Al Valente

Stories by Al Valente

• The Third Wave in Health Club Payment Economics
  
• Express Gyms Plus
  
• Express Gym Members by Web
  
• Natural Ways to Lower Bad Cholesterol, Boost The Good, Improve Your HDL Factor and Get Healthy
  
• Inflection Points in the Fitness Industry
  
• Email, the Next Great Marketing Weapon for Health Clubs
  
• Serial Entrepreneur Aims To Capture 30-Minute Workout Club Market
  
• Darwinian Evolution in Express Gyms
  
• Sugar Wars
  
• Rudy Giuliani on Leadership
  
• Yoga…Still Going Strong
  
• Ontario Racquet Club Offers Exercisers Instant Feedback with MYTRAK
  
• HGH: A Cure For Middle Age Spread
  
• Emai E-mergency!
  
• The Rip Van Winkle Syndrome
  
• Trade Shows - Going Virtual
  
• The Lotte Berk Method, Rediscovered
  

About the Author

Mr. Valente has more than 25 years of business, marketing, and technical experience. In addition to his health club management knowledge, he has been an e-Business consultant to large corporations.

He co-founded, built, and managed the Shrewsbury Racquet Club in Massachusetts. There, he was a noted pioneer in building one of the first indoor tennis facilities in the Northeast, and then again in being one of the first to introduce racquetball to the region.

For 15 years, he has worked in the Massachusetts Rt. 128 high-tech industry, in the computer and internet field. As a business consultant, he was able to advise major corporations on technical and web deployments.

He and Vlad Kroutik founded FitCommerce.com in 2000 to be an all encompassing portal for the exploding professional fitness and wellness field.

Al has been a prolific writer both online and offline. He writes press releases for many notable fitness corporations.

He earned his BA in Economics from the University of Massachusetts and his MBA from Clark University, and is an adjunct professor at Connecticut State University.

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