I have always enjoyed your articles and tips from Men’s Health and eventually found you online through TT. The Online Second Paycheck System sounded interesting, thought it might help me through my current financial problems. Don’t get me wrong, I make a great salary, married or single it is good. But as a separated father of two boys, I take my responsibility seriously. To the point my lawyer says I am crazy for paying twice as much support as I have to, my boys are my life even if it leaves me short every month.

So I have watched the videos and read the info – nothing. Sounded great but I had nothing, no ideas, nada, zip. Thanks for the info, will continue on living my life to the fullest that I can. Love TT, well on the way to dropping the last 15 pounds.

But wait….after lunch with a friend who has his own business…he mentioned that he has a new salesman…pays him $500 for any solid leads. Also pays him 20% of his profit from a completed job. Can the Online Second Paycheck System help drive leads? Don’t know, but I think I am willing to try.

Thanks for your time,
Rod

First off, even though I have never met you, I would just like to say THANK YOU for being such a big influence and motivation to me.

After graduating with a B.S. in Kinesiology – Exercise Science, I began working as a personal trainer at a very upscale fitness center that was about a 40-45 min. drive from my house. At first, being fresh out of college, I enjoyed the job because I thought I was making “good” money. When I first started training, I was working anywhere from a 12-15 hour day, 6 sometimes even 7 days/week (Sat. I would train approx. 6 hours, Sun. 2-4 hours.)

Training that many people, along with the 40-45 min. drive, 1 way, needless to say, started to wear on me pretty quickly. Pretty soon, I began to realize the “good” money that I was making, wasn’t worth all of the time and effort I was putting in, if I didn’t have the time to enjoy it. So I began to look for other jobs/career paths that I could venture into but yet still stay involved in fitness. After all, I do enjoy helping people to reach their fitness goals, but there are only so many clients you can fit in your schedule between 5-9 a.m. and 4-8 p.m. (It is tough to convince your clients to work in with someone else when they are paying a PREMIUM rate for training.)

After job hunting, brainstorming, and searching on the internet, I came to a couple of conclusions:
-I didn’t want to work for “the man” anymore
-I wanted to be able to work where I want, when I want
-I still wanted to be able to help people reach their fitness goals

After much deliberation, and seeking advice from my family and close friends I finally decided to make a “career” change. (The way I made my final decision, I decided I needed to do whatever scared me the most.)

This was also about the time that “economic downturn” started and I was losing clients almost daily because they began cutting back on expenses. I figured if I was going to struggle to pay my bills, which I was/am, I would much rather do it on my own instead of working for “the man” (at this point in time I was down to training approx 20 hours a week and still being at the facility anywhere from 40-50 hours a week.) It was also a good time to make the change in my personal life, no wife/girlfriend and no kids. The only ones depending on me are my dogs (male black lab mix that I adopted, and a female chocolate lab that is almost 5 years old – aren’t labs the best.)

Since leaving my personal training job I have started my own business and began running bootcamps which are just now starting to really take off. The reason that they are beginning to take off is because I finally started following the tips and advice that is given on various websites/programs that I read (Chris McCombs, Steve Hochman, Bedros Keuilian, TT Bootcamp Workout Secrets, etc. – it is amazing how fast these systems/programs work when you implement them, even if it is just doing 1 thing every day.)

I have also been researching, studying, and trying to learn as much as I can about how to start an internet fitness website such as TT. I know that I have a killer fitness idea, in a niche market, that NO ONE has tapped, where there is a HIGH demand. My only problem is I am not sure exactly what to do, where to start, what type of delivery system will work best in my market, among many other questions that I have (some of which you answered in your webinar the other night.)

I have been reading, researching many different internet marketing people (you, Ryan Lee, Mike Roussell, Yanik Silver, and many others), and taking bits and pieces of info and putting them together. However, I have been a little hesitant to “pull the trigger” on purchasing any products. After watching the webinar that you gave the other night, I am very impressed with the information that you put together and with ALL of the info that you gave out for FREE.

I know that with your products and all of the people that you have helped to build their online business/products, any information/product that you put your name on is worth at least 100x more than what you charge for it.

Thank you again for being such a big influence and motivation to me and also for putting together a great webinar the other night.

Sincerely,
Roger Ernst II, CSCS

P.S. – When I get a couple more of my prospects to sign up for my bootcamp I intend on purchasing the TT KB Workouts. I know I’ll be able to put the TT KB Workouts to good use not only in all of my bootcamps, but also for my own workouts.

From Flunky to Just Junky in Record Time?

Hey Craig,
I thought before getting started I’d give just a little background before I explain…Why the Online Second Paycheck System would be the perfect product to finally help me create the perfect product and website to make money online.

I tend to be a little longwinded. My first draft was over 3 pages. In every effort I have tried to be concise and to the point. Here’s the bullet point version of my past and then I will continue and elaborate a little more in-depth about my future.

OK, here goes….

· A while ago, I left a job I hated for a career that I loved. I saw an unnerving trend that has continued to this day of people not exercising and taking advantage of their body. I had hoped to buck this trend by educating people how to work exercise back into a routine part of their daily lives.

· I tried working for a “Big Box” Fitness Center and found it unsatisfying. The “Big Box” approach never seemed to be about helping the client. It always seemed to be about directing clients to different areas of the club where they could suck more money out of them. There were agendas, quotas, meetings and the like but I never heard anything that even slightly resembled a way to further assist or help people (you, know…their paying clients)

· I struck out on my own. I was hard-working and passionate. What else could a person need? I ignorantly believed that If “I showed it (meaning passion), they would come”. How wrong I was. I had clients but not enough to pay all of the bills and I had to get a second job to help make ends meet. This took away a lot of so-called “free time” to build my business. I flunked big-time.

· Bloodied from the battle but not broken from the war I decided that If I were to succeed I would have to educate myself more about all the things that occupy the minds of all “Ambassadors of Fitness”, (lead generation, online marketing, sales etc. etc.). I would have to get smarter so I didn’t have to work harder. Since then, I have bought many information products. If you can name them, I’ve probably bought them. Products from the likes of Eric Ruth, Rocco Castellano, Jim Labadie, BJ Gaddour and Bedros Keuilian, and lest not forget Mr. Craig Ballantyne.

· In the time that I’ve spent “studying” to be successful, I have watched trainers like yourself, Ryan Lee, Pat Rigsby and the like succeed tremendously with ideas similar to ideas I’d thought of but never did anything with. I realized an idea is just that and idea. Unless of course, you do something with it. There’s no more time for excuses. Its time to put some hustle behind this muscle.

· I have to honestly admit, I am jealous. I am green with envy. Not of you or your successes but of the ability you had and continue to have to get things done.

And now, for my future…

Who really knows what the future holds?

Will I Win This Contest?

Will I Make a Million Bucs If I Do?

These are all questions that only time will tell.

I have worked tirelessly to ensure that I don’t fail this time. So far I’ve been successful and there’s has been no failure. There is only one problem; there has been no beginning either.

I am a self-diagnosed information junkie. Combine that with a slight case OCD and one can only imagine what happens. To paraphrase a popular saying, “I drown in the details” Its not that I don’t take action. Its that I take 40 actions, none of which mind you, get me any closer than taking no action at all. As one could imagine I often get sidetracked and suffer from information overload. In a weird dichotomy of sorts, it seems the harder and harder I work to get closer to my goal, the further and further I get from it. It’s a self-defeating quest that unfortunately never ends.

I am often accused of being overly ambitious. I have grand visions of the eventual empire I will have. Like Zachary Ninteman in post #1, I currently own over 30 names and I believe each one is my ticket to success and will bestow millions upon me.

One thing is for certain however. The time has long since past to make the dream I have into the reality I want.

I have tried myself (and failed miserably) to find or create a system that works for me and for my lifestyle. I need a system that tells me what to do first, then next. etc. I am sure you get the point. But I’ve realized I don’t need just any ole system….I need Craig Ballantyne’s Online Second Paycheck System.

Initially after learning about the contest, I had every intention to enter. That initial enthusiasm waned quickly and parted ways to the predictable mind-junk that affects us all from time to time, “I don’t have the time”, “I won’t win anyways”, etc. etc. I realized that if this is the system I‘ve been looking for (and I believe it is), I can no longer afford to “not have the time”, that “I can win” etc. and that I had to act.

I know that this will benefit me and am entirely committed to seeing it through.

Honestly, if I don’t win it, I am still going to purchase it anyways. I believe in it that much. I hope this doesn’t hurt my chances Craig. (ha, ha)

So here I am…I’ve poured out my past in bullet points and elaborated on my potential future. All the while hoping that I did enough win. Did I? But before you think about it. I have just a couple of question for you Craig. Am I Worthy? Have I Done Or Said Enough? And all the while quietly wonder how quickly can your system turn me from “Flunky to Just Junkie” Will it be in Record Time? I certainly hope so.

In closing Craig,
I’d just like to say thank you for this opportunity and consideration for your gracious gift.

Although I’d really like to win, I can see from the other comments that many could benefit from this and are possibly more deserving as well. So good luck to everyone.

Jim F Ball

p.s. Also, and if possible, (to feed my OCD urges) Id also like to know the name of the Direct Mail Home-Study Course that you said in your video that was so instrumental that it changed your life.

Thanks again for everything

Jim

Why do I need your system? Dead Easy really, to date I must have spent £4000 on trying to develop a web based business and to say that I have failed must class as one of the biggest understatements ever. I am a 63 year old who has long followed TT as I believe in keeping fit and leading a healthy lifestyle and my ambition is to develop a web based business to provide a good income when my wife and I retire. Having joined an on line web development program I have spent hours developing my site, (just at the time when everybody else was saying blogging is the way forward!) As well as doing that I then spent more hard earned money on this great solution and that great solution with the end result of zilch, nothing. Like all of your correspondents I am certain that my idea will work. All that I have to do is complete the necessary research, join the appropriate forums and perform the relevant keyword research. The only problem I have is deciding which of the many free and purchased keyword research tools to use, do I join U.K based forums and chat rooms because I live in the U.K. or concentrate on those in the U.S.A & Canada. Having followed TT and become an affiliate before I fell out with the on line web design and hosting company why not follow someone who I know and trust. TT worked for me and I am absolutely certain that “The Online Second Paycheck System” will let me turn my dreams in to reality.

Best regards,

Bob

I have invested over 20 years to become a high specialist in fine tune High End Audio systems ; I do write (in spanish) for a specialized magazine in Mexico: http://www.hometech.com.mx/secciones.php?id_sec=5
but I must send my message to my readers every month within 900 words; I’ve often been requested to write a book to share my findings with anyone, but a book is very dificcult to promote (I once offered two succesfull lectures on the subject at “The Stereophile Show” in Miami Fla. back in 1994, which is a mayor acomplishment being a mexican specialist, as we have no legacy in the area to display to the world), as you can imagine with the Home Theater development, my market is growing thigther every day and it is actually very hard to get new clients.
Therefore, the offer you posted with the Online Second Paycheck System offering guidelines to help me create the perfect product and website to make money online, was like a call from heaven for me, as I would now have the chance to breake barriers and frontiers and offer my proven simple and efective guidelines to anyone that would like to step up their sound system’s performance, no matter if he lives in Singapoore or Seatle.
So weather I win your contest it or not, I’ll definetly get your “book” and be a happy follower of your guidelines that would help me expand my horizons as never before.

Julio

I appreciate your enthusiasm and passion for the fitness industry and your many contributions. I have been a personal trainer for less than a year and have quickly realized the way to achieve my dreams and goals comes from modeling individuals such as yourself, Steve Hochman, and Bedros Keullian. Any information I obtain from you guys is treated as “cheques waiting to be cashed” as I am opening up my own Bootcamp business this upcoming January and would love your guidance in making myself a presence on the net.

All the best,
Josh Saunders, BSc, CSCS

Your sytem finally outlines everything I’ve been looking for to help me take my knowledge and ability to help so many more people. While at the same time freeing myself from the constant rat race of clients and living at their disposal and not my own.
The reason “OSP” can help me is because I have the niches and the products and just never kneo how to excute this on the vast internet and I’m finally ready to stop dreaming and start making it happen. I know if I win your system I will be one of those people added to your success testimonal list in a very big way!
I just need a great mento and I feel this program finally is that for me!
Thank you
Vincent Que