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	<title>Model Matt Hackney &#187; Fitness Coach</title>
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		<title>Behind the Seen</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Feb 2010 17:32:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>krashnik</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[OML! Yes, that&#8217;s right. Outsource my life! I&#8217;ve been working a lot on growing my business and took a trip back to the east coast. Little do any of my employees or clients know I was even gone. I&#8217;ve been working a few years to get my business to this point. The business now runs [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>OML! Yes, that&#8217;s right. Outsource my life! I&#8217;ve been working a lot on growing my business and took a trip back to the east coast. Little do any of my employees or clients know I was even gone. I&#8217;ve been working a few years to get my business to this point. The business now runs itself regardless if I&#8217;m in the picture and I really think this is what any business owner should strive for.<br />
<img src="http://www.modelmatt.com/images/meditate.png" alt="" align="left" /><br />
But OML! I&#8217;ve been hiring people from China, India, Africa, and now the Phillippines to help in a variety of areas. After a few programmers from India &amp; Africa failed me, I finally found a really good computer programmer in New York of all places who has been helping a ton on our site. Really thankful for that! We have moved our company into a new era where the employees have their own interns and they get trained all from our website. It&#8217;s revolutionary.</p>
<p>We&#8217;re breaking new ground for what companies should be expected to offer their employees and the resources they make use of. You can see a lot of what we use in our <a href="http://www.movfitness.com/fullstaffvid">staff training video</a>.</p>
<p>That isn&#8217;t for clients to see, but I want to share it with everyone anyway just to show you how incredible our system is. I absolutely love it. And that was taken over a month ago before much of it was implemented. Now that the employees have seen all of that, they are making use of it and things are growing even faster.</p>
<p>I have also hired a few ghostwriters. I know, some of you bookworms think this is unethical but c&#8217;mon! I have a lot of books to publish and I really want to get my message out &#8211; that is my ultimate goal. In addition to the ghostwriters we have a few full time personal assistants now. I have one assistant, <a href="mailto:jane@movfitness.com">Jane</a>, who&#8217;s job is to hire people only. No, not fire them, just hiring. We are hiring soooo many people I had to get an employee just for this. What&#8217;s even better? We&#8217;re moving away from traditional forms of hiring. In order to work with us, you must do a few things:</p>
<ol>
<li>Create a profile on our site like facebook</li>
<li>Read our books and pass our tests</li>
<li>Enroll in our <a href="http://hardmagic.com/internship">internship program</a> and study with us for 6 months</li>
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<p>You must do all of those before even having a chance to come on board this ship that is moving at lightning speed.  We are that competitive and that elite.  I really think this is the future of business and other businesses should jump on board.</p>
<p>So instead of just gloating about what we are doing, I have decided to do something about it.  A few years back I was a personal trainer to CEOs and they always complained about having too little time on their hands to take care of their health.  Well, I now manage over 50 employees&#8230; I do it all from a coffee shop, bed, the beach.. or wherever I feel like being at the time.  I&#8217;m usually wearing a fitness outfit and have a Naked Juice sitting beside me.  And what else?  I still have enough time to spend with my lovely girlfriend, go out dancing a few hours a day, workout at least 1 hour a day, write more in my books, and I&#8217;m even knitting a new project (which I&#8217;ll reveal soon!).  So, what is this BS about not having enough time to workout and take care of your health just because you&#8217;re a CEO?  I don&#8217;t sympathize with them at all.  I plan on being the living example of what the perfect CEO should be.</p>
<p>Ok, so I said I wasn&#8217;t going to gloat.  So on one level, I&#8217;m going to be a role model to these CEOs and what they should be doing for their businesses.  But if you notice my entrepreneur division of the site you&#8217;ll see that I also have a  tour coming up.  On this tour, I will be traveling around to Fortune 500s nationwide in 2010 teaching businesses how to free the minds, bodies, and souls of their employees.  MOVFitness is the perfect example of what I think all Fortune 500s should strive for.  We mandate great health in our company just as the Lakers mandate it.  Our employees are our team and we must give them the tools and motivation to take great care of themselves which will in turn push forward our incredible company.  What does this mean?  They work when they want to work.  They have projects, not hourly duties.  They all work where they want to work &#8211; in their pajamas if they want, at midnight, or while rocking their baby to sleep.  We&#8217;re global and make use of resources everywhere.  We require all employees to be part of our social network, upload a photo, and participate in our online classes.  They further their education with health tools like &#8220;The Fire Within&#8221; and business tools like &#8220;The Summit of Success.&#8221;</p>
<p>Once they have learned quite a bit, we apply the SHEEPP-C principle to their work and make them managers.  Even if it is just managing interns.  This means everyone who is with us for 6 months or longer is a manager.  This is constant progression in the company and relieves people of mundane tasks and puts them in positions of authority and provides the satisfaction of teaching others that our hearts yearn.  My tour around the country teaches these philosophies and shows how MOVFitness has employees who are well rounded in their mind, body, and soul.  And how other companies should listen up &#8211; start hiring employees who are balanced in these areas and do what they can to train their current employees to come into balance.</p>
<p>I hope this helps you in your business.  We are currently talking with private investors.  Feel free to message me if you&#8217;d like to invest into our company.  We don&#8217;t plan on going public as we believe our shareholders are also a reflection of who we are and we want to make sure they are also in balance of mind, body, and soul.</p>
<p>God Bless,</p>
<p>Matt</p>
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		<title>Human Resources Innovation</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov 2009 21:40:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>krashnik</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have typically taken resumes &#038; applications like any other business for years and have seen literally thousands of applicants. I personally don&#8217;t like this method of hiring and it&#8217;s hard to keep track of everyone. What ends up happening, I only hire from the current 3 months of people who have inquired even though [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I have typically taken resumes &#038; applications like any other business for years and have seen literally thousands of applicants.  I personally don&#8217;t like this method of hiring and it&#8217;s hard to keep track of everyone.  What ends up happening, I only hire from the current 3 months of people who have inquired even though there may have been better candidates in the past.</p>
<p>To offset this problem, we are implementing a new program with our companies.  Anyone interested in working with HardMagic, TheSBON, or MOVFitness will now be required to make a profile on MOVFitness.com.  </p>
<p>Once they&#8217;ve made a profile, we have added a new section to registration that says &#8220;What is your interest in signing up?&#8221;</p>
<p>Answers to this question are as follows:</p>
<p>•Weight Loss<br />
•Run Races<br />
•Bootcamp<br />
•Meet People for Fitness<br />
•Ballroom Dancing<br />
•Work for MOVFitness<br />
•Work for HardMagic<br />
•Get Published<br />
•Get Interviewed as a Model</p>
<p>In addition to this, we will have a place on their profile where they may upload their resumes.  Instead of writing a cover letter, applicants should get involved with our company by reading our books and such.  Those with the most badges will have a much better chance at becoming interns with us and eventually employees.</p>
<p>Staff &#038; Human Resources will have exclusive access to see resumes of those who upload them.  </p>
<p>In the future, we&#8217;ll open this up to other fitness companies to use our website to find quality personal trainers, models, etc as a paid service.</p>
<p>This is enough info on it for now!</p>
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		<title>MOVFitness &#8211; Facebook for Fitness</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2009 16:33:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>krashnik</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Site Revamp We&#8217;ve completely revamped the entire MOVFitness website which is the largest overhaul it&#8217;s had since we started the company. Instead of just offering personal training and a variety of fitness services, we now have what I call Facebook for Fitness. You can log into our site, post up your pictures, add info to [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.movfitness.com" target="_blank"><img class="alignleft" style="border: 0pt none;" src="http://modelmatt.com/images/movshot.jpg" border="0" alt="" width="250" height="284" /></a><strong>Site Revamp</strong><br />
We&#8217;ve completely revamped the entire <a href="http://www.movfitness.com" target="_blank">MOVFitness</a> website which is the largest overhaul it&#8217;s had since we started the company.  Instead of just offering personal training and a variety of fitness services, we now have what I call Facebook for Fitness.  You can log into our site, post up your pictures, add info to your profile, and check out fitness events in your area.  Sounds like everything else on social networking, right?  Well&#8230; we have a unique concept added where you get a free copy of my Fire Within book just for logging into the site.<br />
<strong>Online Classroom</strong></p>
<p>There is a classroom section that you can download the book from after you become a member.  If you read the book and pass a test on it, then you&#8217;ll receive a &#8220;Health Badge.&#8221;  This badge will show up on your profile for others to see &amp; they&#8217;ll know that you are furthering your education in health &amp; fitness.  Once you pass that test, other classes will become unlocked.  Want to learn ballroom dancing, boxing, or use our nutrition software?  Once you pass your first test, you get access to an introduction to all of these.  The more tests you pass, the more classes will become unlocked for you.  Once you have passed 12 of our dance classes, you&#8217;ll receive the Twinkle Toes badge just as one example.</p>
<p>In addition to this, you can write in an online journal and keep track of your weight loss, or use it to have your favorite recipes, or maybe just tell your buddies how much fun you&#8217;re having in your new workout routine.  You&#8217;ll have access to all your friends fitness journals and even be able to see personal trainer profiles.</p>
<p><img src="http://movfitness.com/images/tools/fitnesstoolbar.jpg" alt="" /></p>
<p><strong>Interact with Trainers</strong></p>
<p>The trainers have a different style of profile and they publish articles on the site for everyone to view.  If you have questions about health &amp; fitness you&#8217;ll not only get access to all of our tutorials, but you&#8217;ll be able to see the tips trainers provide on their page.  If you have a specific trainer you like, simply save them as a favorite &amp; their journals will show up on your profile automatically when you log in.  In the Discussion section of the site, feel free to ask any question about health &amp; fitness and see a number of trainers provide feedback all for free.</p>
<p><strong>Special Guests &amp; Celebrities</strong></p>
<p>WIth MOVFitness training top professional athletes, models, and CEOs and having some of the best trainers around the world on our staff, we will also have open chats periodically where you can log into a chatroom and speak with a celebrity on health &amp; fitness.</p>
<p>As a trainer for years I&#8217;ve found the #1 success seen in someone&#8217;s health &amp; fitness comes when they surround themselves with friends who have like-minded goals.  At the new MOVFitness website, we&#8217;re offering people to interact and meet new friends who are interested in getting in the best shape of their life and helping them connect with others who they won&#8217;t feel ashamed to go out to a party with &amp; drink a glass of water.  The cool factor at MOV is in how many Healthy Badges you have and how much you take care of your health.</p>
<p>I hope you&#8217;ll join us and Get on the MOVE!!</p>
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		<title>Ballroom DVDs</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jan 2009 06:16:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>krashnik</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many of our DVDs are for Ballroom Dancers or fitness professionals. After publishing books, calendars, and websites for so long, I decided it was time to expand into DVDs.  I’m really happy to be able to offer this to the ballroom community.  I am heavily involved in the creation of all of these videos.  They will have a nice blend of fitness, ballroom dancing, and whichever speciality the teacher brings to the picture.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Many of our DVDs are for Ballroom Dancers or fitness professionals. After publishing books, calendars, and websites for so long, I decided it was time to expand into DVDs.  I&#8217;m really happy to be able to offer this to the ballroom community.  I am heavily involved in the creation of all of these videos.  They will have a nice blend of fitness, ballroom dancing, and whichever speciality the teacher brings to the picture.</p>
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<p><a href="http://www.yogapuri.com"><img src="http://www.yogapuri.com/images/yogacovermed.jpg" border="0" alt="" align="right" /></a>HardMagic is now producing Fitness DVDs for Ballroom Dancers.</p>
<p>We have the following upcoming productions:</p>
<ul>
<li>Yoga Alignment &#8211; Christina Castelanelli of <a href="http://www.yogapuri.com">YogaPuri</a></li>
<li>KettleDance &#8211; Aubreigh &amp; Kelly</li>
<li>PIlates for Ballroom Dancers &#8211; Angelica Ochoa</li>
<li>Sword Fighting &#8211; Matt Hackney</li>
<li>Boxing &#8211; Matt Hackney</li>
<li>The Figure 8 &#8211; Matt Hackney</li>
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