Four Reasons Every Gym Owner Needs A Mentor

Four Reasons Every Gym Owner Needs A Mentor

Research shows that up to 80 per cent of Australian gyms will change hands, close their doors or operate without profit in their first five years of business. Gym owners need to juggle a number of important factors to succeed in the early days, such as keeping...
6 Reasons Why Gyms Fail

6 Reasons Why Gyms Fail

#1 – No skills or experience  Please DO NOT buy a fitness business if you have no passion for fitness and no experience in the industry. The days of buying a fitness business, putting a low paid manager in it, and sitting back as an investor are long gone. Instead get...
Stand out from the crowd!

Stand out from the crowd!

Re-Position your business to stand out from the crowd. Focus on your strengths and utilise them as much as possible, never by fixing your weaknesses. Daniel Flynn, Co-founder and Managing Director of Thankyou Group says, “When you base your business around your...
Culture Recruitment – the Apple way

Culture Recruitment – the Apple way

If you are sick of hiring the wrong staff and people leaving after you have spent 6 months training them up, then don’t despair; most fitness businesses also get this wrong. But what is encouraging and really exciting is that if you change your approach and learn from...