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#432: OHM Fitness - Why Your Studio is Losing Members and How to Fix It

from Behind Gym Doors | A Fitness Business Podcast · host Mike Arce

Most gyms think their retention problem is a marketing problem. It's not. If members are walking out the door faster than you can replace them, the issue isn't your ads, your pricing, or your location, it's whether every single person on your team makes every single member feel like the whole operation exists for them. In this episode of Behind Gym Doors, Mike goes live inside OHM Fitness Happy Valley in Peoria, AZ with the owners, head coach, manager, and front desk team for a real, unscripted coaching session on why retention suffers, and exactly what it takes to fix it. We walk through the math behind dropping from 9% attrition to 4%, why celebrity coaching is quietly destroying retention at most studios, how your intake call, confirmation, and first visit experience either build trust or break it, and what it actually means to make every touchpoint about the member…not the staff. If you want to stop shoveling snow while it's snowing and start compounding your membership base, this episode is your playbook.

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