Friday 15th January 2016

The spring term is the best time of year to generate new business as school leaders are reviewing provision and spend for the following academic year. Not selling during this time will have a catastrophic affect on your business. If you don’t take these opportunities, your competition will!

Are you implementing a thorough sales strategy and ensuring you have the capacity to get out there to meet schools and sell? More importantly, do you have qualified Activity Professionals ready to be deployed? New sales won’t come to you....

We’ve already had well over 50% of the network confirm attendance to this year’s #NTE16.

It’s mandatory for business owners to attend at a cost of £250 per person. However, as we are committed to the success of your business, we’re giving you two places for FREE if you complete your reservation by 5pm on Monday 1st February 2016.

If you haven’t already responded to the invitation you received last Friday, follow this link now.

As the top article suggests, schools will now begin preparing for the new academic year so you must be prepared to provide impact and evidence so that they can present this to governors (who ultimately decide on the school budgets).

If a governor was presented with evidence and impressive impact via the School Portal, you will have a much greater chance of contract renewal and upselling, which is a crucial part of any growth plan. New business is fantastic but if it’s only replacing work you’ve lost, you’ll never grow!

The Golden Mile gained huge traction in 2015 with licensees gaining access to Headteachers on a mass scale. We’ve since We’ve seen The Golden Mile transform a number of franchisees’ businesses because of this unprecedented access to Headteachers, saving massive amounts of time, money and resources in the process. This level of access has previously taken years but licensees are now creating this impact in just two meetings!

With six months of special profiling opportunities, competitions and birthday-themed activities still to come, 2016 is the perfect time to get started with a new Arts Award project.

It’s really straight forward to link your project to our birthday celebrations and can be done in three simple steps:

Three of our new starters from September have already achieved great success in forging relationships with key stakeholders within their territories. This success includes, gaining access 40 headteachers from one meeting and being selected as the primary council deliverer.

“These fantastic results didn’t just fall into their laps”, commented Golden Mile Director Karl Fox.

The first Schools Newsletter of 2016 was distributed to your active schools this week. To ensure this newsletter reached your headteachers and PE Coordinators, why not copy the following link and email it to them, including a personalised message from you and your team -

https://marketing.premier-education.com/peg-schools-jan16.html

We’ve also distributed an amended version of the newsletter to the inactive schools in your territory as well as schools outside of your territory.

We’re currently in the process of building a number of personalised Landing Pages (see example) for franchisees.

Availability of Landing Pages is now SOLD OUT in January but you can now place your order on the shop to ensure yours for February. Landing Pages are offered on a first come, first served basis.

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.

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.

With a change to previously advertised, Andy Heald’s monthly GoToMeeting will take place next Wednesday 20th January at 08:30am to 09:30am.

After registering you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the training.

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.