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Now, what I want to be very clear here is that when you have an indoor sports facility business, right, this becomes a separate business to your actual coaching business, right? A lot of coaches want to purchase an indoor facility because they feel as though that's gonna help their coaching program to grow and scale but what they don't realize is that when you do purchase an indoor facility, okay, this becomes ultimately another business that you then have to manage and grow and look to scale, right? So alongside your actual coaching program. So I don't want you to think that just because you've got a coaching program that that's gonna help your indoor facility to grow, right? There's a lot more that goes into building a really good and prosperous indoor sports facility. So this video is pretty much gonna be relevant if you are in basketball, if you're in soccer, right? If you're in any sport that has an indoor sports facility or an indoor training facility that you are using to run your sessions out of and that you have clients that you see on a regular basis, this video will help you, right? Our company's got a lot of experience helping coaches to scale to the point where they are in a position to make that investment. But again, what you've got to remember is that once you are at that position, okay, that becomes an extra business, right? That becomes a separate business to your coaching business. Not only do you have to grow and scale your coaching program, your training business but now you've got to look to grow and scale your indoor sports facility, right? So I wanna share with you 10 different ways to improve your facility, right? So again, screen in front, the highlighted points are the ones I'm gonna go through. These are pretty much the ones that I see on a regular basis. These are the ones that when I speak to business owners who have indoor facilities, these are the ones that they ask me about and how they can improve, right? So the first one is quality training surface. So if you are in soccer, if you're in basketball, then you've got to have a good quality training surface so that your clients can come and get quality training from you, okay? Now, if you're in soccer and you've got an indoor turf field, right? And it's got lots of holes in it or it looks really run down, then you might have the best facility but if your players don't feel safe training on it, then ultimately they're not gonna be with you for very long, right? So when they come to your facility, they wanna make sure that they have the best surface possible to train and you want the best surface possible, right? Cause you want essentially results with the clients you're working with, right? We are in a results industry. So you to get results, you need to have a quality training surface. Whether that be an indoor turf field or whether that be a basketball, an indoor, a quality basketball indoor court, right? Whatever it is, but you're gonna make sure that the surface is really good for your clients to be able to use. Now, next one is good lighting and ventilation. I was speaking with a coach recently and we were talking about a good ventilation and a problem that he had is, I think it was last year when it got to winter, the heating system within his indoor facility broke. So essentially what happened because he was in a quite, he was in a cold part of the United States. It was really difficult for any clients and customers that used it that, because the heating wasn't working, a lot of their clients didn't wanna come back to that facility until that got fixed. So making sure that the place has got good lighting. So when you're running sessions, people can actually see where they're going and see if there's any objects that they have to see. Okay, because that's another problem. If there's certain areas of the facility where they can't see, that could cause a health problem because they could trip or they could hit into something and that could cause severe problems for you. And then just making sure it's good ventilation. So in the summer, making sure that is good air conditioning or that doors can open and letting the fresh air so that it's not damp and that it's a nice fresh area for your customers and clients to come and train. And then in the winter, obviously, if you're in a very cold part of the United States, making sure that the facility has good heating to be able to heat up the facility. Now, the next one player amnities. So this is changing rooms and yeah. So changing rooms, bathrooms and making sure that obviously goes without saying that they are clean, that everything works with them and that your players and customers can use and they are happy with it. I've been to a lot of indoor facilities in the past and some of them you walk into those facilities and they are just disgusting because they're not cleaned regularly. Some of the soap machines don't work. Some of them have got broken toilets. So just making sure that your players have good changing rooms, good bathrooms to use and maybe older customers or players that wanna have a shower making sure that there's a place available for them to shower if that is a possibility for your indoor facilities. Some facilities don't have that because there's not enough room. So host that but making sure at least you got the basics in order which is the bathroom, toilets, both for men and so male and female and making sure there's changing rooms so that your athletes can go and get dressed. Now next area is parent watch, right? So if you're gonna be running a lot your training sessions, there's gonna be parents that are going to want to watch the training sessions. So making sure that you have an area whether it be some bleachers on the side. So somewhere where parents can sit down and just watch their children train and play. Something really good if you have a coffee machine within the facility somewhere where parents can get coffee or something to eat and watch their child train and play is really good. And that adds a little bit more value because if parents come to your facility and they wanna get a drink, they wanna sit down to watch their child train and play. That adds a lot of value because it adds like a community feel and you can have all the parents there just supporting the coach, supporting the players and it just feels like a great, great atmosphere. There's some places I've been to where they don't provide that. So essentially parents have to drop off and then pick up. But sometimes it's nice to have parents a little area within the facility where parents can just watch because that can then generate extra revenue because you can have a bar area or you can, as I say, you can have a vending machine where people buy snacks and they can watch the training session. Safety protocol, right? So that goes without saying. So make sure you're insured, right? So your facility has insurance. It has a fire drill in the event of fire. So what's the process that we do in the event of fire or any type of event, right? So making sure that it's secure, it's licensed and that you have a certain protocol for the event of an evacuation, right? Also making sure that goes without saying that you have first aid kits available in the facility in case players fall over or hurt themselves, right? You've got someone that is first aid trained in that facility. Okay, the next one is diversifying your customer reach. So what I mean by this is making sure that to get the maximum out of your sports facility that you're maximizing the hours within your day. So during the morning, you could hire it out to local schools. So local schools can come in, use the facility and then during the evening or early evening, you can hire it out to local clubs or run your own training sessions. And then later at night or later in the evening, okay, you can hire it out to adults where you could run adult leagues or tournaments or they could play five or sides, six or seven or side depending on what your facility is and this could be for basketball or soccer, okay? Next one, technology integration. So some facilities have certain, if they run leagues, for example, they have certain cameras that take clips of certain highlights of games and then what they do is they upload it onto the sports facilities YouTube channel. And I've seen this happen where some of the games, so for example, if it's in soccer and you're running a fiver side leap, you might decide to buy some software that records the matches and then you upload the matches onto a YouTube channel where your customers can then go and watch the match in full and watch the highlights, right? That's quite cool. That is integrating technology into your facility. Also, there's other other softwares that you can use to track player performance if you're running training sessions out of. So there's a lot of things that you can integrate technology-based to help your facility and improve your service. And next one, marketing and branding. So making sure that you're marketing the facility constantly to the local public or through social media, okay? Running events for the community at your center is a great way to market. And then just making sure the branding is attractive, right? So making sure that the name of your facility is a name that attracts people to want to come and use it, right? You don't want to have a name where people looking and go, oh, yeah, I don't like the name of that facility. I don't want to go and try it out. Okay, so marketing and branding really important to improve it. And like I said, you could run community events for local churches, local schools, have it done at your facility. You don't even have to charge them to use your facility, but it's a great way to market and to get more parents and players to know about your facility. And next one, staff training. And that just kind of goes in with the safety protocol. Make sure that all your coaches are qualified. Make sure that all your coaches are criminal background checked and just making sure the staff inside the facility are trained for any event, whether it be admin, administrative work, whether it be in the event of an evacuation, whether it be that you have certain staff that come in to clean the facility. Just making sure that there's staff training constantly and that you're staying up to date with the different trends in the indoor sports facility industry, okay? Because again, it's an industry that changes a lot, right? And different, there might be different laws within your state that change. So just making sure that you're always up to date and that you're training staff in line with them. Okay, and then last one is maintenance and upgrade. And that kind of goes back to just making sure that, you know, your facility is quality. It's maintained well, so it's clean, everything works. It has great ventilation, good lighting, making sure that if something breaks, it gets fixed quickly. And now with upgrades, and I know with turf fields, for example, in soccer, there's loads of companies and manufacturing different types of turf fields. So making sure that you're kind of staying up to date with those latest trends is really important because, you know, you could upgrade your facility to have a certain type of playing field where your local competitors don't have it, right? It might be a big investment, but it will separate you from everyone else, okay? So just making sure that everything's maintained well, it's, you know, the health and safety procedures are in place, everything works, the pitch, or the field, or the court. It doesn't have any cracks, so it's not broken. There's no hazards. And making sure that you're just staying up to date with any upgrades in the industry and with any certifications that you may need to stay in line with your local laws, okay? So if you need any more help with this, reach out to me, okay? Description below, number of ways that you can reach out to me to ask any questions. And also, if you do want more help with your indoor sports facility, this is something that we can help you with. But what we'd have to do is get on a call so you can book a free 15-minute call with me. Just the link is below. Book a call with me and we can see how and if we can help you, okay? Thank you for watching and make sure you subscribe to our channel.