Vegan Bodybuilding & Fitness Newsletter June 15, 2010

[robert]

Vegan Bodybuilding & Fitness Newsletter June 15, 2010

 

Hey everyone!

 

In this newsletter:

 

-Welcome to Summer

 

-Tons of interviews to check out

 

-My book promo this week, buy 2 books at a time from www.veganbodybuildingbook.com, get my DVD and lots of Vega packets for Free. Buy 3 books at a time, get a $200 value package with products donated from Vega, Vegan Bodybuilding & Fitness, ProBar, Bodybuilding.com, VeganProteins.com and other gifts. All orders must come through www.veganbodybuildingbook.com to be eligible.

 

-Upcoming awesome projects others are doing

 

-Useful links

 

 

The Newsletter:

 

Summer

 

Happy summertime to you! Summer Solstice is just a week away. What are your plans for the summer? I’m heading out on a book tour/adventure for most of the summer. Feel free to email me [email protected] to see if I’ll be coming to your town or check my Robert Cheeke Athlete Facebook Page for my tour schedule. That is the only place it will be posted. Off the top of my head, I’ll be heading to Phoenix and Tucson, Arizona next week, then over to Austin, Houston and Dallas, Texas and then east from there en route to Pennsylvania, over to DC, Ohio, back to DC then ending up in Wisconsin for a couple of weeks. From there I’ll hit up Chicago and head west likely traveling in the northern states and ending up in Oregon before returning home to Los Angeles 2-3 months from now. I’m piling Vegan Bodybuilding & Fitness books and Vega into my Prius and I’m exploring the country Coast to Coast this summer. I imagine I’ll see many of you. I just got an email from Rip Esselstyn and he’s going to set me up with a talk and a potluck in Austin. Pumped!

 

 

Interviews

 

As you know by now my book has been out for a couple of months and continues to do extremely well! I’m on my 4th printing already, which is amazing! Stores from Australia to Canada are carrying it, people in more than 30 countries have ordered from my website, and even A-list celebrities have ordered the book from my website, just like anyone else. As a result of the book success, I’ve had the opportunity to be interviewed by lots of media including mainstream magazines and various other publications including blogs, websites, radio, etc. It has been a great platform for me to talk about veganism, health, fitness, motivation, inspiration and animal rights topics.

 

 

Here are some of the recent interviews that you can read or listen to and I have 2 more coming up this week (Wed and Thur) and even more coming soon:

 

 

Chocolate-Covered Katie

Building Muscle on a Plant-Based Diet

http://chocolatecoveredkatie.com/2010/04/25/vegan-bodybuilding-and-fitness-with-robert-cheeke/

 

 

Pimp My Protein Shake

A Cheeky Vegan: Guest Post from Bodybuilder Robert Cheeke

http://pimpmyproteinshake.blogspot.com/

 

 

Vegan Mainstream

Interview with Robert Cheeke: A Mighty Vegan Force

http://www.veganmainstream.com/interview-withrobert-cheeke-a-mighty-vegan-force

 

 

Healthy Voyager

Interview with Vegan Bodybuilder RC and HappyCow.net

http://healthyvoyager.com/2.0/2010/06/10/healthy-voyager-radio-vegan-bodybuilding-travel/

 

 

 

Upcoming interviews:

 

Healthy Tribe Forum

http://realfoodsforlife.info/health-tribe-sem2

 

 

Live Natural Live Well

Blog Talk Radio with Doctor Heather Lounsbury

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/docheather/2010/06/16/live-natural-live-well

 

 

On-going site I’ve contributed to, check out: Vegetarian Health Institute:

http://www.abbeysvegetarianrecipes.com/vegetarian-mastery/optin

 

 

 

Book Promo

 

I have another book promo incentive period going on now. I do these every once in a while when I need to boost sales in order to afford to print more books. Even with all the book sales it is still challenging to afford to print books for a variety of reasons. Many stores order on consignment; that is just the way they work. So they don’t pay anything for 30-90 days. My book has barely been out that long and since it’s a self published book, I put up money for books and then ship them off to stores and may not get anything back for a long time. I also try to print with as large of a quantity as I can afford to so it takes a lot of up front capital just to keep the book going. I’m in one of those periods now, attempting to afford my 4th print run so I’m offering a bunch of incentives. I’m so fortunate to have many companies donating products for give-aways as forms of advertising for them. Thank you to all of you who have already ordered! I’m sure you’re enjoying the book. The feedback has been absolutely amazing.

 

The promos going on this week are the following:

 

-When you order 2 books at a time from www.veganbodybuildingbook.com you get a Free DVD of Vegan Fitness Built Naturally, lots of Vega packets, some promo items from Bodybuilding.com like magnets, wrist bands and stickers, and various other small give-aways in the forms of coupons, other stickers, etc.

 

-When you order 3 books at a time from www.veganbodybuildingbook.com you get a $200 value gift package full of items from Vega, Vegan Bodybuilding & Fitness, ProBar, Bodybuilding.com, and a variety of other free gifts which could include other DVDs, books, CDs, etc. They will be great prize packages that I know you’ll enjoy.

 

Order from www.veganbodybuildingbook.com and if you do order 2 or 3 or more at a time, you’ll get some extra special bonuses as my way of staying thanks. And remember, every order comes with some extras, so nobody ever gets left out.

 

 

Other projects friends are doing:

 

Forks Over Knives Documentary

 

Please check out this powerful new documentary about preventing and reversing disease, called Forks Over Knives. I am good friends with the producer and have seen this documentary at three private screenings so far and it’s phenomenal. It is commonly compared to Food Inc. but better, and different, of course. The documentary features Prof. T. Colin Campbell, Dr. Caldwell Esselstyn, Rip Esselstyn, Mac Danzig, Dr. Neal Barnard, and many others. It is awesome! Check out the trailer at www.forksoverknives.com or directly on YouTube here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPJbYAYzP04

 

 

Eco Vegan Gal

 

Check out my friend Whitney Lauritsen at www.ecovegangal.com – She has great videos, interviews, reviews and articles about vegan living. She’s awesome! She has a great following, interesting and useful content, prize give-aways, reader polls, and a beautiful website. Please check it out!

 

 

The Lemon Letter Blog

 

Check out my friend Julia Abbott’s Wellness Blog – The Lemon Letter – www.lemonletter.blogspot.com Julia was my incredible book editor and is a phenomenal vegan athlete who also makes incredible food and is full of information and inspiration. Please check out her blog!

 

 

Vegan Essentials

 

Visit www.veganessentials.com for all kinds of specials going on all the time. They often put Vega products on sale too and have package deals when you order my book you get free Vega samples, etc. Please support them. They are some of my biggest supporters and some of the biggest supporters of Vegan Bodybuilding & Fitness. They are also carrying the brand new Vega product Vega Shake & Go Smoothie which currently has a $25,000 give-away contest going on!!!! Get in on the action at http://www.wherewillyoursmoothietakeyou.com/ I will also tell you that the Vega Shake & Go Smoothie Choc-a-lot flavor is the best tasting protein powder I’ve ever had in my life. And it’s only like $20 a bag. Read more about it on www.myvega.com

 

 

Bodybuilding.com

 

Bodybuilding.com now carries my Book and has the best prices for Vega on the internet! Vega is even highlighted on their specials right now, standing out among all the whey and other animal-based products: http://www.bodybuilding.com/store/specials.html

 

 

 

Thanks for reading.

 

Have an outstanding week! Read below for some helpful links.

 

 

 

-Robert Cheeke

www.veganbodybuilding.com

[email protected]

 

 

Links to great websites

 

www.veganbodybuildingbook.com

www.forksoverknives.com

www.veganessentials.com

www.foodfightgrocery.com

www.youtube.com/robertcheekeshow

www.lemonletter.blogspot.com

www.thrivein30.com

www.ecovegangal.com

www.myvega.com

www.bodybuilding.com

www.livesuperfoods.com

http://realfoodforlife.com/

www.veganfitnessteam.com

www.godfist.com

www.veganpersonaltraining.com

http://tinyurl.com/yza2enc

www.sethigherstandards.com

www.arconference.org

www.goteamgreengo.com

www.wherewillyoursmoothietakeyou.com

[LauraJ]

Yay Dallas

[robert]

Yeah, let's hang out. No plans or talks set up, but I really want to go back and visit. Maybe I'll get something set up soon. I'm doing it all on my own this time around. No PR team, not assistants, just me, my car, my books and some Vega and hitting the road.

 

I will have some stuff set up in Austin for sure, and likely Houston but I'm wide open for Dallas. Have any ideas?

 

Let me know! Will be great to see you again.

 

Robert

[LauraJ]

Hmm, maybe contact these guys: http://blog.dallasvegan.com/

They post stuff about Vegan Drinks meet-ups and stuff, so maybe they could get something together. They posted something about when Brendan came to Dallas after his newest book came out.

[robert]

Thanks!

 

You rock!

[robert]

Bump!

 

This is from 2 months ago.

 

Working on the NEW newsletter tonight. It should go out tomorrow.

 

-Robert

[hsorlando]

Yeah, and by the way I never have received it in my email.

[robert]

No idea why....it should go out to all email addresses associated with registration on the forum.

 

Well....just check here

 

Posting the new one in a few moments, then emailing it out within 30 minutes. Just waiting for a few website updates over at www.veganessentials.com to reflect some items on sale and then we're golden!