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  • How to Help Your Members Build Healthy Habits

    How to Help Your Members Build Healthy Habits

    Do you struggle to instill healthy habits in your members? You are not alone. Watching members develop bad, unhealthy habits is one of the most frustrating feelings for any gym owner who truly cares about them. So, we decided to pull together information on how you can help your members build healthy habits, to ensure…

  • How to Make a Successful New Years Offer to Grow Your Martial Arts School

    How to Make a Successful New Years Offer to Grow Your Martial Arts School

    As the new year fast approaches, more people than ever will be contemplating a healthier lifestyle change. This means that fitness and martial arts gyms everywhere will be engaged in advertising campaigns with the hope of recruiting new customers.  Many of the ad pitches will be the same cliché slogans of “New year, new you!”…

  • Hidden Gym Profits During Holiday Season

    Hidden Gym Profits During Holiday Season

    The holiday season presents both challenges and opportunities for gym owners. During this bustling time of festivities and celebration, member retention issues and the constant threat of churn are ever-present. Yet, as Xmas kicks into the New Year, a general shift in mindset to resolutions for the coming year presents a golden opportunity for fitness…

  • 7 Ways to Grow Your Email List of Potential Personal Training Clients as a Gym

    7 Ways to Grow Your Email List of Potential Personal Training Clients as a Gym

    Getting new clients for your business is crucial for you to sustain your brand, grow it, and start to charge a higher rate for your services. For most fitness clubs, personal training is a significant part of gym revenue. It therefore makes sense to put resources behind building that personal training clientele. It keeps trainers…

  • Update: Recurring Bookings, Automation Enhancements

    Update: Recurring Bookings, Automation Enhancements

    Over the last couple of months we’ve been working on a host of improvements to the Gymdesk gym management software, in response to feedback we’ve been receiving. Recurring Bookings We’ve received many requests over time to allow for perpetual / recurring bookings. Technical limitations made this a significant undertaking, but we’ve been hard at work…

  • Build Loyal Gymnastics Members Through Community

    Build Loyal Gymnastics Members Through Community

    If you are searching for ways to increase member retention, improve the reputation of your gym, and secure its long-term success, you cannot afford to ignore the value of building a fantastic community for your members. A powerful community can be the make-or-break factor for gymnastics gyms trying to establish themselves, and there are several…

  • How to Market Martial Arts to Adults

    How to Market Martial Arts to Adults

    The number of martial arts gyms opening up across the United States has grown exponentially in the past decade. The popularity of martial arts has grown especially among adults.  If you own a martial arts school or are thinking about opening one, there are several things to consider when it comes to marketing and making…

  • How Martial Arts Training Helps Me Stay in Shape While Traveling

    How Martial Arts Training Helps Me Stay in Shape While Traveling

    In November 2020, I set off for Europe to travel indefinitely. I was fresh out of journalism school but had already lived a previous life as a professional mixed martial arts (MMA) fighter for three years before enrolling. The lessons I learned during those years of fighting are what gave me enough discipline, confidence, and…

  • 9 Retention Strategies for Gymnastics Businesses

    9 Retention Strategies for Gymnastics Businesses

    While many gymnastic businesses focus all their efforts on getting new clients through the door, often forgetting about client retention. Which makes sense when you think about it. When resources are stretched, getting new clients through the doors is a much more visceral way to see money coming into the business. But if you step…

  • Create Compelling Content for Your Gym by Partnering with your Trainers

    Create Compelling Content for Your Gym by Partnering with your Trainers

    Whether it’s showing client success stories, providing exercise walkthroughs, or getting involved in the latest dance trend, chances are your most successful competitors are creating plenty of content to promote their gyms and trainers across different channels. But why are they spending so much time and effort on this type of content, and is it…

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