The key reason to brand your club with the Temple Gym is to cash in on the name recognition of Dorian Yates and Temple Gyms. It is a well-known fact that a recognized name reduces member acquisition costs by cutting through the clutter and differentiating your Gym from the competition.

Temple Gym has developed the format within our franchising system to appeal to both Genders and for people of all ages regardless of their health and fitness goals.

Another great advantage to the brand recognition of Temple Gym is how it directly impacts your bottom line with branded items available to franchisees through our Central Purchasing Department. Central Purchasing allows us to buy in volume and pass the savings on to you. Our international sourcing department scours the globe to find quality products at affordable prices that can help you control your own profit margins.

Temple Gym Central Purchasing Sourcing Department manufactures Branded Apparel in a number of international locations to insure quality of product, competitive pricing and reduced shipping and import duties. Pro Shop Accessories are also made from locations all around the globe to ensure a steady supply of innovative products that can encourage impulse purchases and repeat business. We know that the more profit centers you have means the potential for more member satisfaction and additional sources of revenue. The Temple Gym Guide to Nutrition will provide sound nutritional education. .

We know that each Temple Gym owner is in business for themselves, however we also know that there is strength in numbers. Utilizing the Temple Gym and International Athletic Associations network of health, fitness and nutrition human resources will help than can keep you up-to-date with cutting edge information and promotional material.

Over years of regular business relations with all of the major suppliers, the professionals at Temple Gym and International Athletic Associates have established preferred vendor pricing for both capital expense items and consumable products. These costs can add up quickly when setting up a new facility. Any savings Temple Gym can offer would be a welcome benefit to all TEMPLE Gym Franchisees.

Marketing is a major component of any successful business and we take that as serious as our exercise. We know that the strong arm of Temple Gym Franchising and International Athletic Associates can help bring your new venture to market. Temple Gym utilizes the internet as an integrated technology strategy to provide potential members with access, addresses and contact information for your facility. All related inquiries can be an asset in your sales department.

Temple Gym is finalizing their debut Health and Fitness Magazine “Fitness Unleashed”, which will provide your staff and members with industry information and the latest market trends. This is not The Journal of Medicine, but an entertaining and informative magazine that you will find useful in uncountable ways.

We are not all artists and we know how expensive really good ones can be and so, like our central purchasing and preferred vender programs we have decided to provide you with a free tool for both Internal and External Marketing. The Temple Gym Marketing CD contains numerous digital advertising and marketing pieces that you simply have to “Cut and Paste” your own club information to be ready to go with a professional image. Not only is this both time and cost saving, but it reinforces the corporate image you have joined.

Our Corporate National and International Marketing Campaigns along with the countless articles on and by Dorian Yates will have a direct impact on the public awareness of the brand you have selected.

Of course marketing isn’t everything, even if you get the prospects in your door, you still have to convince them that Temple Gym offers everything they need to accomplish their own health and fitness goals. The Temple Gym Sales System is a professionally laid out set of tools to guide your sales department through the steps that are required to uncover the real needs of clients that walk through your door. From a managers point of view this system organizes the sales departments work in a reportable format to assist each sales person to their full potential, and through proper analytical process the manager can see the strengths ad weaknesses within each department in order to implement the training or rewards where required.

Temple Gym franchising has developed its own proprietary software system with the ease of use as the paramount concern. This highly functional set of computerized management tools can streamline your clubs operational procedures utilizing an extremely user-friendly interface. When you join forces with Temple gym, what you might have done manually can now be done via the automated system, thereby saving time and manpower hours. This software includes but is not limited to the following.

• Check In - With a swipe of their membership card or direct keyboard input you have direct access to your member records..
   
• Point of Sale - The Temple Gym POS system includes features like general purchases, inventory control, par stock levels, bar code reading, and a complete sale recording system.
   
• Inventory Control - All merchandise placed into inventory or on the shelves of your facility can be monitored and controlled by a POS barcode par stock system.
   
• Membership Billing - The Temple Gym Membership billing program provides an easy way to track members that have overdue payments.
   
• Employee Management - Track employee comings and goings while scheduled for duty. This certainly makes payroll an easier task to handle. You can also leave notes for employees in anyway you feel necessary.
   
• Scheduling - Every busy club struggles with class scheduling that is going to reach as many of their members as possible, providing as many classes during peak hours as they can. The class scheduler is your interface to construct those class schedules with the ease of a few key stokes.
   
• Reports - The Temple Gym Club Management software package reporting system can compile all club transactions and participation levels in seconds. Keeping you in the driver seat is the aim of our software and aware of everything going on in your facility

Temple Gym franchising has launched a website that has the interest of our franchisees in mind. The Temple Gym website is both a marketing tool that can generate membership leads for your club while acting as a reference library for your staff and management. The Temple Gym locator will allow potential members the ability to find your facility while the “Franchisee Log-In-Page” may provide you with the tools to secure them as active participating members that frequent your profit centers on a regular on-going basis. Multi-channel marketing is the direction of the future, but with Temple Gym’s website behind you, you have tomorrow’s technology today. The “Franchise Log-In-Page” password is your key to opening a database of information including manuals and articles in reference to the following:

• Software
  Temple Gym Front Counter System
  Recording Business Activities • Recording Membership statistics
  Check in
  Scheduling
  Employee Time Clock
  Fitness Module
  Nutritional Module
  Sales Module
   
• Back of the House Use
  Data Entry and report generation
  Members
  Inventory
  Employees
  Classes
  Personal Training
  Accounting requirements
   
• Facility Operating Standards
  Reciprocal Membership rules
  General Management procedures for facility operations
  Trade Identity standards
  Marketing examples
  Minimum operating standards and procedures
  Insurance
  Forbidden Practices
  Merchandise sales
  Recommended vendors
  Computer Requirement
  Confidentiality paperwork
  Procedures and Forms
  Compliance program and equity certificate
  Membership Agreement provisions
   
• Temple Gym Manuals
  Nutrition Manual
  Fitness Manual
  Sales Manual
  Administration Manual
  Marketing Manual
   
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