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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tennis flyers and leaflets

Marketing Your Tennis Programme Part 5 – How to use your leaflets & posters

First a question – should we keep using leaflets? Having written a (hopefully useful) article about creating leaflets and posters and then all the info ...
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Marketing Your Tennis Programme Part 4 – leaflets & posters

In part 5, I’ll talk about what to do with posters, flyers and other ‘collateral’ you have created. But in this part, we’ll talk about ...
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market your tennis programme

Marketing Your Tennis Programme Part 3 – Text / SMS

This one follows nicely on from email. Before I go into text message marketing, it’s worth saying that both text and email are, of course, ...
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market your tennis programme

Marketing Your Tennis Programme Part 2 – Email

In Part 1 we talked about building your database and storing the information. Now we’re getting to how to actually use that information. This article ...
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market your tennis programme

Marketing Your Tennis Programme Part 1 – Building Your Database

If I had to list the top ways of building a big tennis programme, this would be near the top. I can really write from ...
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FYB forehand

5 Fundamentals Of The Forehand – From Fuzzy Yellow Balls

Here is a great video from Fuzzy Yellow Balls, a site offering free and paid tennis instruction. This video is the first thing you get when ...
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market your tennis programme

Marketing your tennis programme – introduction

This is going to be a series of articles, each with a different way of marketing your tennis programme. It’s meant to be totally interactive – ...
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tennis for 3 to 4 year olds

How to teach tennis to a group of 3-4 year olds

Do 3-4 year olds need tennis lessons? I don’t think they need tennis lessons. Children who start tennis at 5-6 years old can be just ...
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