FITNESS INDUSTRY BLOG
FITNESS INDUSTRY BLOG
Why Your School Doesn’t Need a Collections Service
As a business owner, you have to be paid for your services. If you don’t collect the money that’s owed to you, you’ll quickly be out of business.
Operational Excellence Part 3: Consistent Athlete Experience
To systematize your athlete experience, you’ll need to work on training your athletes and staff to follow specific operational procedures. The three following areas are those that need the most structure to create a consistent experience.
Meet Our Customer Success Team
Our office has a well-deserved reputation for having exceptional customer service. I interviewed our Customer Success Director and Senior Manager of Customer Success so you can get to know the women behind the Customer Success team. Without further adieu: the second installment in our new “Meet Our…” series.
Operational Excellence Part 2: Welcoming & Exiting Athletes
As you know, first and last impressions are critical. So having a process for welcoming and exiting athletes is an important step in operational excellence. Doing a good job of bringing athletes in and kindly and attentively transitioning them out ensures everyone has a positive and consistent experience, which will lead to better retention and a higher percent of member returns.
Why Your Martial Arts School Should Sell Custom Retail
We think stocking and selling custom retail gear is a smart business decision. If you’re on the fence about introducing it at your school, we’re hoping these many benefits will change your mind.
Boost Student Engagement with Smart Belt Tracking: A Game-Changer for Martial Arts Schools
The most important information from tracking promotion eligibility directly impacts individual students on their journey. By using Zen Planner’s belt tracking tools, an instructor can be consistent with each student.
Hosting Seminars at Your Gym: Part 2 How to Determine if Hosting is Right for Your Gym?
In the second portion of our two-part series, we’ll cover the reasons gym owners might not want to host, as well as provide some tips to help you decide if hosting is a good move for your box.
Website Redesign for Martial Arts: Before and After Pictures
Our team recently took part in the exciting transformation of the PRO TKD website. The site was redesigned to focus on beautiful imagery, ease-of-use and lead conversion.
Hosting Seminars at Your Gym: Part 1
Every functional fitness gym owner has, at some point, thought about whether or not to host a specialty seminar. It’s pretty cool to have a high profile coach come to your facility and work with your athletes, but do the pros outweigh the cons in actually executing the seminar?
Improve Your Business Through Member Reservations & Check-Ins
Last week we talked about how actively tracking attendance can enable fitness business owners to improve their schedule. But attendance data can help business owners do much more than just that. With close monitoring, it can also help increase member engagement and retention and improve your business overall.
Fitness Web Design: How Your Site Represents Your Gym
What kind of first impression does your website make? Does your site represent your business in a way you can be proud of? These are important questions to ask yourself. To help you evaluate them objectively, we’ll go through some common website concerns.
Building Community At Your Boot Camp Part 3: Playing Together
Socializing in this way helps your members form connections and get to know each other better. We suggest planning and leading monthly social events. The list of things you can do with your community is endless.
Optimize Your Class Schedule Using Reservations & Check-Ins
Reservations and check-ins are some of your most valuable data points and will not only help you optimize your schedule, but also increase member engagement and retention, and improve your business overall.
The Importance of Responsive Gym Web Design
It’s hard to keep up with the rapid changes going on in the world of web design and development. To help you sort through this issue, we’ll dive into the key reasons why you must have a mobile friendly website.
Building Community at Your Boot Camp Part 2: Social Media
When you think about how social media can benefit your business, you probably think of its advertising and lead generation capabilities. But social media is also a critical tool for strengthening your boot camp community.
Zen Planner Now Offers Fitness Website Design Services!
Drum roll please... Zen Planner is excited to announce that we are launching integrated websites!
Meet Our Marketing Team
For the next installment in our “Meet Our…” series, I’d like to introduce you to Zen Planner’s Marketing team. These women are smart, driven and hilarious.
Investing in Coach Development Part 2: How to Invest in Your Coaches
While investing in training for your coaches can seem quite expensive, it’s worth it in the long run. Here are some great ways to invest in your coaches.
Building Community at Your Boot Camp Part 1: Best Practices
There’s a direct correlation between the strength of your fitness community and the success of your business. Strong communities have better rates of retention and member success.
How to Offer Student Scholarships Through Community Service
There are a lot of differing opinions out there on how a martial arts school should be run. One of the harder questions to answer is what happens when a potential student can’t afford to pay tuition.
Improve Retention with New Student Welcome Packets
Welcome packets will help your new students transition into your school community, quickly and easily. Welcome packets answer those ever so common questions and show your students you care about their success.
How to Turn Your Fitness Hobby Into a Successful Business
We admire gym owners. It’s not easy to take a passion and turn it into a thriving business. It takes a strong vision, unwavering determination and wealth of business knowledge.
Tips on Properly Communicating Your Billing Policies
Nothing is more frustrating for a business owner than chasing down members to collect payment. Along with utilizing an automated billing system, there are some ways you can streamline your process to benefit both you and your members.
5 Reasons You Should Use the Staff App
Our Staff App recently graduated from Public Beta to a full v1.0 release, and we can’t thank you enough for the feedback you’ve provided so far! Before we dive into the next round of enhancements, we wanted to share some the top reasons you should download the App if you haven’t yet done so.
How Zen Planner Can Drive More Leads to Your School
Fitness businesses need a steady stream of new leads to thrive and grow. Martial arts schools in particular depend on a constant influx of new leads to help combat student turnover. Thankfully, Zen Planner has many features that can assist in generating new leads for you!
