Dr Paul Bedford news

Creating workout experiences will be the main theme of this year's Retention Convention, which will be held as an online event on 9 December 2021. ... More

A happy workforce and the impact this has on health club member retention was the topic of the day at this year's Retention Convention. During ... More

The Retention Convention will focus on the impact a happy workforce has on retaining leisure centre, gym and health club members at its event in ... More

Former ukactive CEO David Stalker believes it’s time for the fitness industry’s old guard to “be off doing something new” and says veterans should leave ... More

Retention is not the opposite of attrition. Big data is not the same as large data. Real brand engagement is about understanding the person that's ... More

The Retention Convention is back for 2016 with a second installment, featuring a bumper cast of health and fitness speakers who will focus on how ... More

Retention expert Dr Paul Bedford is to hold an extended Retention Convention in the UK next year, focusing on improving customer experiences in the increasingly ... More

The Gym Group has sought to gain an edge in the competitive budget gym sector by commissioning a statistical model to understand the impact of ... More

Health club operators across the globe are being offered the chance to gain key business insights from industry renowned retention experts, via a live stream ... More

Retention Guru Dr Paul Bedford is to launch a new app providing health club and leisure centre operators with retention advice at their fingertips. The ... More

A number of the health and fitness industry’s leading retention experts are to stage a one-off UK conference examining how to hold on to gym ... More

Talk of addressing the problem of inactivity levels in the UK has grown in prominence in recent years, with 25 per cent of Britain’s population ... More

Research conducted by Dr Paul Bedford has revealed that a large proportion of health club memberships are dominated by the middle classes, with eight socioeconomic ... More

The FitPro Convention is to return this summer, but with a rebranded “bigger and better” format under the name FitPro Live. The annual fitness industry ... More

Bannatyne Group chair Duncan Bannatyne has sparked a lively debate among industry leaders over the issue of membership discounts. In his recent book, Riding the ... More