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Art Curtis Leaves Millennium Partners to Start Consulting Company
Art Curtis, the former CEO of Millennium Partners Sports Club Management LLC, is forming his own consulting company. Curtis had served as CEO until January, when Smaiyra Million took over the post. ...
Bonnie Prudden, Fitness Advocate, Dies
Bonnie Prudden, a fitness champion who helped inspire creation of the President's Council on Youth Fitness, died on Dec. 11 at her home in Tucson, AZ. She was 97. ...
Clubs for the Quest and Zumba Call on Fitness Industry to Help with ALS Fundraisers
Clubs for the Quest is partnering with Zumba Fitness and clubs around the United States to help raise money to find a cure for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS)....
Lifestyle Founder Returns to Club Operations
As part of the changes at Lifestyle Family Fitness, which recently agreed to sell its clubs in Ohio, Indiana and North Carolina to Life Time Fitness, Lifestyle Founder Geoff Dyer is getting back into club operations....
Acquisition Activity for Commercial Health Clubs Abounds throughout Industry
The end of 2011 proved active for health club acquisition activity....
Introductory Sessions Improve Health Club Member Retention
Most health clubs’ strategies for integrating new members into the facility and its programs fall short because they do not educate new members on what it takes to achieve success. ...
Proper Sales Training for Health Club Service Staff Requires Five Elements
You must train your service staff because without training, each encounter between a service provider and a prospect is a shot in the dark. ...
Youth Performance Training Offers Revenue Possibilities for Health Club Operators
Even though the high obesity numbers in children would indicate a revenue opportunity in serving this market, some club operators are experiencing revenue growth by catering to a different segment of America’s youth. ...
Snap Fitness Reaches Out to New Market of 4 Million Potential Members with Travel Center Partnership
Snap Fitness is trying a new approach to bring the 4 million Americans who make their living as professional truck drivers into their doors. ...
Take the Best of the Fitness Industry from 2011 into 2012
During the past year, certain events have occurred in the fitness industry that give me hope that we will see more growth next year. The dark cloud that has hung over the industry for the past two or three years seems to be lifting. ...
