Ebooks and Articles
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How to Optimize Personalization Using Fitness Personas
This first release of our 2022 market research report identifies four distinct consumer personas and how they engage with fitness. Supplemented with commentary and insights from a corresponding panel presented at IHRSA 2022, this eBook is a must-read to understand personalization.

Essential Gym KPIs to Measure Success
This downloadable guide breaks down the six essential metrics gym owners and operators should monitor to ensure their business performs profitably.

New Gym Member Onboarding Guide
Learn how to make the most out of the first 90 days of membership with our new gym member onboarding guide which outlines how to drive engagement and retention during the first several weeks of membership.

Holiday Gym Marketing Guide: Reindeer Remix Edition
A profitable holiday season and New Year starts with a well-thought out marketing strategy. That’s why we developed our holiday gym marketing guide with over 28 marketing promotions and activations your club can use to start building your 2022 pipeline.

Black Friday & Cyber Monday Gym Marketing Guide
Increase new joins and retention rates this Black Friday and Cyber Monday with our Gym Marketing Guide. Find creative marketing campaign concepts, product recommendations, and video testimonials from fellow gym owners who highlight their own successful activations in this jam-packed workbook.

Motivations of The Next Fitness Consumer
For this next analysis we address what drives motivation for active consumers. Our research revealed several intrinsic and extrinsic behavior attributes across age and gender that help us to understand what the active consumer values most about pursuing a health and fitness routine.

The Next Big-Box Gym Consumer
In Part II of our market research report findings, we share the data regarding the next big-box fitness consumer trends and motivations post-pandemic. Learn how fitness routines have changed, whether consumers are meeting health goals, where work outs are taking place, the willingness to spend on fitness, and the motivations enticing members to return to the gym.

The Fitness Consumer Market Research Report
The 2021 Fitness Consumer Report was created to analyze the post-pandemic fitness landscape related to workout frequency in health clubs, studios and online, top at-home exercise options of 2021, the motivations and spending habits surrounding fitness, and the likelihood of consumers returning to health clubs.

10 Summer Activations to Grow Gym Membership at Your Club
We created this guide to help spark creativity and excitement around ways to retain and gain, members throughout the summertime.
Read on to find 10 marketing activations with additional tips and tricks that you and your staff can use to grow gym membership.

CRM & Lead Management Fundamentals for Gyms
In this workbook we layout the how and the why of using a fitness CRM to capture, nurture, and convert more leads. Even if you have an existing club management system in place – an integrated CRM solution built for gyms can take your outreach to the next level.

Conversion Calendar
Learn how we grow your fitness business by:
- Training your staff so they can remain focused on your members
- Cleaning up bad data from your legacy system so you get accurate reports
- Improving cash collected in the first 90 days by 5%

The New Year Starts Now
Take advantage of holiday promotions to create member engaging campaigns to build your pipeline for 2021.

Streamlining Club Growth and Engagement for 2021
Our companion eBook to this year’s Future of Fitness event supports this year’s forward-thinking message and provides resources to help clubs maximize their results in the new year.

Building a Growth Engine for 2021
Inspired by the Club Solutions Leadership Summit, this eBook features resources to help clubs grow their membership and revenue channels for next year and beyond.

17 Email and SMS Templates for Your Gym
Email templates can improve your success rate with all incoming leads. Download this file of 17 email templates that make it easy for your team to copy, paste and send personalized communications.

How Does Your Gym Reporting Stack Up?
See how your gym reporting compares to other health clubs in as little as 11 questions.

Member Payment and Retention Challenges
Download our free eBook and discover the best methods for solving payment and retention challenges in your gym.