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Hot Tip of the Month- June 2005: "Cultivating New Students"

Summers here and in some clubs the numbers go up while in others, they may drop. I teach at Golds Gym in Venice California. Sometimes there’s so much going on in this club that new members interested in taking a Spinning class are either ignored or overlooked. It’s sometimes very intimidating for a new member to walk and get on the bike for his or her first class. I took the idea to our program director about having an open invitation for new members interested in spinning to come on Sundays at 4pm. They are invited to show up a little early and we do proper bike set up and give them some basic “getting started” type information. Most of the prime time classes fill up fast and there is so much going on, it’s sometimes hard to even give a moment of attention to the new person. Sometimes we have a very small window of opportunity to get the new person in and on the bike. If we blow it, we lose valuable newbie’s, who are the future of the activity we love so much.