Selling Fitness

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Assess and Create Balance Between Sales and Service in Your Club

Assess and Create Balance Between Sales and Service in Your Club

Satisfy members and staff at your facility by reevaluating your service policies and creating a bett ...

by Karen Woodard-Chavez
Hotels Enhance Their Fitness Centers to Appeal to Travelers - Part 2 of 2

Hotels Enhance Their Fitness Centers to Appeal to Travelers - Part 2 of 2

Part 2: Business travelers now place a greater importance on fitness, moving all segments of t ...

by Pamela Kufahl
Hotels Enhance Their Fitness Centers to Appeal to Travelers - Part 1 of 2

Hotels Enhance Their Fitness Centers to Appeal to Travelers - Part 1 of 2

Business travelers now place a greater importance on fitness, moving all segments of the hospital ...

by Pamela Kufahl
Club Closings without Proper Membership Transfers Can Create Liability Issues

Club Closings without Proper Membership Transfers Can Create Liability Issues

When it comes to closing or transferring ownership of a health club, an owner’s largest liabi ...

by Amber Maechler
How To Sell The Solution Not The Health Club Membership

How To Sell The Solution Not The Health Club Membership

I recently purchased a new car for my wife. The process of purchasing a new car always makes me crin ...

by Nic DeCaire
Eliminate Fear in Your Fitness Facility To Better Serve Your Members

Eliminate Fear In Your Fitness Facility To Better Serve Your Members

Management expert, author and teacher Peter Drucker once said that the best managers and leaders wer ...

by Blair McHaney
10 Methods For Improving Health Club Sales

10 Methods For Improving Health Club Sales

Unfortunately, no quick fix for improving health club sales exists, but there are some things you ca ...

by Jim Thomas
15 Tips To Voicemail Survival For The Sales Professional

15 Tips To Voicemail Survival For The Sales Professional

1. If your goal is to get the phone call returned, don't leave information that would allow the pers ...

by Mark Hunter
Making Sales In Tough Times

Making Sales In Tough Times

During the current economic downturn, many clubs are experiencing a tougher than normal business env ...

by Casey Conrad
Top 10 Tips For Prosepcting Success

Top 10 Tips For Prosepcting Success

To succeed in sales, you must be able to find and close a sufficient number of qualified prospects. ...

by Jacques Werth
Can The Corporate Sales Approach In Clubs Improve?

Can The Corporate Sales Approach In Clubs Improve?

With a recession looming, most facilities are feeling the crunch of lower revenue or profit margins ...

by Karen Woodard-Chavez

A Selling Attitude

Good selling requires that you understand the product well and work to appreciate the customer's req ...

by Sourced by GymLink

How to Cold Call

The cold call. What a terrible term. I have never liked the sound of it and so I prefer to term it a ...

by Emjae Johnson
How To Handle & Defeat Sales Objections

How To Handle & Defeat Sales Objections

Some reasons why we face objections and tips on how to address them: 1. Objections are com ...

by Leon Potter
The Four Biggest Blocks I’ve Seen Clients Encounter

The Four Biggest Blocks I've Seen Clients Encounter

The Four Biggest Blocks I’ve Seen Clients Encounter (and Why I Hope You Won’t) by Wen ...

by Wendy Weiss
Boosting Personal Training Profits

Boosting Personal Training Profits

By establishing personal training as a key profit centre, facility management can then look for ways ...

by Guy Brown
Three Offers Are Better Than One

Three Offers Are Better Than One

Many sales organisations have successfully transitioned from selling products to selling solutions, ...

by Brian Dietmeyer
I'm Not A Sales Person By Nature

I'm Not A Sales Person By Nature

"I'm not a sales person by nature." - by Jim Labadie for GymLink Australia Something I us ...

by Jim Labadie
Four Obstacles To Closing More Sales

Four Obstacles To Closing More Sales

Fear of Failure There are several other reasons why the end game of selling is stressful a ...

by Brian Tracy

Take Control of Your Sales

When you learn to take charge of the development of a new and positive self-concept of selling, you ...

by Brian Tracy
The Six Sins of Selling

The Six Sins Of Selling

Success in sales and in life is an ongoing process rather than a final destination. Great salespeopl ...

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7 Ways to Get to the Truth When the Sale Disappears

7 Ways To Get The Truth When The Sale Disappears

You're close, really close, to making a sale. Your potential client is in the market for your produc ...

by Ari Galpe
Why Do People Buy?

Why Do People Buy?

Ever notice that people spend HUGE amounts of money on things that you might never spend half that m ...

by Jim Labadie

To Make More Sales, Try Making More Friends

In 1936, Dale Carnegie published "How to Win Friends and Influence People." Since then, his book has ...

by C.J Hayden

How To End The Cold Calling Game Of Chasing A Sale

Our thoughts are always at the basis of our behaviors. If our thoughts are fixed on the goal of maki ...

by Ari Galper

Help More People Join Your Gym

There are many `tricks and techniques’ used today to encourage people to close more sales. Judging ...

by Dave Wright

Marketing To Past Customers

Keeping in touch can dramatically increase business, when done properly. It's a fact that your cu ...

by Joy Gendusa
6 Powerful Prospecting Tips

6 Powerful Prospecting Tips

Selling is a contact sport and prospecting for new business is the name of the game! You'll never me ...

by John Boe
10 Tips For Long Term Client Retention

10 Tips For Long Term Client Retention

Attracting and retaining long-term clients is a powerful strategy for growing your business. Long-te ...

by Dr. Rachna D. Jain
Three Ideas To Jump Start Sales

Three Ideas To Jump Start Sales

Stuck in a rut? Need some ideas to jump-start your sales? Sometimes all it takes is an outside opini ...

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Selling Facts

A selling fact is that 68% of sales at not made because they are not asked for. Time and time again ...

by Steve Jensen
Steve Jensen Impact Training Corporation

6 Selling Tips To Make Your Business Boom

Selling is the lifeblood of business and a good sales team will make a MASSIVE difference to the bot ...

by Steve Jensen
Sales Ineffectiveness?

Sales Ineffectiveness?

Sales, more than any other operational function in a company has the ability to make the difference ...

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Capturing The Deconditioned Market

Capturing The Deconditioned Market

For years the health and fitness community have been able to influence individuals to join their fac ...

by David Norman
5 Steps To Handling Objections

5 Steps To Handling Objections

Objections are an integral part of selling. For every reason you can think of for why your prospects ...

by Craig Mac
Cold Call Help Desk!

Cold Call Help Desk!

For all the advances in sales technology, there’s one old fashioned piece of equipment that will n ...

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How Effective Are Your Sales Calls?

How Effective Are Your Sales Calls?

The best in any profession work efficiently and effectively. It's been said that the best carpenters ...

by Gerhard Gschwandtner
Creative Fitness Marketing

The Basics Of Selling Anything

Let’s face it; sales make the world turn round! It moves supplements from your counters, it increa ...

by Emmet Williams
Fitness Business Articles

Know Thyself, Grow Thy Sales

One of the key leadership tenets taught to would-be Army officers is: Know yourself. It also should ...

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Sales Training

How To Be Better At Sales

As a professional working in the fitness industry, it?s important to be good at selling yourself and ...

by David Rockman
EXCAVATION - The Needs Analysis

EXCAVATION - The Needs Analysis

Imagine a range of snow-capped mountains in the Colorado Rockies with tall log-pole pines, rugged te ...

by Craig Mac

Become An Extra-Miler!

There are three types of salespeople in this world: Extra Milers, Plateauers and Ju ...

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8 Common Direct Mail Mistakes

8 Common Direct Mail Mistakes

Any direct ? mail campaign requires a serious effort and often entails a significant expense. To max ...

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Teach Your Sales Staff to Sell with Purpose

Teach Your Sales Staff To Sell With Purpose

If you are in any way like the typical health club owner or operator, you’d probably give almost a ...

by David Rockman

Fitness Marketing For Health & Fitness Businesses

What is Fitness marketing? Fitness Marketing is the process of matching the abilities of ...

by David Rockman
Top 10 Reasons Fitness Businesses Fail

Top 10 Reasons Fitness Businesses Fail

Top 10 Reasons Health and Fitness Businesses Fail. About half of all small businesses fail within ...

by Gymlink.biz