FITNESS INDUSTRY BLOG
FITNESS INDUSTRY BLOG
Fitness Business Tips: Why Happy Employees are Productive Employees
On Thursday morning, at the Health & Fitness Business Expo, I had the opportunity to attend the business seminar, Cultivating Greatness in Your Employees and Your Business. Read more.
Zen Planner Launched New UI – Were You Wondering Why?
We received a ton of valuable feedback on the new Zen Planner user interface, and we want to highlight a couple of ways the new user interface makes your experience so much better.
Oh the Places We’ll Go
As we work our way through the week following Labor Day, we want to share with you a story of the places Team Zen Planner visited last weekend. Read more.
Why Social Media Must be a Conversation
Social media is often a love-hate sort of thing. As a fitness business owner with a limited about of time in each day, it’s easy to place just about everything as a higher priority. But the statistics supporting the need for businesses to embrace social media are overwhelming.
Motivate Your Gym Members Using The Ice Bucket Challenge
Everywhere we turn today we see a challenge. From the ever played out ALS Ice Bucket Challenge to the super successful Lurong Paleo Challenge, there seems to be something in our collective psyche that motivates us to take action when faced with a challenge.
Why You Should Care About Introverts
I’m an introvert and I’m continually surprised when I’m thrust into an extrovert-centric world. Owners of fitness businesses can learn a lot by understanding people like me and adjusting their programs to better fit us.
Thanks for the Feedback: Martial Arts Software Review
Last week we were honored by feedback in the form of a customer review on an external website, and it’s so nice we want to share it
Youth Combine: Fighting Childhood Obesity
Matthew Howland was in his third year as a middle school teacher when he started a free after-school program he called Youth Combine. This program was a class-based fitness outlet for students in his school and was born out of concern for the countless number of kids he saw who couldn’t run a lap around the soccer field without becoming winded.
“Playing The Game” – Why Tracking Workouts is Crucial for Fitness Businesses
We all know the age-old saying “you can’t improve what you don’t measure.” Personal Trainers have been using this method for as long as they’ve been around – following clients around with a clipboard, documenting every incremental gain on each movement of a workout, diligently recording scheduled body fat measurements.
Best Books of the Summer
I’m a bookworm. There is literally nothing I like doing more than closing the world out and getting lost in a good book. Fiction or non-fiction, it doesn’t matter. I love them all.
Redesigned Zen Planner: Quick Tips to Help You Transition Seamlessly
Two weeks ago we unveiled our redesigned user interface, and today we activated it for all Zen Planner users. Starting today, when you log in you’ll see the new interface without having to take any additional action. We hope you enjoy the feature rich and easy to use interface designed with your feedback as our guide. Although transitioning to the redesigned system will be easy, we put together this list of the most common questions we’ve gotten from our beta testers as a reference guide.
Building a Sense of Community in Your Gym
We all agree that one of the very best ways to retain your current membership base and attract new prospects is to create a sense of community. If I know you, if you ask about me, if I feel included, and if you foster a sense of connection with others in your community, I will be more active and will stay.
Our Comprehensive Workout Tracking
It has been an exciting couple of weeks for us at Zen Planner. Last Wednesday we announced the launch of our redesigned user interface, and this week we unveiled our comprehensive Workout Tracking.
Create New Revenue for Your Fitness Business with Corporate Wellness Programs
Location, location, location. Every expert that you talk to about attracting prospective members to your gym, martial arts studio, or box will tell you the most important thing to think about is your location. This is particularly important if you are trying to capture working professionals who want to workout before or after work or during their lunch hour.
The Strong Roots of a Technology Company Culture
Joining a new team naturally comes with its curiosities. Will the technology be solid enough to build upon? Does the team have world-class makings? In truth, there’s not a day that passes that I am not blown away by the culture of Zen Planner.
The Mission of Oasis Martial Arts: Giving Life Back to Those Without Hope
As a company who supports businesses that transform lives every day, we are always proud and humbled by our customer’s achievements. For that reason, we are going to devote a few of our upcoming blogs to customers who make our world a better place by serving populations that otherwise would not be exposed to fitness and the countless benefits it provides.
New and Improved Zen Planner
Everything we do at Zen Planner is for you, our Customer. Last winter you told us that you loved the richness and features of Zen Planner, but you wanted a clean and easy-to-use interface.
What 5 Things You Must Know Before Hiring a Yoga Instructor For Your School or Box
As a certified yoga instructor, I’m incredibly pleased to see yoga used as a way for serious athletes to stay healthy, while training harder and longer than ever before.
How to Host a Parent’s Night Out at Your Dojo or Martial Arts Gym
Today’s blog outlines the simple steps to take to host an event that will not only bring in new students, but also save a few that would otherwise leave to the myriad of other sports and recreational offerings on display for kids during the back to school season.
Working at Zen Planner: We’re a Family Friendly and Supportive Team
It inevitably happens. Sometimes our work life bleeds into our personal life. I love writing code for our software, and sometimes I get so excited about a new feature I am working on I do some work in between office hours. But, on the other hand, I also often bring my girls to work with me when they are not in school.
Support Tip: Create and Send a New Email to Your Gym Members
Lately I’ve gotten a few calls asking how to go about creating and sending a new email to a gym member. Let’s put this into an example and then walk through how it’s accomplished.
3 Key Metrics for Measuring the Health of Your Fitness Business
A solid understanding of each of these three points will enable you to manage your business rather than continually reacting to a business that is dictating actions to you.
How You Can Train for the CrossFit® Games
With the CrossFit® Games beginning this week, I’d like to recommend a book to stoke your excitement. Training for the CrossFit® Games, is the actual yearlong training plan used by CrossFit® Games competitor Julie Foucher.
Free Executive Assistant for Your Gym
We use Zen Planner to sell Zen Planner because it is a CRM (Customer Relationship Management) tool and we drive our entire day out of the task list.
10 Survival Tips for the CrossFit® Games
As our team prepares to travel to the CrossFit® Games, we put together our Top 10 Tips for Surviving the Games With Your Health and Spirit Intact. Read through them and let us know if any resonate with you.
