Beachbody coaches

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akcalo

This thread has been very encouraging to see that others have similar feelings about coaching. I've been a coach for over a year but have not even reached emerald. I joined because I had such great results using their products, Slim in 6 in particular, and since people were already asking how I had the results I figured why not earn some income as well. I also had started drinking Shakeology and thought the discount would be good. I also joined as a coach so that I could hopefully eventually make it a full time income, since I dream of having a home business to be able to stay at home for my kids. Well, it wasn't as easy as I thought it would be. I also find the whole business of pushing people to join something they may not be ready for, just to try and boost my bottom line is definitely wrong. But I still enjoy the discounts since I've ordered other workouts as well and hope to order others.

But like others are saying. I am discouraged by the trend of this focusing on recruiting coaches into Beachbody. The whole focus on Success Club drives me bonkers! I thought the focus is trying to end the trend of obesity but the push seems to be on recruiting. I agree with another poster on hear who said they're should be some kind of reward system for coaches who simply have been helping and motivating people to get in shape, and not just achieving rank status. Part of me wants to quit, but I've recently been helping some friends and family by starting a Shakeology challenge group on FB and it's very encouraging to see the postive effects I'm having on them, and seeing them encouraging and interacting and making new friends.

So I'm going to just continue it as a side thing. If I earn a comission from a sale great, and if someone is interested in coaching that's great too. But if not, no big. I'm not going to push it either. I'm getting to help people, I also get a discount on products I love to use and that's it.

akcalo

I'm not a coach but I have been thinking of becoming one. I would love to help people in their journey.... and getting discounts is always a plus. One of the things holding me back is I don't know how it all works, and secondly... I thought it would be a little lame for me (who is still 60-ish lbs overweight) to be coaching people to their goals. Who am I to say how they should do their workouts and whatnot when I am still a big fatty? Nobody would take me seriously I think.

How does the coaching work? Whats the different levels I'm hearing about (diamond, ruby, etc)? How do you make money... and how much do you make? (It's not really about the money for me... as long as its enough to cover the monthly coach fee I would be happy). Do you have to find and sign your own clients or do they assign clients to you?

It's hard to answer those questions in these forums without someone saying we're advertising ourselves...but I will try to take s stab at it, lol.

When you start out as a coach, you are just "coach." This means that you have no other coaches signed up under you. You are NOT given customers by Beachbody at this time. So basically, your first customers are normally people you know, your friends, family, etc. and people you talk to who are interested in being coached. At this point you earn a little commission when people buy Beachbody products from the website that they give you which you pay $14.99 a month to have.

When you have 2 coaches signed up under you who are both "active" (being active coach means that you either personally buy about $50 of product a month for yourself or your customers go to your website and buy that much) you are called Emerald. So basically, you need to have signed up 2 coaches and those coaches also buy product. When you are Emerald, Beachbody automatically signs up customers with you as their coach when they buy a program. You also get "free players" which are people who sign up to get a coach without buying anything. (oh, I forgot to mention...to stay an active Emerald Coach, you also have to sign up for the Club Membership on their website which is like $40 every 3 months...) Get a couple more coaches under you, you move up to Ruby....I became a Diamond when I had 2 Emeralds under me.

So as you can see, the "business" side of things can be expensive for beginners because if you don't have active coaches then you have to buy product yourself! Unless you don't care about staying active 100% of the time. One of my coaches started ordering all these vitamins once a month for herself that she couldn't go through in a month just to stay active...sad, sad, sad when coaching turns into Show Me The Money. But I digress.

Oh and here's an interesting thing...it happened to me a lot. If someone doesn't like program and the return it for a refund, Beachbody takes your commission back from you by deducting it from the next check you get. How's that for making Carl richer? And they also take away the credit for selling it in the first place, so you might lose rank next week. I was Diamond one week, and then shot back down to Emerald the next week because one of my coaches went inactive and one little ol' customer returned P90X.

Are you starting to understand why the money grubbing coaches out there seem to have all these sell sell sell attitudes, now? You sell, you make money. You don't sell, you seem to get punished. Unless you remember that it is NOT about making money...................

But when you sign up, you get all these huge info packets about their compensation plan and there's meetings and webinars galore about how to get coaches.

Gosh, I wish they'd have a seminar on healthy eating or modifying difficult exercises! Cause that's what my customers care about, not me trying to get them to sign up to be a coach!!! But I digress...

As far as how much money you make, that totally depends on how many coaches you have signed up under you. Don't think that if you have a thousand customers you will make a lot of money. You get commissions from what they buy IF THEY BUY. Remember that they are a customer cause they already bought a program...no guarantee they will ever buy anything else. You also get commissions (so to speak) if your downline coaches buy or sell things to others and a "bonus" if you have really big selling coaches. It's an MLM. Most coaches hate it when you call it a pyramid scheme, but if it walks like a duck, talks like a duck, no matter what the big duck Carl tells you....................

Being completely 100% totally honest with you...even when I was a Diamond before the Game Plan came out, the most I ever made was about $400 a month. It's really not that bad, but you can't live off it making what I was making. When the Game Plan was released, I had been knocked down to Ruby because I had a coach to cancel...and since then, making money with Beachbody has been insanely difficult. As stated before, after the Game Plan, all the really good incentives went to the founding coaches and those lucky enough to make it and stay in Diamond status. So Ruby and below have to work harder than ever to move up the ladder. As I mentioned earlier a few posts ago, I recently had a lot of coaches to up and quit out of sheer frustration with Carl and his money making schemes. Which sent me down to regular ol' Coach as if I had just started out. So for the past 5 months or so, I have averaged about double the money of the $14.99 fee per month...which puts me on top, but no where near where Carl said I could be. You hear all the time about the 6 figure salary of coaches, but let me tell you that is only true about the founding coaches! This is not true for the other thousands of coaches trying to make a difference in the fight to end obesity.

Goodness...sounds like a really negative, spiteful post, doesn't it?

I'm not trying to be negative, just realistic. I do not think being a Beachbody Coach is a negative thing at all. But you need to hear the truth about how difficult it is to make money instead of the hype that most diehard coaches will tell you.

I urge you to think about this when signing up to be a coach. Think about the people you want to help. And remember that YOU provide those people until you get 2 coaches to sign up with you and stay active. Don't focus on the money, or you will certainly lose focus of the people! It's all Carl's emails and Facebook page talks about is so-and-so just signed up more coaches...the "training" is about signing people up rather than health and fitness...

If you are passionate about health and fitness and want to do that as a career, I would personally look into personal training, fitness instruction, etc. Beachbody as a career seems to suck the joy of helping others right out of it sometimes unless you separate yourself from the business side of it.

But as I said many times before, I thoroughly love and enjoy helping people out. I don't even look at my Beachbody "office" anymore unless it is to get email addresses of new customers and greet them. They money isn't important. But I hope I answered some of your questions about the compensation plan. It was never really explained to me and I just assumed I would start making a check right away. Didn't happen. So please don't get wrapped up in that side of it. :flowerforyou:

Wow! This has got to be the most honest straight forward and upfront post describing the coaching experience that I've ever seen anywhere! I wish more people knew it this way BEFORE they sign up! That's why I can't find it in me to try and recruit anyone unless they would be ready for the challenges ahead, You described what I've felt and what I've seen. I feel the very same way.

Utalledo

I wished I read this before I signed up.

aimforhealthy

Read this whole thread with great interest... I have no plans to become a Beachbody coach, but I'm a social media consultant and website designer, and I was recently hired and then incredibly ripped off by one of the top BB coaches in the industry for my services. The short time I spent working with them made BB coaching seem like a money-crazed cult. It was really off-putting.