Best Practices for Opening a Sports Training Academy
Maybe you’re ready to take your passion for training athletes to the next level or maybe you’ve already started growing your client base and need to solidify your plans for the future. Whatever it is, we’ve got you covered with helpful tips for turning your passion into a profitable business.
How to Find & Secure a Sports Camp Venue
Even the best coaches may need some assistance deciding where to host their upcoming youth sports camp. Here are 5 tips for finding the best venue for your sports camp to ensure that you have everything you need to provide a safe, enjoyable experience for all involved.
3 Ways Upper Hand Elevates Client Experience
Success begins and ends with customer experience. No matter how great your service or product, it’s all for naught if the customer does not truly enjoy their time engaged with your sports or fitness business. Nearly every interaction existing and potential customers will have with any business will begin and end online, and Upper Hand ensures that your clients’ first impression of your business is positive, every time.
An Open Letter from our Founder and CEO: A New Chapter at Upper Hand
I’m delighted to introduce our industry’s first and only artificial intelligence offering, Upper Hand AI! This new data science platform offering is designed to help you make better data-driven decisions to improve your business. With Upper Hand AI, you’ll have access to valuable insights that can help you better understand your clients and improve their performance.
Pros and Cons of Different Sports Lesson Types
We’ve seen our customers successfully execute all different types of sports lessons in their business and some even incorporate all of them at once. We hope to provide some insight into some common positives and negatives to each type so that you can better understand and evaluate potential opportunities to implement them into your business.
Tips on Giving Effective Athlete Evaluations
Performance evaluations and feedback are important in all aspects of life. In schools, students are graded on daily homework and weekly exams. In the workplace, there are continuous performance reviews. But with sports, there aren’t any legislative standards or financial metrics to be graded on, which has created a grey area on best practices and techniques on how to effectively provide constructive feedback to develop athletic skills. Here are some helpful tips and recommendations to help your athletes accelerate in their respective sports with encouraging athlete evaluations.
How to Collect Team Payments through Upper Hand
Oftentimes, we see sports organizations are not just managing a facility or training center but also are tasked concurrently with operating a teams component within their business as well. A significant piece of running a program of teams, whether it be travel, club or recreational, is collecting and managing your team payments.
Upper Hand Secures Oversubscribed Round of Growth Capital
Upper Hand, a subscription-based software company that helps sports facilities streamline their operations and provide premium experiences for their clients, has closed on a new round of growth capital.
The Benefits of Sports Facility Management Software
Sports facility management software is designed to help organizations manage their facilities more efficiently. It provides tools for scheduling events, managing bookings, tracking inventory, monitoring staff performance, and analyzing customer feedback.
Key Lessons for Sports Coach & Staff Empowerment
Sports and fitness staff empowerment is critical to help your business retain capable and committed employees. Focus on training them to become independent and trusting them to make informed decisions, allowing them to grow and develop in their roles, and be sure to implement systems that make their daily administrative tasks more streamlined.