Industry Secrets: How to Open a Sports Training Facility
If you consider yourself an expert in a sports trade, then there is a lot of opportunity in launching your own training facility. In fact, the health club industry brings in a whopping $87.2 billion, and is expected to grow each year. While this presents an excellent business opportunity, there are numerous factors to consider as you embark on this new entrepreneurial journey. So here’s a handy guide to help you get started.
What Your Clients and Members Think About Re-Opening
As studios, gyms, and sports facilities begin reopening, an important element for owners and operators to know–in order to set their business up for success– is new expected consumer behavior. We surveyed 1,200 consumers who frequently train at local sports or fitness businesses to gain insights into their thoughts and feelings about reopening.
3 Ways Upper Hand Enables Growth for Basketball Academies
Upper Hand provides an all-in-one solution for basketball academies that streamlines business operations, allowing you to spend more time focusing on providing professional-level instruction to your athletes while ultimately scaling your revenue and client base. Here are just a few of the ways Upper Hand enables growth for basketball trainers:
Upper Hand Wins Top Tech Company Culture
Upper Hand, the leading technology platform for the sports and fitness industry, today announces that it has been awarded Top Tech Company Culture in Powderkeg’s 2020 National Tech Culture Awards. This recognizes Upper Hand as one of the best company cultures in tech in communities beyond Silicon Valley.
Innovation Issue: Upper Hand Fall 2020 Product Update
As the fourth quarter of 2020 comes to a close, our product team has taken a look back at the new features, updates, and fixes that we welcomed to our platform over the past 3 months. We prioritized releases of new features to our reports and classes capabilities, in order to expand upon our truly robust experiences in both of those areas of our software. Additionally, we welcomed updates to the UP Financial Suite that make accepting payments even more flexible for clients and members.
Upper Hand Named Most Popular Membership Management Software
Upper Hand announced today that it has been named a Top 20 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.
Customer Success: How Upper Hand Treats Every Customer Like a Legend
Kasey McKenney is Head of Accounts at Upper Hand, where she started on the Customer Success team more than three years ago. Here she tells us what makes Upper Hand’s customer service stand out among its competitors and how customers benefit from their personalized approach.
4 Health Tips for 2021
As 2020 comes to a close, we hit the typical cycle of New Year’s Resolutions. Now, I’m all about setting goals for myself in the new year, but it took me a while to realize that the goals I traditionally set were not sustainable. I have always been one to say “I’m going Keto in the new year” or “I’m going to lose ‘x’ pounds”, or better yet, “I’m going to focus on my health this year”. Well, what does that mean?! What were the tangible actions to get me to achieve my goals? I didn’t have any.
Upper Hand Wrapped: 2020 Year in Review
It goes without saying that 2020 was quite the year. The sports and fitness industry experienced one of the most momentous periods of change in its long history this year. But as with anything, change breeds innovation. Here at Upper Hand, it was no different. Here are the top company and product highlights of 2020.
Upper Hand Named 2020 Leader for Club Management Software
Upper Hand has been named 2020 Category Leader for Club Management software by Software Advice and GetApp. Leaders are the top software products in a category, offering the best capability and value for small businesses based on their usability and customer satisfaction.