Pike13 Blog: Business Management Tips and Industry Insights

Stay up to date with the latest business management tips, industry insights, and software updates from Pike13. Browse our blog for expert advice and inspiration to help you grow your business.

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    Competitive Advantage

    Pike13 and Stripe: A Winning Combination

    Learn how Pike13 and Stripe work hand in hand to streamline operations, simplify payments, and elevate client engagement.

    Client Retention

    The Power of Effective Member Engagement

    Unlock member engagement in your small business with Pike13's software. Streamline communication, build connections, and boost growth.

    Marketing Tips

    Why Your Small Business Needs a Branded App

    Increase customer engagement and loyalty with a branded app for your small business. Learn the benefits and how to get started with Pike13.

    Business Advisor

    How to Create an Environmentally Friendly Gym

    Discover six tactics you can employ to make your gym more environmentally friendly. This will help lower your bottom line and attract potential...

    Business Advisor

    How to Go Virtual: Tips from the Pike13 Community

    Tips from the Pike13 community on how to go virtual with your business. How to adapt virtually, keep clients engaged, adjust client communication and...

    Business Advisor

    How to Start a Referral Program at Your Gym

    Five ways to help you launch a successful gym referral program to give your gym membership revenue a boost and get more customers in the door.

    Marketing Tips

    Social Media Marketing Tips for Yoga Studios

    Check out seven ways to help get your yoga studio social media marketing plan off the ground and into position so you can start exercising its...

    Tips for Building a Gym Employees Handbook

    Tips on how to create a gym employee handbook. In today’s business climate, an employee handbook is essential for smooth business operations.

    Marketing Tips

    Tips for Your Gym's Online Marketing Strategy

    Check out these gym online marketing plan tactics. In the highly competitive fitness industry, a marketing plan is absolutely crucial to be...

    Business Advisor

    Martial Arts Trends to Know in 2020

    Here are 4 martial arts trends to consider adding to your dojo. Stay on top of martial arts trends in 2020 to optimize the member experience for your...

    Business Advisor

    How to Run a Successful Gym

    Ready to start your own gym or fitness center? Check out our tips on how to run a successful gym that is sure to keep your small business thriving.

    Business Advisor

    4 Fitness Questionnaire and Survey Ideas

    Fitness questionnaire survey ideas. If anyone has something valuable to say about how to improve things around your gym, it's your clients.

    Marketing Tips

    Products to Sell in Your Gym or Fitness Center

    Considering selling items at your front desk or opening up a small merchandise area? Check out these products to sell in your gym or fitness center.

    Pike13 Pro Tips

    Connect Pike13 to 1,500+ Apps Through Zapier

    Pike13 App now available in the Zapier public marketplace. Connect Pike13 to 1,500+ apps to automate your business processes and administrative tasks

    Product Updates

    Pike13 Product Updates Q4 2019

    Billing adjustments, non-schedulable client status, and Staff App passwords. The latest Pike13 product updates from Q4 2019.

    Marketing Tips

    11 Marketing Tools for Gym Owners

    Eleven marketing tools that gym owners can use to attract clients and give their business a competitive advantage in the market.

    Business Advisor

    How to Sell a Gym Membership to New Clients

    Tips for selling gym memberships to new members. Potential members want to get a feel for you, your gym and your staff members before they sign up.

    Inside Pike13

    Pike13 Year in Review: 2019

    Pike13 Year in Review: 2019. Product updates, new partnerships, customer visits, and life at Pike.

    Marketing Tips

    6 Gym Launch Ideas for Your Grand Opening

    Get ready to open the doors with these 6 gym launch ideas. If you're looking for tips on how to get your grand opening started, we have some for you.

    Business Advisor

    How Much Does it Cost To Open a Gym?

    Learn about the costs of opening a gym: Proper planning, funding, and execution will be the distinguishing factor between a pipe dream and a great...

    Staffing

    Show Thanks to Improve Staff Retention

    The holidays are a stressful time for a client-facing business. Improve staff retention by making sure your staff know that they always have your...

    Business Advisor

    Boost Productivity with Zapier and Pike13

    Boost productivity with Zapier and Pike13 by creating automations that sync your contacts, invoice, and transaction property fields between two...

    Business Advisor

    Boost Membership at Your Gym with an Open House

    When you find yourself in a client rut, what can you due to spur new memberships? Here’s how you can boost membership at your gym with an open house: 

    Competitive Advantage

    5 Stats to Help Increase Gym Member Retention

    Member retention is an important goal for any gym owner, so how you get your gym members to stay? Here are 5 stats to help improve gym member...

    Product Updates

    Pike13 Now Integrated With Zapier

    Pike13 now integrates with Zapier to connect your business to 1500+ other software applications. There are now several possibilities to maximize your...

    Inside Pike13

    Improve Client Communication with Pike13 Notes

    Personalize messages, easily deliver them, and store them for later reference. Here’s how you can improve client communication with Pike13 Notes.

    Marketing Tips

    6 SEO Best Practices for a Fitness Website

    To Optimize SEO, It’s important to understand how Google’s algorithm works. It’s all about keywords. Here are 6 SEO best practices for a fitness...

    How Much Does Scheduling Software Cost?

    Determining scheduling software cost can be tricky. Here are a few things to keep in mind while your software shopping for your gym or fitness studio.

    Inside Pike13

    The Dog Days of Pike13

    Last Friday was National Bring Your Dog to Work Day–aka the best day of the year to be an employee at Pike13. Here's how we celebrated at our office.

    Marketing Tips

    Lead Generation for Fitness Professionals

    Summer is the perfect time of year to ramp up your online marketing strategy! Pike13 partner, 97 Display, has several tools and benefits designed to...

    Business Advisor

    Should You Be Selling Retail at Your Gym?

    Retail is one channel for potential revenue. There are a few things to consider when deciding whether or not you should be selling retail at your gym.

    Business Advisor

    Increase Exposure and Revenue with ClassPass

    Pike13 invites your studio to increase exposure and revenue with ClassPass. Pike13 integrates with ClassPass, bringing you business from the popular...

    Business Advisor

    How to Start a Kids Program at a Gym

    Kids programs open a huge revenue stream for your business. Here are a few tips for how to start a kids program at a gym.

    Marketing Tips

    Running Better Retail Sales at Your Gym

    Clear inventory or generate excitement about something new with these tips for running better retail sales at your gym.

    Marketing Tips

    Email Marketing for Dummies

    When you run a gym, there are a few best practices for email marketing. Here are a few tips to start email marketing at your business.

    Business Advisor

    Running Better Service Promotions at Your Gym

    Run better service promotions at your gym and increase overall revenue by offering the right discounts to the right clients at the right time to

    Marketing Tips

    5 Tips to Boost Gym Membership Sales

    Even if it’s not the most expensive retail item you offer, a client purchasing a membership signals loyalty to your business and much greater...

    Business Advisor

    Boost Fitness Class Attendance Using Data

    You've been offering classes at your facility but aren't seeing the results you anticipated. One great way is to boost fitness class attendance using...

    4 Reasons to Start Texting Your Clients

    More than half of consumers say they like interacting with businesses through messaging apps, and that number increases among Millenials. So if you...

    Business Advisor

    Do You Have Any of These Bad Business Habits?

    Everyone wants their business to succeed. But sometimes business owners stand in their own way. Do you have any of these bad business habits? If so,...

    Business Advisor

    6 Myths About Owning a Business

    It's April Fool’s Day, which means you’re going to be seeing a lot of things on the Internet that aren’t true. Don’t let this post fool you, though....

    Business Advisor

    Digital Spring Cleaning for Your Business: 6 Tips

    You may not find literal dust bunnies, but there is probably a lot of data floating around in your digital assets that you don’t need. Here are a few...

    Business Advisor

    How to set SMART goals for your business

    It’s easy to set general goals–get more clients, increase, be more organized. It’s trickier to set goals that are SMART: Specific, Measurable,...

    Product Updates

    Should Your Studio Get a Mobile App?

    There is inherent marketing value choosing to have a mobile app as well as a mobile website. A mobile app gives you the edge in creating a loyal...

    Business Advisor

    Perks of Having a Loyalty Program

    By creating a comprehensive loyalty program that allows for modern marketing techniques, you can turn your customers into advocates for your brand....

    Business Advisor

    What Can a Marketing Bot Do For Business?

    Have you ever considered automating client interaction? Not too long ago it seemed ridiculous that a computer could replace person-to-person...

    Business Advisor

    How Pike13 Can Help You Find More Money Right Now

    Pike13 offers several reports that help you measure business health and identify opportunities for increasing revenue flow. But there’s one report in...

    Business Advisor

    The Ins and Outs of Pike13 Software

    Our Account Managers are asked a variety of questions on the ins and outs of using Pike13 software and we decided to compile some of those that we...

    Marketing Tips

    How Do You Measure Content?

    We're better than ever at tracking content. How do we understand how to measure content, and what do we do with the data?

    Marketing Tips

    4 Tips for Holiday Marketing

    The NRF forecasts that this year holiday shoppers will spend about $721 billion. Here are 4 holiday marketing tips to help bring some of that money...

    Growth

    Funding Circle Partners with Pike13

    Pike13 and Funding Circle have partnered to bring you fixed and affordable loans with no prepayment penalties.

    Business Advisor

    So You're Thinking of Expanding Your Business

    There are a lot of logistics involved with expansion, and it isn’t something to jump into lightly. Before you start, here are a few things to...

    Pike13 Pro Tips

    Insights: The Daily Pulse for Your Healthy Business

    Insights is Pike13's in depth reporting tool. By making a habit of checking out those red tiles on Insights each time you log on, and addressing any...

    Business Advisor

    7 Best Practices for Inbound Lead Generation

    Consumers seek content that’s relevant to them, most commonly through social media or blog posts. And when they are already interested in the content...

    Product Updates

    How To Set Yourself Up for Onboarding Success

    Your onboarding specialist is your key to setting up your new software correctly the first time. They help you learn the tricks and quirks of your...

    Business Advisor

    Tools for Retention: A New Partnership With TRP

    The Retention People (TRP) now integrate with Pike13 software offering easy tracking of your Net Promoter Score (NPS) through their Insight product.

    Marketing Tips

    3 Signs You Need an Updated Website

    Business owners have a tendency to either obsess over websites constantly, or ignore them entirely once they’re initially built. Neither of these...

    Marketing Tips

    The True Value of a Client

    Constantly thinking about growth and how to get new clients is necessary and sometimes tedious for a business owner. One way to keep yourself focused...

    Pike13 News

    Pike13 Attended Dance Teacher Web Expo

    Pike13 attended the Dance Teacher Web Expo as an exhibitor in sunny Las Vegas. The Dance Teacher Web Expo is an exciting opportunity for networking,...

    Business Advisor

    How to Reclaim Productivity: Doers vs. Checkers

    If you’re struggling to achieve a decent work/life balance and still meet your business goals for the quarter, then you just might need a crash...

    Podcast

    5 Recommended Podcasts for Entrepreneurs

    With an estimated 550,000 different podcasts, where does the savvy entrepreneur turn to? Here are Pike13's 5 recommended podcasts for entrepreneurs.

    Product Updates

    Pike13 Scheduling Widget

    Whether you have direct access to your website’s HTML, or use a website builder, Pike13 gives you copy-and-paste-ready code that you can deploy in...

    Pike13 News

    An All New Look: This is Pike13

    Our past will always be a part of us, reflected in our signature green. But after our name change last summer we spent a lot of time talking about...

    Inside Pike13

    Account Relationships in Pike13

    Account Relationships is set during sign-up and designates a profile as either an account manager or dependent. Account Relationships help streamline...

    Pike13 Pro Tips

    Increase Class Attendance with Fitness Software

    Not seeing the turnout that you'd hoped for? It's not uncommon for fitness studios to experience a rough day for class attendance. It is important...

    Pike13 Pro Tips

    3 Fitness Trends Driving Business Growth

    Whether you run a prime yoga studio, CrossFit box or a fitness center franchise it is important to be aware of 3 fitness trends driving business...

    Marketing Tips

    Drive Revenue with Pike13 Booking Widget

    The Pike13 booking widget sits within your current website and provides members a seamless experience as they browse your schedule, courses,...

    Marketing Tips

    Growth Barriers for Your Small Business

    Small business owners often face barriers to growth because of inefficient systems. Pike13 has identified the most common barriers that may cause...

    The Pike13 Blog

    At Pike13, we're passionate about helping fitness business owners succeed. Our innovative software solutions empower businesses of all sizes to streamline their operations and grow their customer base. Whether you're a small boutique studio or a large gym chain, our platform is designed to help you manage your business more efficiently and effectively.