Marketing Blog for Yoga, Pilates and Wellness Businesses.
This blog is home to many of the learnings I’ve had over the years running my yoga studio, and my marketing experience from big corporates to tiny startups.
In addition you’ll see flashes of The Calm Chronicles, a blog my Sister and I began a couple of years ago with the goal of making self-care and relaxation more accessible.
Advice to Help You Decide On A Name For Your Yoga or Pilates Business
When you're deciding to launch a new business or service, pondering the name can take hours and hours.... You ask a family member who says they are all great (canny but not helpful!)... You second guess yourself... Go through a phase of trying to be really clever... Then you go simple... Then too generic. Then it becomes too complicated. Then you go back to your original idea. Then you’re convinced they are all terrible and you pause everything…. It's a minefield which leaves you in an existential crisis thinking "who am I?"
Launching a New Wellbeing Service: Key Considerations for Success
When launching a new wellbeing service there are some simple steps I’d always suggest you take. Drawing from personal experiences at my studio, let's explore the essential steps to take when launching a new service.
Your Local Marketing Checklist for Yoga, Pilates, Fitness and Wellbeing Businesses
When you sell a local service such as yoga classes, massages, osteopathy appointments, zumba… something that you want to deliver in person, not over zoom… understanding the best strategies for local marketing is of vital importance. I know it can seem a bit overwhelming and scary, but lots of these are not as tricky as you imagine and could make a big difference to your reach and how you can grow your business.
ChatGPT For Yoga & Wellness Practitioners: What’s it all about?
For a while now I’ve wanted to talk about what ChatGPT means for our yoga and wellness community. There can be a knee jerk reaction to fear what some of these new AI technologies mean, but it’s important to understand how they work and how they can be used as I’m certain they aren’t going anywhere!
17 Ways to Improve Your Instagram for Yoga and Wellbeing Businesses
We all know how important Instagram can be for many businesses in our space, I don’t need to quote lots of statistics to tell you, it can be a fantastic way to showcase your brand, connect with your customers and attract new customers to your business. Here are some ideas to ensure your profile and content is in tip top shape, lots you might already be doing, but hopefully there’s something new in here to make you go “aha!” (Or words/sounds to that effect!).
Ideas to Help your Wellness or Yoga Business over the Christmas Season
There are lots of opportunities to leverage the festive time of year to help grow your yoga business and provide a most wonderful customer experience and sense of community. Here are some ideas to explore over the Christmas season, I’d usually recommend you start planning in October however plenty can be put in place right now!
What happens when business slumps?
No matter how amazing your marketing is. How much “business acumen” (hello Apprentice!) you have. What an incredible teacher / therapist / practitioner / expert you are. At some point business will take a downturn.
The 5 Questions You Need to Ask When You Want to Grow a Business
As you’ll hear me say time and time again, there are no hacks, no secrets, no absolute rules to growing a small business. In my experience the only people who use this language are Tik Tok stars who want lots of reel views. I don’t believe one size fits all for any business, so though I'll share today what I think are best practices, I want you to see them as guiding principles rather than firm rules.
What metrics should wellbeing businesses actually be measuring?
When you come to the end of each month, how much time do you spend measuring if your marketing is "working?" And what does working even look like? It's easy to think things like more Instagram followers are a sign of business growth. But it's really not that simple.