"With Zen Planner, my entire member management process is automated, and it makes my life so much easier. I don’t even need to think about collecting payments or renewing memberships."
“We had always thought about starting our own business, but we never thought we would have the opportunity. As it sometimes goes with life, a series of unfortunate events dropped the incredible opportunity in our lap to open our own box. We both wanted similar things from a box, things that we remembered from when we first started training, so we decided to open our own gym to re-create those same vibes.”
"Zen Planner is amazing. It has enabled me to grow my business and focus on doing what I love."
"The idea, the goal was always to bring the best for our students. The best mat. The best software. The best jiu jitsu program. And go in that direction."
"It’s been absolutely a good return on the investment. We’ve grown 25% with the efforts we’ve done over the last year. That’s huge!"
"The amount of ease that Zen Planner brings in terms of daily operations is huge and the CRM is the missing piece of the puzzle that I’ve always dreamed of...right now we’re adding one student per day every day."
“In actuality, I don’t think I really knew what I was looking for at the time. You don’t know what you don’t know.”
"We have divided our membership database between all of our coaches for daily check-ins with every member. We are using various methods (text, calls, FaceTime and short videos) to vary our touchpoints. This outreach includes personal check-ins, coaching, tips, scaling, stimulus and mindset all in an effort to keep the personal connection alive in the community."
"After we closed, we did an adopt-a-KB/DB program where each member took one DB or KB so they had equipment to follow along with our now remote programming. We’re creating virtual classes on Zoom that meet daily at specific times. We think it’s important for people to have some “appointments” where they and other people feel somewhat connected as a community and have a specific time to do something. They can otherwise do the workouts on their own given that the programming is on our blog."
"We are offering online training videos. We had originally thought of doing all live through Zoom, but we believe we will be quarantined to our homes for at least two weeks, so we are filming five weeks of classes for all belt levels. We will also have them fill out a worksheet for daily one-minute totals of: sit-ups, push-ups and speed snap kicks with a signature from the parent confirming the student practiced and followed the video training. We already have our curriculum on videos on our YouTube channel up through 2nd Dan. The classroom videos will be uploaded on Monday each week."