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Making the Most of Referrals

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Take advantage of the good service you deliver to your customers and as a result, the referrals they can provide to you in return. If you have a solid product or service, then making the most out of it should be simple. Referrals are the most promising source for leads, especially coming from a satisfied existing member.

A few tips to making the “Buddy Referral” system work:

  • Create an enticing incentive for current members to bring friends into your facility
    • Giving a reward, such as one month free membership in return for getting a friend to sign up – is money wisely spent. This should be simple to do with your membership software, and the return on investment will be higher versus money spent somewhere else.
  • Ensure that the offer for the guest is special and worthwhile
    • Offering a complimentary week to experience your club or facility will allow guests to determine whether it’s a good fit for their lifestyle and needs. Sending emails utilizing your management software should make following-up with prospective members easy, and allow you to keep track of all guests / prospects coming through your doors.
  • Produce appropriate marketing materials to bring awareness of the promotion.
    • In addition to sending follow-up emails to prospective members, making sure that current members are aware of the offer is vital. To bring awareness, send emails to all current members (again, this should be simple to accomplish with your management software) letting them know of the offers or perks, and be sure to have plenty of signage throughout your gym with details.

Here at EZFacility we’re big fans of being efficient. One of the best ways to make the most of our efforts is to let our customers do some of the marketing for us – by referring EZFacility to other people in the industry. We know that the best way to accomplish this is to keep our level of customer satisfaction extremely high, and we encourage our customers to do the same. Don’t be afraid to let your club or facility speak for itself.

That’s all for now but check back soon for more ideas and news.

EZFacility Partners With Brivo To Offer 24-Hour Sports & Fitness Access

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Software Integration Enables EZFacility To Offer Customers Safe, Round-The-Clock Access.
Bethpage, NY (July 20, 2011) – Brivo Systems LLC, leader in Software as a Service applications for security management, today announced that EZFacility has joined the Brivo Technology Partnership program and can now offer their health, fitness, and sports facility customers 24-hour controlled security access for their club members.
EZFacility, a division of Jonas Software, Inc., is a global leader in cloud-based scheduling, management and membership software, as well as billing and financial services for health and fitness clubs and numerous other fitness and sports-based businesses.
“We are very excited to be a part of this partnership, as we are continuously searching for these types of collaborations to increase the value of our product for our growing customer base. Working with Brivo will open up a whole new realm of possibilities for both current and prospective clients, and is in line with what we see as an important piece of EZFacility’s future,” commented Adam Zeitsiff, Chief Executive Officer of EZFacility.
The EZFacility-Brivo integration, which provides 24-hour access capability, is made possible by Brivo’s DataSync Application Programming Interface (API). The DataSync API allows different systems to exchange data from “cloud to cloud” so they can “understand” one another and seamlessly share data. Sports and fitness facility owners are now able to use their EZFacility software exclusively as a single point of data entry to more effectively and efficiently manage members’ access privileges to a facility.
This means club management no longer has to key in membership information in one system, only to have to access a different system and do it all again—saving time and money, and reducing the risk of data entry errors. Owners can easily stay up to date on the physical security status of their facilities, with the added advantage of setting up a notification rule to e-mail or send a text message when the facility is accessed by anyone outside of daytime business hours or when no staff are present.
The integrated offering enables EZFacility’s customers to increase revenues, cut costs, and most importantly, provide members with a better customer experience and higher satisfaction. In addition to expanding facility hours and reducing data entry time and errors, Brivo’s managed access provides strict facility entry management by preventing authorized EZFacility users from entering with their valid card and then “passing” the card back to an unauthorized user. Client information stored with EZFacility, such as names, dates, times of entry, etc., are automatically transferred to a facility owner’s Brivo system without manual intervention, so management no longer has to hassle with constantly clicking an external utility to update or sync accounts—data is transferred immediately. This integration is compatible with all of Brivo’s offerings, including ACS WebService™, ACS OnSite™, and OnSite Aparato™.
EZFacility customers can also define and control access for their members to specific areas such as swimming pools, daycare rooms, tanning beds, and spa areas while monitoring each entrance to a specific area through video feeds from either integrated DVRs or Brivo’s affordable hosted video option, OVR WebService™. Integrated video and access control empowers owners and managers to monitor and “see” who enters a facility, where they are going and when—making sure only valid members access the facility while recording all entry and exit data in an accessible database for monitoring and running reports.
For more information on the Brivo Online Access Control System, contact Brivo toll–free at 1-866-692-7486, option 1 or email sales@brivo.com. To view a demo, visit www.brivo.com/demo.

About Brivo Systems LLC

Club Vitals is a professional web-based facilities and equipment maintenance management system created by leaders from both the equipment maintenance and health club industry. Club Vitals saves time and money and provides outstanding return on investment with seamless and effective communication between fitness club members, staff, managers and owners as well as facilities and equipment maintenance technicians.columns bottom-margin

Use Your Computer Software to Increase Revenue

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Being a successful business owner means using all available tools and resources at hand. If utilized to its fullest potential, your software can be one of the most valuable tools at your disposal. We encourage you to get to know your software and all its capabilities as this is vital to increasing your revenue.

Here are a few key features that should be utilized to maximize profit:

  • Reports / Data Management
    • Estimate what cash flow will be by utilizing your software to predict what next month’s billing will come in at. Pulling reports will help you identify where problems may lie, making it easier and quicker to adjust for the following month
    • Utilize components of reporting to sort out member profiles including which members are billed monthly, prepaid, short term, promotional, cancelled, or expired. Ultimately this will help you decipher where revenue can be increased and which members to target as monthly members are more likely to stay longer and are a greater source of revenue.
  • Email Marketing
    • Know which of your members are frequent users and which are sporadic users. Use your software to appropriately target them with emails and promotions encouraging them to come more often or remind them that you appreciate their business.
    • Utilize the email function to send out communication regarding your facility. Keep members posted on the latest promotions and news and they’ll appreciate you connecting with them.
  • POS
    • With the point-of-sale feature, track all services sold. This makes it simpler to account for trainer commissions, available sessions, and outstanding balances and will allow you to view reports according to the type of sale.
    • Take advantage of the employee time clock included in your software. This will eliminate time wasted on adding up timecards and allow you to have all the information in one place reducing the risk of an error.

Finally, using one company to provide all software and billing services in addition to the follow-up work on delinquent accounts will allow you to focus on customers; knowing that should a problem arise, it’s necessary to contact only one company to fix the issue. The less time spent dealing with software, the more time staff and owners have to spend with current and potential customers, ultimately leading to a revenue increase.
If you’re paying for your software… make the most of your investment and use it to its greatest capacity.

Check back often for tips on how to maximize profits for your business.

EZFacility Acquires Member Solutions

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Market-Leader in Software and Full Service Billing to the Martial Arts Industry Bolsters EZFacility’s Position as a Leading SaaS Provider of Software, Billing & Financial Services for the Fitness, Sports & Leisure Industries.
Bethpage, NY (June 30, 2011) – EZFacility, Inc. (a division of Jonas Software), a global leader in software, billing and collections services for businesses in the Fitness, Sports & Leisure industries, is pleased to announce the purchase of all the shares of Youbill, Inc. (dba Member Solutions). With headquarters in Jenkintown, PA, Member Solutions is a leading provider of SaaS-based, full-service billing, collections and finance management to the Martial Arts industry across the US and Canada.
“We are extremely pleased to announce the acquisition of Member Solutions, and welcome their employees and customers to the EZFacility family”, comments Adam Zeitsiff, Chief Executive Officer of EZFacility. “Member Solutions has developed a feature-rich and highly scalable software and full-service billing platform, along with a stellar reputation throughout the martial arts industry. The entire team at EZFacility is excited to work with Member Solutions to continue to expand upon their presence as an industry-leader across North America.”
“Our team at Member Solutions is very excited to be joining the Jonas and EZFacility family of companies,” comments Steven Pinado, CEO of Member Solutions. “Being part of a company with deep expertise and a proven track-record of success in software development for targeted industry solutions, is a perfect complement to our core capabilities. This acquisition will provide a significant benefit to our clients, partners and team of dedicated employees.”
“With the addition of Member Solutions, our company immediately owns a leading position in software and full-service billing for martial arts studios” commented Barry Symons, CEO of Jonas Software, EZFacility’s parent company. “Our Fitness, Sports and Leisure Division continues to expand at an accelerated rate, and we look forward to seeing the same thing occur now that Member Solutions is part of our business.”
EZFacility will continue to promote and build the Member Solutions brand and is fully committed to the future investment and development of their products and financial services. The Member Solutions team in their offices across the United States will remain with the company and help contribute to its future growth. Steve Pinado will continue providing his leadership and strategic vision to Member Solutions as their CEO, reporting directly to EZFacility’s CEO, Adam Zeitsiff.

Keeping Up With Gym Membership Increases

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The number of gym memberships has significantly increased over the past decade. In 1998, 29.5 million Americans belonged to a gym and in 2010 that number rose to 40 million and despite the recession hitting most households, Americans did not cut gym membership.

That being said, it’s important to be prepared for the ongoing growth of your facility. Staying organized by tracking all invoicing, payments, payroll, and commissions is essential in order to keep expanding and remain successful. Part of accomplishing this is making sure you have a ‘one-stop-shop.’ Software that takes care of all of this for you and makes it simple to pull reports will free up time to connect with customers individually.

Functions that good software should perform include:

  • Back office management

  • Front desk management

  • Billing and payment processing

  • Scheduling and activity management

  • Marketing and customer relationship management

  • Financial and demographic reporting

With these capabilities at your fingertips, business owners will be able to increase both revenue and productivity. It’s also especially important that the software be a web hosted service as this eliminates the hassle of having to install hardware or software onto the computer. With Software as a Service (SaaS), security and privacy are of utmost importance. When considering SaaS, asking the right questions will ensure that your data is safe. A few questions to be answered before choosing software include:

  • Is your production environment housed in a state-of-the-art hosting facility?

  • What are the security arrangements for the facility? Are they in place 24/7/365?

  • What type of infrastructure do you host data on? Are there virus protection arrangements in-place?

  • Do you utilize an independent third party to run periodic external and internal vulnerability scans?

  • How often do you back up data, and where are they stored?

  • What level of data encryption is utilized to protect website transactions?

  • What is your privacy policy?

Lastly, it’s a good thing that the health and fitness industry is doing well and is projected to continue to do so; just make sure your business is ready to keep up!

Stay posted for more ideas on long-term success for your business.

How to Turn Leads Into Customers

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One of the greatest qualities of successful business owners is knowing how to turn leads into customers. Characteristics like dedication, perseverance, and drive that apply to a star in sports can also be utilized for growing your business, and are necessary in order to build your customer base.

Part of what determines success, is having the right tools in order to reach the right people and market. It’s crucial to be persistent when following up with leads, as they have already expressed an interest in your company and therefore, half the battle has been won. A multi-functional software system is essential and makes delivering your message simpler; because it is nearly impossible to determine when your lead will be ready to become a part of your club or facility, it’s important to stay in front of them until the time is right for them. Keeping leads posted on club updates and promotions will be made effortless with software that has the ability to do perform this task. When thinking about growing your business, keep in mind not only the day-to-day functions, but also the bigger picture; have a long-term goal in mind.

Tips for converting leads into customers:

  • Send updates on your club or facility regularly to leads. Software that keeps a database of these leads makes things easier. Set up a schedule in order to be consistently in front of your leads.

  • Keep track of all communication as remaining organized is vital. Again, software that does this for you will ease the amount of time and work spent on lead follow up.

  • Log developments for all leads. Maintaining a structured system showing progress on each lead will make sure none are being neglected.

  • Be ready to provide additional information on your company should a lead become more interested. The ability to send off information quickly will elevate their perception of your company.

The key to being able to do all of this is having software that takes the brunt of the work off your shoulders. Time can instead be spent getting leads and fostering a good relationship with current customers.

Come back soon for more tips and ideas for growing your business.

Targeted Marketing Campaigns with EZFacility

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Make the most out of our software features by going beyond the scheduling, management and billing functions. Because EZFacility software keeps track of your client demographics, clubs can easily identify their largest opportunities for customer-base growth. Our software features top commercial email marketing software that allows you to send emails that are targeted to the right group.


A few examples of how this function can be used to target the right members:

  • Membership or Package About to Expire – Remind members to renew their membership or training package before they expire. This gives them the opportunity to continue with uninterrupted gym or training time and keeps cash flowing for your facility.
  • Birthdays – A member’s birthday is coming up; email them notifying them of a free personal training session in celebration of their birthday. This is a great way to have them try out something new at your facility that could convert to additional business from an existing member.
  • Past members – Notify past members of a great sign up offer. By keeping past members posted on new offers via email, chances are if they see a great one, you’ll lure them back in.
  • New Program/Class Alerts – Send a targeted email to members that have participated in similar classes/programs in the past. They’ll appreciate a suggestion tailored to their interests and will assure members that their facility is keeping things fresh and interesting.

Use the demographic reporting in EZFacility to find out where the holes are in your demographics. This makes it simple to find out what age group or gender needs additional targeting and focus. Perhaps, your club needs more Senior- level classes or extra babysitter services during the day for those stay-at-home moms looking to stay fit. With EZFacility’s Marketing tools, these gaps can be easily found and marketing strategies and campaigns can then be implemented.

Hope this helps in generating new ideas on how EZFacility’s software can be used for marketing to all your clients utilizing unique and innovative approaches.


We will, of course, continue to keep you posted on new developments and information.

Customer Success Story: Gold’s Gym of Regina

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Skye Kaiss, owner of two Gold’s Gym locations in Regina, Saskatchewan and an EZFacility customer, spoke with EZFacility about the success he has had using EZFacility management software to streamline his personal training program, increase client & staff retention while generating savings of over $8OK/year.
Over the last few years, Gold’s Gym in Regina has been actively selling $200,000 of personal training between its two locations on a monthly basis. Members could choose to pay for the personal training in full, or take advantage of a multi-level financing plan offered by the club. With plan lengths of three, six and twelve months, members were provided with purchase flexibility while taking steps towards achieving better health.
Of the $2.4 million in annual personal training sales, 75% were purchased using one of the available financing packages. Of these financed annual sales, 15% were never used and the payments were subsequently defaulted on by the member. Since Gold’s Gym paid out commissions on these sales in the payroll period immediately following the sale, they were experiencing an overall loss of revenue due to the fact that commissions were paid in-full on these sales once completed. Initially, Gold’s attempted to institute a policy of taking back commissions on defaulted sales, but this was not a popular policy with the sales staff in the least.

Solution

Although not using the full power of EZFacility, the Regina Gold’s Gym locations did implement EZFacility to manage the Personal Training program in both locations from a scheduling and session-management stand-point. Utilizing the feature-rich EZFacility architecture, Skye was able to institute a policy where salesperson and trainer commissions would be paid out as each session was conducted and completed. As each session was logged as completed in the software, both the salesperson and the personal trainer would receive a commission for that session. If the personal trainer was also the salesperson then they would receive two commissions.

Benefits

Initially, the most noticeable benefit is a savings of 10% in payroll expenditures on a monthly basis due to linking the payment of commissions directly to session’s completion. And while this did not immediately eliminate the fact that 10-15% of sessions get paid for but never used (which usually results in those members not renewing their membership or referring family, friends or colleagues to the gym), it did offer a significant customer service benefit. As a result of the salesperson and personal trainer only receiving commissions based on sessions completed, both began to maintain contact with the members to provide support and encouragement to keep the member committed to the training plan. Additionally, as the salespeople were accumulating a bank of as yet unused sessions, the attrition rate of sales staff was also reduced as the unused sessions represented unrealized commissions that kept them tied to the club for a longer period.
Combining all three benefits, Skye Kaiss and his Gold’s Gym facilities realized an estimated savings of $70-80K annually between both clubs, based on an estimated $1 million annual operational revenue from personal training services.

Listen to the full interview:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qvB6lg4bLgQ&list=PLsgguQXyZyxwbx_CFNLeZ538Vp9dgqqd8&index=3

How to Succeed with EZFacility

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We know time is tight and your goal is to see the benefits of EZFacility right away. So here are a few best practices to help accelerate your company’s success.
Even before you login, you will want to focus on 3 key areas:

  1. Identifying a business champion
  2. Defining clear goals to start with
  3. Committing to good habits in alignment with these goals


Let’s explore each of these, and see where to lean more:


Identifying a business champion


A champion can be anyone in your business – and since your’re reading this, it might be you. As a champion, you will help your company adopt EZFacility successfully. You don’t need strong technical skills; you just need to be able to communicate effectively. You will need to communicate with management to understand their needs, communicate with staff to show how EZFacility will help them, and communicate about the quick wins you achieve once you start using EZFacility daily. Celebrating these quick wins is a great way to help everyone in your organization see the benefits of this amazing new system.


Defining clear goals right from the start


While EZFacility offers hundreds of features, our most successful customers start with a simple goal – such as increasing customer service or reducing phone calls using Online Registrations. Trying to solve every challenge at once can lead to being overwhelmed and slowing down your implementation. So start by writing down your top 1 or 2 key business goals.


You then need to create a simple process map, as it is very helpful to define this before you begin using and customizing EZFacility. If for example, your goal is a decrease in phone calls, you will want to map out the process that will get you there.


Once you define your process, it becomes easy to customize EZFacility to help you achieve those goals. After EZFacility helps you reach your initial goal, you will be able to implement more sophisticated processes that save time, money, increase sales, and create happier customers.


EZFacility allows you grow over time, versus having to solve everything up front. So simply repeat the steps of setting a goal, defining your process, and then building the solution – and you’ll continue to celebrate quick wins regularly.


Committing to good habits in alignment with these goals


As you grow, you’ll want to make sure your staff enters their info consistently in the system and keeps it up to date as well. EZFacility helps keep track of the day-to-day elements that are important to your business, and the quality of this information is critical to a successful program. Good habits begin when all your users agree to the terms that are used to describe your process. Be sure to train your staff, not only on how to use EZFacility, but also on your pre-defined process and terminology.


Integrating EZFacility into day-to-day operations using scheduling, billing, and customer management is a great way to keep information up to date. The more staff that “live” inside of EZFacility, the more it becomes a trusted source of “go to” information. To help everyone see the importance of keeping your information up to date, run your departmental and company meetings based on EZFacility reports and dashboards. For example, a weekly sales review can run like clockwork if your sales managers used the Revenue report from within the system. Our most successful customers remember this maxim – “If it isn’t in EZFacility, it doesn’t exist”.


Ensuring your success


We are committed to ensuring your success, so we make it easy to find the resources that will help you succeed. The single place to go whenever you are trying something new is https://support.ezfacility.com. Here, you will find how-to videos, user guides, F.A.Q’s., best practices and more. And don’t forget, you can always search our entire knowledge base and reach-out to our support team by clicking the Help & Training link located at the top of the page directly within your EZFacility system.
Thank you for choosing EZFacility! We hope this overview will accelerate your success with our system.
Check back often for best practices and new ideas.

Is Your Club Primed for Growth with Personal Training? Part 3 of 3

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In this final part of a three part post I have outlined below the remaining two of what I consider four key reasons for implementing a strong personal trainer scheduling and management solution as a component of your club management software:

  1. Enhanced Visibility Into Your Business

    A good system will provide the ability to view departmental performance in real-time, yet the power lies in its ability to uncover inefficiencies and provide insight. Creative club owners armed with this information can see how to better monetize facility resources and staff, and help to improve the overall profitability of their club. This information can help to uncover inefficiencies in the use of a trainer’s time each day, as well as help to more quickly and accurately determine when another trainer should be added to the days scheduled, etc. It can also help to identify which trainers are consistently converting free trials into revenue-generating customers, and which trainers are struggling with this extremely critical aspect of their jobs. All of this various information should help club owners and managers answer the key questions that will help them streamline the operations of their training business and improve the revenues derived as a result.
  2. Improved Customer Service

    Real-time visibility into your club’s daily processes also translates into improved customer service for your members. For example, when training clients call in to check on trainer availability, payments owed, or to change an appointment, a good scheduling and management system will provide these answers right at your fingertips – giving the member the answers they need, when they need them. A growing number of club owners are realizing that a powerful trainer scheduling and management system is an ongoing way to deliver enhanced business performance and in turn, significantly improve customer service.

Hopefully the information outlined in this three part post will help to show why researching and implementing a powerful trainer scheduling and management system, either stand-alone or as part of your core club management software solution, is an important process for your facility – and will help to prime your club for long-term growth and success.

Is Your Club Primed for Growth with Personal Training? Part 2 of 3

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In this second of a three part post I have outlined below two of what I consider four key reasons for implementing a strong personal trainer scheduling and management solution as a component of your club management software:

  1. Improved Operational Control

    The software system selected should provide club owners and trainers with an instantaneous view into daily processes to make sure operations are proceeding smoothly. Is a certain trainer available at a specific time today? Does my 2 o’clock appointment have any pre-existing medical conditions or owe a balance for a prior session or package? These are all questions that should be able to be answered by the new system with a quick glance at the screen or with one click of your mouse. By spotting trouble early each day, small problems can be dealt with or eliminated completely before they have a chance to accumulate and become large ones.
  2. Consistent Performance Reports & Financial Analysis

    A good trainer scheduling and management system enables a real-time view at how your business is performing, which yields reports that are more consistent and accurate in nature. Traditional reports are often out of date by the time they arrive on your manager’s desk, and usually after unexpected problems have already cropped up. A good system should provide customizable reports covering a variety of critical areas such as daily schedules and rosters, invoices, payments & customer statements, payroll reports for export to 3rd-party payroll providers, and management reports for club performance & financial analysis.

In the final post in this series I will outline the final two of the four key reasons.

Is Your Club Primed for Growth with Personal Training? Part 1 of 3

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Software that offers strong personal trainer scheduling and management functionality is gaining attention as a critical component for improving the operational processes that impact your club’s growth on a daily basis. How well your club streamlines its operations, improves trainer productivity, reduces costs and increases profits, will be a determining factor in your facility’s overall future success. With the popularity and revenue gains that club owners have seen with their personal training business in recent years, implementing a powerful club management software and billing system that includes a very strong trainer scheduling and management component has become that critical “must have” for a club of any size.


If you haven’t yet implemented a scheduling and management system within your club (either as a part of your core club management system or on a stand-alone basis), there are a variety of key items for you to consider as you begin the selection process:

  1. Is it user friendly – i.e. can it be used by staff with just novice computer experience?
  2. Does it offer detailed management of training packages and other service offerings?
  3. Does it allow for detailed tracking of trainer payroll, commissions and varying pay rates?
  4. Does it provide personal training specific management reports for club performance & financial analysis?
  5. Does it give your personal training clients access to book new sessions or buy new packages right from your website?
  6. Does it offer the ability to integrate credit card or direct debit functionality so that you can charge your customers for services in real-time? Or better yet, does it offer the option for a full-service billing and collections component as part of the software, so you don’t have to worry about chasing customers for overdue payments?
  7. Can it be accessed from any web-connected computer – both inside your club or out?

A good trainer scheduling and management software system focuses on these sets of issues with an eye on executing and managing them more efficiently on a daily basis. This attention to detail can result in improved operational control, better visibility into your business, improved customer service, and more consistent employee performance.


In the next post in this three part post I will begin to outline the 4 key reasons for implementing a strong personal trainer scheduling and management solution as a component of your club management software.

EZFacility Acquires SDA Solutions

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Bethpage, NY (June 22, 2010) – EZFacility, Inc. (a division of Jonas Software), a global leader in scheduling, management and membership software solutions for health and fitness clubs, leisure facilities, sports facilities, and personal training studios, is pleased to announce the purchase of all the shares of SDA Solutions. With headquarters in Leeds, UK, SDA Solutions specializes in providing web-based leisure and fitness center membership, management, CRM, booking and billing solutions for leisure centers, fitness facilities, health clubs, personal training centers and fitness studios.
“We are very pleased to announce the acquisition of SDA Solutions, and happily welcome SDA’s employees and customers to the EZFacility family”, comments Adam Zeitsiff, Chief Executive Officer of EZFacility. “SDA has developed one of the most robust and feature-rich leisure and fitness center management systems available in the market today. They have built a large base of highly respected customers, including some of the most well-known leisure and fitness brands in the UK. We look forward to working with the SDA team to expand their presence throughout the European market, and continue to build upon their leadership position.”
“Everyone at SDA Solutions is delighted to be joining the team at EZFacility and Jonas Software”, said Stuart Dyson, founder and Managing Director of SDA Solutions. “Joining a company with a deep understanding of the benefits of web-based software solutions and a proven track record of success, presents a wonderful opportunity for our customers, employees and business partners.”
EZFacility will continue to promote and build the SDA brand and is fully committed to the future investment and development of their software products and financial services. The entire SDA team in their Leeds, UK office will remain with the company and help contribute to its future growth. Stuart and Susan Dyson will continue providing their vision, industry expertise and leadership skills to SDA, and will assist in the growth and expansion of both their products and market presence for the long-term.

EZFacility Acquires eFit Financial

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Bethpage, NY (May 11, 2010) – EZFacility, Inc. (a division of Jonas Software), a global leader in scheduling, management and membership software solutions for health and fitness clubs, sports facilities, personal training studios, is pleased to announce the purchase of all the shares of eFit Financial, Inc. With headquarters in Denver, eFit Financial is a leading provider of SaaS-based, full-service billing, collections and finance management for mid-market health clubs, personal training centers and fitness studios.
“We are very pleased to announce the acquisition of eFit Financial, and happily welcome eFit’s employees and customers to the EZFacility family”, comments Adam Zeitsiff, Chief Executive Officer of EZFacility. “eFit has developed a robust, full-service billing and financial services platform, along with a stellar reputation throughout the fitness industry. We will look to leverage their technical, financial, and customer support expertise to strengthen our competitive position across the fitness, sports and recreation segments. This acquisition truly bolsters our position in these markets and provides us with a valuable foundation for which to accelerate our future growth.”
“I am very pleased to find a company that shares our outlook of providing valuable services to the health and fitness industry with a high level of integrity”, comments John Chalk, Founder, President and CEO of eFit Financial. “We have always strived to create a powerful suite of products that the health club owner can access inexpensively, yet offers unlimited growth potential through a service that they can rely on. As a part of EZFacility, our goal is to continue assisting the industry with top-notch service provided by feature-rich software solutions and dedicated customer service professionals.”
“The addition of eFit provides us with a leading position in full-service billing and financial services for fitness and sports facilities” commented Jeffrey McKee, VP of Business Development and CFO of EZFacility and Jonas Software. “The ability to offer an enterprise-class scheduling, management and membership software solution with the option of integrated billing and hands-on finance support, will result in a best-in-class offering for our customers.”
EZFacility will continue to promote and build the eFit brand and is fully committed to the future investment and development of their products and financial services. The entire eFit team in their Denver office will remain with the company and help contribute to its future growth. John Chalk will continue providing his founding vision to eFit and will assist in the integration of the software, billing and service offerings of both companies.

Jonas Software Acquires EZFacility

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Bethpage, NY (September 30, 2009) – Jonas Software, a global leader in providing club management solutions to the country, golf, yacht and city club industry, is pleased to announce the purchase of all the assets of EZFaclility.com Inc. EZFacility.com is a leading provider of scheduling, management and membership software solutions for sports facilities, personal training studios, and health and fitness clubs.
“The addition of EZFacility.com provides us with a leading position within the multi-sport facility, sports training, personal training and fitness segments” commented Jeffrey McKee CFO Jonas Software. “We have been interested in the fitness vertical for quite some time now, and EZFacility.com provides the best-in-class Software as a Service (Saas) offering in this space. We welcome them into the Jonas family and look forward to working with them to continue building on their track record of success.”
EZFacility.com President, Adam Zeitsiff stated “The entire EZFacility team is excited to be joining the Jonas Software family. Having a company that understands niche market software with a long track record of success such as theirs presents a unique opportunity for our customers, our employees and our business partners. Their expertise will help accelerate our growth plans and take us to the next level in both the North American and European markets. We look forward to expanding our footprint, adding to our industry-leading products, and continuing to provide fanatical service and support to our global base of customers.”
Jonas will continue to promote and build the EZFacility brand and is fully committed to the future investment and development of their products and services. The entire EZFacility.com team in both their US and European offices will remain with the company and help contribute to its future growth. Adam Zeitsiff will become the Chief Executive Officer of this new division of Jonas Software and will report to Barry Symons, CEO at Jonas Software.
“We are very pleased to add EZFacility.com to the overall Jonas portfolio,” explained Jonas CEO, Barry Symons. “We will look to leverage our technical expertise and other synergies to strengthen our competitive position across all segments, and to ensure our customers continue to receive best in its class service and leading-edge products. Our entrant into the fitness industry with EZFacility.com provides us with a significant opportunity for growth within this vertical.”
EZ Facility will continue operations from their existing offices in New York, London and Amsterdam, and will operate as a separate business unit of Jonas Software.

About Jonas Software

Jonas Software is the leading provider of enterprise management software solutions to 10 different vertical markets throughout the world. With 47 distinct brands operating within these 10 vertical markets, Jonas Software is the valued technology partner of over 25,000 customers, in over 20 countries. Jonas’ vision is to be the branded global leader across the aforementioned 10 vertical markets, and to be recognized as the trusted provider of Software For Life.