Why Sign Up For Premium Membership at FPT

We have created this site to provide you a variety of reasons to upgrade your membership. While there are many tools and networking functions available to a free "Basic" account the benefits continue to grow for those who choose a Premium Membership. If you have a hard time seeing the benefit to you personally, you may need to get outside that box.

Fitness Pro Travel Network features were designed to enhance your career/business, provide you educational options, and provide you discounts based on the network as a whole.
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For the Fit Pro Traveler - Why Upgrade Membership?
taking advantage of the teaching vacation

The FPT community has been taking advantage of the excellent teaching vacation opportunities of Fit Bodies, Inc. since the mid 1990's. The number of locations has greatly increased since inception along with some diversity in the options for various specialties. If you want to take advantage of your fitness or sport specialty skills, you can by parlaying it into an all-inclusive exchange.

• Advanced Date Notification - Enterprise members receive 24 hour (most often greater) notice of date and location releases. You want to ensure you get the right spot at the right time, this feature will give you the best opportunity.
   
• Forums and better yet, utilizing or creating travel groups will enhance your travel knowledge and preparation prior to booking.
   
• **NEW - Corporate Group Specialist Fit Pro - At times specific groups or the resorts themselves request the presence of a fitness professional to join and provide their specialty. Selection is made from FPT membership starting with the Premier Members.  Your chance to work with a Rock Star.
   
• Utilize the Waiting List - For premier members you have the ability to put your self on the waiting list for travel dates another pro may have booked before you.
   
• Frequent Travel Discounts - The more advanced your premium membership is, the more you receive in discounts for multiple weeks of travel. You also qualify to join more groups which tend to carry discounts for specific locations on a regular basis.

For the Fitness Industry Professional - Why Upgrade Membership?
taking advantage of the advanced features

Securing more athletes or clients, promoting a workshop, diversifying your business, reaching more with your fitness or sport coaching specialty, providing more and potentially earning more from your group fitness students, all of those are pieces of doing a bit more than just getting by or simply working for "the club".

• Networking Promotions - You are provide multiple blogs to speak to different audiences, set up your own group around the topic of your choice (great for your business & it's employees or masterminding), and forum participation and influence. You also can seek out and connect with a greater number of other fitness professionals.
   
• Fitness Event Promotions - The FPT events calendar allows for event listing of a professional or enthusiast nature. Your event will be presented to many and they in turn can refer it to their friends. All members can post at least one event, but premium members can post multiple events directly to the network of thousands.
  When these events are fed to outside partner sites, your reach becomes even greater. Compare advertising rates to outside specialty communities of any size of significance.
   
• Job Listings - If you have a studio or larger business and want to seek out the best to operate with you customer, finding an industry specific audience here at FPT is a huge advantage. Your membership covers multiple listings. In a monthly price comparison you can not beat presenting your positions here.
   
• Advertising - Our advertising program allows Premier members to post 150x150 banners that will not only say and look like their own business brand, but also link back to any landing page. The exponential benefits begin when your add is not only on FPT, but also our partner sites automatically
   
• Content Marketing - It is very difficult to say enough about the benefits, especially online with content marketing. Your expertise goes into our article (or other) directory system. Tied to your article is your resource information (bio and links to you). And, together they stay as they are fed in to this sites directory as well as the directory of our partner sites...
  
  
• Partner Opportunities - The advantage of network membership shines when talking to partners. We speak to a couple new potential partners each month and all offer special program options because of our size. We negotiate something for all, but more often than not Premier members received added bonus or discount. Check Out Our Partners.
  
  
• Your Fitness Business Consultants - With small staff at both Fit Bodies and FIT Launch we readily admit we do not know everything, but with several decades of fitness industry experience we are happy to assist with email consulting to our business and enterprise members to ensure you have all questions answered in utilizing the tools available to you. That starts now as you can send any questions you may have on becoming a VIP paid member to Tom. (login first)
  
  
• Groups, Specific to Your Membership - Learn from how others use their member features. Link directly to and see the partner opportunities available to your membership level. Discussion board specific to the group with specials notices, questions, and answers. A mastermind group to help each other excel.

More Reasons to Actively Participate

• All accounts can inspire and be inspired while having fun. At the moment, everyone has access to all social networking elements which allow you to connect with friends and colleagues, post & communicate, and share photos. Premier accounts have greater quantities of search results, which allows you to more easily find those connections.
   
• Continuing with discounts if you have any intentions of joining us for "The Most Fun" and "Most Informative" fitness conference on earth, Fit Beach, We are happy to offer 20%-50% off for our Medallion and Enterprise members. Those same two groups are eligible also for 20%-50% discount should you choose to join in on an Insiders Club program. These alone would save you more than a hundred dollars and nearly pay for the membership.
   
• All members can earn affiliate income by referring other fitness & sport professionals to the Fitness Pro Travel site. Travel members earn 8% of referred membership fees, Medallion earn 15% of referred membership fees and 1% of the others travel purchases.  And, Enterprise members earn 20% of membership fees and 2% of future travel fees.
  

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  No website or technical experience required to utilize affiliate programs - just send an email

The extent of future programs hinges greatly on the participation of the Fitness Pro Travel members within the community. I cannot stress enough the mutual benefit that comes from networking, but with YOUR activity in creating articles, recipes, inspirational quotes, adding events, etc. we can leverage the collective intelligence and greatly influence and inspire the enthusiasts to a healthier lifestyle. 

UPGRADE YOUR MEMBERSHIP

The tools are here to feed your passion.  We hope you will invest of not just your finances into a membership, but also of yourself into the community. Your experiences are beneficial to others as you will find their experiences beneficial to you.

Promotional Features + Affiliate Options + Discount Options + Travel  Benefits
= Far more than membership fees

We want you to excel in your career or business. We encourage you to diversify your means of income, especially in times of a rough economy.  We want to help you along the way.  These savvy features have been developed into this site so that your business/career can stay healthy.... and in turn you are afforded the time and finances to travel more.

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