Facility Scheduling Software: A Guide to Staff Coordination
Sports businesses often struggle with scheduling staff for sessions and private lessons with clients, posing a major challenge. Your coaches and trainers are likely in the business of working with athletes. How can you make sure training sessions are a top priority for employees and help them avoid scheduling mistakes?
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.
How to Increase Staff Buy-in of a Sports Scheduling Software
In the sports industry, it can sometimes be even harder to adjust because we not only have to think about improving the customer experience and improving business operations, but also how we get seasoned coaches who want to just focus on training to focus on adoption of a new process.
Customer Interactions: Maintaining Success & Growth at Your Sports Business
Learn how you can maintain and grow your business through customer interactions throughout their experience with your business. Whether you are an independent business owner or have a group of employees working under you, it is important to understand that the business owner sets the tone for working with clients and should…
Innovation Issue: Upper Hand Product Update 2022
Read what’s been happening at Upper Hand, and how our latest improvements can help you grow your sports training business! From launching new features to squashing bugs…
Overcoming Top Challenges of the Boutique Fitness Studio Model
Owning a boutique fitness studio is extremely rewarding, but it doesn’t come without its challenges. It’s important to identify the unique characteristics of the boutique fitness studio model as well as how to handle the obstacles that fitness studios face.
How to Boost Your Sports Facility Revenue (Without Adding New Clients)
Learn how you can grow your sports academy revenue by nurturing your current clients, adding memberships, improving your marketing and more. For example, during a team or group training session, observe any athletes that may benefit from a little extra coaching or could improve their technique. Perhaps private lessons or 1 on 1 training will greatly benefit them. Not only will this help improve the skills of your athletes, but it will also create additional revenue opportunities for your business.
4 Things Sports Teach Us About Business Ownership
Learn 4 lessons that sports teach us about business ownership, as discussed by Kevin MacCauley, Founder of Upper Hand. Just as a coach identifies potential cracks in the game plan and makes necessary adjustments to end up on top, a business leader must foresee bottlenecks, and try to fix them, before they happen.
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.
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.