Catch Up Time

As I mentioned in my first post, about 2 years ago I decided that if I was going to have a Jazzercise business like I've always dreamed of, it was now or never. Let's face it, I'm not getting any younger! So I started searching for a facility. To make a long story short, the instructor that had been teaching in Spring Hill but was about to quit, told me about a possible place just around the corner from where her business had been. So I checked into it - a place called Fun Fitness Factory. They had a smallish room that they were looking to rent out. It was perfect for what I needed at the time, and we worked out a great deal, so it was a go! I started classes on January 2, 2008. I had about 8-10 people registered for my evening classes, thanks to some former students of mine and the other instructor who had quit. My morning class started with 1 student, but quickly grew to 4! So as I started, I was teaching 7 Jazzercise classes per week.

For the next year I spent a lot of my time trying to get more people into my classes, of course! I put out many news releases, put flyers out whenever possible, and held special events that would hopefully bring in community participation. As my classes started to grow, the business at Fun Fitness Factory started to grow as well, and they wanted to expand their classroom area. So in August of 2008, the room I had been teaching in became a weight room, and I moved into a new room twice the size of the one I had been using!



This is my room looking from the registration area toward the stage.

In 2009 things really started happening. During the course of that year, I had 3 students become certified instructors, plus I had another instructor teaching for me. I doubled the amount of classes I was offering to 14 per week! My attendance has grown in leaps and bounds. It is exciting stuff, but I still have a long way to go and lots of work to keep things building and building. The economic downturn has been a real challenge, but I'm not giving up!

Now its 2010, and even though I would like to backtrack and relive everything we've done at Spring Hill Jazzercise up to this point, I won't put you through that. I do want to backtrack to the beginning of this year, though, when we had our 2 year Anniversary Bash. That will be my next post, so stay tuned...