Tag: Fitness Business
How Your Competition Is On The Move
I checked out another new (new to me) gym yesterday. It’s another major national chain with nearly 1000 locations that has been around for a long time. I took advantage of the first visit and …
Forget Your 2019 Goals, Temporarily
If I read one more post encouraging me to do this, or to do that next year, when 2019 arrives… I get it, 2019 is almost here and I need to think about what I …
Reason #4: Why most fitness business fail
I had to think long and hard about how to start this post. This content strikes so close to home it’s hard to be sensitive, objective and convincing at the same time. I get passionate …
How to Really Stand Out This Holiday Season
I just read an email where a business consultant recommended that business owners take the month of December off and relax. Seriously? This would work IF your business is functioning as a turn-key operation and …
You don’t get a second chance to make a good first impression
I am headed out to visit a new gym in a few minutes. It’s part of a national chain I have been hearing a lot about. It’s time for me to check it out for …
Reason #3: Why Most Fitness Businesses Fail
If we were to name today in the Carolinas, it would be suitable to call it “Black Ice Tuesday.” The South continues to recover from the unusual snow storm over the weekend. There is not …
Reason#2: 5 Reasons 8 Out of 10 Fitness Business Will Fail
It seems like yesterday I was sitting around a table in my mastermind group. We had a speaker presenting on the topic of creating our elevator speech. We were newbies and he found holes in …
How To Create Culture In Your Business
Our free educational seminar took a different turn yesterday, for the better. We set these seminars up to accommodate a very small group of people. The reason is to share this information with a larger …
Five Reasons 8 out of 10 Fitness Businesses Will Fail
Eric T. Wagner wrote an article for Forbes magazine in 2013, Five Reasons 8 Out Of 10 Businesses Fail. Here are the five reasons: #1: Not really in touch with customers through deep dialogue #2: …