Smart gym owners know they need to use top-level partners to help with some goods and services, and there’s a number of highly qualified companies out there from which to choose.
Sometimes the differences are clear, either in price or tone or range of services. But it’s not always an either-or proposition. Sometimes you might need different organizations for different specialties.
If you’re a fitness company searching for communications software tools, you might be struggling to choose between Coach Catalyst and Naamly. Both are fine choices (if we do say so ourselves).
But let’s dive right into an in-depth comparison to help you make the right choice. We’ll uncover different features and functionalities to make the best decision for your fitness business.
The biggest difference between the two is that for Coach Catalyst, both the client and the gym need to have the app to communicate.
For Naamly, only the gym needs to access the app and the client gets communicated through SMS text or email, basically meeting the client where they hang out the most.
There are some similarities, notably in the way both companies let their customers communicate with members via group texting. Also, holding clients accountable is a key message from both Coach Catalyst and Naamly.
Coach Catalyst aims to serve a diverse group of coaches, with a large emphasis on nutrition coaching.
Naamly’s customers are primarily training gyms with complex communications needs among staff members with each other– and between staff members and clients.
Coach Catalyst
First, let’s review some of the features offered by Coach Catalyst.
The company says it helps online coaches, gym owners, nutrition coaches, life coaches and more to “keep their clients accountable when they’re not with them.”
Its website continues, “From lesson content to the client app, every element of Coach Catalyst is designed to make coaching tasks quicker and more efficient, showcase your brand and voice, and help you to help your client achieve their goals.”
Coach Catalyst has a program builder to create lessons, actions/habits, workouts, and schedule messages. Its preloaded library has more than 1,200 exercises and brand-neutral animated videos. And coaches can add their own.
“From habit coaching courses to transformation challenges to lead magnets, you can edit the content to fit your needs or use elements in your own programs,” Coach Catalyst says.
Clients of coaches using Coach Catalyst can update measurements, add photos through the app, and share nutrition.
Coach Catalyst customers can keep all their client communication and group posts in one place with real time messaging. They can send text, voice notes, video and gifs, schedule messages in advance, and run an online community, like a Facebook group.
You can learn more about Coach Catalyst online here.
Client Testimonial:
“Keeping track of 150 clients’ progress was very challenging. We needed to find a way to make it EASY…enter Coach Catalyst. The dashboard gives us some great feedback on how our clients are going. If someone is struggling, we can find out why.”
Naamly
As for Naamly, we strive to help fitness professionals grow their businesses through better communications with their staff and their members. We give you the tools for staff empowerment, client engagement, and provide you with valuable business insights.
“We partner with fitness professionals to assist in their mission to impact more lives, create communities that are healthier and happier, and reduce the burden on overly stretched health resources,” we say on our website.
Naamly is a suite of tools that include all of the elements that you need to keep on top of your gym. It seamlessly keeps track of your member experience by alerting you on the last times you reached out to your members. The smart messaging feature lets you know what messages require an immediate response versus those that do not. We offer these features plus so much more that are member focused. This enables you to keep your members and staff engaged for the long haul.
We not only provide you the communication tool capability but we also connect with other systems that gym owners are likely to use:
– Billing and Scheduling
– InBody
– MyZone
– Online Journals
thereby acting as a glue to bring data from different myriad systems together so everyone can really operate out of one place.
Another feature we have is our Sales Module, where Naamly provides business metrics so our gyms can project revenue, sales, and more. We offer projections to quickly evaluate if monthly revenue is on track; and a finance scorecard that tracks new customers, refunds and other financial items.
Client Testimonial: “(We) gained much better (and more consistent) communication, engagement, tracking, visibility, and forecasting… (We) retain more happy members because they all feel more connected and successful. That wasn’t always the case.”
You can schedule a demo with Naamly online here.
Obviously, we hope you’ll choose Naamly for all your gym management software needs. fitness For more on our premiere services, check out all the details here.