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Best of Club Marketing Ads - Cambridge Group of Clubs

Recognition and awards are being planned by Fitness Business Canada for Best of Club Advertising in 2007.

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The Harmonized Sales Tax is Coming!

The Harmonized Sales Tax is a single tax which combines both the GST and the PST, and it may well affect you.

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Posted in Industry News, FitNet, Government, February 07 | No Comments »

The Candid Manager: Hugo Tessier, Club Santé Atmosphère

“Happy with my new healthy lifestyle, I gradually started thinking about owning my own club.”

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Posted in FitNet, February 07 | 2 Comments »

The Master’s Forum: Fitness Consumers or Fitness Companies. Who is Failing Who?

So why is it that consumers have not jumped on the fitness bandwagon?

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Is Your Club Name Safe? Part 2

Your club’s name is a valuable asset which you have a substantial investment in. Your club name could be threatened by legal actions from clubs who have trade-marked an identical or similar name. The firm of Ridout and Maybee LLP is a leading Canadian law firm specializing in Intellectual Property (IP) and Technology. They have agreed to assist our series on IP as it applies to health club operators. (Second in a series of articles on trade-marks.)

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Posted in Premium Content, Management, FitNet, February 07 | No Comments »

Career Advice: Handling Inappropriate Member Behaviour

How to address uncomfortable situations and preserve your relationships with members.

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What Does Your Club Stand For?

What does your club stand for? Providing an antidote to the stressful lives that our members live? Creating a special community of people who share the wish to be fit and healthy? Becoming a special place in members’ lives? It sounds like such an innocent question, but scratch deeper and it reveals some fundamental truth about the long-term strategy and prospects for a club.

Popularity: 6% [?]

Posted in Management, FitNet, February 07 | 1 Comment »

The Professional Sales Representative

What does it take to be a professional? First, you must start with your job description.

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