Friday 8th January 2016

The monthly Parent newsletter continues to drive your parent members to book onto Inspire to Engage and Extracurricular activities. Following December’s newsletter, we’re pleased to announce it generated over £2500 on your behalf.

Here’s a snapshot of the Google Analytics data from last month –

• 1764 clicked through to the Family Portal
• 678 unique users logged into the Family Portal
• 597 searched for an activity
• 108 bookings confirmed
• £2553.12 generated (based on average spend in December).

We’re currently in the process of building a number of personalised Landing Pages (see example) for franchisees involving a number of complex tasks, including Google Analytics data capture.

Given the extent of the work involved, we have capacity to build only one more Landing Page this month – Don’t miss out and place your order before somebody else does.

To help support your decision to invest in a personalised Landing Page for your business, we’ve created a helpful guide below, demonstrating the value and return on your investment.

Since the Business Boost reviews earlier this school year, the Premier Performing Arts network achieved a 69% increase in turnover (£), which is great news! With this upturn in income, we’ve now generated in excess of £1,000,000 since inception.

Due to the impact of the Business Boost sessions, Creative Director, Frankie Worthington will be booking this term’s review in the coming weeks.

January is a notorious time for people looking for change. After the highs of Christmas come the lows of the new year. Dark nights, no money and expanding waste lines seem to be the normal grumbles, with people looking for new ways to pick themselves up. It’s important you‘re aware of this and prepared to take action.

Is there anything you can do to improve your staff morale? Can you inspire your staff so their work is something they don’t want to change?

By investing a little time, effort and money (working smarter) to inspire and motivate existing staff, you’ll save yourself a lot of the hassle and headaches that come with replacing staff, which we know costs thousands and can impact upon your relationships with customers.

What simple, quirky things can you do, that links to our Core Values?

Here’s a couple of ideas that may help you.

Did you tune into Andy’s GoToMeeting Tuesday discussing your Delivery queries? If you didn’t, don’t worry!

Please click the ‘Catch Up’ button below and download the file from Dropbox.

Premier Sport has teamed up with PE Recruitment to offer their silver package for a discount price of £150+ VAT (normally priced at £249).  With this package, your advert will run for 4 weeks and will be re-posted fortnightly. Your advert will also be reposted on partner websites such as Reed, Indeed and Leisure Jobs.

Department for Culture, Media & Sport and Tracey Crouch MP (Secretary of State for Sport, Tourism and Heritage) released; A New Strategy for an Active Nation, in late December.

This cross-government strategy will tackle head on the flatlining levels of sport participation and high levels of inactivity in this country. Through this strategy, government is redefining what success in sport means, with a new focus on five key outcomes: physical wellbeing, mental wellbeing, individual development, social and community development and economic development. In future, funding decisions will be made on the basis of the outcomes that sport and physical activity can deliver.

New research has shown the UK’s franchise sector is operating at record levels with all-time highs reported in turnover, employment and numbers of franchisee-owned businesses.

Franchising contributed £15.1bn to the economy last year and employs 621,000 people, according to the independently researched British Franchise Association / NatWest Franchise Survey 2015. Both figures are up more than 10 per cent since 2013.

On Monday’s GoToMeeting at 10am, we’ll be looking at ways to motivate staff whilst supporting the growth of your business through increased sales.

Please bring along any other ideas to share which have worked with motivating your team. This doesn’t have to be expensive, as all the articles above suggest, it’s the little things that make such a big difference.

Login details –

1. To join the meeting, go to - https://global.gotomeeting.com/join/250214829
2. Use your microphone and speakers (VoIP) - a headset is recommended.  Or, call in using your telephone.
   Dial +44 (0) 20 3713 5010
   Access Code: 250-214-829
   Audio PIN: Shown after joining the meeting
   Meeting ID: 250-214-829

A regular ‘Delivery’ Q&A GoToMeeting with our National Quality Development Manager, Andy Heald.

Andy Heald will take any questions / queries / guidance he receives via email to form the agenda points in these sessions. The chances are, other franchisees/Activity Professionals with benefit from your question being answered.

Hit the button below and you’ll be given the option to secure your place on the following session/s -

We thought you would find it useful to create a Weekly News Update archive housing previous newsletters from this academic year.

‘Read more’ to catch up on any news you may have missed.