Together We Are Stronger

Hey, Kids!

Coach Heather suggested the other day that we start a blog where we could easily find coaching related documents and share ideas to help us grow our BeachBody coaching business.

This blog is, as the name suggests, a collective effort. There is no doubt about it: multiple heads are better than one. By helping each other, we help ourselves grow.

If you have any ideas or documents, please send Heather or myself your contributions! Together, we are stronger.

Here's to building our business and to our success!

Barbie, PhD




Saturday, September 13, 2008

Coach Infomercial

Something we should all try and work up to qualify for!
NEWS!
******** HUGE HUGE HUGE *******
You all know about the customer lead program, where coaches who qualify are given paying customers who bought products after seeing an infomercial.  Soon there will be a similar Coach Lead Program (CLP).  BB is right now producing a new infomercial all about the coaching opportunity.  People who see the infomercial will sign up AS A COACH and will be assigned to existing qualified coaches!  

Here are the the newest scoops.  The coach infomercial will start to run in early October on a limited basis.  They will examine the results, and tweak it if needed.  Then the media buying for it will ramp up after about a month.  

The participation qualifications were just announced.  TO BE HANDED COACHES you need to meet these criteria:
  1. Be a diamond coach
  2. Have your profile page filled out
  3. 8 WOWY workouts in the prior 30 days
  4. Must have a home direct order for you personally of 100 points
  5. In the prior 60 days you must have one new PS coach (not from the coach lead program)  -or- have one new success link (can be a link from a CLP coach) -or- have one of your PS coaches move up in rank.
There is still time to get to diamond so you can be there at the very start.  This is going to be monstrously huge!  BB sells 15-30 thousand workout programs a week.  What if they get just 1000 new coaches a week from the new coach infomercial?   There will be around 250 diamond coaches in the company at the start of the CLP.  If they get 1000 new coaches a week, we'd all get 4 new coaches per diamond coach EACH WEEK!!  100 coaches after 6 months!!!  

No one knows the number of leads that will come in, of course, but these kinds of numbers are certainly conceivable!  This has never before been done.  I truly believe it is an amazing opportunity.  I encourage everyone to shoot for diamond.  You can do it!

This is an email that Barbie sent out.  This is an email that Josh, of her coaches, sent out to his customers.  Josh, feel free to update on how this went.


Hey Coachees!
 
As you all know, our team has really grown in the last few weeks, and the number of people I am coaching has continued to increase as well. I am now spending anywhere from 2-4 hours a day answering emails, writing blog entries, and catching up on the thread, and I do it because I enjoy it! No matter how long it takes me throughout the day, I will continuously be here to provide ongoing support and motivation for all of you to reach success with the X or whatever program you might be doing, because I want you all to succeed!
 
However, I now would like some help back from all of you. As you may or may not know, in order for me to remain an active coach, I have to meet a certain volume in Beachbody product sales per month. Whenever each of you buys a Beachbody product, I will get a certain number in volume points, and after I reach 50 points I can remain active. Here is where I benefit from all this: After I reach 50 points, I make a small commission on each product that you buy. With the amount of time and effort I am putting in, it would be great to make a little money once in a while ! So if you are looking to buy supplements, consider Beachbody supplements not only because they are great products, but also to help me out a bit! I would really appreciate it!
 
Don't forget that when you buy any products to make sure you are SIGNED IN so I can get the credit!
 
I also wanted to let you guys know that there will be some additional benefits coming to you coachees very soon! Each month, starting September 1, I am going to hold a transformation contest just between you coachees! The person with the best monthly changes, judged by me, will receive a $25 Gift Certificate to a list of places they can choose from. This will just be something else to help motivate you in your journey to achieve extreme fitness! Now go out and BRING IT!

Josh
Independent Beachbody Coach
www.getrippedwithjosh.blogspot.com


Here are some of Barbie's thoughts on this email!

Number 1. I love his DIRECTNESS. The basic message is:  "I'm here to support you, but I need this many points to stay active as a coach." If you guys are struggling to reach your PV for the month, I would try Josh's approach. He's obviously busting his butt to coach, I think his peeps are happy to help. In fact, I know they are. 

Number 2. I think the idea of a "CHALLENGE" is GREAT. Everyone can join his "TEAM DETERMINATION," but in order to win, they need to be his coachee. JOSH, you might want to consider offering a BB product as the prize, such as vitamins or a recovery drink.

Getting Co-Workers Involved.


This is from one of Barbie's coaches! I want to share what Donna is doing to help get customers! (Donna, if I got this information wrong, please let me know.)

This is an email Donna sent out to her co-workers!

Hello everyone,
I’m sending you an email as a former WW@Work member, or other, to see if we, once again, can unite and get ourselves in shape!!
Here’s what I’m thinking:
  • We make a little club (get a cute name, i.e. OGN (Old Girls Network), NMFE (No More F-ing Excuses), etc.)
  • Everyone does their own thing (be it Weight Watchers, Southbeach, etc.)
  • We can meet once a week to eat our lunch and keep each other supported
  • No weigh ins, but how about a file that we all must log in each day of what we’ve eaten and what we did for exercise, and your pounds lost (weekly) – accountability!!
  • Have a Club Blog where we can post our thoughts daily or as often as possible.
    • Possible name for Blog: United We Lose Divided We Gain (get it?) J
I might have mentioned this to others, but I have become a Independent Coach with the Beachbody Company. While I would LOVE you all to purchase one of their products and have me as your coach, we could take advantage of their campaign, Million Dollar Body. All you have to do is create a screen name (no cost) and log your workouts (real time) into their page and you qualify for a daily prize. They give away, $1,000, $300, iPods, Cameras, etc. And it doesn’t have to be a Beachbody product. It’s a cool way to work out (virtual gym). Check out the web site for their products and promotion:
Any who…if anyone’s up for it, we could plan to meet for lunch after Labor (one last hurrah) and toss some ideas around. I can also answer any questions about Beachbody. I’m currently doing the Slim in 6 exercise routine. I’ve lost 10” and 20 pounds (and I don’t care to find them again!). I have 20 more to go…so I’d love to have us gals do it together. I know I stay more committed when there’s some accountability!
Here’s to your health!!!
Oh yeah: there is a water aerobics class Tues & Thurs nights from 5:30 – 6:30 on base that is free!! Let’s do it!!
Donna
(Pass this along to anyone else who wants to be on the team)



Here is a follow-up Barbie received from Donna on this.

Yesterday, I forwarded you Donna's email to her co-workers. EVERYONE said YES to starting a group, although some refused to wear a bathing suit. Donna, make sure you follow up with them regarding WOWY!! They'll be hooked on Slim in 6 in no time!

Donna- we'd love to hear how this is going?

Listen to the Team Genesis Conference calls on your own time!

This is from an email that Kevin, FitDoc, sent out awhile ago.  I am just posting it here as a reminder.  If you can't make the conference calls you can still listen to them.  They are helpful.  I think you can download them to your iPOD and listen to them in your car!  


Most excellent FitDoc Team:
 
Information on the conference call with Team Genesis is below.  (Previous post)
Don't forget you can listen later or catch previous calls at www.talkshoe.com.  Search for Beachbody Team Genesis.  The TG calls can also be downloaded automatically as podcasts!  

((Top secret FitDoc note:  You can also find other team calls on talkshoe.  I hear Team Power has good calls, too.)) 
 
-Kevin