How HybridAF is Building Community, Revenue and Improving Client Retention at Beyond Strength
Chris Merrit was simply looking for a way to accommodate his members’ ever-changing schedules a little bit more effectively. His gym, Beyond Strength in Sterling, Virginia is closed on the weekends. Further, like many gyms, “there is this ebb and flow in seasonal shifts,” he explained, but he didn’t necessarily want to add or remove […]
5 Types of Members Gym Owners Can Support Using HybridAF
More than 200,000 gym-goers (214,121, to be exact) rely on HybridAF to access facilities around the world. That said, HybridAF is used in different ways by different people, depending on their unique needs, goals, priorities, and schedules. Similarly, no two gyms are exactly alike. We understand this, which is why HybridAF allows gym owners to offer […]
Five Ways HybridAF Can Help Your Gym (That You Maybe Haven’t Considered)
Gym owners turn to HybridAF for plenty of reasons, the most common being: They want to provide more value to their members, and having the freedom and flexibility of unattended access does exactly this. They see it as a potential revenue-generating source, as they can (if they choose to) sell unattended access, either as its own […]
HybridAF Helps Breakfast Club Barbell Double Membership Revenue in One Year
For many small gym owners, the story goes like this: They open their doors and begin to grow. Their membership and revenue continues to grow for a year, three years, five years, but eventually it stagnates. They become stuck at 80 members, or 100 members, their costs have increased, and they’re not turning much of […]
How Two Gyms are Taking Advantage of the Class Feature to Run their Business and Capture Newfound Revenue
Though HybridAF is known for its ability to provide 24/7 access to members, there are other ways it can be used to add value to both members and the business. At its heart, HybridAF is about unattended access—rather than 24/7 access, per se—meaning it allows people to access a facility on their own, either during […]
Eight Years in, Scott Panchik Still Crushing it with HybridAF
Scott Panchik’s gym is anything but ordinary. Not only because Panchik, the owner of CrossFit Mentality in Mentor, Ohio, is a nine-time CrossFit Games athlete, but also because he only offers classes five days a week. CrossFit Mentality follows a three days on, one day off training schedule, and this means they don’t hold classes […]
Meet Two Gym Owners who are Generating Hands off Revenue with HybridAF
One of the most underrated aspects of adding HybridAF’s unattended access to your small gym is the diversity with which you can roll it out. Yes, it provides the option to offer 24/7 access, but that’s up to the gym owner. If 5 a.m. until 10 p.m. makes more sense for your gym, then […]
HybridAF: Yet Another Way for 12-Year Gym Owner Kurt Miller to Add Value to his Members
In his 12 years of owning a gym, Kurt Miller knows the importance of building a tight-knit community and providing the best possible client experience. For a long time, the owner of South Mountain Community Fitness in Pennsylvania has done things like celebrate client milestones, recognizing them with a small gift when they […]
Six Months In, CrossFit Sedalia Seeing Big Gains with Hybrid AF
Last spring, Katie Jobe decided she wanted to find a way to offer more value to her members at CrossFit Sedalia in Sedalia, Missouri, a gym she has owned for a decade. She turned to Hybrid AF for a possible solution. A few short months later, not only is Jobe offering more value to her […]
Ben Benson Breaking New Grounds in Unattended Access Technology
Ben Benson had an idea for his gym: Victory Gym in Savannah, Georgia. The city of Savannah is quite transient and sees a lot of one-time drop-ins, as well as weekly and single month visitors, and he wanted to be able accommodate them via HybridAF’s 24/7 unaccompanied gym access. •“What I needed was for someone […]
