Book It, Nashville!

I am typing this blog entry from a fabulous Westin Dallas, at an amazing event here this weekend, and looking forward to the event next week in Hawaii. To register for the Hawaii event, click HERE. Hawaii Registration Web site

So what do we have to look forward to in Nashville and Hawaii?

More team building, more Game Plan training, more Team Beachbody, more Larry, more Craig, more MJ! These guys are motivating, hysterical, and filled with concepts that turn coaches into Star Diamond Coaches!

We don't make money putting these events on. These events are about refining the training on the Game Plan, on teaching you to break the barriers that are holing you back, to show you how to expand your prospect list, to show you how to feel great about building this business - so we all win. It's an eye opening event, and will launch your team into action. (If you and your team show up!) And we make this investment in them to give you the opportunity to invest in your success.

(I hear the music is decent in Nashville too.)

I hope to see YOU in Nashville!

Date:
Fri + Saturday, August 13/14, 2010

Location:
Marriott at Vanderbilt
Parthenon Ballroom
2555 West End Avenue
Nashville, TN 37203
http://www.marriott.com/bnaav


Registration Web site:
http://www.regonline.com/sosnashville

My Summer Vacation

Sure I'll do some fun stuff when I travel to Canada and Hawaii with family this year, but what I really need are more photos of you and me to use on the Facebook fanpage!

So the Team Beachbody Game Plan team has been kind enough to let me tag along for the "Summer of Success" events below as we count down to the big Leadership Event this fall!

This summer isn't all "playtime" for any of us. This is about maximizing what you get out of this opportunity and maximizing the number of people you help get healthy and fit.

You are a pro, you are relentless and I know you want to be a leader!

Let us show you some bast practices - live and in person. I have seen the agenda, and this is an event that will absolutely sharpen your tools and keep you on track as we blaze new trails to end this unnecessary trend of obesity.

Here's where I'll be:
Dallas, TX – July 24
Honolulu, HI – July 31
Nashville, TN – Aug 14
Las Vegas, NV – Sept 11
Chicago, IL – Sept 25

(The details will be in the coach's back office.)

I promise to comb my hair nice for photos, so I want to see YOU and your team at one of these events!

"Bringing It" To Phoenix!

If you live in the Southwest and you're around on Saturday, Feb 20th, meet me in Phoenix!
The Game Plan Tour events are leaving a wake of momentum as we are seeing huge growth from the sites of prior events like Las Vegas, Lincoln, Portland, OR, Boston, and Chicago.

If you want to grow your business and can get to Phoenix, I'll be there with the crew to turn up the heat!

The event kicks off 9:00 AM with an opportunity meeting - a great place to bring your coach prospects. Then we continue with an intensive training session on the ten points of the Game Plan.

I'll see you and your friends at the
Embassy Suites Phoenix-Scottsdale
4415 East Paradise Village Parkway
(602) 765-5800

Register for the event here >>> https://www.regonline.com/gprtphoenix

If you haven't seen Game Plan Larry do his thing, it's like you are missing a virtuoso business builder in action.

Shakeology will be served! New fortunes will be started. And Phoenix is where it's happening on Feb 20th!

You Want Results? Get a Plan

Here's what happens when you have a plan to make your hair lighter. I put peroxide on my dark hair for a week in Kauai, HI. Bingo!... strawberry-blond CEO. (But it only happens if I follow the plan every day.)

You want results when it comes to growing your business? Use the strategies of the Team Beachbody Game Plan. (But it only works if you follow the plan every day.)

Right now the nation turns its eyes away from the fridge, and down toward the scale and you hear this reaction: "WHAT THE?!!"

Enter, the Game Plan strategy: By posting the 3rd party promotional videos from your coach back office onto Twitter and Facebook, and giving copied of our third party DVD's ("Decide", "The Invitation,". and "The Breakthrough") to your contacts, you are generating Game Plan "exposures". You want to expose the material to at least two people a day - especially now!

With all the attention on weight loss, the demand for the messages on these tools is stronger than ever! Demand makes it more likely you will make sales. But YOU have to create the exposure to get the benefit of that demand!

If you want first hand insight into how to make it happen, join me and the team in Boston on Saturday Jan 9th. If you need proof that the Game Plan is a sure thing, log on to the Facebook page and just watch success as it happens. These coaches are relentless. They put their faith in the Game Plan and are recruiting new people to help us grow the business like crazy! Coaches are diving into the "Getting Started Right" plan, and the "90 days to Diamond Plan", all using the ten tenets of the overall Team Beachbody Game Plan to get predictable, reliable results. You can have that success too!

You and your efforts are VERY valuable and vital to us reaching our "Billion Dollar a Year" goal. We see who is making things happen, and we see who is putting in the effort to get people healthy and focus on Shakeology. Your efforts make us proud, and your efforts deserve the reward. With consistent use of the Game Plan, you could reach the Success Club, earn the $50 bonus, and be on the path to getting on the next big coach trip!

Now is the time to make it happen. It's not just about short term results, but that doesn't mean you can't get short term results. It's about getting people healthy and fit for the long haul. And it's about building a business that will pay you dividends over the long haul. Take advantage of the timing, and work the Game Plan now!

Great Idea for the Gift of Health

We had a great coach call this morning discussing the big training in Dallas, the upcoming event in Vegas on Dec 5th (be there and get people there!), the importance of home parties, and the opportunity to use the products in the Beachbody catalogue as healthy gift ideas this year.

After the call I was thinking how smart it would be for people to give Shakeology instead of a bottle of wine.

What if you committed to give at least two bags of Shakeology to two people who you would otherwise struggle to find "the right gift" for? A gift that is actually good for the recipient... That's the real spirit of giving isn't it?

And when I arrived at the office, I got into the elevator with our Senior Director of Training and Development, Sandi Bouhadana who trumped my idea with her own: Between her kids and their school and activities, she has ten teachers who she will buy gifts for this year. Instead of the traditional "basket of soaps," she has decided to give each of the teachers a sampler pack of Shakeology.

As an idea for a coach, that's a great one for a few reasons:

(1) You are showing you truly care about someone when you give them this special, healthy shake. Bio-available nutrition for healthy energy. It doesn't get better than that.

(2) People who try it as a gift are very likely to want to buy more.

(3) Teachers are great coaches - They need and appreciate the extra money and they are great at networking. You might find that gift leads to a mutually productive business relationship. But that is a distant third to the top priority of giving someone a gift that is truly meaningful this year. That's the point!

I think it's a great idea. From giving Shakeology or a program P90X, Insanity or Chalean Extreme to anyone on your gift list, I am sure there are a thousand other ideas that our coaches will come up with.

But the important thing right now - like, today - is to get the word to your team of coaches ASAP. There truly is no better or more timely gift, than the gift of health! Coaches just might not think of it - until it's too late! Don't let that happen - our mission needs your energy and focus right now!

Every little action we all take toward getting people focused on healthy behavior vs. a neutral or negative habits is productivity toward our goal. That's what this is about. "Slight Edge" thinking, where we gradually gather improvements in our productivity and health and that of the people around us. That's what this is about!

Pass this great holiday concept on, and let's keep the momentum growing!

Are You Serious About Success?

If you REALLY want to make extra money, you need to get serious. If you REALLY want to help more people get healthy and fit, you need to get serious.

Are you willing to invest just six hours to learn the steps that will put you on the same path as our top coaches? We are seeing impressive, compelling evidence that the Game Plan is generating new coaches, new sales, and a lot more awareness about the health and fitness movement that is Team Beachbody. But it's important that get trained on it so you get the most from this powerful tool.

The guy to learn it from is Larry Zimberg.

What sets the successful people from the everybody else? I know first hand - the difference is going the extra step, doing more than "normal", going the extra mile. This is one of those defining moments. What are you willing to do to succeed?

Larry is holding a Game Plan Training this Saturday (11/14) in Dallas, TX. People who attended the Leadership Event a month ago or the first stop on the Game Plan tour in Tacoma, WA compared it to a seminar for which they would have paid thousands of dollars. We're charging $10. Six hours of step-by-step training in how to apply the proven action steps of network marketing to getting out the word of our health-changing, life-transforming programs!

If you would have been willing to go to a four year college that was a long drive or a plane ride away to secure your future, why not make an investment in one road trip, one plane ticket to Dallas, and one day to absorb the information that could completely, and quickly, get your business on track?

Maybe it's just my nature, and maybe it's why I have been successful, but take from this CEO: If I were you, I would get to the very next training possible. No excuses. And I would lean on my primary leaders to meet me there. I would take pages of notes. I would review the information with my team immediately after the event, so we all worked the system together. And then I would work my tail off to use the system to generate the most productivity. I would not accept anything less from myself than that. So why not you? Now is the time to get serious about YOUR success.

REGISTRATION LINK: https://www.regonline.com/gprtfortworth

ADDRESS:
AA Training & Conference Center
4501 Hwy 360S
Fort Worth, TX 761551
(817) 956-1000
www.aa-conference-center-dolce.com/
PARKING:Complimentary!

AGENDA:
10:00 AM Opportunity Presentation (Bring your prospects!)
11:00 AM Game Plan Training Part I
1:00 PM Lunch Break & Shakeology Sampling
2:00 PM Game Plan Training Part II
5:00 PM Close

If you can't make Dallas, get to Vegas:

Las Vegas, NV December 5th

REGISTRATION WEBSITE:
https://www.regonline.com/gprtlasvegas

VENUE:
Gold Coast Hotel & Casino
4000 West Flamingo Road
Las Vegas, NV 891031
(800) 331-5334
http://www.goldcoastcasino.com/

PARKING:Complimentary

Now That's a Plan!

What a week, and what a plan! Team Beachbody is on fire and the new Game Plan protocol, modeled on decades of success from some of the most successful network marketing organizations ever. It is a complete revelation!

And what blows me away is how this simple ten point system has already become a foundation coaches are using to plan day-to-day activities and even pursue business building ideas that have been brewing within the business for years.

The people who qualified for our Leadership Event at the Ritz in Dana Point were deluged with reinforcement on the ten points, proof that with just two months of application it really works.

Plus we launched a challenge to put it into action for an unprecedented 60 day push. If you're a coach and you're not participating in the 60 day challenge, I suggest you go for it and recommit to your success!

Almost 1,000 coaches have already signed up on the Facebook page to share their experiences using the Game Plan. People are updating on every facet of the plan, including productivity at soccer games, birthday parties, listening to great audiobooks, exploring the new 3rd party tools, starting home parties... It's on!

Coaches are once again using the network to help cash strapped charities raise funds, because now they have a system to hand off to the leaders of PTA's, church groups, and others who are motivated, but never knew how to apply our programs and products in order to make serious money. We even have a coach planning on holding a regular Sunday "Open House" complete with signs just like the real estate folks use. Imagine the flags and balloons around the neighborhood: "Healthy Open House - Free Shake!"

Coaches who have been watching the rest of the team have success while they struggled to sign their first coach are shocked to see how powerful the step by step system is.

Even coaches at the event, who were unsure what it would be like to commit to "Two Exposures a Day" were so encouraged when they started a conversation with the hotel maid, or the waitress at the restaurant, got interest, and they were not demoralized if they heard "no"!

I am so excited about the future I can barely contain my enthusiasm. This is how we increase the decibel level of healthy habits! Two exposures a day!

Do the Game Plan faithfully, and your business will finally get traction.

And I am so proud of the work that the company did to prepare these tools, especially Larry "Game Plan" Zimberg, Denise Needham, Sandi Bouhadonna and the rest of the team all under the guidance of GM Michael Neimand. The "3rd party tools" created by Natalie Barandes and the production team are world class. The new coach starter kit (especially the requisite "Getting Started Right" guide) created by Maria Gitto and her creative group are simple and easy to follow. And the new website finally brings the coach landing pages inside the Team Beachbody look and feel.

Shakeology sales are taking off using the sample packets and "Watch This" DVD, as more and more coaches are discovering how much better they feel within days of starting this daily health program. Coaches are showing their confidence in Shakeology by challenging prospects to try it by adding; "You will feel amazing in 30 days, or you don't pay!"

That's the way to leverage Team Beachbody's 30 day money guarantee guys! Nice work!

Thanks to all our coaches who have had faith in us to this major launch into stage two of our growth. It's the right time to get in position as start to look ahead to stage three; international expansion. That's when you'll be glad you got in, got your friends in, and properly positioned yourself for the spike.

And the Game Plan tour is about to hit the road. I'll be there to help kick off the first stop in Tacoma, WA. It's a combination of opportunity-meeting for prospects in the morning, and then an intensive training in the Game Plan the rest of the day. Do you know someone in the Northwest - Get 'em there!

It's time to make things happen, and I am proud to work beside you to rebuild the health of our country, and in the process rebuild the middle class by creating a million "CEO/coaches", running their own health and fitness business as part of Team Beachbody!

It's Time To Lead

While some accept the status quo, for others the status quo begs a leader to make things better.

The mark of a leader is someone who is willing to take risks, to step out of the safety zone of accepting the status quo. Leaders are change agents, and they make things happen that can move things in a big way. (That doesn't mean they're right, it just means they are the ones who make things happen. And they're usually the ones that make the money.)

Leadership is rare, and when it is directed toward something that truly benefits society at large, they are valuable. Leaders are the ones who hear people saying "that's not how it's done," and they forge ahead anyway. They try something, hear friends, family (and even customers) say "That's just stupid", they learn, and they continue to work through the criticism.

But the more bold the leader is, the more people there are who will say that leader is wrong. If you are leading, there will always someone who thinks you are wrong. Do it anyway.

Not everyone has what it takes to be a leader. I am a big fan of helping people see their potential to step into a leadership role, but I have been guilty of thinking everyone has what it takes to handle the criticism and also self-start. But over the years I have learned that leaders who are ready will step into the role when given the opportunity. I see it everyday on the TeamBeachbody Message Boards, Facebook and Twitter as coaches step up and help people get results and build a business out of helping people. There are great leaders out there, and great leaders emerging.

I had a conversation today with 5 star diamond Charline Bucher, a founding coach and a true Team Beachbody leader. We were talking about how we're seeing people succeed in this business who are consistent with achieving base hits vs. swinging for home runs. Day by day, sale by sale, coach by coach, leaders in network marketing make small progress and encourage other leaders in their organizations to do the same. That's the activity that works.

The people who achieve exponential growth in this business are the ones who are always looking for leaders in their organization, and focusing their efforts on building momentum with them rather than trying to pull everyone along. If you focus on the people who can help us get to one million coaches and 100 million customers, your business will grow. If you focus on trying to get everyone to join the business, you won't have time to work with the true leaders, and the business will languish and always require you to baby sit.

Attracting leaders creates a foundation on which the network will flourish. Strength in leadership equals a strong network that will help millions of people.

That's the point of the Leadership event that Michael Neimand, Larry Zimberg, Denise Needham, the rest of our network team and I are staging this October 17th and 18th. It's not for everyone. You have to qualify and want to break out of the pack to be a real leader in building this business. If you want to go big with this opportunity, you need to get to this event.

The following criteria needs to be achieved by August 30, 2009. Either...

A. Achieve the Paid Rank of Diamond Coach or higher and have sponsored a Paid Rank Diamond Coach who is active as of August 30th.

- or -

B. Achieve a Paid Rank of Diamond Coach or higher, and recruit at least two new active Coaches this June, July, and August (for a minimum of six new active Coaches with at least two in each month), all of whom are active and in good standing as of August 30th.

With only 4 days left to meet the June requirement, it’s decision time. Will you be one of our select group of Coaches who join me to lead the way forward? What do you want your life to look like a year from now? Every journey starts with a single step and your first step is to get to this exclusive leadership event. June qualifications are almost up so get focused, have intent, recruit your two new active Coaches for June!

Then we'll be training you and this elite group of leaders on the new "Game Plan", and as a leader, we'll give you a complimentary two night stay at the Ritz-Carlton, Laguna Niguel in Dana Point, California. (Get a good look at the pool now, because we won't be spending time there during the event. This is like training camp!) We want to initiate a huge push, a game-changing initiative which will signal the explosive growth in this network we have all been planning.

If you're a leader and want to build a business that pays you dividends every year, and you want to be a force of positive change in the health of the world, it is time.

I look forward to seeing you at the Leadership event in Dana Point! But you need to step up now!