Guide 01 Expansion Readiness
Is Your Gym Ready for a Second Location?
Test first-site stability, management depth, cash, demand, systems, unit economics, owner dependence, and downside before committing.
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Gym Owner Growth Series · Collection J · Guides 91-100
Second Location and Multi-location Scale
Test readiness, site economics, repeatability, decision rights, technology, and member-experience controls before expanding.
The owner decision
Can the first gym be copied without copying its hidden dependence on the owner?
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Guide 02 Replication
What Must Be Repeatable Before You Copy a Gym?
Separate brand principles from standardized controls and local adaptation across sales, onboarding, coaching, staffing, reporting, and quality.
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Guide 03 Site Selection
Gym Site Selection: Catchment, Access, Capacity, and Rent
Compare catchment, competition, access, visibility, usable capacity, compliance, rent, fit-out, demand evidence, and downside instead of choosing on rent.
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Guide 04 Break-Even
How to Calculate Break-Even for a Second Gym Location
Model setup, fixed and variable costs, member contribution, ramp, financing, cannibalization, collection timing, delay, and downside.
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Guide 05 Decision Rights
Centralize or Let Gym Branch Managers Decide?
Assign pricing, refunds, hiring, marketing, vendors, member exceptions, incidents, and privacy decisions with thresholds and escalation.
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Guide 06 Branch Metrics
Multi-Location Gym KPIs: Define Before Comparing
Standardize active member, join, churn, collection, visit, capacity, lead, revenue, and contribution before ranking branches.
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Guide 07 Expansion Model
Franchise or Company-Owned Gym Expansion?
Compare control, capital, speed, capability, support, economics, governance, brand risk, disclosure, and exit with jurisdiction-specific review.
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Guide 08 Branch Leadership
The Gym Branch Manager Scorecard
Balance growth, collection, retention, team, service, compliance, capacity, incidents, data quality, and controllable leading inputs.
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Guide 09 Technology Architecture
Consolidate Your Gym Tech Stack Before Scaling
Map systems, owners, authoritative fields, integrations, permissions, failures, exports, retention, cost, and manual bridges before adding locations.
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Guide 10 Experience Scale
How to Scale a Gym Without Degrading Member Experience
Define non-negotiable moments, local observation, leading signals, issue escalation, recovery, and controlled adaptation before growth hides degradation.
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