How I Lost 50% Of My Profits At My First Bootcamp

I lost 50% of my profits with this mistake. I kicked myself, bashed my head up against a brick wall for being such a dumbass!

The first bootcamp I ran had lots of people sending me emails in the week before the training session, asking to be added to the list. I had set a maximum number of 20 people for the group to keep things manageable. I had a list of 20 people with 4 days to go and still I was getting emails, but I was turning them away as I already had a full list.

Problem was I had no money in my pocket, people would pay on the first day.

At that first session almost half didn’t turn up, it was raining, and 2 or 3 didn’t “remember” to bring the cash. they also didn’t remember to come to the next sessions either (

I had a group of 8 people eventually who did stay and did pay me, but I was feeling pretty pissed at turning people away the previous week. It was a big lesson.

As a fitness professional looking to FILL your bootcamps, that is if you are running it as a real “business”, like I outlined in my latest FREE report. Your primary task is to make a profit, getting clients to pay up front and in full!

From a technical standpoint, it can seem daunting to add a Paypal button to your web page, the act of setting up a real merchant account can seem extremely difficult too, which means you are probably put off the idea of taking payments on-line

A few bootcamp owners  have told me their clients would not want to pay on-line!

That’s horseXXXX!!

97% of my clients gladly pay online, I take cash from maybe one client a month, and I tell them their place is NOT confirmed until they have given me the cash.

My sales copy is designed to get the client to take out their crdit card and pay immediately on reading the copy, never even indicating the option to pay by any other means.

This year (as it happens today) I am setting up a recurring billing method so I can automatically get payments each and every month from my clients, I can then pretty much guarantee my income every month from the bootcamp. Once again, technically this may seem challenging but it is simply a matter of copying and pasting a little code snippet from Paypal or you shopping cart system!

Take action today and set up online payment for your bootcamp, the time, worry and hassle of collecting cash will disappear!

NOTE: On Monday, we start a five day special promotion for the Group Training Success System, in it will be step by step guides to do exactly this! Please note you will want to be one of the first 25 to order. I am not gonna let on just yet, but this bonus really will save you 100’s if not 1000’s of dollars in 2009.

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