It’s been a great year for our company and we pray the same for you. Since gym owners such as yourselves are such a huge part of our success — well, you’re almost like family — we’d thought you’d enjoy an end-of-year wrap up. Looking forward to an amazing 2024 and the privilege of watching your gyms grow exponentially! Gym Insight 2023 Social Media Winners: Top Podcast: "Insider Tips for Owning a Thriving Gym with Justin Green." Top Instagram: “Always Remember This Verse…” Top Facebook: “Don’t Let Life Knock You Down…” Top YouTube Short: “Zero to Hero….” Top Blog: “Best Types of Music to Play…” Fav [...]
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It is not a daily increase, but a daily decrease. Hack away at the inessential. This quote from martial arts legend Bruce Lee is so simple, yet it says so much of what success is all about, in gym ownership, in business and life in general. You can spend hours doing little things or find the big things that matter; they may look the same at first. But when all the other things drop away you can still take the essential factors and use them to achieve the final outcomes you desire. This is what sculptors do when they carve [...]
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What your fitness business should do in 2022. At first glance you might think that I've already covered this topic for the year. But this is a little different; it's intended to be a straightforward list of resolutions for the New Year. I want to make this a post about looking forward and in the last post on making plans there was a lot of content that I left out simply because there was too much good stuff for one post to cover. So, this is a list of what a fitness business should resolve to do in the New [...]
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New Report: View Check-ins by Hour of Day: Located under the Access Reports tab, this new report will allow you to easily identify peak times and slow times in your facility. Select a range of dates and the graph will plot out the average number of member visits per hour. Learn More Scheduled Payments report renamed!: Quick FYI, to better reflect reality we've renamed the Scheduled Payments report to Pending Account Dues (under the Financial Reports) tab. The Scheduled Payments report now shows the actual scheduled payments as shown on accounts. These are typically one-time or annual recurring payments. Learn [...]
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View and export your member's postal addresses!: We've added a report called Postal Addresses under the Contact Info reports tab. With the new report you can view and export your member's postal addresses for direct mail campaigns or for plotting your member's addresses on a map!
New gym owners come to the business with many different levels of expectations. It depends on things like their previous experiences in management, small business ownership, gym operations and leadership, to name but a few. The one thing that consistently catches new owners off guard and causes much stress is how many routine, repetitive tasks need to be handled on a daily basis. In theory you just sign up new members and they give you a payment each month, so you build up a nice little stream of revenue to enjoy. Well, it sounds a little fanciful when I put [...]
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What Gym Software Can Do For You The whole point of owning a gym is to be able to take control of your own destiny. You can have a great job that's more exciting than the daily grind of office work, gives you freedom and you get to help others achieve health and fitness. What could be more rewarding? That is, if you can overcome the types of distractions that are likely to undermine your efforts and steal the hours from your day. These distractions come in many forms but you can beat them with effective management and the use [...]
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