EP 65: How To Sell a Fitness Club For Maximum Value, with Jim Thomas, Fitness Management & Consulting

How To Sell a Fitness Club For Maximum Value, with Jim Thomas, Fitness Management & Consulting(Defenders of Business Value Podcast, Episode 3)

Jim Thomas, Founder and President of Fitness Management & Consulting, joined host Ed Mysogland for a conversation about the fitness club and gym business. Jim owned and operated numerous gyms over his career and now serves current and future owners. He and Ed discussed business differentiators, customer retention, customer acquisition costs, improving the value of the business, what a club owner needs to do to prepare to sell, and much more.

Fitness Management & Consulting

Fitness Management & Consulting is focused towards helping clients achieve success in a highly competitive business. Their services cater to both operators of single clubs and multi-club operations. Their scope covers all types of operations from full athletic clubs to small corporate fitness centers.

Fitness Management & Consulting offers flexibility in serving its clients to best serve their needs. They specialize in helping current owners and future owners of gyms, fitness centers, health clubs, and multi-purpose athletic clubs to find solutions for how to open a new gym, gym start-up, billing and collection, real estate site selection, and lease negotiation, broker services, fitness center sales, financing, consulting and troubleshooting, health club promotion, fitness center advertising, gym equipment, and flooring.

They welcome the opportunity to meet with current and potential club operators and investors to discuss how they may be of service to them.

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Jim Thomas, Founder and President, Fitness Management & Consulting

Jim Thomas is the well-known founder and president of Fitness Management USA, Inc., a management consulting and turnaround firm specializing in the fitness and health club industry. With over 25 years of experience owning, operating and managing clubs of all sizes, Mr. Thomas lectures and delivers seminars and workshops across the country on the practical skills required to successfully build teamwork and market fitness programs and products.

Since forming Fitness Management, Mr. Thomas has been turning health clubs around at an amazing rate and garnering a reputation as a producer of change…a sharp-eyed troubleshooter, a brilliant sales trainer, and a motivator. Fitness Management provides programs that show measurable results and Jim’s team is proud of their ability to glean profit from every square foot of a client’s investment.

A dynamic, articulate motivator, Mr. Thomas exudes confidence without artifice and accomplishes wonders without the bruised feelings that can so often accompany change. “We pride ourselves in reaching people and motivating change in a way that encourages self-esteem on the part of the players.”

Whether you operate a health club, fitness center, gym, or other type club, Jim Thomas and Fitness Management have a program to fit your need, expand your market base, and keep your members and staff productive and enthusiastic.

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Ed Mysogland, Host of How To Sell a Business Podcast

The Defenders of Business Value Podcast combines 30 years of exit planning, valuation, and exit execution working with business owners. Ed Mysogland has a mission a