Running a gym or an akhara
Practical writing about the parts nobody covers: collecting fees when half of them are cash, spotting a member leaving before they cancel, keeping a lineage, and organising a dangal that finishes on time.
- How to reduce gym member churnMembers leave quietly, weeks before they cancel. Here is how to spot the drop in attendance early and what to do about it.
- How to collect gym fees online in IndiaUPI, cards, cash and the fees nobody mentions. A practical guide to collecting gym fees in India without losing a cut of every payment.
- Paper register vs gym software: what actually changesAn honest comparison of the register and the software that replaces it, including where the register is genuinely better.
- How to start an akhara: the practical partsThe ground, the guru, the records and the money — a practical look at what running a new akhara actually involves.
- How to organise a dangalEntries, weight categories, the bracket and the day itself — how to run a dangal without losing track of who is fighting whom.
- How to manage gym members without losing trackWhat to record about a member, what to ignore, and the handful of routines that keep a gym's member list accurate.