BOTWATCH 93! The latest in a long running anti MLM thread. We may be celebrating the demise of Forever Living MLM in the US but sadly MLM/network marketing is still pulling in victims using lies and manipulation … the botwatching continues …

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New thread, welcome one and all

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Brilliant! 😂

This is what happens when you live in a world detached from reality

she calls herself a business coach and yet thinks she can set herself up like this without doing basic market research into what is offered at what price elsewhere

No bugger in their right mind is paying £40 a hour to rock up to a shed in someone's back garden whilst dogs are yapping and crapping.

Spot on writing and the magic funhouse mirrors really made it!

@YouOKHunsuperb, absolutely brilliant 👏👏👏👏, esp the included ‘beige ladies’

@YouOKHun Where do I sign up? 😍

@YouOKHun I've been chuckling at your post all morning. Absolutely spot on!

I just can't believe she thinks she can charge £40!!

I had a look to see what was available at one local gym (15 mins down the road from Yawn's shed of thrifted equipment) ...
...£35 for someone with a B.Sc Hons degree in Sports and Exercise Science, levels 3 & 4 in Personal Training and also in Rehabilitation and Corrective Exercise plus various other specific qualifications in things like spin, boxfit and nutrition qualifications. Many years of experience too.

Yawn seems to be going all in with her fitness and personal training and presumably thinks this will be more lucrative than coaching/ manifestation/ canva training/ social media visibility/ nutrition/ marketing/ business planning. To be fair it’s the only element in her suite of offers that she has an actual (albeit rather dodgy) qualification in

she’s got a lot of chutzpah publishing videos of herself demonstrating exercises

God this has all made me LOL my tits off. I pay my PT £35 per hour and he’s got a Masters among many other fitness and nutrition qualifications. And an actual app. Not a BAB app that’s not an app.
I wonder whether she’s told her home insurer that it’s now a place of business?!

Well I must say, I’m rather disappointed that only @orangehandles has had the vision to ask where to sign up! I am just creating an app and have borrowed Weird Willy’s credit card that he found at the back of drawer and used to hammer the last nail into his own coffin pay for his app.

@dickiedavisthunderthighs good point - she won’t have told her home insurer who is already dicing with her tinderbox thatch, wood burner and bargain fixes. The local council should be told too.

Assuming Yawn has done research into what others charge (which seems unlikely), I think Yawn thinks that if she prices highly at £40 it will convince people that she is better than someone who charges £35. It will demonstrate that she “values herself” and “loves herself”. It’s very MLM-Think, be confident, be positive, love yourself - realism is negative, don’t let it creep in, just keep going. It also requires a fully botted up audience which she doesn’t have.

If she is going all in with the shed-based star jumping it adds to the suspicion that Techie may have taken the summer to decide she needs to focus on her own thing. Where on earth does Yawn go next?

Oh yes of course you are right, one of her golden nuggets of advice has been to not underprice yourself (because if course if you are expensive you MUST be worth it!)

I saw a video of yawn demonstrating a programme. Slightly scared for any clients she may get, she needs to work on her form massively before trying to instruct anyone else.

Failing that she should just stick to walking clients round her half acre and swinging her arms around as at least that’s moving and moving is good for 40 quid an hour!! (Practice your deadlifts yawn before teaching anyone please!! Also you need big weight plates get rid of the small body pump ones!)

I was wondering if someone with expertise might comment - thank you!

I very much agree with all of that @TwinklyMoose ,those blue dumbbells are only 5kg and for a bent over row, you want something heftier to make a difference, for your maximum dumbbell to be 5kg is pretty rubbish for a PT

To open a gym for use by fee paying clients you need:-
Register business with HMRC

HSE compliance this includes loads of stuff such as electrical and gas safety, safe access and loads more including risk assessment
Planning permission for change of use of building

Data Protection

Adequate facilities, toilets, changing, heating & ventilation

First aid kit and training

Correct heavy duty equipment ie not the stuff from the middle aisles in Lidl

Floors need to be reinforced

Music licence if playing background music

Public indemnity and inform insurance of proposed activities.

You may need to inform your mortgage company as well

Probably most important health screening and recording with up to date CPR training incase she passes she’s a client too far.

As an ex business owner (in healthcare) the rules and regulations are there to protect the public from you damaging them because if you do and you can’t provide evidence that you have followed the rules and done everything possible to prevent that damage you are up a very long creek with a matchstick.

Yawns latest story is how the squat potty is getting a glow up and is going to be put in a new shed behind the gym shed and she’s currently glitzing up a mirror and gold bog brush to go in there

wow…that’s a seriously comprehensive list…(that I can’t imagine yawn is aware of)

Someone send this to her!

Having just glanced at her gym photos I’ve seen a huge H&S issue. The treadmill machine is against the wall so if you miss a step you’ll be slammed against the wall that has a huge hook protruding from it. The treadmill needs to be positioned so you are staring at the wall while running.

My DF was a hazard analyst in the chemical industry. Risk analysis is second nature to me. My DF was brilliant when we were remodelling the business and stopped us making costly mistakes.

I risk assess sub consciously wherever I go.

Well of course a Risk Assessment should be part of Yawn’s business plan

(Rather than painting mirror frames with gold paint)

If she is serious about it Yawn just needs to spend some good time perfecting what she has been taught. Get her deadlifts solid, get some good positioning with her feet when doing bench press, think about which muscles she is engaging when attempting anything in particular the side or forward raises she was doing, I couldn’t figure out which it was she was doing to be honest
To charge 40 an hour for what she is doing is a bitt ridiculous I am not sure anyone I know would pay that for a recently qualified PT unless they looked like they knew what they were doing and not like they are following a YouTube video whilst filming themselves

Good grief! 😂🚽😂

@ticktock19 the Squat Potty Glow Up with the Golden Bog Brush - is the new sign she has purchased that just says “Believe” going in the members only gold embossed shitter?

Does she think there will be some kind of self hypnosis going on in the bot potty palace? Go in there a bit sceptical about the wobbly equipment and expertise on offer. Once on the squat potty become blinded by the gold French Chic and mesmerised by the word “Believe” hanging just above the Andrex and leave the room ready to hand over forty quid and happily drive yourself to A&E after 60 minutes of training the Yawn Way?