BTS Summit Portland

The BTS Summit is The Most Memorable Experience on Earth! It’s a three-day convention packed with events for owners, managers and instructors. The BTS Summit will educate, inspire and motivate your team to new heights. We are ready to ensure you have a memorable experience. Let’s Move!

Business of BTS Management Seminar - This seminar is ALL-NEW for 2008, focusing on three key components for you to compete and thrive:

How to take on low-price competitors
How to attract the deconditioned market
How to improve retention

You'll discover how to maximize your space and compete by servicing more members through Group Fitness. The topics covered will MOVE your business forward by increasing memberships, referrals and retention - bottom line, you become more PROFITABLE! (Thursday, May 29th: 8:30am-4:30pm)

Click here to register for the management seminar! (free for BTS licensees)

Discover the Power of REX™ Roundtable for Executives!
This is a special management session that is presented by REX Roundtables for Executives. The REX team will share the power behind professionally chaired, industry roundtables and present opportunities for BTS Licensees to join a REX Roundtable.

REX helps business out-perform the competition. Since 1985, CEOs and General Managers have participated in REX Roundtables. Sharing detailed best practices within an industry is the single most powerful way to improve performance and success.

Each REX Roundtable consist of up to 14 CEOs and General Managers who meet three times a year. The group shares successes, solves problems, challenges and supports one another. This is best practices in action. The REX community is committed to supporting one another professionally and personally.

Over the past ten years, the average health club owner in a REX Roundtable has seen their business grow almost 20% per year and achieve sustainable double-digit improvements in profitability.

BTS is very excited to bring this opportunity to our Licensees. It is a can’t miss session for CEO’s, Owners and General Managers!

Learn more about Rex Roundtables at www.rexonline.org.
(Friday, May 30th: 8:30am-10:30am)

Get The Red Out! Solutions To Improve Retention.
If your member wore a red shirt on their final visit to your club, would you treat them any differently? Research shows that if you do, chances are they will continue to be members. We’ll discuss the 4 keys to improving retention;
1. Identify members at risk of leaving,
2. Promote interaction with these members,
3. Measure results of the interaction and
4. Refine the process.

In this session, you will explore issues that effect retention and preview the industry’s innovative retention software from The Retention People. Anyone concerned about retention must attend! (Friday, May 30th: 11:00am-12:30pm)

BTS Best Practices!
This session is packed with golden nuggets for you to take back to your club and implement immediately. Some of the best operators utilizing BTS to sell more, service more and retain more, share great ideas that will take your group fitness and club to the next level. Need ideas on how to sell memberships, recruit instructors, fill classes, manage internal traffic, put the zing into your marketing? Well, these managers are doing it day in and day out, and they will share the who, what, when, where and how. This will be a rapid moving session so get ready to load up on best practices from some of the best!
(Friday, May 30th: 1:30pm-5:00pm)

BTS Super - Be part of The Most Memorable Exercise Experience on Earth! This is your chance to preview the upcoming Summer 08 releases for all seven programs! Get ready for an exercise blowout! Group Active™, Group Ride®, Group Kick®, Group Centergy®, Group Step®, Group Power® and Group Groove®. Let's Move!
(Saturday, May 31st: 7:30am - 5:00pm)

Activate Your Life! on Friday & Saturday as you experience our newest program introduction - Group Active^{^TM}!
(Friday, May 30th: 6:00pm - 7:00pm & Saturday, May 31st: 7:30am - 8:30am)

BTS Bash - After three days of education and perspiration, let’s move to a more casual environment. The BTS Team looks forward to sharing some stories and laughs, and even making some more memories.
(Saturday, May 31st: 7:30pm - 10pm)

BTS Intensives - Good to Great - ALL NEW!
Let’s Move from Good to Great! The newest BTS Intensive series will focus on the Teaching Essentials to take your teaching experience from good to great. These program intensives are loaded with theory and practice to help you pack your classes. So get ready to listen, learn and sweat!
Pre-requisite to attend a program Intensive: You must have completed the appropriate program training.

Featured at BTS Summit Portland:
Group Groove Intensive - Thursday May 29th, 2:00pm-6:00pm
Group Centergy Intensive - Friday May 30th, 8:00am-12:00pm
Group Ride Intensive - Friday May 30th, 9:00am-12:00pm
Group Power Intensive - Friday May 30th, 9:00am-12:00pm
Group Power Intensive - Friday May 30th, 1:00pm-4:00pm
Group Step Intensive - Friday May 30th, 1:00pm-4:00pm
Group Kick Intensive - Friday May 30th, 5:00pm-8:00pm

Activate Your Life! on Friday & Saturday as you experience our newest program introduction - Group Active^{^TM}!
(Friday, May 30th: 6:00pm - 7:00pm & Saturday, May 31st: 7:30am - 8:30am)

The Oregon Convention Center (OCC) is the largest convention center in the Pacific Northwest, making it an ideal venue for conventions, industry tradeshows, meetings, and banquets. Located in beautiful and lively downtown Portland, Oregon, the OCC is the preferred destination for many groups because of its commitment to customer service and leadership in sustainable practices.

THE VENUE. The center's two grand ballrooms, 50 meeting rooms, 255,000 square feet of exhibit space, full-service catering, and experienced staff can handle events of any size, from 10 to 10,000.

THE AMENITIES. At the Oregon Convention Center (OCC), we offer a full array of services and amenities in the main entrances and concourses of the facility to ensure your attendees a satisfying visit. From ATMs to Starbucks, the OCC accommodates your attendees with warm hospitality and welcoming amenities.

Conveniently located in the Lloyd Business District of downtown Portland, the Holiday Inn Hotel Portland Downtown/ Convention Center brings the City of Roses to you. Our full service hotel is within four blocks of the Oregon Convention Center, the Rose Garden Arena and the Memorial Coliseum. Upcoming events include Monster Jam 2008, AVP Pro Beach Volleyball, Harlem Globetrotters and Bruce Springsteen. The Lloyd Center Mall is also within walking distance.

The fully remodeled hotel offers 24-hour guest services with a indoor pool and spa and state-of-the-art fitness center, a complete business center that features high-speed Internet access, and a marketplace with a wide variety of refreshments and snacks. Whether traveling on business or leisure, you'll appreciate the value of our amenities - wireless Internet throughout the hotel, refrigerators and microwaves available, free local phone calls, and much more!

The hotel is located in “Fareless Square” featuring Portland’s light rail system “MAX” which provides quick and easy access throughout downtown free of charge. The Pearl District, Portland’s most colorful creative neighborhood is just minutes away. The Portland International Airport is located just 10 miles away, a short ride in our complimentary shuttle. Access to I-5 is easy; we're right next to exit 302A.

We currently have room blocks on hold and you will need to refer to the "Body Training Systems" group when calling in to make reservations.

Holiday Inn Portland – Downtown/Convention Center offers a rate of:
Doubles - $109
Triples - $129
Suites - $329

Cut off date for these special BTS group rates is April 28th, 2008.

Cancellation refund policy: Cancellation refunds are accepted until April 30, 2008 and are subject to a $15 administrative fee. Registrations are not refundable after April 30, 2008. Sorry, no exceptions.

BTS Summit Registrations: If more than one person is registering, then a separate registration is required for each registrant.