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Should You Get a Financial Planner? Yes—and Here’s How to Go About It
By Missie Berteotti, Financial Advisor, Luttner Financial Group In some areas of life, we need to be saved from ourselves. By that I mean there are certain tasks that shouldn’t be DIY projects. Monitoring and building your wealth through investment is...
What Proponent Coaches Are Doing with Their Covid-Era Profits
By David Gould, Staff Editor Proponent Group members have enjoyed prosperous years since the outbreak of Covid, routinely finding themselves with surplus cash on hand. Reinvestment of retained earnings by coaches is a topic we’re always...
Gift Cards for Instruction: Our Exclusive Survey Covers Policies, Profits and Accounting Platforms
By David Gould, Content Editor 'Tis the season to think about gift cards, their benefits as well as their drawbacks. Just over half of all U.S. citizens have a gift card they haven’t used, according to the research firm Bankrate. Its report found that a...
Highlights and Choice Nuggets from Proponent’s Exclusive ‘Learning Centers Survey’
By David Gould, Staff Editor Any golf instructor directly and currently involved in the design and construction of an academy building is strongly advised to take a full dive into our complete, newly updated survey results. If you’re not in that...
Five “Style Guide” Tips to Make Your Posts Pop
By David Gould, Staff Editor The barrage of TV commercials for auto and home insurance is pretty irritating, but since the topic of this article is a consistent communications style—including look, tone and language—we’ll mention one of those advertisers, Liberty...
Exclusive Proponent Survey: Coaches Are Willing to Raise Rates, Golfers Are Willing to Pay
By David Gould How skilled coaches go about setting their rates in response to golfer demand—and other factors—is a topic worth studying on a frequent basis. Proponent Group looked into it again last week by circulating a brief survey to members. We...
Making Interest-Earning Interesting—to the Next Generation
Maybe your middle schooler is already hip to saving. Many kids this age do chores and earn allowances, perhaps putting part of what they earn into an account they can tap for important future expenses. You know what’s better than saving money? Earning more money for...
Proponent Member Nick Kumpis Leverages Instagram Reels for Cash Plus Lots of Exposure
By David Gould, Staff Editor Marketing-minded Proponent member Nick Kumpis has a good thing going with Instagram Reels, an extension of the Instagram platform that’s designed to compete with surging TikTok. Having built his Instagram followers roster to over 10,000,...
IRA Withdrawals That Escape the 10 Percent Tax Penalty
The reason withdrawals from a traditional Individual Retirement Account (IRA) prior to age 59 1/2 are generally subject to a 10 percent tax penalty is that policymakers wanted to create a disincentive to use these savings for anything other than retirement. Yet,...
How Much Revenue Do You Generate for Your Facility? Our New Survey Results Have an Answer
It had been a decade since we did our last quantitative survey of the impact instruction has on a facility’s revenues. A lot has changed in the world since 2012 and thankfully, the value you create for your employer/facility owner has gone up significantly during that...