Managing your business on the go (with the Upper Hand mobile app)
Learn how you can use the Upper Hand mobile app to manage your business, improve your efficiency, and capitalize on revenue. The Upper Hand mobile app allows both you and your clients to retain the full functionality of the desktop software, just optimized for mobile devices.
Upper Hand Wrapped: 2021 Year in Review
2021 challenged us in many ways. Here, we take a look back at the products and innovations from the Upper Hand team over the past 12 months. This year, we emphasized the importance of data to make better business decisions. As you began welcoming clients back to your business, it was important that you kept a strong pulse on your operations. In an ever-changing environment, you’ve had to make quick decisions: maximizing use of your facility while facing limited capacity requirements, encouraging repeat business through recurring revenue opportunities, competing with the rise in at-home fitness equipment, and more.
Upper Hand Named Top Tech Company at Powderkeg Unvalley Awards
Upper Hand has been announced as a winning company in the 2022 Powderkeg Unvalley Awards. This recognizes Upper Hand as one of the best tech companies to work for in emerging tech communities beyond Silicon Valley. Upper Hand was recognized as a top company in 4 categories: Top Tech Companies, Best Tech Companies to Work For, Best Remote Companies to Work For, and Companies With the Best Work-Life Balance.
5 Reasons Sports Facilities Choose Upper Hand
Building a business requires significant investment. Here’s why The Compound 256 chose Upper hand to manage their growing sports facility. Athletes from youth to professional levels are traveling up to 2 hours to train at The Compound. When Louis was evaluating his technology, he knew a business management software was an integral part of expanding his business. So, he needed a partner whose ability to scale and innovate aligned with those goals. This led Louis to Upper Hand.
4 Tips to Build your Brand on Social Media
Learn how you can grow your brand awareness, develop relationships with your customers, and drive sales and leads with social media. As Ray Allen, former professional basketball player, says, “You don’t need a corporation or a marketing company to brand you now: you can do it yourself. You can establish who you are with a social media following.” To build a strong brand on social media, you need to have a strong plan and set measurable goals. From identifying your target audience to planning out your content, here are four tips that any business can use to grow their social media presence.
Preparing an Effective Sports Camp Schedule
Preparing a sports camp schedule is not easy. Use this agenda template as a helpful guide when planning your next big event! In addition to helping you and your staff plan, sharing the sports camp schedule with parents and athletes when they arrive at the camp will be a hit. This will give athletes an idea of what to expect and should get them excited for the training ahead.
Top 4 Takeaways from IHRSA 2021
Read 4 of the top takeaways from IHRSA 2021, from new ways to achieve peak performance to innovative recovery tools. From software to equipment, a common theme across nearly every vendor at IHRSA was data, and more specifically, how you can use data to prove the value of your offerings. Equipment companies have found ways to collect user data to help athletes achieve peak performance and showcase progression over time. Woodway treadmills, for example, measure distance, velocity, force, and power, and give instant feedback during training and testing. Similarly, we noticed many “smart” strength training equipment options that incorporate user data to dynamically adjust weight and resistance between sets and reps.
How to Showcase the Value of Your Offerings Through Data
Learn how you can leverage data and analytics to showcase the value of your business offerings to your clients. Parents spend thousands of dollars on youth sports and fitness every year. But, how can they objectively tell their athletes are getting any better? We operate in an industry where there is no clear-cut way to evaluate athletes or define success. Yet, results are what athletes expect from training programs. Results keep clients coming back.
Upper Hand Named Top Fitness Software Provider by Capterra
Upper Hand announced today that it has been named a top membership management software product by Capterra, an online service that helps organizations find the right software. Upper Hand was also named a Frontrunner for membership management software by SoftwareAdvice. FrontRunners are the top software products in a category, offering the best capability and value for small businesses based on their usability and customer satisfaction. This is the second consecutive Membership Management award win for the company.
How to Predict Monthly Recurring Revenue (Examples + MRR Calculator)
MRR, or Monthly Recurring Revenue, is the sum of recurring revenue that you generate month over month. Recurring revenue is income that you can expect to collect on a regular basis.
For sports and fitness businesses, MRR is an efficient way to track expected revenue brought by your memberships. For example, if you have 10 clients that each pay $30 each month for a membership, your MRR would be $300. You can count on receiving this $300 each month as long as these 10 clients remain members.