How many ways can you make money from
having an eta qualification? Work in Gym? Work in a
school? Work with your own clients? Use a walk fit for life franchise, run a
boot camp? Work on a ship? Work overseas? Lecture at a college like eta? Write a newspaper column? Coach a team?
How about becoming a millionaire by shooting
your own videos and posting them on You Tube?
According
to Business Day 2011-12-13: Peter Cilliers shoots five-minute videos of himself
working out in the living room of his Pretoria home and posts them on YouTube.
This month he earned more than R 62 000 from them.
In 2005 Cilliers returned home to Pretoria
from the UK. He was 26 years old, he had no job and was 45kg overweight. With
some experience in video production and a course in sports therapy from a
London college, he decided it was time for a change.
"I thought, let me start a daily diary
on YouTube. I did my whole body transformation on YouTube day by day and that’s
how I started," he says. That was 2006 and it took him 112 days to lose
the weight — and his experience struck a chord with YouTube viewers.
Today his one-man operation draws on
average about 100 000 YouTube viewers a day to his channel and makes about R 60
000 a month after tax.
Cilliers’s internet fitness business has
become his sole source of income and he does it on a shoestring budget. He
shoots his videos in his living room, edits them and uploads at least one a
week.
His clients are mostly Americans but he has
followers in a number of countries, including the Czech Republic. His YouTube
success also led to his lifestyle website SixPackFactory.com, where he sells
fitness products such as workout plans and diets.
How about you? What ways can you think of
to make serious money from your fitness qualification?
Dr Steve
