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Continue reading →: Pros and Cons to Being an Independent Gym OwnerReady to become a gym owner? In this blog we explore the good and bad to starting your own independent gym rather than signing on to a franchise.
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Continue reading →: Six Top Takeaways from One of the World’s Most Successful Gym Owners.What does it take to be a successful gym owner? Our research reveals fitness leaders seek knowledge from a variety of companies and industries, always applying the best of these practices to their own company. Our owner, Gym Insight founder Lawrence Fagan, followed this path in his evolution from computer…
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Continue reading →: Avoid These Common Lease Mistakes: Expert Tips for Gym Owners.Approach your next gym lease with confidence! Gym owners often make mistakes when searching for a new property. Follow these easy suggestions to ensure your next lease is crafted correctly in your best interest.
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Continue reading →: How Can Gym Owners Extract the Best Lease Concessions?Rent is one of a gym owner’s highest cost per month when starting a gym. In this blog, we ask commercial real estate expert Ken Jorgenson, national director of CARR, for advice on negotiating the best possible lease. Here’s four key concessions:
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Continue reading →: Gym Owners: Here’s How to Flex Your Leasing PowerGym Owners! Don’t let commercial real estate reps intimidate you. Your fitness center represents true value to the real estate market — Read this blog — and our blog next week — to discover the financial advantages fitness centers bring to the real estate table and how you can sign…
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Continue reading →: Marketing To Pick Up Members During The Slow Months Of SummerTake advantage of the summer months to pick up a few new customers by trying a few marketing tactics. These tried and true suggestions in the heart of the summer is just when you want to kick start a proper marketing campaign.
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Continue reading →: Pros & Cons of Owning a Franchise Fitness CenterThis blog lists the basic pros and cons of joining a franchise rather than creating a business from the ground up.
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Continue reading →: The Necessity for Gyms to Provide ShowersHere’s a personal reflection on the need for at least one shower in any new gym design. By providing one or more showers, the owner stays in step with competition and eliminates a possible objection. Additionally, the new owner avoids future costs by plumbing out the space during build-out rather…
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Continue reading →: The Secret To Boosting Membership RevenueThe key to keeping your gym profitable lies in maximizing revenue while providing valuable services to your members. Improving top line revenue, reducing costs, and offering add-on services and convenience items are effective strategies. Upselling should be done carefully, emphasizing value over aggressive sales tactics. These methods can result in…
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Continue reading →: How to Safely Onboard New Students for Group ClassesExercise classes can attract new members, but preparation and training is the key to keeping this enthusiastic group safe. Join us as we discuss tips to safely onboard new gym goers while protecting your gym from possible litigation. Watch the full conversation with Dr. JES on Gym Insight’s YouTube Channel.
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Continue reading →: Hidden Features – 4 Helpful Tools Built into Gym Insight.Gym Insight’s Hidden Features blog highlights recent software updates and functions. Users can now use Ctrl + Click for efficient navigation, organize Account and Member screens, personalize dashboards with favorite reports, and enable Dark Mode for reduced eye strain. Read on for details.
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Continue reading →: How Coastline Fitness Executed a Terrific Plan For Growth – and You Can Too!Coastline Fitness, established in 2021 during the pandemic, has rapidly expanded, employing around 100 individuals. The owners stress the importance of treating a gym like a business, setting a clear plan, maintaining communication, and understanding the community’s needs. Their choice of Gym Insight software has helped optimize operations and save…
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Continue reading →: Hidden Features: How Recurring Scheduled Payments Fosters a Healthier ClubThe blog post discusses the importance of Regularly Scheduled Payments (RSP) for building a healthy future for gym owners. It highlights the financial strength of RSP for predictability, material strength for streamlined interactions, and emotional strength for connecting members to their well-being. The feature is presented as a game changer,…
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Continue reading →: Maximize Every Opportunity By Sharpening Your Team’s Sales Tactics.The new year is behind us and gym membership sales are dwindling. As a gym owner, now is the time to make every sales opportunity count by slowing down the process and closely evaluating how effectively your staff handles each prospect. Are they missing sales? Let’s figure out why. Four steps…
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Continue reading →: Six Simple Software Industry Lessons For Gym ManagementCrossing The Streams For Fun And Learning in Gym Management. I’d like to think that there’s some extra value hidden within the Gym Insight Blog: This is a company that crosses the two industries of software and gym management to help gym owners be competitive and offer better service levels…
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Continue reading →: An Easy Six-Step Retention Strategy for Gym OwnersFitness centers need to focus on retaining members to drive profitability. Increasing customer retention by 5% can boost profits by 25-95%. Personalized experiences, smooth onboarding, communication, early engagement, and consistency are key to keeping members engaged. Gym Insight offers solutions to streamline operations and enhance member experience, ultimately boosting profitability.
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Continue reading →: Our Customer Service Rep Vaults to New Heights after Making the Leap from Gym Manager to Gym Insight EmployeeEmployee Profile – Abigail Bell Welcome, Abigail Bell, to Gym Insight! Now in her fourth week of employment, we are proud to announce our newest customer service representative came to us from long-time Gym Insight customer Whetstone Fitness, where she was their general manager. Hiring Abigail is a huge win for…
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Continue reading →: Hidden Features: Four Tools Sure to Make Running Your Club Easier – and More Profitable!In this Hidden Features blog, Gym Insight users are introduced to four tools they can use to work quicker and smarter: automate and manage payment for add-on services, pop-up photos to access member account information, pending deletes schedule, member anniversary reports.
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Continue reading →: Gym Leases: Four Surprising Reasons Landlords Love Fitness Today.Gyms today are the darling tenants of commercial property industry. Their clients visit multiple times a week, stay and shop in the plaza, and attract a diverse clientele. Additionally, fitness clubs and boutiques are good stewards of their leases — repaying rent deferments —and now are among the four key…
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Continue reading →: Unlocking the Customer Service Secrets of Leading HotelsHealth clubs and hotels are similar industries -relying heavily on excellent customer service to build strong customer impressions. Together the two experiences create brand loyalty and long-term financial success for the companies.
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Continue reading →: Get Gym Management Leverage With the 80/20 RuleThe 80/20 Rule or Pareto Principle, stipulating 80% of results come from 20% of efforts, may significantly ease challenges of managing a gym. By recognizing that the majority of sales are likely from a minority of trainers or specific activities, managers can utilize focused training and strategies towards high-return areas.…
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Continue reading →: Seasons Greetings for a Beautiful Holiday from Gym Insight!Gym Owners and Gym Dreamers thank you for your support of our gym management software. We are lot like you – privately held and bent on producing the best product on the market. From our family to yours, we wish you a holiday filled with warmth, happiness, and peace.
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Continue reading →: Hidden Features: Check Out Our New Bulk ActionsDiscover how we’ve made it even simpler to use bulk actions in your Gym Insight software.
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Continue reading →: How to Run a Thriving Gym in a Small TownRead on to discover how your gym can thrive in a small town.
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Continue reading →: How to Avoid Negligence Lawsuits: Scope of Practice (Part III)Don’t let your gym staff overstep their scope of practice – discover how gyms can help members without breaking the law.
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Continue reading →: How to Avoid Negligence Lawsuits: Selecting & Training Staff (Part II)Training gym instructors and staff is a critical element to avoiding negligence lawsuits. Read on for expert insight into this important issue.
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Continue reading →: How to Avoid Negligence Lawsuits, Preventing Injuries Part 1.Read our summary of the Gym Owner’s podcast interview with Dr. JES’ international expert on fitness law and liability.
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Continue reading →: Expanding Your Gym Empire By Purchasing Fitness BusinessesConsider growing your gym business through expansion – Read on for an insider’s take! !
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Continue reading →: How Gym Insight Makes Switching Gym Software Easy and Painless.Gym Insight makes converting software easy and painless with its team-approach to securing your gym’s data!
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Continue reading →: Sales And Presentation Skills RevisitedStaying ahead of sales training for staff can drive sales for a gym.
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Continue reading →: Unraveling the Mysteries of Gym Negligence Lawsuits: Case Dismissed!Read on for expert information on keeping your health club safe from gym lawsuits.
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Continue reading →: Unraveling the Mysteries of Gym Negligence Lawsuits: Find Your Answers Here!Part 1: Waiver Law and Assumption of Risk We know protecting your gym and personal training business from lawsuits is a top concern. That’s why our podcast team recently interviewed Dr. JoAnn M. Eickhoff-Shemek, Founder and President of the Fitness Law Academy, LLC and Professor Emeritus, Exercise Science, at the University of South Florida. AKA “Dr.…
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Continue reading →: Facing The Dilemmas Of Being A Gym Business FounderIt doesn’t matter if you are starting out with a well-capitalized franchise with a growing brand such as Orangetheory or you are just single-handedly managing a gym space that operates by remote access, there will be a continuous flow of decisions you’ll have to make that involve people.
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Continue reading →: 20 Things Successful Gym Owners Do Everyday Part 120 Things Successful Gym Owners Do Everyday Part 1 I was recently reading a post entitled: “20 Things The Rich Do Everyday” on Dave Ramsey’s Website. If you’re not familiar with Ramsey and his teachings his website is truly worth giving a close inspection if you’re a small business owner or gym owner.…
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Continue reading →: Four Strategies to Increase Gym Revenue without Spending Ad MoneyHere’s some easy ways to increase gym profits without increasing ad spend.
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Continue reading →: Building a Dynamic Gym Out of a Life of ServiceLearn the secrets behind building a dynamic, multi-purpose gym by meeting our customer profile – Raegan Reed, owner of The Cardio Club.
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Continue reading →: How an Artist is Changing Gym Insight’s Social Media.Let’s meet Steven Cole Manning, our customer support specialist to discover how his unique skills are changing Gym Insight’s social media imaging.
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Continue reading →: Learn from the Best — Iron Mayhem Strength & Conditioning Gym ProfileIron Mayhem is a Bristol Virginia-based strength & conditioning gym with a focus on providing the best training environment for its awesome athletes. learn more about how they do business in this Gym Insight gym profile.
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Continue reading →: Health Club Owner/Manager is the Risk Management ManagerThis guest blog describes the types of legal liabilities a gym owner or manager can face due to an employees negligent act and provides guidance on how to avoid these unnecessary lawsuits.
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Continue reading →: How to Grow Your Gym by Teaming Up with Weight-Loss ExpertsLearn how Health One can bring a comprehensive, science-based weight loss program to your gym.
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Continue reading →: Gym Insight Employee Profile — Customer Service Extraordinaire!Meet our director of customer service who is really a wonderful person. We think you might enjoy his story.
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Continue reading →: Discover How Our Sales Guru Update Makes Running Your Gym EasierDiscover exciting new changes to our great Sales Guru sign-up software. For a full demonstration, call us at 1-855-FOR-GYMS
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Continue reading →: Why Great Gym Customer Service Is Still Job Number #1Learn why human-based, responsive customer service is still needed – and wanted – in the gym industry.
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Continue reading →: The Healing Touch of a New Kind of GymGym Insight customer profile: Abb’s Muscle & Fitness Gym Abbe Hockaday started Abb’s Muscle & Fitness Gym the morning after she retired. After a career in the corporate world, she was ready to launch her own brand of fitness. It would be a place of harmony, peace, healing, and growth. Or, as…
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Continue reading →: How to Maximize Each Sales Prospect at Your GymLearn the best way to maximize each sale by value selling your gym rather than competing on price.
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Continue reading →: How a Simple Task List Will Fire-Up Your Employees!Learn how the Gym Insight Task List feature increases employee productivity.
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Continue reading →: Considering Switching Gym Management Software? Do It Now — Don’t Give Away January’s ProfitsWhy now is a great time to switch gym management software companies and keep more of your profits this New Year.
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Continue reading →: We Call It “The Money Catcher” –Gym Insight software just became even more user-friendly with the new and improved task list feature. Read on to discover the details that make a difference in a well-run gym and an awesome one!

















































