Tencent Digital News (Du Jie) I gave you questions and listened to Kazakhstan: Saying, to open a gym, "a total of" a few steps?
For those of us who are not laymen, we don’t know a step. As the saying goes, it’s difficult at the beginning. There are many kinds of entrepreneurial projects in the gym. Even professional professionals are not sure of success, but with 1500 AA fitness members, it’s The start was started from the founder running the Apple Store + Backdoor + FileMaker. Just after seeing this, you will say what this is and what, don't worry, looking down will certainly be inspiring.
Yuan Qiwei is not as physically strong as other fitness coaches, but reveals a cadre of talents. He graduated from the training major of a sports university, and it seems that he would normally embark on a fitness coach or start a business path for the gym, but people Surprisingly, this has no basis for programming. Even the guy who is not very proficient in English, the first thing to create AA fitness is actually to go to the Apple store first. If this matter is not to see him in person, how can I? Will not believe.
Yuan Qiwei said to me that because Apple itself is a user, and the price of similar back-end management software is too expensive, so he simply went to the genius of the Apple Store to go, a detail asked in detail, is simply the inspirational version of " Learn programming from scratch."
Of course, Yuan Qiwei also has a right-hand man who is known as the “Data Management Expert†FileMaker. They provide modular solutions that can be freely customized according to the scale of the company. Together, these two factors make Yuan Qiwei the entrepreneur with no programming fundamentals. , Successfully embarked on the first step in the business, to solve the background data management at a very small cost.
Now when you go to the AA fitness shop, you can feel the iPad sign in when you enter the door. When you join the membership, you can fill in the iPad on the entire operation. When you exercise, each instructor is equipped with an iPad mini. You can use it. Visualized muscle fitness demonstrations can also help trainees take exercise photos to better correct their movements.
How much do they rely on the iPad mini? There is a special belt-type holster that can be used to tie the coach to the waist and conveniently charge the iPad mini. I really haven't seen any coach so "armed."
Yuan Qiwei can now check the data of the trainees and coaches of each branch at any time in the background and manage these background data. The trainees can also pass the WeChat appointments, and these are based on the background that Yuan Qiwei personally constructed. Since then, AA Fitness has not had a so-called "technical director". All of them are Yuan Qiwei personally.
Speaking of the next plan, Yuan Qiwei wants to introduce the Apple Watch, because in the upcoming update of the official version of watchOS 3, fitness data can be shared, so that the trainees can push their usual training results to the coaches for monitoring at any time.
Looking back at Yuan Qiwei’s entrepreneurial experience, in fact, his initial goal was not great. He wanted to build a gym management platform quickly, efficiently, and cost-effectively. There were two things that helped him:
First, Apple’s ecological environment and easy-to-use development environment allowed him to complete background development using only a Mac and an iPad, and gradually expanded its scale to become a link between front-end and back-end management and connecting students and coaches.
Second, the customized model of the FileMaker module helps a “foreigner†to quickly embark on the “code farmer†road and continuously adapt to the scale of the startup company.