Studio 30 MarketingContent + Social
Case · Northfield Gym · Hackney

£12,000 of monthly revenue, traced to content alone.

Fitness · Hackney · 6 months
Retainer + paid social

Northfield Gym wanted to find the ceiling of what content could contribute to new-member revenue. We built the measurement stack to answer that question honestly. Six months later the number was £12,000 a month in attributable MRR, and it was still climbing.

The brief

What they needed.

Month zero

The founder wanted to stop running discount promos. Every discount cycle devalued the brand a bit more. He wanted to know whether content alone could produce the same acquisition rate. He wanted the math, not a pep talk.

The approach

Four moves.

Six-month arc

Member-week documentary series.

One member, five short films, shipped across a week. Documentary tone - not testimonial tone. The most-saved content format in the history of the account.

Class-format reel library.

Every class type got a signature reel format. Spin, strength, pilates, HIIT. Trialists could see the exact class they were about to book, before they walked in.

PT-inquiry content funnel.

A dedicated content pillar pointing prospects at personal-training inquiries. Custom landing page for Instagram traffic. New revenue stream, fully attributed.

Paid social layered on proven organic.

Once the organic formats were converting, we layered paid to amplify. Creative came from the same shoot days. Paid never had to invent its own content.

The work

Six pillars.

Built into the programme
P.01

Member week documentaries

One member per week, five short films, narrative arc across the week. Saved more than any other format in the account's history.

P.02

Class format reels

Signature reel for every class type. Trialists walked in knowing what they were walking into.

P.03

Trainer spotlight

Monthly trainer feature. Their backstory, their signature class, their most-asked question. Converted trialists into PT clients at double the previous rate.

P.04

PT inquiry funnel

Dedicated content pillar feeding a custom landing page. New revenue stream, fully attributed, traceable from Instagram touch to signed PT contract.

P.05

Retention stories

Existing-member content that celebrated milestones - 100 classes, one year, a PB. Retention tool disguised as content.

P.06

Paid social testing

Layered on top of proven organic formats. Weekly kill-or-scale calls. Ran lean - spent what earned.

The numbers

What landed.

Verified monthly
£12K
Attributable MRR
Monthly recurring revenue traceable to the content programme. Validated monthly against member-acquisition data.
87
New members / 6 months
Traceable to content touchpoints. The ceiling on what a single-site gym could scale organically, approximately.
4.2
Avg touchpoints
Content touchpoints before a prospect signed. Content was never first-touch - but always one of the five.
-28%
Cost per member
Versus the paid-only acquisition baseline. Organic + paid layered drove the same member for 28% less.
In their words

One quote.

Founder · Hackney
We stopped running discounts after month two. The feed was doing the work the discounts used to do. Six months later we have more members and more revenue than we had the year before.- Jordan Eze, Founder, Northfield Gym (placeholder)

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