Fitness Businesses: Page 6

Growing a Business

Why Word-of-Mouth Advertising Will Make Your Fitness Business Strong

Customer referrals and referrals from healthcare professionals are a gold mine for personal trainers seeking new clients. Find out how to get these two groups to refer their friends, family and patients.

Growing a Business

How to Get Customers Talking About Your Fitness Business

Here's how to use Facebook, Twitter and other social media platforms to market your business online.

Social Media

Facebook Buys Popular Fitness-Tracker App So It Can Know Even More About You

With its acquisition of Moves, the social network is getting into the fitness-tracking game alongside Fitbit and Nike.

Franchise

5 Ways Tech Is Forever Changing Fitness Franchises

With apps, wearable tech and the ability to micromanage franchisees across the country, tech is giving fitness chains new ways to flex their business muscle.

Buy a Franchise

Introducing Entrepreneur's Top New Franchises to Watch

These 57 newbies all started franchising in the past five years.

Innovation

Entrepreneurs on the Moon, DNA Hacking and Real-Life Iron Man Gear

A roundup of the 10 most interesting new technologies that make us scratch our heads and say, 'What the heck?'

Franchise

Punching Above Its Weight, the Boutique Fitness Franchise Trend Is Taking Off

The landscape may still be dominated by big-box gyms, but smaller more niche services are quickly gaining ground.

Innovation

This Fitness App Redesigns to Give It a Competitive Edge

Runtastic goes beyond GPS tracking to grab new markets.

Franchise

Franchise Players: A Fitness Franchisee Who Persevered Through Cancer

Instead of giving up when he was diagnosed with cancer, Woody Bedell doubled down and opened his first Exercise Coach studio.

Franchise

Why I Franchised: A Fitness Business That Looks Out for the Over-50 Crowd

These franchisors took it upon themselves to provide somewhere for older gym-goers to get fit, founding Welcyon, Fitness After 50.

Franchise

Entrepreneur's Franchise 500: The Fastest-Growing Companies

Fitness, frozen-yogurt and quick service franchises top our annual list.

Starting a Business

From Flying in the Military to Launching a Business

How one military man's experience prepared him for the entrepreneurial life.

Health & Wellness

Leadership Lessons from the Mayor Who Put an Obese City on a Diet

Mayor Cornett's citywide weight-loss challenge revived the town's small business scene, and revealed strategies for undertaking ambitious goals.

Productivity

Business Lessons That Can Help You Succeed at 2014 Resolutions

Want to learn how market research, customer discovery and other business lessons will help you stick to your New Year's resolutions? Keep reading.

Leadership

The Boom Market for Niche Fitness Events

Founded by former Seattle Seahawks offensive tackle Chris McIntosh, Dirty Girl obstacle-course events are running up big bucks.