IDEA Club & Studio Summit
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FIT to SCALE.
A 1-day High-Powered Event for Owners & Managers
July 12, 2023 • 9:00am - 5:00pm
The wellness industry is booming. Are you ready to rise to the occasion?
Well-being is top of mind for many consumers, so now is the perfect time to adapt your business to meet their needs and scale to new heights. But you don't have to do it alone. In the IDEA World Club & Studio Summit Powered by BFS, you'll hear from successful business owners about how to level up your club or studio and power the industry together. The summit features fast paced and dynamic sessions that will provide you with strategies for creating loyal customers, enhancing sales, implementing streamlined operations and more. You'll also take advantage of networking opportunities where you can widen your sphere of support and build lifelong connections.
Register now
Member
$129
Early-bird
$149
Regular
Non-member
$229
Early-bird
$249
Regular
Additional fee required to attend this 1-day event.
Schedule
Opening
9:00am - 9:15am BFS Team | Presentation
State of the Boutique Industry
9:15am - 9:55am Julian Barnes and Nt Etuk, MBA | Presentation
With its definition broadening to incorporate many facets of well-being, wellness is currently top of mind for consumers. The boutique industry is perfectly poised to inherit this surge of interest. BFS takes you through the key consumer trends and fascinating shifts that are taking place within the most successful studios, and sets you up with the key strategies to provide a competitive advantage in 2023 and beyond.
Big Sales Strategies with A Boutique Approach
10:00am - 10:40am Julian Barnes and Chris Appiah | Presentation
Optimizing and systematizing sales can be one of the fastest ways to grow your bottom line. Learn how to create a sales process that is streamlined, highly automated, yet still personalized. Explore ways to train, galvanize and incentivize your entire team so that everyone is invested in the process.
10:40am - 11:00am: BREAK
Creating Connections That Will Motivate Clients to Succeed
11:00am - 11:40am Titanium Partner, Walla, Founder, Laura Munkholm | Fireside Chat
Tap into the motivations that drive each of your unique clients to find the holy grail of client loyalty. When you can effectively matchmake a prospective client with their perfect class and instructor, they will become your biggest business champions. This session shows you how to make those matches through innovative technology, curated content, and effective communications.
Building Purpose-Driven Teams
11:50am - 12:30pm Katie Santos | Presentation
Learn how every business decision you make—particularly with people and process—can be successful when guided by a concrete mission statement and a set of functional core values. The development of your employee brand, the scale of your growth, and the depth of your impact are a direct reflection of how well you instill a sense of purpose within your team. This session will give you valuable insight into creating a staff culture that aligns your team around common goals.
12:30pm - 1:30pm: LUNCH BREAK
Developing Your Studio’s Mission Control
2:15pm - 2:55pm Boutique Fitness Solutions Faculty | Presentation
Effective operational procedures are the essential building blocks for any business foundation. From how you go to market, acquire and manage clients, and measure and track outcomes, creating and implementing operational efficiencies will support all aspects of your success. This session highlights the primary tools and tactics that can facilitate operational excellence.
DEI: Making Boutique Accessible and Inclusive
2:15pm - 2:55pm Amira Polack, Desiree Guilliard-Young and Beth Bishop | Panel Discussion
From auditing your marketing assets to assessing the accessibility of your physical studio space, all studios can benefit from a deeper look into how accommodating they are to different populations. Our panelists discuss how a focus on DEI can transform a studio and ultimately provide an advantage in the market,
2:55pm - 3:10pm: NETWORKING BREAK
There is No Room for Beige in Boutique—How to Create Memorable Customer Experiences
3:15pm - 3:55pm Emma Barry | Presentation
Whether you are welcoming a brand-new face through the door or thinking of ways to celebrate and reward a long-term member, customer experience is everything. From technology choices to those special sensory touches that make your studio memorable, the secret of boutique success is being absolutely and utterly focused on every touchpoint that exists for your customers. This session explores the 360-degree approach to customer care and how building those strong relationships helps to create committed brand ambassadors.
3:55pm - 4:10pm: NETWORKING BREAK
Marketing Strategies for the Next Wave of Fitness Consumers
4:10pm - 4:50pm Connie Holen and Jenna Randolph | Panel Discussion
Consumers are discovering and committing to fitness and wellness practices in ever-evolving ways and keeping up to date with current marketing strategies can prove challenging, to say the least. This panel explores the most successful ways to identify the customers that you want to reach, how to weigh short-term marketing needs versus long-term strategies, how to prioritize and focus on the tactics that matter the most, and how to budget your marketing spend for maximized ROI.
Closing
4:50pm - 5:00pm BFS Team | Presentation
Register now
Member
$129
Early-bird
$149
Regular
Non-member
$229
Early-bird
$249
Regular
Additional fee required to attend this 1-day event.
To further expand your knowledge on the business of fitness, sign up for an IDEA World registration and participate in the following sessions:
- Virtual Meets IRL: The Ultimate Fitness Mash-Up
- Faster Instagram Success in 2023 and Beyond
- Adapting Your Services to the Fitness Technology Revolution
- From Coach to CEO: Strengthen Your Management Muscle
- The Ultimate Competitive Advantage: Why Customer Service Is Your Business Superpower
- The Power of Positive Leadership
- Building an Annual Group Exercise Marketing Calendar
- Build Business Strategies Based on Fitness Trends