Learn from Shannon C. Cook, a current gym owner, general contractor, commercial building landlord, and Fitness Marketing Expert, how to go from your IDEA to the Grand Opening of your Fitness Center.

Also, how to convert an existing gym into a 24 hour fitness center by installing a 24 hour automated door access system, 911 system, and security cameras, and if that’s not enough, the gym door access system comes with a gym and fitness center management software system

 I’m so positive you will know everything about how to start a gym form scratch after reading this book, that i’m giving you 182.5 days, that’s 6 months to try it, and if you dont like it, return it for a full refund

Why listen to me?

Because I did everything wrong before I did anything right, but fortunately I stuck with it and found some very successful businessmen to guide me, and innovated by turning my gym into a 24 hour fully automated gym, then spent over $15,000 to learn marketing the old fashioned way.

 Here’s what you’ll learn:

HOW TO:

• Research and Decide what kind of gym you want to open, from a 24 hour automated fitness center like the very popular 24 hour fitness and snap fitness, to a womens only gym     
• Incorporating or LLC?
• Partnerships 
• Franchise
• Buy an Existing Club
• Business Plan and Executive Summary
•  Writing the Plan  
•  Funding your Start up                                            
•  Accounting for every dollar, for success             
•  Naming your Gym   
•  Becoming a Spy                                                     
•  Location, Location, Location   
•  Electrical
•  Lighting 
•  Air Conditioner and Heat Electrical needs           
• Cable or Satellite hook up                                     
• Phone service                                                         
• Negotiating the Lease                                             
• Choosing signage for Marketing your Gym          
• Painting the interior of your gym                           
• Insurance
• Plans Drawn up for the building                            
• The Build out                                                           
• Getting the Permit for the Build out                       
• Mirrors
• Gym Equipment                                                      
• Parts for gym equipment                                        
• Flooring
• Pro Shop Vendors                                                    
• Office Equipment                                                      
• Security System                                                        
• Automated Door Access System                            
• Gym Management Software                                      
• Energy Efficiency in your building                          
• Motion Switches for Lighting                                   
• Ceiling Fans                                                               
• Sound Systems and Cardio Theaters                     
• Electronic Funds Transfer, (EFT) Bank Draft           
• Accepting Credit Cards                                             
• Childcare   
• Waivers
• Hiring Employees                                                      
• Hiring Personal Trainers                                           
• WIFI for members to use                                          
• Lockers for your locker room                                  
• Press Release Writing                                               
• Marketing Checklist                                                  
• Email Marketing                                                          
• Website for your gym                                                
• Google Adwords                                                        
• The Grand Opening                                                   
• Mailing List Companies                                             
• Social Networking 

If you want to know all the wrong things I did, here they are some.

• When I opened I picked the wrong location
•  used the wrong subcontractors
•  bought exercise equipment from the wrong people and also bought the wrong equipment
•  finished my concrete floor with too little sealer
•  painted some rooms the wrong colors for the right psychological effect (which you’ll learn)    
• Made the tanning bed rooms too small
• Offered childcare when I wasn’t set up for it correctly
• Hired the wrong employees
• Hired the wrong personal trainers
• Installed the wrong size air conditioner
• Signed contracts for phone lines that I could have negotiated for a lot less
• Used the wrong lighting
• Got sued for $190,000 because of a contract that really didn’t exist (here’s where I made the biggest mistake in believing lady justice is blind, really justice has one eye open, and she’s looking for $$$ not justice), so learn what not to do.

I then turned my business around completely and figured out on my own what no one else would tell me, and I don’t blame them, after all, they learned the way I did.

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It can be done! I did it last year, and even tripled my memberships in less than 3 months.

To learn every deatil of ”how to open a 24 hour gym from scratch”, click here www.how2ownagym.com

The tactics I used are not used by any other gym,health club, or fitness center around as far as i know. I know that in my city, the other gyms have laughed at some of the marketing tricks i use, but I don’t care, especially when my gym marketing tactics allowed me to increase my gym membership rates from $25 month to $45 month and tripled my membership base at the same time.

How did I do it?
I have over thirty articles that you can search on my site for free by going to the site and typing in a phrase in the white box in the upper right hand section and hit enter, that has a lot of the things i used to do all this but, you can get one on one consulting over the phone or the net through “skype” for the very small sum of $125 for an hour. You will no doubt get 10 times more than what it cost by being able to ask me any questions you have and learn from my many thousands of dollars of mistakes and the right moves i made also.

I will only be offering this price for a short while because i have been bombarded with so many request for consulting for free that i am trying to write my course on gym marketing to offer to the public and that will take all my time up and i will have to stop consulting for a while.

for consulting contact me at fitnessmarketing@comcast.net

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To learn how to open a 24 hour fitness center, build and start a gym from scratch, manage a gym, and fitness center marketing, check out my book at www.how2ownagym.com

Write golf fitness or Bowling fitness sales copy for your gym,fitness center, or health club to attract a different member types

If your looking to attract different types of members that normally don’t think they can benefit from a gym membership, look into marketing to the highly profitable niche’s such as Golf Fitness, or Bowling Fitness or any other unmarketed niche no one else thinks of, and advertise to them.

Start off with a headline like “Shave 2 strokes off your next game of Golf by exercising those particular muscles responsible for your Golf swing while improving concentration”

You can see how marketing to a unmarketed niche can bring in members you would never see otherwise. But make sure the sales copy is great, or you won’t catch their attention.

hope this helps. please post questions or comments.

Shannon Cook can be hired to write your advertisments by contacting fitnessmarketing@comcast.net

I spent many thousands of dollars to learn what i know about marketing, and now know that there is info available to the fitness business industry that concentrates only on the getting and retaining members. here is one excellent product to learn from that helps tremendously without learning everything about marketing like i did, especially if you don’t have much time and only want to learn the gym business marketing part. here’s the product: Click Here!

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If you want to attract business these days, you must do anything possible to catch prospects attention.

When i put my Open 24 Hours neon sign up for my gym, I got immediate results.

No matter what kind of gym you own, you cant afford NOT to have all the signage possible.

I increased my gym traffic by 15% just because of the neon sign i put up. People started coming in saying they didn’t know we were open 24 hours because of lack of cars in the parking lot at late night. I also added a blinker to my sign that really got attention.

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The thing i find it hardest to get across to new business owners and alot of old business owners is the fact that they might survive a recession but how much better could their business have been if they would have actually tried marketing.

Most people are just like the restaurant owner i once heard of; the first thing he let go of money wise when money got tight was the bug killer man, and it was the most important of all his business. If you don’t believe me, just go into a restaurant and see a roach. You will consider going back if you get bad service one time, but if you see a bug your gone for good!

To learn every deatil of ”how to open a 24 hour gym from scratch”, click here www.how2ownagym.com

Here’s another amazing thing i have discovered because i have done this thing myself; I would tell anyone that called trying to get me to advertise with them that i didn’t have the money, but i would spend money on other less important things. PLEASE hear me! You need to spend the money on the right marketing PERIOD!!!

1. Start a website using WordPress:Its what you are reading now,its the easiest thing on the web to do and you can be up and going in minutes not days or months. here’s a great set of tutorials that will teach you how to get going with wordpress immediatley.Click Here!
2. Putting an e-mail opt-in form on your website: so you can notify your prospects of information and gym membership offerings.
3.  Start a referral program:that pays members money for refering others.
4. Offer a money back guarantee! :this should be first really. i have only had one person take me up on this, and they didn’t even want their money back, but i made sure to give it back to them anyway, and asked for a testimonial from her about her getting her money back so i can use it in my marketing.
5. Ask members what they want: It amazes me at the people in business that i say this to and they say it doesn’t matter what people say, they aren’t going to change that because they are stuck in thinking what they are doing is working better than giving the member what they want, and it might be working, but think about how much better it could be if you actually gave them what they want.

 To learn every deatil of ”how to open a 24 hour gym from scratch”, click here www.how2ownagym.com

One Bonus tip is to make sure to get testimonials and use them in all your marketing efforts.

Shannon Cook is avaliable for consulting and marketing your fitness center by contacting fitnessmarketing@comcast.net

If the answer is yes, read on!

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I can honestly tell you that i have increased my gym business by 25% in the last month alone, and its not because i have updated, done expensive marketing, or pressured sales people to sell more memberships.

No, just the opposite, I have cut my marketing in 1/2 and just done a test to see what i could do by a small but concentrated marketing plan.

I quit radio ads, which were effective, but right now, too expensive. I started concentrating on the members i have now and offering them and their friends incentives to get them to tell their friends and family about our 24 hour automated gym. Then i have worked on my email subscribers list by doing the same incentive offerings. Then lastly, i am putting up banners that i know will catch passerby’s attention and get them to stop by, call, or visit my website and hopefully get them to sign up on my email subscription form for future weight loss and gym articles and notices.

I really can’t believe how much it has helped my gym business in the last month or two.

I have had a lot of calls lately from the radio station that i advertise with, and also the newspaper wanting me to advertise my gym with them, but i am not afraid to tell them NO for now. I am going to resume my  radio and newspaper advertising before too long, but i really wanted to try this experiment first.

One Fact I will share with you is that in the last depression and the recessions since, the businesses that kept advertising and not cutting back, came to be the biggest and best basically because all their competition quit advertising. Think about it, I know if you are a business owner then you already have, I know i almost quit until i really got to thinking about it and realized that all my competition quit all their ads and i now am alone and don’t have to spend as much because they aren’t doing any at all.   

So please don’t quit advertising all together, if you can, you need to increase your ads and do the other stuff i have said in this article. But if your strapped for cash, please try these things that cost almost nothing.

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Shannon Cook is available to build your website for your gym, health club, or fitness center, and copywriting your ads and web site material by contacting fitnessmarketing@comcast.net

To learn every deatil of ”how to open a 24 hour gym from scratch”, click here www.how2ownagym.com

Buying used gym equipment can save you alot of money if you know what to look for. There are alot of great places to buy used and refurbished gym equipment from, but make sure to do your own research of the companies your looking at.

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You should look for these things:

• Is the gym equipment totally refurbished or just some parts, (for instance, some used gym equipment companies will say their treadmills are refurbished, but they really only put a new belt on them and clean them up. when actually they needed a new deck and waxer and maybe a roller also but they know it will last just long enough for the short warranty to run out)
• Do they have a warranty and how long. (also ask what all is covered and how they repair the piece if it does tear up. I bought one treadmill that tore up and they sent me the part and told me to fix it myself. LET ME TELL YOU THAT ITS NOT EASY TO WORK ON TREADMILLS, AND I DO MECHANICAL WORK ALL THE TIME, SO MAKE SURE YOU DONT HAVE TO DO THE REPAIRS)
• How much does the shipping cost?
• Look for reviews on the company from a website. (there are some websites that will have reviews on dealing with the used fitness equipment compaines, search the name of the company and you’ll probably find someone who has dealt with them that will have a blog like this one your reading now, but on that company. BUT DON’T DRAW A CONCLUSION FROM ONE OR TWO REVIEWS, i’m sure you know that noone can please everyone all the time)
• Never Ever buy anything without seeling it in detail either in person or pictures, a video showing it in action if possible. (it amazes me at the gym equipment dealers that don’t realize if they would show a video of the equipment in action, they would take away all reluctance of the customer to buy)

Their are brokers that you can contact that specialize in buying and selling used health club equipment, do a search for used gym equipment brokers on the internet and i’m sure you’ll find some good ones.

EBAY: should you try ebay? You will find everything for your gym on ebay, from one dumbbell to a turnkey gym ready to go. You will have to pay much more attention to things on ebay, but i have found that most ebay sellers do a better job of marketing their items. I mean by this that they do detailed photos and videos and have a detail of and warranties and all shipping charges so you won’t be trying to figure out what the charges are to ship. But you do have to worry about the warranty being upheld in some cases because if they are a single seller they could possibly go out of business tomorrow or just not return your calls and your stuck with a broken piece of fitness equipment.

So if you use ebay to buy used equipment, PLEASE CHECK THEIR RATINGS!

Some dealers that i have bought equipment from are:

WRIGHT WEIGHT EQUIPMENT in birmingham, alabama

BiG FiTNESS North Kingstown
190 Frenchtown Rd
North Kingstown, RI 02852       AND  

BiG FiTNESS Seekonk
5 Progress St
Seekonk, MA 02771

USED GYM EQUIPMENT.COM   

14201 S. Main Street
Los Angeles, CA 90061
Toll Free: 800-884-1446
310-323-2984

Shannon Cook is avaliable for hire to turn your gym into a 24 hour gym or open a gym from scratch and to market your fitness center by contacting FITNESSMARKETING@COMCAST.NET

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I spent many thousands of dollars to learn what i know about marketing, and now know that there is info available to the fitness business industry that concentrates only on the getting and retaining members. here is one excellent product to learn from that helps tremendously without learning everything about marketing like i did, especially if you don’t have much time and only want to learn the gym business marketing part. here’s the product: Click Here!