5 Tax Deductions You May Be Missing for Your Gymnastics Gym

Opening a gymnastics gym – like starting any other business – can be overwhelming. There are so many business details such as upfront costs, competitors and capturing the market’s attention – and that’s just for starters. You have to be creative enough to find ways to grow AND to watch every expenditure. And then there […]

The Ultimate Guide to Hiring New Staff for Your Youth Activity Center

How Do You Hire Your Activity Center’s A-Team? So you’ve written a business plan, developed a value proposition and gained traction in the marketplace – right? Or you have an established program where you’re putting an expansion plan in place that includes offering new activities, building onto your location or opening a new one. In […]

How to Keep Your Facility Clean and Germ-Free

Between equipment, floors, mats, fixtures, countertops, furniture, mirrors and walls – it can be difficult to keep your facility clean and germ-free this time of year. That’s why keeping germs at bay should always be your top priority, especially during cold and flu season. Why should you keep your facility clean? If you believe that […]

How to Clarify Your Vision for a Children’s Gymnastics Program

Nobody starts a business on a whim. If you’re like most small business owners, you’ve been dreaming, thinking, and building your gymnastics business in your mind for years. Now that you’ve decided to take that leap into opening your own kids’ gym, you need to use those daydreams to build a crystal-clear vision of your […]

How to Keep Students Focused Amidst Holiday Distractions

December is drawing near and so are the impending distractions facing students in your youth activity center.  Between gifts, glittery decorations and parties – the holidays can be a difficult time to keep students focused on training, technique and other important skills that require focus during weekly classes.  For those precious moments when you have […]

Using Humor in Teaching and Business Management

You don’t have to be the clown to interject humor into a workplace environment or to use humor in teaching students. Without humor of the right kind, work can be pretty bland. And when things get bland or routine, people get bored with their jobs and performance suffers. A recent Robert Half survey on having […]

How to Become a Thought Leader in Your Industry

Thought leadership isn’t something that you should be building only after your company has grown up. The way to become a thought leader in your industry is all about laying a foundation for future relationships that marketing, sales, investor relations and many other company teams will leverage. What is thought leadership? Expertise – Know your […]

How to Improve Skills by Practicing Gymnastics at Home

If a gymnast works on skills in gymnastics class once or twice a week, they may not see the progress at a speed that satisfies them. Gymnasts can boost their rate of improvement by practicing gymnastics at home. By practicing at home, gymnasts can go to the next level without paying for more gym time […]

Helping Your Gymnast Develop Confidence

Students can be talented at a sport and still not excel if they lack confidence. A lack of confidence in gymnastics can be frustrating and concerning.  It’s difficult to see an athlete who has great talent be unable to compete at their full ability due to low confidence or fear of failure.  Not only is […]

Halloween Classroom Ideas That Will ‘Wow’ Your Studio’s Children and Parents

With October’s arrival comes one of our favorite holidays: Halloween. And while you may think Halloween’s popularity is due to the over-abundance of candy, or the opportunity for children and adults to act with ridiculousness like walking around their neighborhoods in homemade to designer costumes, ring doorbells and shout nonsense, don’t be misled.  Halloween is […]