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Audio Interview “How to open a 24 hour automated gym with door access and gym software system combo”, with maker of Firebug Software Gym door access and Gym software all in one, Roger Rabbi founder, interviewed by Fitness Marketer and gym consultant Shannon Cook

Wednesday, May 12th, 2010

New Audio Interview with Roger Rabbi, founder of the 24 hour gym

access syetm, about How to open a 24 hour fully

 automated gym or convert an existing gym into a 24 hour

gym using the firebug software system including the door

 access system, gym software, and security cameras system

all in one.

 

If you own a gym or are thinking of starting a gym from scratch, here’s an interview you must listen to.

This system that personally use daily in my gym is the one i also write about in my book “How to start a 24 hour gym from scratch”, to get that book go to www.how2ownagym.com

I own this system in my own gym, and with it i saved thousands of dollars on the gym software alone.

Roger Rabbi is the founder of Firebug Software System, a door access, gym software, and security camera system all in one.

Even if you aren’t planning on opening a 24 hour gym, you can use this system for the gym software alone and every gym needs a security camera system.

I wouldn’t dream of opening another gym without an automated system, I try to automate everything from my email system to the lighting in my gym, because i got tired of having to cover for employees not showing up or being sick, now i just have one person working at my gym for 6 hours a day to clean the gym and sign up new members.

I used to have 4 employees and now only have one, saving me over $3,000 a month in labor alone.

My gym membership tripled in only 3 months with the combination of the 24 hour system and the marketing i teach that i actually do in my own gym.

There are two options to get this must listen to interview, you can go to ITUNES and go to podcast and search the term “fitnessmarketing.tv”, and subscribe to the feed, or you can go to this link to listen to the interview on your computer or download it http://shannon902.libsyn.com/ 

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Shannon Cook is a fitness marketing consultant and gym building consultant, You can reach me at fitnessmarketing@comcast.net

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

 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

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How to Start and/or Build a 24 hour Fully Automated Fitness Center, Gym, or Health Club from scratch, including quality exercise equipment, tanning beds, gym software, 24 hour access system, security system, and office equipment, just like I did

Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010

How to Start and/or Build a 24 hour Fully Automated Fitness Center, Gym, or Health Club from scratch, including quality exercise equipment, tanning beds, gym software, 24 hour access system, security system, and office equipment, just like I did

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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Anyone who has a dream of opening a business, and won’t invest in researching the in’s and out’s before going into it, doesn’t deserve to be in business, and probably won’t be for long anyway!!!

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