Some great ideas for rec/junior tennis coaches

[eah123]

I really like Ryan's (2 minute tennis) ideas about ways to expand coaching beyond on court lessons and clinics.
His ideas on this video:

1) adding off-court coaching - video instruction, online coaching, video analysis of strokes and match play
2) subscription model instead of pay-per-lesson model - many academy programs do this, why not private coaches?
3) Putting your student in a "box" - meaning, coach provides schedule availability online, students sign up for sessions (both on-court and off-court)

 

[sureshs]

Didn't watch the video (too long).

What is "subscription model" when applied to in-person lessons? If you are talking about a discount for a lesson pack, it is already a common thing.

First and last suggestions require significant video preparation time and online presence and are not easy.

 

[eah123]

What is "subscription model" when applied to in-person lessons? If you are talking about a discount for a lesson pack, it is already a common thing.

Ryan's example is that instead of paying for a 10 lesson pack/season, the student pays for a monthly subscription that renews automatically each month.

In the subscription, you get each month - up to 1 clinic/week, 1 private/week, access to online video content, unlimited answers to email questions to the coach. Higher/lower price for more or less services.

 

[sureshs]

Ryan's example is that instead of paying for a 10 lesson pack/season, the student pays for a monthly subscription that renews automatically each month.

In the subscription, you get each month - up to 1 clinic/week, 1 private/week, access to online video content, unlimited answers to email questions to the coach. Higher/lower price for more or less services.

That is certainly a new concept. Forgetting about the online video (which requires lots of work) and the email answers (what questions can you seriously ask about tennis over email?), the realistic suggestions are the subscriptions. But if the coach works out of a club, he cannot be very flexible with his lesson slots due to the other club activities. Moreover, people have certain fixed times when they can take lessons - I doubt how many will suddenly wake up one day and decide to use their subscription. But I think it is good for coaches who don't have much work. With subscriptions, they can keep a student for much longer. Of course there will be constant demands to accommodate in the next month because this month the student was busy etc so not sure people will honor their time limits. They will not show up for 3 months and then demand makeup 3 lessons in 2 weeks.