Maher is NOT one of those people.

Dustin Maher is one of my http://HowToProfitWithBootCamps.com customers who is taking the world by storm.

The proof is in the pudding:

“Jim,

I just wanted to thank you for giving me the confidence and the tools to run outdoor bootcamps.

I purchased your Boot Camp Marketing program late spring and set a launch date of 6 weeks from the time I received it.

I decided to go big and open up 4 different camps for my first crack at bootcamps. I hired another trainer to do one of them and I did the other three. I decided to run my bootcamps in six week sessions and I am coming upon my final week of the first session.

The response has been amazing!

I have 40 paid members and they are all enjoying it greatly! I am opening up two more locations for my next session of boot camps that will start in just over a week.

My goal is to have 70 paid members for this coming session.

The tools that are in your program allowed me to get such a great turnout and helped me become the boot camp leader in Madison, Wisconsin!

It is great knowing I am helping so many people out and making about $140 an hour doing so!

I would highly recommend your program to people who are looking to change more lives and make more money doing it!”

Sincerely,
Dustin Maher

JL: Awesome job, Dustin. Hopefully this is just the wake-up call other fitness pros who were sitting on the fence needed.

To quote The Shawshank Redemption:

“Get busy living, or get busy dying.”

Make it happen.

Who loves ya?

Yours in prosperity,

Jim Labadie

PS - Running fitness boot camps is like money in the bank.