January Focus: New Years’ Resolution and Former Student Recruitment

Offer: Two Weeks Free

Former Clients - “Our Resolution is to Get You Back!”

New Clients - “The Solution For Your Resolution”

SendOutCards.com (Open an account under Distributor #151106)

Public Speaking - “The Solution to Keeping Your Resolution This Year.” (Has to be fun, fast results, and convenient)

Strategic Partnership

Contact Weight Loss Clinics and create a strategic partnership for co-promotions and cross discounts.

January is National Blood Donor Month

Make sure you alert the media and arrange for the blood donor bus to come to your school and:

1. Offer a free class or week of classes for anyone who gives blood.

2. Offer current students a free t-shirt for giving blood.

National Days

1st New Years Day (Host a NYE Workout)

Invite anyone to join in. Post it in the “Events” area of your local media.

2nd National Motivation and Inspiration Day

Create an exercise and nutrition plan for the next three months and give it to your students

2nd National Personal Trainer Awareness Day

Offer private training for half off

4th World Hypnotism Day

Invite a hypnotist specializing in weight loss to lead a group weight loss hypnosis seminar

7th Weigh in Day (Always First Monday after New Years)

Two weeks ahead, encourage your members to set goal weight for this day. Create prizes for those who meet or exceed the goal. Talk about the power of leveraging your goals. When you announce your weight will be 178 lbs on February 7th, your motivation to hit that goes through the roof.

Make sure you and your staff lead by example.

8th Show and Tell Day at Work

Encourage your members to wear your shirt and / or take their gloves into to work with free passes.

February Focus: Sticking to Goals.

3rd-National Missing Person's Day.Promote and present an anti-abduction seminar.

8th-National Boy Scouts Day. Offer to teach a self-defense class for your local chapters. Explore making self-defense as a badge they can earn.

11th-National "Don't Cry Over Spilled Milk Day." That is a great trigger to talk about releasing the past and keeping things in perspective.

14th-Valentines Day. Clearly this is a bring a friend day. You may want to offer a side-by-side class for students and their friend.

Share the Love Facebook Valentines Contest: Create a Facebook/Instagram post asking your student body what they love about your school. Ask them to comment and share. 

This is a busy month for networking and public speaking because there are so many health related opportunities.

March Focus: Education

Offer: Standard free week

Tools: You approaching the media and local businesses like your business depends on it. Read: How to Become Your Own Reporter http://www.empowerboxingmembers.com/blog/the-new-media/

American Red Cross Month

Invite the local Red Cross to do a blood drive in your school. They provide all the equipment, the staffing, and they'll even do some advertising for you! It's a true win-win and should be good for media coverage as well.

You get increased traffic into your health and fitness center while at the same time you're also providing a much needed service for the Red Cross.

You could also host a fund-raiser for the Red Cross this month.

National Nutrition Month

A great fit for Empower Boxing™ clubs. Offer to visit your local school(s) and be a guest speaker in their gym class, physical education class, or classes related to nutrition.

Be sure to send a press release to the media and also prepare a letter or note for the students to take home to their parents. Make it an educational paper, not a promotional flyer but it’s still okay to include your contact info.

American Diabetes Alert Day (4th Tuesday)

Regular exercise helps prevent diabetes. Fit women are 70 % less likely to develop diabetes than unfit women.

Offer to write an article of how fitness helps fight diabetes for your local paper. Not only is it publicity for your school, it positions you as a fitness expert.

Contact a local diabetes physician and get some supporting quotes from him or her to include in the story.

Sleep Awareness Week (last Monday week)

Research shows that exercise helps people sleep better at night. Promote it with signs in your window and in the school.

Doctor's Day (last Tuesday)

Doctors should be a regular target of your complementary business monthly task because they can refer clients to you for weight loss, stress relief and all kinds of other issues including diabetes and sleep aid.

Kick Butts Day (last day of the month)

Kick Butts Day is to help men, women and teens stop smoking. There's plenty of research proving that the odds of successfully quitting smoking are increased when combined with an exercise program.

Consider offering free classes throughout March for anyone and everyone who is trying to quit smoking?

Great for PR, especially if you have a success story or two.

Alcohol Awareness Month and Alcohol Free Weekend (1st weekend, varies by locale)

People who drink frequently have increased potential for weight gain because they add empty calories to their diet.

Alcohol is higher in calories than many other nutrients: 1 gram of alcohol = 7 calories, 1 gram of protein = 4 calories, 1 gram of fat = 9 calories, 1 gram of carbohydrate = 3.75 calories (Source: Washington State University)

Offer a free class during Alcohol Free Weekend.

Walk America / March of Dimes (4th weekend)

• Participate, as a school, in the Walk America event with everyone in Empower Kickboxing™ apparel.
• You can step it up by purchasing special t-shirts for the walk - put your Empower Kickboxing™ logo in a prominent place on the shirt and give one free to every member who takes part in the event.

Make sure you have Logo License for this.

Cancer Control Month

Consider hosting a fund-raiser for the American Cancer Society.

National Public Health Week

Promote free training during this week. It’s just a new angle for the same offer of a free week.

Stress Awareness Month
Sexual Assault Awareness Month

Promote seminars specific to sexual assault. We suggest you look strongly at Cobra-Defense for this.

1. April Fools Day

25. National Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work Day

30. National Hair Stylist Appreciation Day

Start Summer Beach Body Promotions with an Open House

Tools: Open House

May Days and Weeks

National Nurses Day

National Teacher Appreciation Day

National Receptionists Day

National School Nurse Day

National Military Spouse Appreciation Day

National Police Officers Memorial Day

National Armed Forces Day

National Waitstaff Day

National Senior Health & Fitness Day

National Best Friends Day

Finally Summer Day- Summer Solstice

National Columnists Day

Beautician’s Day

Every Week

Week One - Email your newsletter out

Week Two - SendOutCard.com gift to students anniversary. Give them one month free for every year they’ve been with you.

Week Three - Send media release out and / or write articles for local media outlets (newspapers, corporate newsletters, local papers, etc…). Articles can be inspiring stories about your students, tip, nutrition, self defense etc…

Week Four - Send Birthday cards with SendOutCards.com.

August Focus:

Back to School 

Bully Program Seminars

Family Fun Month

Friendship Day

Son and Daughter Day

22–American Business Women’s Day

22–Wife Appreciation Day

25–National Women’s Health & Fitness Day:

26–National Situational Awareness Day

28–Family Health and Fitness Day USA:

28 (Last Saturday)

National Bullying Prevention Awareness Month

Bullying Prevention Month

Church Safety and Security Month

Domestic Violence Awareness Month

Halloween Safety Month

National Chiropractic Month National Crime Prevention Month

National Domestic Violence Awareness Month

Photographer Appreciation Month

Positive Attitude Month

Fallen Firefighters Memorial Weekend: 5-6

Kids’ Goal Setting Week: 7-11

National Massage Therapy Week: 20-26 (Last Full Week)

National Kick Butt Day: 14 (Second Monday)

Promote Christmas Shopping Day

National Nurse Practitioner’s Week: 3-9

Thanksgiving

International Ninja Day: 5

Christmas: 25

Boxing Day: 26

National Thank-you Note Day: 26