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Trainers from CrossFit Chambly (Canada) on a warmer day at Ferme-Neuve, Quebec.

Affiliate Scenario: Your new affiliate is growing, but slowly. Your members are happy, and you gain two or three new people a month, but you'd like 10 or 15 new members per month. A friend tells you to buy a lighted sign because you're on a busy road, but your business partner wants you to offer discounted memberships, while you think maybe an "incentive" program for referrals would help. What do you do? Post answers/tips to Comments.

The third annual CrossFit Affiliate Gathering (FilFest 2010) is in Miami Beach in just 10 days! Register now before it's too late and you miss out!

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Jaime Arashiro (kneeling in photo) of CrossFit Peru steps into the CrossFit Affiliate Snapshot.

• Affiliate since: September 2008
• Location: Lima, Peru
• Sq Ft: 2000 sf. (Half for gym, half for bathroom and offices.)
• Number of members: About 50
• How many times have you moved your affiliate location? Once. At first we worked out of my house. Then I rented a space in a gym and painted it blue. This is what we now affectionately call "The Blue Box".
• Greatest joy as a CrossFit affiliate: The opportunity to change the world by changing others lives by changing mine.
• Biggest worry as a CrossFit affiliate: The possibility that the CrossFit name gets a bad reputation because of false CF instructors in this part of the world. I know that the position of CFHQ on this subject is to do my job well and people will choose quality . . .

Read the rest of the CrossFit Peru snapshot . . .

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Tom Brose (owner of CrossFit DC) nails some pull-ups during a rare snowstorm for the area.

Darin Wells, one of the coaches at CrossFit Greensboro (NC), ran a 5K in full firefighter turnout gear and described the experience to his local newspaper: Read.

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Daycare at BTB CrossFit (GA)?

Do you have a trainer who likes to blog on the side? CrossFit Lake Tapps (WA) has "Water Breaks with Lori."

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Jason Ackerman of Albany CrossFit (in the center) steps into The CrossFit Affiliate Snapshot.

• Affiliate Since: August 2007
• Location: Albany, NY, USA
• Sq Ft: 2400 square feet of usable floor space (3 racquetball courts). Plus full locker rooms with showers, steam-room, sauna, and whirlpool, and plenty of space to lounge and hang out.
• Number of Members: a little over a hundred
• How many times have you moved your affiliate location? We have never moved, but we have expanded two times.
• Biggest worry as a CrossFit affiliate: Will more people keep coming?
• Greatest joy as a CrossFit affiliate: Seeing people change their lives through hard-work, exercise, and nutrition.

Read the rest of the Albany CrossFit snapshot . . .

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Joel Tessier, owner of CrossFit Big Island (HI), catches some waves.

Kyle Boyer of CrossFit Dixie (UT) does "King Kong" in 2:55: Video.

Sometimes, CrossFit saves your life in a way you never expected. Read about Jeremy at CrossFit Orillia (Canada).

Sometimes, CrossFit helps you find a new life: Read about Jamileth Z., owner of The Optimum CrossFit (FL) and her battle.

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CrossFit L.A. was one of the first ten CrossFit affiliates. Owner Andy Petranek (front row, 3rd from right) leads off a new feature: CrossFit Affiliate Snapshot.

• Affiliate Since: Sept, 2004
• Location: Santa Monica, CA, USA
• Sq Ft: 4,000 sf (3,000 gym, 1,000 office/bathrooms/showers)
• Number of Members: 290
• How many times have you moved your affiliate location? 1 move (2 locations)
• Biggest worry as a CrossFit affiliate: How to continue to deliver the highest quality product with large numbers of members.
• Greatest joy as a CrossFit affiliate: Get to go to "work" and do what I love. Also as a business owner - it never gets boring.

Read the rest of the CrossFit LA Snapshot . . .

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CrossFit Generation (PA): Before and after.

Storing bumpers. Plate racks, wooden boxes, big ol' pile on the floor: What do you do? And does it matter?

The February Painstorm is here . . .

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Evan H. at CrossFit Seattle (WA).

The CrossFit Risk Retention Group makes more progress: Read.

"Become indifferent to the sale." (Source: E-Myth Mastery.) Smartest advice you've ever heard for a CrossFit affiliate -- or the dumbest?

Check back tomorrow for the February Painstorm . . .

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At 5:30 every morning, cadets at the U.S. Military Academy do the WOD at Black and Gold CrossFit (West Point, NY).

On the other side of the globe, airmen at Kunsan Air Force Base go to Wolfpack CrossFit (South Korea). "CrossFit prepares my body for anything," said 1st Lt. Kari Kundert, 8th Operations Group executive officer. "If I get deployed tomorrow I know I can handle it."

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CrossFit Central Manchester (UK).

CrossFit Cheshire (CT) writes about hosting the CT State Police for a CrossFit lesson and WOD, with a special guest: Read.

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John M. with the 85lb Turkish Get-up at CrossFit Newton (MA).

"Saving a city, one kid at a time." Do you know what Steve's Club (NJ) does? Find out in this article in the Philadelphia Inquirer.

Affiliate Scenario: One of your trainers is caught short-repping a WOD. What do you do?

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CrossFit Legacy (OH).

Affiliate Since May, 2007.

Owner: Brian Yoak. (Hear Brian speak on affiliate issues at FilFest 2010).

Kevin "Torch" Williams, trainer at CrossFit Brooklyn (NY) gets featured in Men's Health magazine for having one of "The Coolest Jobs in America."

"I don't have a room full of equipment. I have a room full of advice. I have a room full of coaches." Mikki Martin, CrossFit Kids and CrossFit Brand X (CA). (Hear Mikki speak on training children at FilFest 2010.)

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CrossFit graffiti on the chalkboard bathroom wall at CrossFit On The Move (GA).

10 Ways to Be a Better CrossFitter from CrossFit South Bay (CA).

What are your 10 Ways to Be a Better CrossFitter? Post to Comments!