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Bracks Consulting
Bracks Consulting is the leading customer acquisition and business growth consultants in the fitness, weight loss and leisure industry, whilst also working across a wide variety of industries including:
- Retail
- Leisure and Aquatics
- Golf
- Sound Healing
- Franchises
Bracks Consulting is headed by Director Amanda Bracks with over 28 years retail experience and 21 years business management and marketing.
Retail, Fitness, Golf, Leisure & Aquatic Industry Experience
Amanda’s passion for sales started off as a 15 year old, working in retail and smashing store targets. Her sales role grew into a health club membership advisor and was quickly promoted to Club Manager at the age of twenty three years old. Amanda grew her first club from 1800 members to 4500 members, personal training from 40 sessions to over 200 sessions per week and turn over to over four million dollars. Since then Amanda has continued to be the growth factor in many other fitness and leisure businesses driving the marketing, sales team, service and retention to continue to replicate her success. These business have included health clubs, aquatic and leisure centres, swim schools, golf clubs, weight loss studios and personal training studios.
Amanda has been the receiver of many awards including Fitness NSW Club Manager of the Year, twice winner of Fitness NSW Club of the Year, Australian Fitness Network Club of the Year and many Small Business Awards. Amanda has also involved herself in helping develop the fitness industry and profile of the industry in Australia by serving as a marketing committee member for Fitness NSW, on the board of Fitness NSW as well as judging the Fitness Industry Awards. She has presented a number of times as the Australian FILEX Convention with some of the world’s leading experts.
Amanda recently opened her own studio and within 12 months she not only was a finalist in the Australian Champion of Champions Small Business Awards but the business also reached its capacity membership within 12 months.
Consulting & Presenter Experience
Amanda has been a mentor to thousands of sales people, customer service representatives and businesses owners. Her insights into prospecting, marketing, sales and customer retention will help any business learn to be different and focus on getting key systems implemented to ensure long term success. She has an inspiring and passionate style that is real and leaves the audience with the motivation and the implementation skills to achieve their business objectives. Amanda presents all over the country and internationally at national training days for groups of businesses and franchises, conferences and business events. She has recently presented in New Zealand, India, China and Los Angeles.
Author Experience
Amanda has been an active author for many fitness, aquatic, leisure and business magazines. They include Australasia Leisure Management, Network and various other publications.
CUSTOMER ACQUISITION
Amanda is the author of Customer Acquisition; 465 ways to gain and retain customers. Aimed at providing business owners hundreds of great and brilliant ideas, this book is jam-packed with creative ideas, prospecting methods, effective marketing campaigns, simple-to-use retention strategies, and powerful scripts, which will be their keys to be successful. Written in a straightforward, easy-to-read style and encouraging readers to select the ideas that will absolutely make a difference to their business, this book delivers dependable methods to gain and retain customers which are essential in keeping the business focused on growth—leading to ultimate success and stress-free living. It will teach entrepreneurs how to plan, create, implement, and audit their prospecting, marketing, and customer retention activities to ensure on-going success and consistently achieve mastery in their business and industry. Overall, the book will introduce them to four key steps to make things happen: idea generation, implementation, follow-up, and consistency.
Available on Amazon.com and Barnesandnoble.com.
INSPIRATION
Amanda is the author of Inspiration; The secrets of 50 people and how they achieved their health and fitness goals. A book that has been written to inspire people all over the world to get fit, feel great and look and feel the way they want by learning how other people have done it, some after facing adversity.
Available on Amazon.com
CHANGING LIVES
Amanda is the author of Changing Lives: A hands on approach to successfully selling memberships. A book written to empower new sales people, owners, managers and staff in the fitness and weight loss industry and give them the tools to be successful in this important role. With sales experience since 1995 in this role, and as the course writer for the AIF Diploma in Fitness Sales, Amanda is the go-to person in the industry for selling non tangible services and shares her secrets of success in this role to help the reader to change lives, more often, every day.
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