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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Use mailchimp to do FREE email marketing

If you are running any kind of tennis coaching business or programme, I’m sure you are aware of the need to build up your email …

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