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.
Steal These 3 Strategies To Improve Trainer Retention By 8x
There are a few key factors that contribute to trainer turnover, time and time again. And there are strategies that you can employ to greatly reduce the impact of those factors. The result? Higher trainer retention rates, which results in a reduced cost of staff replacement. In short, you’ll keep more trainers, and more money in your pocket as well.
6 Staff Management Tips for Your Sports Facility
Running a sports & fitness business can be challenging, and adding a facility with staff to manage only complicates the equation. Here are 6 tips and best practices on managing your staff to increase productivity and motivate your team.
Unexpected Elements to Consider Before Opening a Gym
It goes without saying that research, financing, and finding your customers are integral parts of opening a sports training facility. But, apart from these traditional business plan elements, here are some things you may have overlooked in your preparation.