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Latest Posts
Developing an Acquisition Funnel
Why establishing an acquisition funnel leads to more students and renters for your flight school. Flight schools are busy managing day-to-day operations with little time to spare tracking leads and converting them into clients. In fact, most schools do not have the...
Rainier Flight Service chooses NeedleNine to lower their flight school operation costs
In 2011, Rainier Flight Service was a successful flight school in Seattle, WA with five aircraft and a staff of eight. In their three years of operation, they had developed a powerful local reputation, leading to more business than they could handle. But as they...
September 2020 Update
This month we released some new dashboards for the following roles: Client, Staff, Instructor & Chief Instructors along with some additional features that we describe below. New Dashboards Client Dashboard The new dashboard cards include: Activity - Showing...
Corporate and Business Strategy
Corporate Strategy defines what business and markets you should be in. In other words, are you in the FBO business that also provides flight training or a flight school that provides FBO services? Many businesses suffer from lack of identity as a result of...
Leadership
Armed with a defined mission and strong, clear strategies it is up to you to execute successfully. Leadership is the process that gives people a genuine sense of purpose and energizes them to willingly put forth their individual and collective efforts to achieve...
Managerial Accounting
While Financial Accounting is necessary and useful for external stakeholders you are likely much more interested in Managerial Accounting, or Cost-Volume-Profit (CVP) analysis. These reports are useful for managers to better understand historical performance and more...