Ironbark Fitness Marketing Plan

Marketing plan presentation

A nine slide marketing plan presentation for Ironbark Fitness, an invented chain of nine gyms that has decided to stop discounting its joining fee. The whole plan hangs on one target of 2,400 net new members, and every later slide, from the marketing mix to the $640,000 budget split, is written to earn that number rather than to list activities.

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Photograph of an empty modern gym floor in morning light, racks of dumbbells and rubber flooring, tall windows, wide calm composition, no text, no logos

Marketing plan

FY27

Ironbark Fitness

Fill the quiet hours

Growing membership 18 percent without discounting the joining fee, by selling the hours our nine clubs already pay for and barely use.

Cara Delaney

Marketing lead

Board pack

12 Aug 2026

Slide 1 · Cover: grow membership 18 percent without discounting, with the board date.

The one number for FY27

Everything in this plan is judged against a single target.

+2,400

Net new members

From 13,300 to 15,700 across nine clubs, with joining fee held at $79. Growth has to come from more joins and fewer leaves, not from price.

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Slide 2 · The one number: 2,400 net new members, from 13,300 to 15,700, joining fee held at $79.

Why growth stalled

Two years of flat membership, with the same pattern in every club.

What happens now

Discount, spike, churn

Every January we cut the joining fee, sign 900 members in three weeks, and lose most of them by June. The discount trains people to wait, and it prices the members who stay against the ones who never come back.

What we will do

Sell the quiet hours

Clubs are empty from 10am to 3pm and after 8pm. We build offers around those hours for shift workers, parents and over 55s, at full price, where the club has capacity and the coach has time.

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Slide 3 · Why growth stalled: the January discount cycle against the quiet hours strategy.

The mix for FY27

Four decisions that everything else in the plan follows from.

Product

A daytime membership at $19 a week with coached small group sessions between 10am and 3pm, plus a 55 plus program in the same window. The full membership stays exactly as it is.

Price

Joining fee held at $79 all year, no January discount. Value comes from the daytime tier and a three month referral credit, not from cutting the entry price.

Place

Nine clubs, each with a two kilometre catchment. Local marketing is run by the club manager against a shared calendar, not by head office broadcast.

Promotion

Search and local social carry the year. Member referrals and workplace partnerships fill the daytime hours, where paid media has never worked for us.

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Slide 4 · The mix: product, price, place and promotion, each stating what changes and what stays.

How a member joins

Four stages, each with one thing we are changing this year.

Aware

Local search first

Nine club pages rebuilt for "gym near me" and suburb terms, each with real photos and hours.

Interested

Show the quiet hours

Ads and posts feature the 11am class, not the 6pm crowd, so the daytime offer is what people see.

Decide

Three day pass

A free pass booked online in under a minute, with a coach expecting them by name at the door.

Join and stay

First 30 days

Two coached sessions booked at signup. Members who attend twice in month one stay four times longer.

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Slide 5 · How a member joins: four funnel stages, each with the one thing changing this year.

Where the budget goes

A $640,000 program, weighted to the channels that already convert for us.

Local search and SEO

Club pages, listings, reviews and a small always-on search budget.

32%

Local social

Club level posting, coach video and paid boosts inside each catchment.

24%

Referral program

Three month credit for the member and the friend they bring in.

18%

Workplace partnerships

Daytime access deals with hospitals, councils and two call centres.

16%

Brand and print

Signage, launch events and the two openings in the second half.

10%

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Slide 6 · Where the budget goes: $640,000 split across five channels as percentage bars.

The year, quarter by quarter

Two openings in the second half shape the calendar.

Q1

Jul to Sep

Club pages rebuilt. Daytime membership launched at three pilot clubs.

Q2

Oct to Dec

Referral program live network wide. First two workplace partnerships signed.

Q3

Jan to Mar

No January discount. New year campaign sells the first 30 days instead.

Q4

Apr to Jun

Two club openings, each with a six week local launch plan.

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Slide 7 · The year quarter by quarter, including two club openings in the second half.

The catchment

Who we can actually reach

412k

People in catchment

Adults living within two kilometres of one of the nine clubs.

96k

Gym users

Hold or have held a gym membership in the last three years.

11k

Daytime available

Work shifts, part time or are retired, so the quiet hours suit them.

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Slide 8 · The catchment: 412,000 people nearby, 96,000 gym users and 11,000 free in the day.

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The plan in one line

We are not buying more members this year. We are selling the hours we already pay for.

Cara Delaney

Marketing lead, presented to the board on 12 August 2026

Daytime capacity across nine clubs is 61 percent unused between 10am and 3pm, while peak hours run at 94 percent. Filling a third of that gap delivers the FY27 target without a single discount.

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Slide 9 · The plan in one line, as a closing quote, with the capacity numbers behind it.

What makes this deck work

One number owns the plan

Slide two sets a single target, 2,400 net new members with the joining fee held at $79, before any channel is mentioned. The board can then judge the mix, the funnel and the budget against that number instead of each line on its own.

The mix is a decision, not a list

Slide four takes the four Ps and states what changes under each one, such as a $19 a week daytime membership, and what deliberately stays the same. The business.gov.au marketing plan guide asks for goals, channels and a budget, and this slide is where the strategy gets decided.

Budget is shown as shares

Slide six splits $640,000 into five bars, with local search at 32 percent and referrals at 18. Harvard Business Review puts acquiring a customer at five to 25 times the cost of keeping one, and the plan spends on referrals and the quiet hours rather than another January sale.

Questions people ask

What should a gym marketing plan presentation include?

The target, the reason growth stalled, the mix, the joining funnel, the budget split, a quarterly calendar and the catchment. Ironbark covers those seven in nine slides, opening on 2,400 net new members and closing on a one line quote, so the board meeting spends its time on decisions rather than on finding them.

Can a nine slide deck carry a full year marketing plan?

For the approval meeting, yes. Ironbark's deck holds the year as four quarters on slide seven and leaves campaign detail, creative and weekly media plans to the working document. The board approves a target, a mix and $640,000; it does not approve the posting schedule, so none of that is on a slide.

How should a marketing plan deck show the budget?

As shares of one total, tied to channels. Slide six splits $640,000 five ways: local search 32 percent, local social 24, referrals 18, workplace partnerships 16 and brand and print 10, which sum to 100. Each bar carries one line on what the money buys, so the board argues about the split rather than the arithmetic.

How do I swap the channels in this marketing plan example?

Describe your own channels and shares in the generator prompt, which takes up to 10,000 characters, and the deck is built around them. For a later change, ask the AI assistant to rewrite slide six; its edits arrive as a preview you apply or discard. Check the new shares still add to 100 percent, because the slide does not total them for you.

How do I pick the one number a marketing plan is judged on?

Choose the outcome the business wants, not the activity. Slide two commits to 2,400 net new members, taking the base from 13,300 to 15,700, with the joining fee held at $79 so the target cannot be met by discounting. Every later slide, including the budget split, exists to earn that one figure.

Should a marketing plan show the catchment or the market size?

Show it, and make it arithmetic. Slide eight gives 412,000 people in the catchment, 96,000 of them gym users and 11,000 free during the day. Those three numbers are what turn the quiet hours strategy from an idea into a plan, because the audience it depends on can be counted before any money is spent.

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