How do Studio Promotions affect trainers?
Hello Amy Ladden,
Docking the employees’ wages does not sound professional; something that I as a business owner would not do. Is the promotion advertised and offered by you or the studio? Were you approached about this scenario in advance? Hmmm? The one who is offering the discount takes the financial burden; plain and simple business. Will you be getting reimbursed?
Take care,
Natalie aka NAPS 2 B Fit.
I’ve seen this go both ways.
The price of a groupon is already low to attract new buyers, and the company issuing the groupon only gets half of the revenue (groupon gets the other half). So, a business that’s thinking about doing this should hopefully do the math and know that if they’re doing a $200 unlimited membership for $50, they still have to be able to pay their instructors, and then estimate the volume of business they can expect from the deal to decide whether it’s actually profitable. So one place where I worked that ran a groupon, my wages were exactly the same.
Different club, different example, different results. A few years ago, there was a “3 for 100” personal training deal. For that particular deal, the trainers were paid $12 an hour, which is lower than standard pay scale. When people purchased that package, trainers had the option of taking those clients or not. The way it was explained to trainers was that if they need the business, this gives them access to new customers that they might be able to retain at regular training rates. If they didn’t need the business, then they didn’t have to do it but would have no access to the business leads generated.
I would not do this to my employees unless they wanted in on the business generated by the promotion. I would ask them if they wanted me to do this promo to help them gain clients. If they didn’t, I would exclude them from the promo. It wouldn’t be feasible to run such a promotion and lose money to give the trainers clients otherwise.