If you own a gym, you know it’s a competitive business. As an owner, you should be ready to develop your business to grow and prosper. This comes with knowledge of the industry, and awareness of the facets of the business that are important. Here are a few reasons why gyms fail, try to avoid them!
- No Distinct Plan
You opened your gym, enrolled new members, so now what? Before opening your gym, hopefully you’re aware of the financial commitment in place along with a vision of future goals. There’s plenty of other factors to consider such as employees, equipment, and much more! If there’s no decisive plan of action your gym will likely fail in the ultra-competitive market.
- Neglecting Competition
As stated the gym market is very competitive. From cheap commercial gyms to CrossFit, Yoga, and other specialty gyms, they’re all trying to get a piece of the pie. Gyms that decide to open near competition must do their best to solidify themselves. Other gyms must always remain on top of things such as customer service, maintaining equipment, and current trends. New gyms can steal customers without you even noticing it, so as a word of advice always stay on top of things to keep customers in your facility.
- Lack of Promotional Tools
This day in age every gym needs a marketing plan in place. You can only go so far by word of mouth marketing and people seeing your gym as they drive by. Promoting your gym through digital and social media marketing are key ways to get the buzz about your new gym spread. These are great ways to promote deals and drive registrations. After an initial flow of registrations, these are tactics that can always be utilized to promote new deals to reach prospective customers. In the gym market, people are always switching gyms for better deals or service/facilities.
- Never Changing/Updating Facility
Gyms that have been around a little longer likely have the same equipment and setup as they did when they opened. Having new or updated equipment in your gym is important along with keeping up with fitness trends. For example, a lot of people enjoy using kettlebells currently, then buy kettlebells for your gym. Even subtle changes in the setting of a gym can make a huge difference! Your members will take notice if you make positive changes.
- Neglecting Financial Management
To run a successful, you must be able to keep track of your finances. You don’t need to be a financial expert, but you must keep track of memberships, revenue, profits, payroll, and all necessary figures relevant to your gym. Keeping track of a daily and monthly budget are good running figures to keep track of on a constant basis. Running a gym all these statistics must be measured to manage the success of your gym. For gym owners in need a help, there are options to assist in gym management.
At RhinoFit we assist gym owners with our member management software solution. Contact us today or schedule a demo to see how we can help you!
