SNEWS Fitness Retailer Survey: Don't miss your chance to have your say

We have had a flood of responses for our seventh-annual SNEWS® Fitness Retailer Survey since we swung open the doors two weeks ago! But wait, you haven’t taken part yet?

Yes, here is your reminder: Don’t miss your chance to have your voice heard. We know your suppliers hope you’ll take part (at least the ones you like). We all learn something every year from what we hear.

You can take the survey quickly and easily online, sending us the results electronically. Just go to: www.outsidebusinessjournal.com/fitsurvey. Results are due by April 24 so we can tabulate them in time to include in the July 2009 SNEWS® Fitness magazine. (If you don’t have easy access to the Internet or are having technical issues, call our main office, 530-268-8295, and we’ll help you out since we want your voice to count too.)

As a thank-you for helping us and the industry by sharing your insights, we are happy to offer one individual, one-year SNEWS® All Access subscription for $75 off. That’s one year of news without access limitations for $120 instead of $195 — even less than a group subscription. The discount is good for you to activate a new subscription for yourself, a manager, employee or friend of the industry, or also to renew your own or to upgrade a Freebie limited-access subscription.

A few things to know before you answer the survey:

• If you have more than one store, please have one buyer or manager take responsibility for answering for your entire group.
• Each question needs a response (so we can better track annual changes and so you can get your subscription discount).
• Most of the questions need only a couple of words or names filled in or something checked. The system won’t let you go to the next page unless you’ve put some mark in all the boxes.
• For the last two questions, please take the time to share your wisdom by writing in your thoughts and comments.
• Individual responses will ALWAYS be confidential; we will NEVER share which stores took part or what each said. 

Remember, we need completed survey responses by April 24 (otherwise we may pester you, and we can be such nags). If you aren’t interrupted, you should be able to get through it in 15 minutes or less.

Once the survey has closed, we will email instructions on how to activate your discount subscription, so be sure to include a valid email. If you have any general questions, please call the SNEWS office, 530-268-8295, or email survey@snewsnet.com. If you missed the 2008 survey results in last year’s SNEWS magazine, All Access subscribers can check out full results at www.outsidebusinessjournal.com/surveys, while Freebie subscribers can find the results summary in the SNEWS 2008 Fitness magazine — click here and scroll down to the bright red cover to find the table of contents’ survey listing.

Wait, are you being forwarded this and aren’t a subscriber? Ye gawds! Click here to get your very own Freebie subscription (or pass the link to a colleague who should be in-the-know too). https://www.outsidebusinessjournal.com/SNEWSFreebie/SurveyStory.html

Don’t miss your annual opportunity to have your say and say your peace: Click here www.outsidebusinessjournal.com/fitsurvey or paste the following link into your browser (www.outsidebusinessjournal.com/fitsurvey) to get started now.

–Therese Iknoian