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- Call your old ones and invite them back
- Optimize your website with a better call to action
- Email your list 3x per week
- Run a ladies’ night with Yoga and Wine
- Run a sweepstakes giveaway
- Create a joint venture with a local Physical Therapist
- Run ads on Google and drive them to a landing page or your website
- Put a chat feature on your website to communicate with them immediately
- Team up with a local well-known doctor and run a seminar at your gym
- Call all of your unconverted leads and give them a better offer to get started
- Create a lead magnet in the form of a 2-page PDF that solves a problem for your target market and drive traffic to it
- Have a joint venture send out your lead magnet to their list and have a follow-up sequence ready
- Run a bring a friend day, week or month
- Beef up the amount of google reviews you have by setting a goal of getting 3 per week
- Send a 9-word email to your list a few times a month
- Ask your clients for a referral and give them a gift to give their friend
- Give clients that sign up with you a free one month membership to give as a gift
- Run an ad in a local magazine and drive them to an offer
- Start a local podcast that talks to your community about health and fitness
- Have a booth at a local 5K
- Connect with local professionals on linked in
- Run a 6-week challenge
- Have a Referral Contest
- Run a charity Workout
- Have a seminar for men over 40 that talks about lowering blood pressure, increasing testosterone and losing belly fat
- Speak in front of your local chamber of commerce about health and fitness
- Send a direct mail campaign to all lawyers in your community
- Give a joint venture relationship 15 free memberships and have their list apply to win one of them
- Have a stretching table at a local golf tournament and raffle off a membership
- Write a book and do a local speaking tour about the book
- Run a spouse trains free campaign
- Promote a Black Friday Deal
- Give all of your members a free month to give as a gift around the holidays
- Host a Free workout open to the community once per week
- Build an automated follow-up system
- Send a direct mail letter to all new residents that loved to your area
- Highlight the success of your members on a regular basis via email and social media
- Engage with all people that like or comment of your Instagram and Facebook Posts and offer them free information
- Film testimonial Videos and use them in your marketing
- Hire a local photographer to take great pictures to use in your ads and social posts
- Learn how to write incredible headlines that capture people’s attention
- Partner with a local Yoga Studio and cross promote
- Give a famous local orthopedic surgeon 5 large yellow envelopes filled with stuff about your gym so they can give them to their patients need of personal training
- Have a pot luck healthy recipe night where you invite members and their friends to display their best healthy dish and create a recipe book from all the different recipes
- Run a 21-day detox in the new year
- Have a sale on valentine’s day for spouses to purchase a month at a discount
- Have a workout at your facility the day after Thanksgiving and encourage your members to bring family and friends
- Run ads on linked in
- Start a health and fitness column in your local newspaper (print or digital)
- Be active in your local community Facebook groups and provide value to them
- Be Sponsor for a local organization that shares your target market
- If you train athletes, offer their parents a free month
- Create a joint venture with a local car dealership that has a similar target market and tell them everyone that buys a car with them get a free month at your gym
- Get your members to give you 5 star reviews on Facebook
- Put an irresistible call to action in the Bio of your Instagram channel
- Co-author a book with one of your members that’s had great success and run a seminar and book signing
- Give out metal cards to your members to give to friends
- Offer a local celebrity to come train at your gym for free
- Become a local celebrity yourself through regular public speaking, writing a book or aligning with other well-known people in your community
- Put regular content on your blog to drive traffic to your website
- Start a TV show about health and fitness on your Youtube Channel.
- Have a movie night at your gym and encourage your members to bring family and friends.
- Apply to win awards ie best gym in Anytown, USA
- Use any logos of publications you’ve been featured in to demonstrate credibility and authority
- Use articles from respected publications like the Wall Street Journal or New York Times that talk about the benefits of exercise and nutrition in your emails and social posts
- Run an advertorial in your local newspaper
- Put a Call to action on the Header of your Business Facebook Page
- If you train athletes, run FREE Speed training demo
- Host a seminar that features a celebrity either local
- Run a workshop where people can come to set fitness goals for the year
- Have an open house where your community and come and check out your gym
- Promote a free workout, free week or free 14-day trial.
- Organize a Spartan Race among your members and encourage them to ask friends and family to join them
- Send an email to your list about a blog you wrote and drive them to read it on your website
- Send a Print Newsletter to all members and former members
- Send Happy Birthday cards to all members and former members with a free gift
- Ask 5 successful local businesses that share your target market what their best way to bring in new members
- Approach a local restaurant about creating healthy menu items to display on their menu and include your contact info or lead magnet on the menu.
- Have an annual client holiday party and encourage your clients to bring friends and family
- When you sponsor a 5K place a letter with an offer in an oversized orange envelope in the runner bags they get at registration
- Include a super signature in your emails
- Sponsor the food and drinks for the local bar association meeting (lawyer group) and ask to do a mini presentation with an offer.
- Put an A-Frame Sign out in front of your gym
- Post pictures of your members holding a sign that says “I feel better at 50 than I did at 40”
- Run a 21-day Summer Slim program leading up to Memorial Day.
- Partner with a local Acupuncturist that shares your target market and cross promote
- Have a grocery store tour to teach people about healthy eating and open it to your members and the community
- When a member tells you they love your gym ask them for a referral or a testimonial
- Have an ongoing program where you give your team members a cash reward if they bring in a new member
- Send a highly qualified prospective client a shock and awe gift in the mail that contains gifts, info about your gym and a free offer to get started
- Approach local businesses in your area about doing a lunch and learn at their office for their employees
- Start running ads on nextdoor.com
- Run Ads on Instagram
- Take a years worth of educational emails you wrote and turn that into a book
- Have someone look at your website to see if it’s actually converting
- Be a guest speaker at a local PTA Meeting
- Partner with the Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts and offer to participate with the fitness merit badges
- Survey your members and ask them what other businesses they frequent to get ideas about potential joint ventures
- Send a letter in the mail to all former members, follow up with an email and then a phone call with an offer to come back for free
- Build an automated funnel to follow-up with leads after they give you their contact info
- Do a damn good job training your clients, get them results and hire great people and let word of mouth be a key driver of your success.