Before your board approves this year’s number, run the breakeven math: how many members can a dues increase lose before it pays for nothing? Four real clubs show what happens on both sides of that line.
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September asks three things of you at once: launch the fall season, defend next year’s budget, and close the membership year. Using GGA Partners, NGCOA and Knight Frank data, here’s how to build a September plan that serves all three — and which amenities you should stop promoting.
The recurring-revenue math behind wellness membership—pricing, retention, and how traditional clubs can add wellness as a durable membership driver.
Only 15% of club leaders report tennis capacity concerns — versus 50% for golf and 41% for pickleball. That empty court time is the one unconstrained inventory you have during the week the whole country is watching tennis. Here is how to run US Open Fan Week as a membership acquisition campaign instead of a bar event.
A framework for designing wine-club tiers and pricing, from an accessible entry level to collector and allocation tiers, and what each should include.
Premium wellness and longevity clubs are the fastest-growing category in private membership. What is driving demand, and what it means for club leadership.
How wineries and clubs can turn harvest events and the fall release calendar into their strongest wine-club acquisition and retention window of the year.
How private clubs structure F&B minimums in 2026 — monthly, quarterly, annual — why they exist, and why a growing number of clubs are killing them or productizing them.
Most clubs treat the waitlist as a holding area. The ones gaining ground treat it as the highest-leverage revenue and brand instrument they have — with structured deposits, founder tiers, and communication cadence that converts scarcity into strategy.
From the GM/COO to the executive chef and superintendent, here’s what the top private-club careers actually pay in 2026 — and the credentials and moves that get you there.