Beachbody Coaching Milestones

The Beachbody Coaching Business is full of milestones.  One of my favorites is the first time you open up your online office and see a new coach beneath you- a coach that you did not sponsor.  The first time that happens is magic- it tells you about the potential that networking business has.  It makes you realize that, "holy buckets, this stuff is real!"  Because as you know, if you are Emerald or above, even if you didn't personally sponsor the new coach you will still benefit.  Any volume that the new coach generates will count toward your weekly bonuses.    It makes the idea of logarithmic growth real for you.

At first it happens rarely, then occasionally.  Then it starts to snowball.

I remember at the first Beachbody Coach Summit when one of the top coaches got up on stage and told us that since the night before when he checked into the hotel, his downline had grown by 4 coaches.  FOUR COACHES in one day!  Incredible!  His business kept building while he was sitting at the hotel listening to speakers, working out, and shooting the breeze with friends.  How cool is that!

Well right now I want to personally thank all of you who have been working and building your businesses with me over the past few years.  I have recently reached a new milestone.  And it is all because of my awesome team.

For the past several weeks, 50 coaches per week have been added to my downline!

I don't say this at all to brag.  Heaven knows it is due the hard work of my team.  I have been taking it easy this summer. 

But that is exactly the point.  After a long period of consistent hard work, my business has taken on a life of its own.  I still need to both support my coaches and recruit new ones - and I will continue to do so.  But I am at the point where I can coast for a few months and my business keeps growing! 

When I finish coasting and start to pedal again, my business will move faster than ever.

I tell this story because I know there are ups and downs in the networking business.  I have seen it in my downline leaders and other top coaches that I have watched for several years now.  This business is not get-rich-quick.  It grows one customer and one coach at a time.  But the power of compounding over time that we have in Beachbody is truly the eighth wonder of the world. 

I am seeing it in my own business.  And I know beyond a shadow of a doubt that it can happen for you, too.

If you are a current coach, check out your back office for all kinds of new corporate training and webinars- like last Mondays recorded call on using social media.  Beachbody is really stepping up their training this summer.

Whether current coach or just thinking about it, if at all possible, attend a LIVE training event.  Nothing compares to the energy and ideas you will come away with from a live event. 

Live events this month are in:
Lincoln, NE
Nashville
Columbus
Irvine, CA
Indianapolis
Decatur,IL
Naperville, IL
Washington, DC
Phoenix
Miami (with Tony Horton)
Las Vegas


Keep Pushing Play, and keep putting yourself out there as a healthy positive force in the world. 

To your success,

-Doc

PS If you are not yet a coach and want more info, shoot me an email- kevin@thefitdoc.com. I'll show you how to get started right.


Kevin J. Kane, MD
TheFitDoc.com
The Healthiest Chocolate You'll Ever Drink

Beachbody Coaching FAQ's

A customer recently asked me some excellent questions about Team Beachbody coaching. I want to post my answers here.

How long have you been a coach?  I started doing P90X at the end of 2005.  But the Team Beachbody Coaching opportunity was not available until March of 2007.  I researched it for a while, then took the plunge in July 2007.  At that time all of us pioneers didn't have any tools.  None of us had any experience in MLM.  We just loved the products and were already spreading the word about P90X and answering questions about it, so we all figured that we might as well get paid for doing what we love and are doing already anyway!

Is this the first direct marketing business you've been involved in?  Yes.  I've learned a lot in the time I've been doing it.  One of the biggest things that I've learned about the business is never taught by the company.  The key is to realize that your main product is not P90X or Shakeology or anything that your direct sales company sells.  Your main product is you.

How many hours per week do you spend building your business?  I put in on average about 15 hours per week. 

One of the great things about the network marketing industry is the flexibility of the hours.  I can schedule it around my work at the hospital and around my family life.  That being said, anyone who says you can make money at this business without any effort is either lying or setting you up for failure. 

To succeed, I suggest at least 10 hours per week.  What I see is the coaches who put in consistent effort over time are the ones who rise to the top.  It is a lot like working out.  It is not magic but it does take consistent effort over time. 

One 3 hour long workout until you drop wont get you ripped.  But an hour a day at least 5 days a week for 90 days sure will.  Consistent effort over time is the key to great P90X results and it is the key to Beachbody Coaching success as well.  (And success in virtually all areas of life I believe).

How much income do you receive from your business? Over the last 7 weeks my average has been $431. (see attachment).  My goal for 2010 (which I expect to surpass) is 25,000.  In 2011 I expect to double that to $50,000. 

That is not typical.  Incomes vary based on effort, skill, and other factors.  Most coaches make less than me.  Some make more.  A lot more.  I have three coaches that I know about who are DOWNLINE from me who have already replaced their full-time income with coaching and are now coaching full-time.   The most any coach made in 2009 was $932,000!

"Team Beachbody® does not guarantee any level of success or income from the Team
Beachbody Coach Opportunity. Each Coach's income depends on his or her own efforts,
diligence, and skill. See our Statement of Independent Coach Earnings (attached) for the most
recent information on the actual incomes of all our Coaches."

Is the advertising budget going to increase, decrease or stay the same for Beach Body products on television and the internet?  Beachbody spent 90 million dollars on advertising last year.  Since they are growing so fast, I don't expect that number to go down.  They have been in the direct response business for over 10 years, and really know what they are doing as it relates to buying advertising and creating effective spots.  They don't tell coaches their future plans, but I have confidence that they will spend when it is appropriate, and hold back when the markets dictate as well.  They test all their ads.  If they are not getting the response they want, the ads are pulled, tweaked, and run again. 

The interesting thing is that when I started, nobody had heard of P90X.  A a result of the advertising (and word of mouth from the transformations), now everyone wants to do it.  I was at a party last weekend, and when I started to talk about P90X, everyone got interested.  I got 3 business cards from people who wanted to buy it.  This never happened 2 years ago.  It was great!

Let me know how I can get started.  I'd be honored to work with you as your sponsoring coach.  I'll give you the signup link below.

4 Healthy Choices to Change Your Life

You can lower your risk of several chronic diseases by 80% if you exercise, eat well, don't smoke and avoid obesity, a study finds.

From the LA Times August 11, 2009 :

If people would just do four things --
1. engage in regular physical activity,
2. eat a healthy diet,
3. not smoke and
4. avoid becoming obese
(Technically the last two are not things to DO, they are things to NOT DO, but I'm splitting hairs)
-- they could slash their risk of diabetes, heart attack, stroke or cancer by 80%, a new report has found.

But less than 10% of the 23,000 people in the multiyear study actually lived their lives this way.


"What really has been difficult is trying to figure out how to get people to take notice of the message and engage in healthy behaviors,"said Dr. J. Leonard Lichtenfeld, deputy chief medical officer for the American Cancer Society.

I have a revolutionary idea. Let's let people win money for being healthy. I won $300 a while back just for logging in my workout in the free WOWY online supergym!

Better yet, let's create a system where anyone can get paid to live healthy.

Yeah, that's it! We'll let people start their own home-based business coaching others to get fit as they do the same thing themselves! Get Paid to Lose! Now that' s an incentive!

And we'll call the new business "BeachBum Coaching"... or something like that.

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