the business of tennis coaching

I’m Karl Stowell. I’ve always been a tennis coach, and for the last 15 years it’s been as a head coach / running a tennis coaching business. I’m now Head Coach at Sutton Tennis & Squash Club, with about 500 kids on the programme, several great coaches, several schools and tennis camps with 60-100 kids per day.

This website is my way of writing about the things I know, which is running a tennis coaching business, particularly tennis camps, schools, club programme, managing a team and more…………

I’m Karl Stowell. I’ve always been a tennis coach, and this website is my way of writing about what I know, the business of coaching. Click below to read more……..

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Using systems in your tennis business

This title sounds a bit like management-speak, Something David Brent might say, or Michael Scott – I’m a bit worried you won’t get past the …

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Case Study – Switching to recurring payments for our tennis coaching programme

Some time ago, I wrote about switching our club membership to a direct debit / recurring payment model. Now it’s time to talk about doing …

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Using Software To Manage Your Tennis Coaching Programme

I’ve been meaning to write this post for a long time. On the About Me page, I mention that it was quite a big turning …

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Email for busy tennis coaches – Part 2

This is part 2 of a 3-part series about email for tennis coaches. Read part 1 HERE if you haven’t done already. Part 2 – …

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Email for busy tennis coaches – Part 1

This is part 1 of a 3-part series about email. But this isn’t about bulk emails or marketing emails – that’s another subject – this …

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An amazing 5-minute trick for marketing your tennis programme.

Here is the problem. If I want to tell somebody how to go to our tennis camp web page, this is what I need to …

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How To Run Successful Tennis Camps

I LOVE running tennis camps. Here’s a video of our recent camps……………… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zg0EIpDL6gQ I’m not quite sure how long I’ve been running them for – …

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How to take online bookings & payments for your tennis programme

In this post, I’ll show you how you can quickly and easily start to take online bookings & payments if you are not yet ready …

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