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	<description>Learn to Open, Market and advertise your Fitness Center, Health Club, or  24 hour Gym. Also learn how to turn your club into a 24 hour fully automated club. The Marketing Tactics I used to More than Triple my Memberships in less than 3 months, over the previous 4 years. By Shannon Cook</description>
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		<title>How I lowered my Fitness Center&#8217;s power bill from $1,980 a month to under $1,000 with the help of the Power Company</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 19:22:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fitness Center Marketing won&#8217;t help you much if  your power bills are sucking every dollar out of our profit. There are many things you probably don&#8217;t think about that can lower your Gym power bills by: Shannon Cook, Fitness Marketing Consltant and expert in How to open a 24 Hour Gym Yes the power company [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<h2><span style="color: #800000;">Fitness Center Marketing won&#8217;t help you much if  your power bills are sucking every dollar out of our profit. There are many things you probably don&#8217;t think about that can lower your Gym power bills</span></h2>
<h3><span style="color: #800000;">by: Shannon Cook, Fitness Marketing Consltant and expert in How to open a 24 Hour Gym</span></h3>
<p><span style="color: #000000;">Yes the power company will come to your business and help you find ways to lower your power bill for your gym business like they did for me.</span></p>
<p>The summer&#8217;s in Alabama are as hot as a blistered butt rash and my power bill almost doubled. I did everythign Icould think of to lower it like insulating the ceilings and making sure the air conditioner was maintained, but the air conditioner runs non stop when its 110 degrees outside.</p>
<p>The power company sent out an employee to do a power audit for me. He told me I could combine the 6 power meters into 2 and save $50 per meter because they charge $50 per meter plus power usage, which i did not know. I saved $200 per month just by doing that one thing.</p>
<p>Then he went through my gym. He told me to turn the water heaters down to 115 to 125 degrees to keep them  from working so hard to heat water to a high temp.</p>
<p>Then we looked at my lighting. He recommended i take the old strip lighting out that required T-12 bulbs and install the new energy efficient T-8 lights. Actually I had 28 lights to begin with, but with the light output of the new T-8 bulbs, I only have 13 now, and it puts out way more light and the ballast that run the bulbs are about 1/4 the size of the old ballast and don&#8217;t even get hot like the old ballast. If you have an acoustical ceiling with lay in lights, then you can get the new lay in lights with the T-8 small bulbs, or you can get a T-8 conversion kit for the old lights if you want to but it&#8217;s about as difficult as being married to my ex-wife to install. I also recommend getting the daylight type of bulbs because they are brighter and put off a better quality of light.</p>
<p>Then the guy suggested I install motion switches for all lighting. Here is where I went through hell backwards with gasoline underwear on. I wanted good switches that were easy to set and worked even if members were 50&#8242; across the gym. I ordered the best motion activated light switches amazon offered, which was about $60 apiece.</p>
<p>Well, needless to say, I spent hours upon hours trying to set them to work right. I turned the setting a tiny bit to make it stay on for a few more minutes extra, but they wouldn&#8217;t come on at all then. I have about 6 switches all together so you can see how frustrating this was. I finally went to Lowe&#8217;s and got a $20 motion switch and put one in. It worked perfect and was easy to set for the correct 15 minute time limit I needed in the main gym area. The bathrooms and child play room have 5 minute time limits. Time limits meaning if their is no motion detected for the set time, then it goes off, but when motion is detected it automatically comes on.</p>
<p>Just note that if your going to buy a switch make sure it isn&#8217;t &#8221;auto off, manual on&#8221;, because it will not come on automatically, you have to press it on which defeats the purpose.</p>
<p>All these power saving changes made a tremendous difference in my overall power bill.</p>
<p>Make sure your ceiling is insulated with the correct amount of insulation also. if you have a drop ceiling or acoustical ceiling, then make sure the insulation is laying correctly and not scattered like a wasp nest in a tornado.</p>
<h3><span style="color: #800000;">To buy the guide on How to Open a 24 Hour Fitness Center from scratch or convert your Gym into a 24 Hour Gym, go to </span><a href="http://www.how2ownagym.com"><span style="color: #000080;">www.how2ownagym.com</span></a></h3>
<h3><span style="color: #800000;">To contact Shannon Cook about Fitness Center Marketing Consulting or writing ads for your gym, email: </span><a href="mailto:fitnessmarketing@comcast.net"><span style="color: #000080;">fitnessmarketing@comcast.net</span></a></h3>
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		<title>Why do 99% of Gym and Fitness Center websites suck? and proof can you get a gym website built with professionally written content that outdoes your competition eaisly and presells your prospects with specific content</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 17:51:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shannon cook</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I know i&#8217;m going to make some folks mad with this fitness marketing post. I can&#8217;t just sit back anymore when i continually get questions wondering why their gym website isn&#8217;t bringing prospects in or at lease getting them to call. First, I don&#8217;t believe in corporate looking websites that only try to make a brand look [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<h2><span style="color: #000080;">I know i&#8217;m going to make some folks mad with this fitness marketing post. I can&#8217;t just sit back anymore when i continually get questions wondering why their gym website isn&#8217;t bringing prospects in or at lease getting them to call.</span></h2>
<h2><span style="color: #000080;">First, I don&#8217;t believe in corporate looking websites that only try to make a brand look good, but doesn&#8217;t give the gym prospect any actual info about your gym like prices, equipment, contact info, childcare, programs, actual video tour ( My biggest pet peeve is a gym website having a so called &#8220;virtual tour&#8221;, but is actually nothing but someone with a digital camera set to video while their turning in a circle making you sick to even watch and makes a treadmill look like a boxing bag). If your doing this, STOP IT!!! your killing your website business.</span></h2>
<h2><span style="color: #000080;">Next, If you have Flash buttons, a shoddy virtual tour, no email sign up form, content that doesn&#8217;t tell the prospect what they want to know, diet info, no pictures of the actual equipment, and one of the most important things is if you don&#8217;t have specific keywords on your website pages and web post for SEO keyword optimization, STOP IT TOO!!</span></h2>
<p>Below is a snapshot of my Fitness Center Website, Some people act like my fitness center website is as ugly as a butt rash, but it works and I&#8217;ll compare the stats of visits, calls, and email sign ups just from my website to their very corporate looking website.</p>
<p><a href="http://fitnessmarketing.tv/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/website-Snap_2012.01.17-09.42.43_001.png"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-692" title="Fitness Center website snapshot" src="http://fitnessmarketing.tv/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/website-Snap_2012.01.17-09.42.43_001.png" alt="" width="709" height="1174" /></a></p>
<p><span style="color: #000080;">Notice how simple the gym website is to navigate. I have tweaked it for over 4 years now with all the marketing knowledge and website simplification things I&#8217;ve learned from thousands of hours of studying marketing and website design and SEO </span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000080;">Now look at this snap fitness website. It has no email sign up form for them to keep prospects thinking about them, no video, no compelling content except one offer for a week free. I&#8217;m sure since they have a big brand name it does ok, but my gym is in a town where snap fitness is also, but i have double the membership they have, they also don&#8217;t do any marketing to speak of.</span></p>
<p><a href="http://fitnessmarketing.tv/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/snap-fitness-Snap_2012.01.18-05.35.04_004.png"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-701" title="snap fitness Snap_2012.01.18 05.35.04_004" src="http://fitnessmarketing.tv/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/snap-fitness-Snap_2012.01.18-05.35.04_004.png" alt="" width="976" height="1153" /></a></p>
<p><span style="color: #000080;">You think being a big name like snap fitness they would have a staff of Internet marketers, NOT JUST WEBSITE DESIGNERS, because most designers are just that, not marketers, I am a fitness marketer first, then web designer. Snap fitness is a great gym and the owners have done a great job, but it cost them about 1 to 1.5 million to open a snap fitness. I have less than $100,000 in mine from start to finish. Which would you rather do, own your own, or a franchise that tells you where to pee and how to do it. I&#8217;ve got an ex wife, it&#8217;s not for me but may be for you. HIRE SOMEONE TO WRITE YOUR FITNESS MARKETING MATERIALS, don&#8217;t follow what all the other gyms are doing.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000080;">Now, I haven&#8217;t wanted to learn how to build websites from scratch though, I have learned to read web code, but not enough to build a site from scratch because you don&#8217;t need to these days for most businesses. I use templates now to build my customers websites, that way i can concentrate on the content that gets customers to even find the website to start with. You do however need to know some coding to install stuff like email forms and install videos and put headline tags in the right places for SEO optimization.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000080;">Below is an example of some website statistics from a website I built to replace a website that got from 0 to 3 hits a day before i built this one with specific content. notice the increase from 1 the first few days to over 150 hits a day within a month after i got the content added in several post and pages and optimized for search engines</span></p>
<p><a href="http://fitnessmarketing.tv/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/web-stats-Snap_2012.01.17-10.50.03_0021.png"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-697" title="web stats Snap_2012.01.17 10.50.03_002" src="http://fitnessmarketing.tv/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/web-stats-Snap_2012.01.17-10.50.03_0021.png" alt="" width="691" height="569" /></a> </p>
<p>I build website just like mine for many industries and people. want to see some more websites like mine? here are a few. <a href="http://www.thebamabelle.com">www.thebamabelle.com</a> and <a href="http://www.herringfitness.com">www.herringfitness.com</a> and <a href="http://www.templegym.tv">www.templegym.tv</a> </p>
<p><span style="color: #000080;">Notice how Herring Fitness website is identical to mine at Temple Gym except colors. The owner of herring fitness is NFL New Orleans Saints Player Will Herring #54 from Auburn Alabama and formerly played for the Seattle Sea hawks for 4 years. Will hired me to be a consultant to open his gym and set it up as a 24 hour fitness center since he is away most of the year in New Orleans. I built his website and he gets between 40 and 120 hits a day on an average week, which is about what i get at my gym.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000080;">Other gyms may get a lot of visits but they probably only get a phone # or address without getting convincing evidence that sells them on that gym</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000080;">If you try to get a website built from scratch you&#8217;ll spend from $2,500 to $5,000. But I can build a website like mine for under $1000 including editing a video tour that you shoot and send me, also all the specific copy writing SEO which is most important to drive prospects to your website when they search for a gym in your town. You&#8217;ll also get a video of me showing you how to go to your admin control panel and change or add stuff so you can do it yourself from then on.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000080;">By the way, my gym website video tour pre sells my gym memberships to roughly 90% of my new gym members. They come in to sign up instead of just look around now. I start to show everyone around and they say &#8220;I already know how everything works, i watched your video tour&#8221;. I basically took the idea of showing one person around and made that a video. so its like they are the camera following me around just like their there in person. except now, i don&#8217;t have to take 10 to 15 min showing them around the gym.</span></p>
<p>Need a website for your gym or fitness center? email Shannon Cook at <a href="mailto:fitnessmarketing@comcast.net">fitnessmarketing@comcast.net</a>  </p>
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		<title>Video Interview with NFL player Will Herring on How to Open a Gym or Convert a Gym into a 24 Hour Fitness Center using the Firebug Gym Software and Door Access and Security System</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Dec 2011 21:50:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Video Interview with NFL player Will Herring about how he opened his gym from scratch and  how he decided to make his gym a 24 Hour Fitness Center In this video Will talks about his experience&#8217;s with the system and opening a gym form scratch. Want to know what kind of door access and software systems [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<h2><span style="color: #800000;">Video Interview with NFL player Will Herring about how he opened his gym from scratch and  how he decided to make his gym a 24 Hour Fitness Center</span></h2>
<p>In this video Will talks about his experience&#8217;s with the system and opening a gym form scratch.</p>
<p><iframe width="420" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/kGwlM3758EM" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe></p>
<p>Want to know what kind of door access and software systems Fitness Centers like Snap Fitness, Anytime Fitness, and 24 hour Fitness use to automate their gyms? Here&#8217;s a complete system I use at my gym, Temple Gym, and I recommend my clients use to automate their gyms. It&#8217;s a complete system that comes with door access, gym software, and security system.<br />
Shannon Cook of www.fitnessmarketing.tvinterviews Will Herring, New Orleans Saints Player #54, about the 24 hour gym access system (firebug software system) and how he used the book, &#8220;HOW TO OPEN A GYM OR CONVERT A GYM INTO A 24 HOUR GYM&#8221;, available at www.how2ownagym.com to open his gym, Herring Fitness 24 hour gym in Auburn Alabama. Shannon owns Temple Gym in Tuscaloosa Alabama www.templegym.tv</p>
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		<title>The best way to sell Fitness Gift Cards for your Fitness Center and where to get Gift Cards for your gym</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Another marketing guy, Curtis Mock, told me about getting Gift Cards for my fitness center to add another revenue stream to the gym and offer customers who are looking for gifts for friends and family, a unique way to give a gift card instead of Gift Certificates. Curtis was right, and I like to give credit where [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<h2><span style="color: #800000;">Another marketing guy, <span style="color: #000080;">Curtis Mock</span>, told me about getting Gift Cards for my fitness center to add another revenue stream to the gym and offer customers who are looking for gifts for friends and family, a unique way to give a gift card instead of Gift Certificates</span>.</h2>
<h2><span style="color: #800000;">Curtis was right, and I like to give credit where credit is due, that&#8217;s what I do here at this website, I don&#8217;t act like I came up with everything Ido that works for marketing my fitness center and others I do consulting for.</span></h2>
<h2><span style="color: #800000;">Curtis Mock also has a great web show called Fitness Business Television. I highly recommend you check it out at </span><a href="http://www.fitbiz.tv"><span style="color: #800000;">www.fitbiz.tv</span></a></h2>
<h2><span style="color: #800000;">So after I got my Fitness Gift Cards I started offering them at a discount like 1/2 off for special occasions but mostly selling them at face value of $165 which is good for a 3 month single membership or 2 months family membership to my 24 hour gym and tanning salon. You can do the face value of the cards in many ways but I like to use them at an exact price of 3 months membership because its easier for me to keep up with them in my Gym Software System by Firebug Software.</span></h2>
<h2><span style="color: #800000;">I am a consuatant to and Helped Will Herring #54 line backer for the New Orleans Saints NFL team , open his Gym in Auburn Alabama called Herring Fitness 24 hour Fully Automated Gym.</span></h2>
<h2><span style="color: #800000;"> I got him to get the gift cards also, and he just did the face value at $100 good towards a membership which is fine too, you can see some of the specials I have him run on his website at </span><a href="http://www.herringfitness.com"><span style="color: #0000ff;">www.herringfitness.com</span></a><span style="color: #800000;"> . I also have Will do email subscribers only specials which I do also to my email list. You can see how I have my gift cards for sale on my website at </span><a href="http://www.templegym.tv"><span style="color: #0000ff;">www.templegym.tv</span></a><span style="color: #800000;"><span style="color: #0000ff;"> </span>, I have great success in getting subscribers with the email sign up form on my website that says in the form that if they subscribe they will get email only specials. </span></h2>
<h2><span style="color: #800000;">The thing I found out about gift cards is the same thing most retailers know. That is there&#8217;s a lot of people that will buy but never cash the cards in, and you basically come out keeping the money for no service, which is good but I like to have them coming in so they will most likely continue using the gym and become regular members.</span></h2>
<h2><span style="color: #800000;">I also give a large amount of gift cards away to those Ican tell will actually use a membership and hopefully will bring in friends, which most will. I always keep them with me, I have a knack for reading people that will appreciate and use the gift cards, and will spread the word about my gym to all their friends and family.</span></h2>
<h2><span style="color: #800000;">Can you imagine someone giving you a $165 gift card for anything, and it being real and valuable. They cant believe it most of the time, I made sure to have my website address and info on the back of the gift card so they can go to my website and see for themselves.</span></h2>
<h2><span style="color: #800000;">Will Herring is experimenting now with giving away some cards, he is reluctant to begin with, but like the 30 day guarantee I got him to give at him gym, he will see it works just like the trust the 30 day guarantee builds by just offering it.</span></h2>
<h2><span style="color: #800000;">I also do one major thing that Will Herring is just starting to do now. When a new member signs up at my gym or his, I send out a thank you letter, along with how the gym operates in case there&#8217;s no one there when they come in, being that we are a 24 Hour Fully Automated Fitness Center. Along with that letter I send out a free gift card included in every envelope. But the catch is they cant use the cards for their current membership, they must give them away to anyone that isn&#8217;t a member.</span></h2>
<h2><span style="color: #800000;">I have more success with this one fitness marketing tactic, than almost any other I use.</span></h2>
<h2><span style="color: #800000;">The next tactic is to sell the gift cards at a great discount, say my $165 card for two for one or even three for one.</span></h2>
<h2><span style="color: #800000;">Believe me it they will pay for themselves and bring in more people than just about another way of using fitness gift cards to market with.</span></h2>
<h2><span style="color: #800000;"> I don&#8217;t make a dime from selling the gift cards, I like the cards because they work ,and Curtis is a stand up guy and great at what he does, so I recommend if you are in the market for fitness gift cards, visit his website at <a href="http://www.fitnessgiftcards.com">www.fitnessgiftcards.com</a> and get your art work started today and pick your colors and raised letter option and the magnetic strip option on the back so they look authentic. they will ship them to you within about 2 weeks most of the time. </span></h2>
<h2><span style="color: #800000;">Look at mine on my website and copy some info if you wish, but the robot logo is mine and cant be copied without my consent, but I will license it out if your interested. the website to view my gift cards is <a href="http://www.templegym.tv">www.templegym.tv</a>. then search gift cards.</span></h2>
<h2><span style="color: #800000;">Also if you like the website I use Ican build you a fitness center website for your gym. A website for your gym that will in most cases will pull way more prospects than your competitors site. </span></h2>
<h2><span style="color: #800000;">Websites i like to use are a template videos, aweber email contact form,stats tracker,seo friendly, everything you need to crush your gym competition. Simply contact me with any questions and Ican get a estimate to you, i use a template for most of the gyms I open and they end up drawing more traffic than all the competition combined like I do and Will Herring does also in his town.</span></h2>
<h2><span style="color: #800000;">Don&#8217;t believe me? I have stats of exactly how many visitors come to all my gym websites including Will Herring&#8217;s</span></h2>
<h2><span style="color: #800000;">I charge a set rate , but add ons are extra like the video. If you shoot thevideo and post it to YouTube, I can simply install it into the site and maximize the keywords for that video so it will be found when searching for your gym because google loves videos now.</span></h2>
<h2><span style="color: #0000ff;"><span style="color: #800000;">let me know if I can do anything for you, and god bless!  Shannon Cook  consultant to the fitness industry, email: </span><a href="mailto:fitnessmarketing@comcast.net"><span style="color: #800000;">fitnessmarketing@comcast.net</span></a> </span></h2>
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		<title>Actual Audio Examples of Funny Best selling Radio Ad’s for Fitness Centers and how to write a Radio Ad for a Fitness Center that cost way less than 60 second ads but still gets your message across</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Aug 2011 17:40:47 +0000</pubDate>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; color: #800000; font-size: small;">Audio Examples of Funny Best selling Radio Ad’s for Fitness Centers and how to write a Radio Ad for a Fitness Center</span></span></p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: small;">My name is Shannon Cook, I’ve written many radio ads for many businesses. I own Temple Gym and Tanning salon in Tuscaloosa Alabama and have helped others open Gyms also. I wrote a book about how to open a gym from scratch that includes how to market a fitness center. </span></span></p>
<h2><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: small;">If you’re interested go to </span><a href="http://www.how2ownagym.com/"><span style="font-family: Calibri; color: #0000ff; font-size: small;">www.how2ownagym.com</span></a><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: small;"> or click on the book cover to your right and </span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: small;">you can buy the downloadable book there. </span></h2>
<p><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: small;">I helped Will Herring open his 24 hour fitness center in Auburn, Alabama, Will bought my ebook off the internet and hired me to help him open his gym,  I write most of  his radio ads too and he’s had great success with them. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: small;">Will Herring is an NFL football player with the New Orleans Saints and has played for the Seattle Seahawks also. The NFL lockout of 2011 allowed him to fulfill his dream of owning a gym.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: small;">Im going to put the actual audio ads up for you to hear also.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: small;">Now, let me start by saying that I only run 15 second radio ads for my gym, but Will has tried 15, 30, and 60 second ads with success in all, but for the money, I get my message across in 15 seconds so I don’t do the longer ads unless I have some special that takes longer than that to get across.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: small;">As long as I can get Temple Gym (my Gym Name)  and Website (</span><a href="http://www.templegym.tv/"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: small;">www.templegym.tv</span></a><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: small;">) said two or three times , and then a funny short message to fit in between, then im good.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> I’ve found that people usually tune out after that first 15 seconds if they’ve heard the ad before, but they’ll usually not change the station if they know it’s a short ad and there’s a chance the music will return after my ad goes off, so in that way I get my ad in their head even if they think they’ve tuned it out. Yes, subliminally they hear it anyway.</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: small;">I forgot to mention that I’m also a part time Comedian, (Yes, a Standup Comedian and I own a gym) so I have plenty of experience with humor writing. I don’t shy away from fat jokes either, which you’ll hear in the radio ads.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: small;">Here&#8217;s some written examples of some ads i wrote, not funny but strait to the point</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: small;">Temple Gym in Northport is a 24 hour fully automated gym. Temple Gym is also the only gym known to offer a 100% risk free<br />
guarantee. Check out the specials at Temple Gym on the web at templegym.tv that&#8217;s templegym.tv or<br />
call 333-9999<br />
 <br />
OR</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: small;"> <br />
Herring Fitness, located by makitas restaurant, is a 24 hour fully automated gym with a 30 day guarantee<br />
ladies love our privacy and security and men like wide aray of equipment we have. check out the video tour on the web at<br />
herringfitness.com thats herringfitness.com or call 887-9999</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: small;">Listen to the ads below for Herring Fitness and see what you think</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: small;"><a href="http://fitnessmarketing.tv/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/HERRING-FITNESS-FAT-AND-UGLY-MIXED_6_28_112.mp3">HERRING FITNESS FAT AND UGLY MIXED_6_28_11</a></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: small;"><a href="http://fitnessmarketing.tv/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/HILLBILLY-HERRING-MUSIC1.mp3">HILLBILLY HERRING MUSIC</a> </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: small;"> </span></p>
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		<title>So Planet Fitness Just Moved in Town, what does your Gym do to compete with a $10 a month Planet Fitness Gym?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 May 2011 02:19:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shannon cook</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So Planet FitnessJust Moved in Town,  what can your Gym do to compete with  a $10 a month Gym? I had this happen to me and the owner of Worlds Gym in my town of Tuscaloosa Alabama First of all, I must mention that my town was torn apart by the April 27th tornado that [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<h2 style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #800000;">So Planet Fitness</span><span style="color: #800000;">Just Moved in Town,</span></h2>
<h2 style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #800000;"> what can your Gym </span><span style="color: #800000;">do to compete with</span></h2>
<h2 style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #800000;"> a $10 a month Gym?</span></h2>
<p>I had this happen to me and the owner of Worlds Gym in my town of Tuscaloosa Alabama</p>
<p>First of all, I must mention that my town was torn apart by the April 27th tornado that totally destroyed Planet Fitness and Worlds Gym which were about 300 yards apart</p>
<p>Now let me tell you how they came to be so close to each other and what happend because of that</p>
<p>The Worlds gym used to be a Golds Gym until the franchise raised their franchise fees so much the owner decided to change over to Worlds Gym a few years ago.</p>
<p>He did pretty well until he made a fatal business decision</p>
<p>He bought some property behind big lots which is in the same shopping center that his Golds Gym in was for 20 years, the loactionwas like going from the busiest shopping center with plenty of parking to a storage building in the shady part of town, which is what it looked like.</p>
<p>He then built a big metal 2 story building there and made his second fatal mistake. He didnt have but a few windows in the whole building and no store front really to make it look like a Gym Buisness.</p>
<p>Then Planet Fitness moved into his old Gold Gym space in the busy shopping center.</p>
<p>Needless to say, $10 a monthcompared to his $45 to $70 a monthfor single membership with a locker and towels is a no brainer especially when the economy went south.</p>
<p>He didnt do any advertising at all, when he owned Golds he really didnt need to because he was the only gym in town. Now he had competition and still didnt heed the call of Marketing his Gym.</p>
<p>he couldntcompete with$10 MONTH but the could compete with atmosphere and the exact opposite type gym members as Planet Fitness is going after, which are the treadmillers. His base is serious gym goers.</p>
<p>Here&#8217;s how he could have competed:</p>
<p>1. Have a website that has the info potential members actually want and not flashy and corporate looking, for an example of what i do for my gym and others like mine you can look at my website and one of my clients website, Will Herring, a NFL football player for the Seattle Seahawks who hired me to open his gym and market it. my wesite is <a href="http://templegym.tv">http://templegym.tv</a> and Will Herrings Gym Website  is <a href="http://herringfitness.com">http://herringfitness.com</a></p>
<p>2. Target your market. stay away from the everyone is my target, because you&#8217;ll never hit your target market like that.</p>
<p>3. Use a email marketing system like I do with aweber email marketing at www.aweber.com</p>
<p>4. Use banners by the road side if your city lets you. I must say that i have had great luck with funny banners that get attention like this one that is a little risky but hey, that&#8217;s how I Roll, IE. Im also a part time Stand Up Comedian so people expect it from me.</p>
<p>Here&#8217;s the headline on the banner I came up with, by the way always use a headline on your banners to catch attention!!! Here it is, &#8220;TIRED OF BEING FAT AND UGLY? JUST WANT TO BE UGLY? THEN GO TO WWW.TEMPLEGYM.TV OR CALL 222-2222</p>
<p>Told you it was edgy, but i got a ton of compliments, especially from ugly people!</p>
<p>Anyway, after the Tornado swept through town and destroyed my competitions buildings, I heard the owner of World&#8217;s Gym wasntgoing to rebuild because he was losing money every month big time because of Planet Fitness, so he&#8217;s kinda of glad in a way.</p>
<p>Planet fitness is rebuilding and I&#8217;m considering opening a gym on the other side of town because i know i can compete.</p>
<p>Check out my book about how to open a Gym from scratch, or Convert your gym into a 24 hour gym at www.how2ownagym.com</p>
<p>If you would like to contact me about marketing, opening, or converting your gym, email me at fitnessmarketing.tv</p>
<p>Thanks and God Bless, Shannon Cook</p>
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		<title>The 24 hour Automated Gym and Fitness Center Door Access System I use and how to get it from the maker firebug software systems</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Jan 2011 14:37:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shannon cook</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Firebug software systems is the maker of the 24 hour door access and software system for use in any business or home where you need an automated system, the system i use and many more existing and new gym owners trust. If your starting a gym, fitness center, or health club, this is the system to use [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Firebug software systems is the maker of the 24 hour door access and software system for use in any business or home where you need an automated system, the system i use and many more existing and new gym owners trust.</p>
<p>If your starting a gym, fitness center, or health club, this is the system to use</p>
<p>Below, im also posting the youtube videos of the firebug software gym access system i have installed in my gym</p>
<p><a href="http://fitnessmarketing.tv/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/FirebugSoftwareBenefits1.pdf">click here for all info about The Firebug Software 24 hour Gym Access System</a></p>
<p>contact me for more info on the system or any questions and i&#8217;ll be happy to help</p>
<p>shannon cook  email:  <a href="mailto:fitnessmarketing@comcast.net">fitnessmarketing@comcast.net</a></p>
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<p><iframe title="YouTube video player" class="youtube-player" type="text/html" width="480" height="390" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/PHYwvJKTits" frameborder="0" allowFullScreen></iframe></p>
<p>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 <a href="http://www.how2ownagym.com">www.how2ownagym.com</a></p>
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		<title>What I learned about customer service from my ex-wife, and How to keep your Gym and Tanning members from Bad Mouthing your gym if and when they cancel their Gym Membership</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Jan 2011 21:52:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shannon cook</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What I learned about customer service from my ex-wife, and How to keep your Gym and Tanning members from Bad Mouthing your gym if and when they cancel their Gym Membership When it comes to Fitness Center Marketing, this is just as important as any Marketing you can do for your Fitness Center, Gym, or Tanning Salon [...]]]></description>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #800000;">What I learned about customer service from my ex-wife, and How to keep your Gym and Tanning members from Bad Mouthing your gym if and when they cancel their Gym Membership</span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #800000;">When it comes to Fitness Center Marketing, this is just as important as any Marketing you can do for your Fitness Center, Gym, or Tanning Salon</span></h3>
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<p>So what did my ex-wife teach me about customer service? That some people will never be satisfied, Period! Oh, and never to go into court unless you have a bag full of money and bus full of lawyers, and that means not trying to sue a gym member over a few hundred dollars because it will cost you time, money, and more members than that one.</p>
<p>I know you think your gym and members are different from the one&#8217;s you hear about from new members that come in saying &#8220;that other gym is pitiful, they suckered me into signing a contract and didn&#8217;t tell me so and so&#8221;</p>
<p>Then two months later when these same people try to cancel their 1 or 2 year contract at your gym, and you tell them the same thing the other gym told them, they go out and bad mouth your gym.</p>
<p>There are some people you cant satisfy. I know, because I&#8217;ve got an ex-wife that would make the devil give his contract up on her soul.</p>
<p>Here&#8217;s what I do with someone who breaks their contract or just wants to quit because their unhappy at my gym.</p>
<p>I try to talk to them first and find out why their unhappy. Than I tell them they have a contractual obligation just like with a cell phone company.</p>
<p>If that fails, and I can tell they&#8217;re the type that will just cancel a credit card or checking account anyway, then i will tell them to consider their contract cancelled and hope they will return when they decide to join a gym again.</p>
<p>This has never failed to get a positive response, and some have come and rejoined later. But the best part is that the bad mouthing almost stopped.</p>
<p>I do try to make aware to the member at sign up, about our policy about cancelling their membership.</p>
<p>I started putting a cancellation notice on the bottom of our contracts that they have to initial so they cant come in and say, like I&#8217;ve heard so many times, &#8220;i wasn&#8217;t told about the cancellation policy. even though its on the back in all the fine print too.</p>
<p>I don&#8217;t like fine print about an important issue, so i have it on there twice so they cant say they didn&#8217;t know. Your employees are not going to remember to tell everyone that sign&#8217;s up about the cancellation policy, and even if they did, they&#8217;ll tell you that they weren&#8217;t told.</p>
<p>I know you hard nosed business folks are saying &#8221; the contract plainly states the policy, so i dont care&#8221;, and your right. But i&#8217;m just telling you what i have expierenced for 8 years now.</p>
<p>I have members come in or call in and all the time saying they haven&#8217;t been to the gym in 9 months, and they should not be required to finish their contract out because of that, or they say &#8220;I called 2 months ago and left a message on the answering machine saying i wanted to cancel, and your gym is still drafting my account and i want a refund for the past 2 months.&#8221;</p>
<p>With these people i have no fear. Tell them to get their contract out and read it again. Of course they say then that they lost their contract. then i tell them I&#8217;ll mail them a copy if they like. All the time being nice. Usually this disarms these excuse makers, but sometimes i cancel them if they are the type of people that i spoke of at the beginning of this post.</p>
<p>Nice will get you so much further in life. My ex-wife has much to learn in this area, thank god i cancelled her contract!!!</p>
<p>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 <a href="http://www.how2ownagym.com">www.how2ownagym.com</a>  </p>
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<p>email:  <a href="mailto:fitnessmarketing@comcast.net">fitnessmarketing@comcast.net</a></p>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #800000;">Pro&#8217;s and Con&#8217;s of personal member security alert system, or 911 pendant, and which one you should you buy when starting a fitness center or tanning salon</span></h3>
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<h2>You can also use this in your fitness center marketing campaigns like I do by stating the safety factor for women and older folks</h2>
<p>There are many options out there now that allow your gym members to feel secure when alone in your gym or tanning salon</p>
<p>I&#8217;ve seen different kinds of emergency pendants, like the in-wall mounted kind, in gyms like snap fitness and 24 hour fitness. If your like me though, you don&#8217;t want a monthly fee for monitoring. There&#8217;s only one product I&#8217;ve found that you can buy and just plug the base into your phone line  and that&#8217;s it. There&#8217;s only one button on the pendant and when pressed, the only phone number it knows is 911.</p>
<p>You do have to have a phone line for this to work right though. I had a VOIP router  by T-mobile and it kept interfearing with my cable router and that in turn made the pendant keep going dead so I kept having to check it and restart it all the time.</p>
<p>In my gym I use The Guardian 911 pendant</p>
<p><strong>The only one that requires No Monitoring Fees, Service Charges or Contracts ever. </strong></p>
<p>Talk Directly through your pendant to a 911 emergency operator at the push of a button.</p>
<p>The Guardian Alert 911 system is a set &#8211; a base station which plugs into the phone jack &#8211; and a pendant which is worn by the user.</p>
<p>The system can operate anywhere in and around the home &#8211; with the base station plugged into a phone jack in the central part of the home.</p>
<p>The Pendant runs up to a year on a AAA alkaline battery (included). The pendant is splash resistant so it can even be taken into the shower. The Test Button on the bottom of the unit gives an audible confirmation of battery condition. Hold the Test Button in an extra few seconds &#8211; and you can confirm that the full system is working.</p>
<p>System Suggested Retail: $199.95.</p>
<p> <a href="http://fitnessmarketing.tv/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/guardian-911-pendant.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-596" title="guardian 911 pendant" src="http://fitnessmarketing.tv/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/guardian-911-pendant.jpg" alt="" width="200" height="398" /></a></p>
<div id="Layer39">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 <a href="http://www.how2ownagym.com">www.how2ownagym.com</a></div>
<div>Shannon Cook is a fitness center marketing consultant and owner of 24 hour Temple Gym and Tanning in Northport, Alabama</div>
<div>To contact Shannon for copywriting and consulting for your gym marketing, email: <a href="mailto:fitnessmarketing@comcast.net">fitnessmarketing@comcast.net</a></div>
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		<title>My Latest Successful Press Release I wrote about Tim Ferriss&#8217;s new book &#8220;the four hour body&#8221;, and it got the attention of the local news quickly, got my gym noticed, and got some free gym business leads, all because I did one thing, I gave great Information.</title>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #800000;"><em>&#8220;My Latest Successful Press Release I wrote about Tim Ferriss&#8217;s new book &#8220;the four hour body&#8221;, and it got the attention of the local news quickly, got my gym noticed, and got some free gym business leads, all because I did one thing, I gave great Information&#8221;</em></span></h3>
<p>I didnt try to push my gym or sell memberships at all when i sent out this press release.</p>
<p>I knew they would see that i really and truly wanted to get this great life changing info out to their readers.</p>
<p>I read tim ferriss&#8217;s new book &#8220;The Four Hour Body&#8221; and thought this new way of dieting and exercising would be great for people who think they could never lose their weight and would not want to exercise because they think it takes being in a gym for hours at a time for many days a week.</p>
<p>Tim&#8217;s book dispells all that, and so did i.</p>
<p>You may not believe that a gym owner would ever tell anyone to stay out of a gym more if they want to lose weight and build more muscle, but in fact its psycoliogical, because they will still have to come to the gym for the tools they need to exercise, i just tell them how they can do it easier.</p>
<p>Here&#8217;s the press release that got picked up, and im sure it didnt hurt the sells of  Tim&#8217;s book either.</p>
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<td width="622" valign="top"><strong><span style="color: #3366ff;"> </span></strong> <strong><span style="color: #3366ff;">Temple Gym</span></strong><a href="http://www.templegym.tv"><strong><span style="color: #3366ff;">www.templegym.tv</span></strong></a></td>
<td width="237" valign="top"><strong><span style="color: #3366ff;"> </span></strong> <strong><span style="color: #3366ff;">902 Union Chapel road</span></strong><strong><span style="color: #3366ff;">Northport, AL 35473</span></strong><strong><span style="color: #3366ff;">Phone (205)</span></strong><strong><span style="color: #3366ff;">Email: templegym@comcast.net</span></strong></td>
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<p><strong><span style="color: #3366ff;">Press Release</span></strong></p>
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<td width="442" valign="top"><strong><span style="color: #3366ff;">Contact: <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Shannon Cook</span></span></strong><strong><span style="color: #3366ff;">Phone: 000000000000</span></strong><strong><span style="color: #3366ff;">Email templegmcast.net</span></strong></td>
<td width="383" valign="top"><strong><span style="color: #3366ff;">FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE</span></strong><strong><span style="color: #3366ff;">7 A.M. CST, January 1, 2011</span></strong></td>
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<h1 style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ff0000;"> </span></h1>
<h2 style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ff0000;">“spend less time in the gym and lose more weight?”  </span></h2>
<p><span style="color: #3366ff;"> </span></p>
<p><span style="color: #3366ff;">YES, a gym owner said this. “I see people come in all gung ho when they first join the gym only to see them fall off a month later from overdoing it and being so sore they cant move for days, after their first few workouts.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #3366ff;"> they think that’s the way they’ll feel after every workout”,and they don’t have to do all that to lose weight and tone up, says shannon cook, owner of 24 hour temple gym and tanning salon in northport, alabama.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #3366ff;">he goes on to tell why you don’t have to become a gym rat to get results</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #3366ff;">spending 30 minutes 3 to 4 times a week is adequate according to “The colorado expriment”. a study done in 1973 by creator of nautilus fitness equipment, arthur jones, and the same expriment done in 2007 by author of the book “four hour body”, Tim Ferriss.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #3366ff;">the study states</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #3366ff;">“High-intensity training is not easy . . . the training sessions are brief, indeed must be brief, but there is an apparently natural inclination on the part of most subjects to hold back.&#8221; Most exercises are terminated at a point well below an actual point of muscular failure, then, in an effort to compensate for the reduction intensity, the usual practice is to add more exercise to the program.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #3366ff;">However, no amount of additional exercise will compensate for a reduction in the intensity of exercise &#8230; and if carried to extremes, which such training frequently is, the subject may actually prevent growth by exceeding the recovery ability of the system”.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #3366ff;">What is going to failure? (I.E., REACHING THE POINT WHERE YOU CAN NO LONGER MOVE THE WEIGHT). TIM FERRISS ALSO PERFORMED EVERY REPETITION WITH A 5/5 CADENCE (FIVE SECONDS UP, FIVE SECONDS DOWN) ACCORDING TO HIS BOOK.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #3366ff;">arnold schwarzenegger made exercising to muscle failure popular, and won a record number of competitions by doing it.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #3366ff;">however, arnold did more than 30 minutes of exercising, but he also wanted to have over 200 pounds of muscle on his frame, most of us just want to be TONED, feel good, and have more energy which can be achieved simply by devoting the 30 minutes you exercise to actual intense exercise.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #3366ff;">“I know being a gym owner people will find it hard to believe that im telling them to spend less time in my gym, but i’d be doing them a disservice by telling them to spend 2 hours per session in here and get burnt out, people don’t have that amount of time these days shannon cook says”, but having a 24 hour fully automated Gym and Tanning Salon makes it eaiser for gym goers to have all access to the Tools they will need to acomplish any physical goal.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #3366ff;">END.</span></p>
<p><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Shannon Cook</span></strong> can be reached at <strong><a href="mailto:fitnessmarketing@comcast.net">fitnessmarketing@comcast.net</a> </strong> for questions or comments.</p>
<h2>Website: <a href="http://www.templegym.tv/">www.templegym.tv</a></h2>
<p>Email: <a href="mailto:templegym@comcast.net">templegym@comcast.net</a></p>
<p>That&#8217;s the exact layout for my press release. always give the reporter or editor good information that they and their readers need to know, and you&#8217;ll get free publicity for your fitness center or gym.  this is how i get a lot of my marketing done for free.</p>
<h2>If you&#8217;d like Shannon to write your press release contact him at <a href="mailto:fitnessmarketing@comcast.net">fitnessmarketing@comcast.net</a></h2>
<p>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 <a href="http://www.how2ownagym.com">www.how2ownagym.com</a></p>
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