Fitness Marketing Lab
A diagnosis, not a sales pitch

What an unanswered enquiry
really costs.

Every gym owner knows their average membership value. Very few know how many trial requests went unanswered last month, because nobody counts the misses.

Your figures, not oursTwo-minute readThe pitch is at the end

The number nobody writes down

Someone decides to join on a Monday evening and messages three gyms. Whoever replies within minutes gets the trial. Everyone else hears nothing, because the resolve has gone by the morning.

Enquiries a month, all channels
Proportion unanswered or answered late— %
Of those, the ones that would have converted— %
Clients lost × your average client value$ —
Annual cost of not answering$ — / yr

[MAKE THIS YOURS] — the columns are left blank deliberately. The audit fills them in with your market and your average client value.

Motivation has a short shelf life. The fired-up enquiries go to whoever replies first; the rest cool off overnight.

Three places they go

Slow replies, The January window and No follow-up

1
Slow replies

A morning reply is a reply after the decision has already been made somewhere else.

2
The January window

The new-year wave is real, brief and decisive. Gyms that can catch it start the year with a full book.

3
No follow-up

Free passes handed out with no sequence behind them are the most expensive leaflet drop in local marketing.

Two-minute scorecard

Give yourself a mark

1. Enquiries get answered inside five minutes, whatever the hour
Office hours only does not count. Most enquiries arrive when you are shut.
2. I know how many enquiries we missed last month
If that needs a guess, you already have your answer.
3. We have a page for every class type and every area we cover
One classes page earns nothing. Coverage is the mechanism.
4. Enquiries are qualified before they reach me
Otherwise your day starts with sorting rather than selling.
5. Out-of-hours enquiries can book, not just leave a message
A message is not a booking.
6. I can show what the site and the phone produced last month
If not, decisions are made on how busy the month felt.

How to read it: 0–2 means the phone is losing you work today. 3–4 means the out-of-hours and follow-up gaps are the leak. 5–6 is unusual, and your remaining upside is qualification quality.

Hire for it, or answer everything without hiring

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  • Evenings and weekends still uncovered
  • Holidays, sickness and turnover included
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Tell us your area and a typical month. You get back what slow replies and missed calls cost your gym, plus the intake questions we would build for you.

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