Posts filed under: Time Management

Time Management

I Was the One Holding My Business Back

YouTube | Spotify | Apple Podcasts Dan Cotton Steps Back From DreamCamps to Scale to $10 Million After eleven years running nearly every piece of DreamCamps himself, Cheer Biz Podcast host Dan Cotton shares how a midsummer round of internal... Read More

The Biggest Business Shift Is Already Here

YouTube | Spotify | Apple Podcasts Building an AI Workforce: Inside Dan Cotton’s Daily Workflow In this episode of the Cheer Biz Podcast, host Dan Cotton explains how he ran four different AI-powered projects at once during a single workout,... Read More

Stop Running Your Cheer Gym on Instinct

YouTube | Spotify | Apple Podcasts The Four Numbers Every Cheer Gym Owner Must Track In this solo episode of the Cheer Biz Podcast, host Dan Cotton walks through the core financial numbers gym owners need to track — revenue,... Read More

The Fastest Way to Lose Great Staff

YouTube | Spotify | Apple Podcasts Five Ways Cheer Gym Owners Accidentally Drive Staff Away In this solo episode of the Cheer Biz Podcast, host Dan Cotton flips the usual advice on its head, walking through five management habits that... Read More

How to Outperform Every Other Gym

YouTube | Spotify | Apple Podcasts Three Core Strategies to Outperform Every Gym Around You In this solo episode of the Cheer Biz Podcast, host Dan Cotton cuts through the noise and delivers three battle-tested principles that gym owners can... Read More

Why We Keep Making the Same Mistakes

YouTube: https://youtu.be/DwmXyvU0HIg Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/6A2Pa7KxrTLnIAS7HDQ9mt?si=OoDEyeROQc6GcaEKkU_oHA Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-cheer-biz-podcast/id1596523298?i=1000771852645 Why Do We Keep Making the Same Mistakes as an Industry? Cheer Biz Podcast | Host: Dan Cotton   Introduction I’ve been in the cheerleading industry for over 26 years. And I’m here to ask: why... Read More

If They’re Not Sick, They’re Injured: The Absence Trifecta and How to Coach Through It Anyway (Part 1)

There’s something I’ve started calling the absence trifecta: injury, illness and weather. And if you haven’t dealt with one (or all three) this season … congratulations. You are a unicorn in all star cheer. For the rest of us, this... Read More

You Can’t See Your Own Mistakes (And Yes, That Includes Your Business)

If you’ve been in the cheer industry for more than five minutes, you already know: we are obsessed with feedback. We film routines from 47 angles like it’s a Netflix documentary on penguins, send stunts in for legality reviews, and... Read More

Lessons from Two Gyms: What I Learned About Opening a Second Location

In 2015, my gym had two locations. We were in just our second year of business, and less than a year in, we decided to open another location about 30 minutes away in a bigger city. You’d think that location... Read More

Staying Ahead of the Game: My September Checklist for a Stress-Free All Star Season

Last week, I talked to you about how to make sure you’re getting ahead this month so you can regularly work on future tasks instead of creating cheer-mergencies. Today, I want to tell you what I’m working on this month... Read More