Sweat the Legal Stuff for Your Children’s Gym (You’ll be Glad You Did)
You can’t fight the law. Once you decided to open a children’s gym, you raised a number of legal questions about how and where you’ll operate that gym. The time to review and resolve the legal issues that surround opening a children’s gym is early on in the business planning process. You’ll discover that your answers to certain questions will impact other business and legal decisions you’ll have to make. Put together your “board of [...]
Jackrabbit Class is Stabilizing Factor During Changes at Energy Gymnastics
Kim Shoemaker is Energy Gymnastics’ office manager. She has learned to roll with the changes in ownership that have taken place at Energy Gymnastics. Kim ‘met’ Energy through piano lessons for her daughter, Presley, when the gym also offered music classes. Presley is still involved with classes at Energy – [...]
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 [...]
Equipping Your Children’s Gym: Champagne Taste? Beer Budget?
The right mix of equipment will help attract the types of students you want at your gym. The equipment your gym needs depends entirely on what events and skills will be taught there and how much space you have and yes, your budget. […]
The Right People in the Right Roles: Staffing Your Children’s Gym
The quality of your gym’s services and reputation depends enormously on the quality of your staff. The quality of your team depends on you, your ability to hire, train, manage, and lead them. You want to get hiring and staff management processes and program set up from the start. Even [...]
Work / Life Balance for the Kids’ Gym Owner: Myth or Reality
As much as you love your kids’ gym and your team, you have to disengage from it on a regular basis. By disengage, we mean turning the phone off for an afternoon, perhaps even a weekend. Disengage from the business by fully engaging your energies in something else that makes [...]
The Gym Owner’s Guide to Coaching Babies, Toddlers, and Kids of All Ages on Gymnastics
Working with kids can be so rewarding. They constantly surprise. Their energy keeps you, your staff, and the gym atmosphere feeling lively. Of course, they’re not simply small adults. Teaching, coaching, wrangling… children also present you with their unique set of challenges. […]
Teaching Gymnastics for Kids: 10 Things Every Children’s Gym Owner Should Know
As the gym owner, you certainly have your own training style and class level expectations. You're not new to gymnastics coaching. However, it's easy for the demands of being a gym owner to take over your time and your mind. As critical as smart, proactive management is to the long-term [...]
Free Gymnastics Clip Art You Can Use at Your Children’s Gym
If you aren’t using art in your gym’s print and online materials, your materials may not be nearly as appealing visually as they should be. Or perhaps they are. Perhaps you’re fortunate enough to have graphic design skills, or someone on your staff does, so you have the resources to [...]
Paperless Vision Can Become Reality with the Right Software
Flying High Gymnastics finds huge value in Jackrabbit’s online processes. Sarah Force, office manager of Flying High Gymnastics, was thrilled with the way the gymnastics business became streamlined as process after process was improved and/or automated by implementing Jackrabbit. Whether it’s online registration, attendance tracking, or electronic payment processing, the [...]
Jackrabbit Offers Clients Simplicity, Organization, Time Savings – and Integrity
Suzie Sanocki wasn’t looking for the opportunity to own a gym but one presented itself. She decided to take on the challenge and Perfect Balance Training Center was born. Before long the gym was growing rapidly. Once it reached 150 students, Perfect Balance got on the fast track – soon [...]
