Joe Pece – Hard Knox Training

I was living in the new gym…had no real kitchen facilities, no hot water and had to put together a makeshift shower as I didn’t have any showers in the gym.

As we are approaching Fitness Business Summit, I just wanted to give you a personal Thank You for what Bedros and more importantly yourself have done for me over the past 9 months.

This is not something I have made common knowledge, however, prior to working with yourself my business was in an extremely bad way. Not long before starting the business accelerator program, I had to move out of the premises that I was running my gym from. This was because I was unable to cover the rent for the premises and was so far behind that I was asked (ok forced) to leave.
Having no where to go and also not wanting to give up on my dream, I took the clients that stood by me and started training in a park every day.

For the next few months, I pretty much did what ever I had to do to get enough cash to put together a deposit to lease new premises and negotiate with the realtors to give me the first 3 months free (my thought process was that I had 3 months to make the business profitable). I was also having to stay at a friends place when I could as I couldn’t afford to pay rent to live anywhere at the time either.

This was the point where I seriously took on the information that Bedros was producing and took the step to enrol in the business accelerator program. It was something that I was not able to afford but once again did whatever I needed to do make sure I didn’t miss the opportunity. To do this I was living in the new gym that I just had signed on for, as I didn’t have any real income to pay for a place to live. It was not a pleasurable experience as I had no real kitchen facilities, no hot water and had to put together a makeshift shower as I didn’t have any showers in the gym….just toilets and cold water (doing cold showers throughout the winter was not a pleasurable experience…i definitely wouldn’t recommend it 🙂 )

But once I started the phone calls with yourself, it gave me a lot of hope that this was the turning point for my business. The phone calls with yourself became my guide for building the gym. Everything you asked or suggested that I do, I did with 110% and made sure I could do it as well as I could and no surprise all the methods worked. When starting with you my business was bearly making 3k a month. Thanks to you I am now making an average of 13k per month, and this is all thanks to you and your dedication to wanting to do whatever it takes to help people succeed.

As you know, I have just put on a new trainer, and this was something that I didn’t even see possible just a short time ago.

I will admit that this journey has been tough, there were a lot of testing and dark times, but I always knew that I had you on my side and just by reading through Profitable Personal Trainer group kept the motivation up and promising myself that no matter what that I would be at the next Fitness Business Summit…which is now reality thanks to yourself.

This is just a brief overview of what has happened over the past 9 months, but from the bottom of my heart thank you! If it weren’t for your vast knowledge, encouragement and commitment I truly believe that I wouldn’t have a business, let alone a profitable business that I have now. I cant wait to keep working with you and building my business bigger as I now see this as just the beginning.

THANK YOU once again, I feel I owe a lot to you and B.

I am looking forward to meeting you in a few weeks 🙂

Oh and just so you know, I am no longer living in the gym but I do have my own place now 🙂

P.S. I was going to send this to B as well, but wasnt sure which email to send it to, so please feel free to forward to him.

Thanks and see you soon
Joe Pece – Hard Knox Training