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I get a kick out of people who tell me they don’t believe in competition.

I’m guessing they’ve been snorting to much Prosperity Dust from the Abundance fairies.

Yes, I believe in Abundance.

You know I believe in Prosperity.

But are you going to tell me Coke wouldn’t love to take over Pepsi’s market share?

Yes, all sorts of large corporations partner together.

But they still compete with one another.

Do people have unlimited dollars to spend on everything and anything?

No.

Are the large health club chains thrilled so many of the good fitness professionals are leaving to start their own business?

I’ll assume they’d be much happier if you weren’t.

Competition is real.

Competition is fierce.

Competition can put you out of business and seriously screw up the plans you had for your life.

And if you aren’t super freaking competitive I suggest you stick with a JOB because you’ll be in way over your head.

If you’re going to step in this arena you’d better come to play.

This is a game. And it can be a brutal, unforgiving game.

Bring your best. You’re going to need it.

Still love ya.

Yours in prosperity,

Jim Labadie

PS - The best marketers are the ones who WIN the game. Arm yourself for combat:

http://www.MegaMarketingForFitness.com

PPS - The rewards that come from triumphing in business are worth it. At least I think so.

Blesses you in disguise

I’m originally from North Jersey, so I can’t lie and tell you I’m the most patient person on the planet.

But I also work on it because, yes, it is a virtue.

For awhile now I’ve been saying I need a new computer. Probably for a month or two.

Last Friday my computer did me the favor of becoming completely unusable.

The old me would have completely stressed out and flew off the handle.

But fortunately, the new me saw it as a giant blessing. It forced me to get a new computer.

And that will automatically make me more productive. Which, in turn, will allow me to:

a - help more people

b - make more moolah

You can find good and bad in everything.

Choose to see the good.

Who loves ya?

Yours in prosperity,

Jim Labadie

PS - This is going to be cool. Really, really cool. When you see it you’ll say, “Why didn’t I think of that?”

http://tinyurl.com/63d37o

Proves what we expected all along

I was reading Bedros Keuilian’s newsletter the other day and watched a great video he included.

I’ve been saying this for years now:

People are much more concerned with what they look like naked than with their health.

You might not like it, but it’s very much true.

Watch the video proof from The Today Show at:

http://tinyurl.com/5lx5fa

Does your marketing reflect this? Or do you listen to the ridiculous industry associations who tell you to market health benefits?

Look, if you REALLY want to make moolah AND help a lot of people you need to be telling people your program is going to help them melt fat off their belly, butt, hips and thighs.

That is what the majority of people WANT.

And it is certainly what they will PAY for.

Help people look better naked. They’ll get the health benefits as a result.

Just hide the medicine in their apple sauce.

Who loves ya?

Yours in prosperity,

Jim Labadie
http://ProgradeBusiness.com

PS - If you want a fat blasting program your clients and boot campers can actually live with use the Carb Rotation Diet. We’ve created a Men’s edition http://GetRidofMyGutDiet.com and a Women’s edition http://Dress-Size-Reduction-Diet.com

PPS - I’ve been getting asked lately if there is any difference between the men’s and women’s. The bonuses are different, but the info in the ebook is the same. It’s just that one is written so it speaks more to men. And the other speaks more to women.

Stair exercises clinic on Sat, June 21st in NYC

I got an email today from my buddy Virgil Aponte. Might very well be the nicest guy in the world. Seriously.

He’s got a clinic coming up in NYC in June. Definitely check it out:

Jim,

Just a note to remind you about my stair exercises clinic on June 21

Here is the registration link you can pass on to your email list or anyone interested

http://www.stairexercisesforathletes.com/clinic.html

Saturday June 21st from 9-5PM

Learn By Doing Stair Exercises Clinic
Grand Street Campus HS
850 Grand Street
Brooklyn NY 11211

- Virgil

Blogs that kick butt and make moolah

I wanted to share this with you because I think it’s just too important to ignore.

Blogs are NOT the future.

They are the HERE and NOW.

I’ve been planning on revamping mine for months now.

I plan on getting it done this June.

The freebie stuff just doesn’t cut it compared to some of the other amazing solutions out there now.

My friend and fellow fitness pro, Scott Tousignant, is THE guy I turn to anything blog related.

We recently introduced our Trainers Inner Circle members to Scott and he very kindly explained the difference between the blog software he uses and the freebies, WordPress, etc.

Pretty amazing stuff. Give it a good read.

- Jim

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http://thei360blog.com is like having a Wordpress blog on the strongest steroids out there. It contains the best Wordpress pluggins plus a boat load of extra add ons.

For example…

Whenever you create a post on your blog it automatically submits to many social bookmarking sites. This alone saves me hours each week and helps boost your site in the search engine rankings.

Whenever you add a podcast to your blog post it automatically submits to iTunes, Podcast Alley, iPodder, and more.

I am beta testing the TubeMogul pluggin where when you add a video to your blog post it automatically submits to YouTube, Revver, and other video sites.

They are continuing to add great tracking and stats to the system as well.

You can create as many squeeze pages and sales pages as you wish within the blog i360 site. One of the cool functions that I’m playing around with now is having a home page oto.

So when someone visits my blog for the first time I give them an irresistible free offer to sign up for. They will never see that offer again. Any time they visit my site after that they will just see my homepage which displays a recent video, article, free offer, and resource link.

I can create as many one time offer pages throughout my site. So if you want to offer your bootcampers a special to sign up for your camp and you only want them to see it once you just send them to that oto page within your blog.

The best part… this is all pushbutton easy.

I’d be more than happy to do a quick walk through webinar to show everyone what to expect. It would have to be a live webinar.

When it comes to writing blog posts, it’s the same as wordpress. So it’s not complicated. But you get all the search engine benefits of the http://thei360blog.com site.

It’s mind blowing what this software does and it’s been responsible for the majority of my success.

I had regular wordpress blogs and blogger blogs before and never got ranked. This was instant rankings with http://thei360blog.com

A picture is worth a thousand bux - at least

I wanted to share with you some pictures I just posted up to my Facebook profile.

Pictures of me and:

- My terrific girlfriend Carol

- Carb Rotation Diet author Jayson Hunter

- Pat Rigsby and Nick Berry

- A giant sea monster

Please check them out at:

http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=610940432

(Just click on the little ‘photos’ icon which is a little underneath my BIG profile picture)

If you don’t have a facebook account, well, you should. They’re free and they’re a great relationship marketing tool.

Sharing photos with people is a great way to get to know one another better. They let people know more about you. They know you’re a real person, with a real family and friends.

Great businesses are built on great relationships, so take advantage of every technology that helps you build them.

As terrific as technology is, a good old fashioned greeting card goes a millyun miles.

And I’ll tell you what, when you can create a customized greeting card made from a personal picture…you’ve got yourself a serious winner.

That’s exactly what the Picture Plus feature of the Send Out Cards system easily allows you to do. If you register for our next Webinar on the program we’ll show you just how easy it is.

All the details are below.

Who loves ya?

Yours in prosperity,

Jim Labadie

PS - On Thursday, May 29th at 1:00pm EST we’ll be holding another webinar to show you how to use the Send Out Cards system to increase retention AND referrals by building great relationships.

Reserve your spot RIGHT NOW by clicking here:

https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/523430740

Saturday inspiration you do not want to miss

Please keep sharing your stories with me. There are other fitness professionals out there who really want to read them.

There are good trainers in tough financial spots who really need an encouraging word.

Here is your Saturday inspiration!

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“Hi Jim,

Your words are inspiring and you have been a huge help in making things happen!

I have been in graduate school for the last 4 years and finally graduated this April.

I have been studying acupuncture and will be specializing in sports injury and muscular-skeletal pain.

The BIG VISION is a huge holistic center that incorporates alternative medicine/nutrition, etc and fitness.

In February, I started feeling panicked about what I was going to do for money after I was out of school, as no matter what type of healthcare practitioner you are, it takes a long time to create a strong client base.

Since I have been in the health and fitness industry for quite some time, as well as previously being a professional firefighter for the City of St. Paul, I decided to put together a youth conditioning camp for this summer.

Well, word spread like wildfire and I now have a full class (20 kids). I got insured, met with a lawyer and created a business.

That gave me some serious momentum and I thought “what the heck”….may as well try adding adult boot camps!

The response has been overwhelming! I will fill my first boot camp up this week (20) and am on the road to adding a whole new session of 20 more people.

You would not believe the enthusiasm! The park is reserved, I have found all sorts of exercise balls, medicine balls, body bars, etc. on craigslist.com and I am gearing up for a very busy summer!

Oh yeah, I will deposit about $8000 in the bank by the end of June.

Sweet. Working an average of 2 hours a day. Nice. Working on getting a website set up too.

I am excited to build a community base around myself and in turn, help people, motivate people, and inspire people. Your emails have been such great encouragement and I look forward to being a part of your sports related community.

Thanks so much!”

Kate Klaers
The Athlete Lab LLC
Where Athletes Are Made.

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JL: Awesome job, Kate. You didn’t focus on the problem, you focused on the SOLUTION. You’re the perfect example of what happens when you start taking action and making things happen.

Who loves ya?

Yours in prosperity,

Jim Labadie

If you need help closing sales http://HowToGetMoreClients.com

If you need help starting your own boot camp http://HowToProfitWithBootCamps.com

If you need help growing your existing boot camps http://SixFigureBootCamps.com

If you need help with public speaking http://AmazingFitnessPresentations.com

What is boot camp island

This is too cool.

I’m often asked by people from all over the world - thanks to the Internet - if my products will work in their neck of the woods. Oftentimes they wonder if boot camps will go over as well in their country as they do in the United States.

Well, here’s a story to answer that one.

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“Hi Jim,

I do not write to you often but I always read your emails. The last time I purchased (http://HowToProfitWithBootCamps.com) and I listened to the informations almost everyday for about a month until I felt I was confident.

As you may know, I am a fitness instructor in Mauritius. I decided to launch Fitness Boot Camp here in Mauritius and Bingo ! I got 13 clients registered.I started the camp on Monday 12th May and will last until 6th June. I am doing 3 sessions of 1 hour each, three times a weeks for four weeks.

Yesterday I received emails from people who joined the camp, complimenting me on the organisation as well as how professional I was due to the fact that all the exercises were tailored to everybody’s fitness level..So, everybody was happy and they are looking forward for the next session !

I would like to say a big thank you for the incentive you give me and YOU deserve all the compliments.So, on behalf of all my clients, THANK YOU FOR YOUR GENEROSITY,PATIENCE AND BRILLIANT IDEAS JIM !”

Best Regards,

Stephan Manique

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JL: Woohoo, Stephan! Bringing the boot camp craze to Mauritius! I love it, I absolutely LOVE it!

For those of you who are wondering, you can check out Stephan’s homeland on their website: http://www.Mauritius.net

Who loves ya?

Yours in prosperity,

Jim Labadie

PS - Send me YOUR story. The fitness community wants to hear about YOUR success!

PPS - If you need help starting your own boot camp http://HowToProfitWithBootCamps.com

PPPS - If you need help growing your existing boot camps http://SixFigureBootCamps.com

Blows you away

Ok, so I just got done watching the American Idol finale.

Both of the final contestants are extremely talented.

Both of them put everything they had into the contest.

Both of them are living their dream.

Both of them are extremely passionate about music.

And that is what I wanted to write you about as soon as the show ended.

I want the crazy passionate ones in my camp.

I want people who have that intense desire to go all out after greatness.

You do, too.

Your passion for greatness and helping people needs to be an obsession - an all out obsession.

An obsession that the ordinary, everday Joe and Jane just doesn’t “get.”

My buddy Brian Grasso is one of those guys. He’s an all-out freak when it comes to his passion for the Youth Fitness and Conditioning arena.

And I mean that in the most positive way you can imagine.

He’s driven to change things. His IYCA organization is filled with fitness pros as intense as he is.

If you want to work in the youth conditioning field in any way then you need to know Brian Grasso and what he is up to RIGHT NOW.

If you haven’t already, be sure to see what they are up at http://iycalaunch.com/

One millyun trainers - and that’s no BS - are hearing about his latest program. But only 500 are getting their foot in the door first.

Be one of them.

Who loves ya?

Yours in prosperity,

Jim Labadie

PS - I know for certain a few hundred spots are already taken. Get your groove on and head over to http://iycalaunch.com/

Creates success 90% of the time

As a fitness pro there’s a very good chance you’re familiar with the 90% compliance rule.

Basically, if you follow a exercise and nutrition program 90% of the time you’ll be super successful.

I had some thoughts about that:

1) It really does a great job of preventing people from becoming overwhelmed.

I think ONE of the reasons people fail at most anything is because they feel like if they’re not perfect 100% of the time they’ve ruined their chances for success.

They never realize the fact they are so uptight is the reason they fail.

2) It applies to business as much as it does to fitness.

If you created a plan for financial success and followed it 90% of the time I bet you’d be a lot better off a year from now than if you had NO plan.

3) It reminded me to share with you a story from trainer Dave Gleason about
http://The-Carb-Rotation-Diet.com

“Thanks so much for http://The-Carb-Rotation-Diet.com

As a 16+ year veteran in the fitness industry I have to tell you I am actually surprised at the results my subscribers and clients are having with your eBook. So much in fact, I have to tell you about one of them.

One of my clients in particular has literally done it all. He tried the South Beach approach - couldn’t stick with it long enough to get results.

Then he went to a “high end nutrition expert” who is also an MD. He had blood work done in addition to a complete profile of health history, current eating habits, goals etc. and what he got in return was a plan so complicated he had to worry about what type of lettuce he was eating in his salads!

Let’s just say for very busy business man who works out at 5:30 am in order to get to the office on time - this diet plan failed before it even began.

This individual was and is doing everything right in terms exercise in an effort to lose those last 10 pounds. I introduced him to http://The-Carb-Rotation-Diet.com less than 3 weeks ago.

To my utter amazement he is only 2 pounds away from his target weight already! In fact he dropped 4 pounds the first week! Moreover he has totally embraced
http://The-Carb-Rotation-Diet.com and feels he can absolutely stick to it 90% of the time…forever.

Thanks for putting this eBook together, Jayson. It’s great to know exactly where I can send clients and subscribers to get credible, truthful diet advice that works! You’ve just made my job easier!

Gratefully,

Dave Gleason
homeofficeworkouts.com

Gotta love that 90% rule.

Who loves ya?

Yours in prosperity,

Jim Labadie

PS Put http://The-Carb-Rotation-Diet.com to work for you and your clients.

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