Helping Health Clubs
Current Club Owners, Working for Today's Club Owner
Richard Quinn Richard Quinn-President/CEO President and founder Richard Quinn brings significant health club-related management experience the health club industry. Immediately before starting Helping Health Clubs, Mr. Quinn served as CEO of The EFT Group, a personal training company that operated in 30 locations nationwide and still operates today in many clubs across the country. Simultaneously to this, Mr. Quinn also owned two 30,000 square feet, full-serviced health clubs in Bradenton Florida named Fusion Fitness. Prior to this, Quinn served as the CEO and partner of an eight club chain formerly known as Capital Fitness (see Clubindustry.com and punch in Capital Fitness) in North Carolina. Quinn was responsible for building this chain to 50,000 members and 450 employees during a time of a merger. He also recruited and built an ALL NEW personal training department that boasted over $500,000 per month in gross sales and built the personal training EFT to over $200,000 in one year. Mr. Quinn’s most recent performance statistics as a CEO were; increased revenues by 38%, increased profitability and accomplished to take the chain from 6Million a year to $11.6Million per year in just one year. Mr. Quinn was awarded #48 out of 100 in Club Industry's top revenue producing health club chains in 2005. Mr. Quinn's marketing and membership expertise increased new club memberships by 138%. Quinn accomplished all this during an acquisition phase in which many key level management and employees were being retrained and upgraded. Prior to the CEO role with Capital Fitness, Mr. Quinn had over nineteen years experience holding titles of CEO, VP of Sales, Regional Manager, Regional Sales Manager, General Manager, Sales Manager and Motivational Speaker. Mr. Quinn has negotiated many leases, sold and brokered clubs to both private and publicly traded companies, started new clubs from the ground up and turned around many clubs. Mr. Quinn has owned and been a partner in 14 health clubs over the past 19 years. Quinn is an expert in turning around clubs, multi-club management and growth, marketing, personal training department installation, sales training, motivational speaking, management training, customer service training, brokerage, financials, business plans, internal profit centers, pre-sales and club staff recruiting. There is neither a problem nor situation that Mr. Quinn cannot assist you with. Mr. Quinn has for, and consulted in, names such as Gold’s Gym, Capital Fitness, Bally's/Holiday Health, Kinsey Fitness, New Life Fitness, World Gym, Powerhouse Gym, Lucille Roberts, Titan Fitness, Total Body Fitness, Nautilus Plus, Fitness First and so many more totaling over 175 clubs in just 21 years. Mr. Quinn has trained over 2500 sales people, developed over 200 general managers and developed more than 100 district mangers. He can find you the right staff and train them to be the best. Mr. Quinn is also co-author of the industry's most successful, profitable and easy to learn personal training book, The Key to PT. Quinn has also written membership sales manuals and customer service manuals. ''The road to success is always under construction'' Richard Quinn |
