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Client Success Story — Zumba

Filling the instructor-acquisition capacity gap for the world's largest fitness brand

How FullFunnel implemented HubSpot and stood up a sales team to follow up with every inbound Zumba instructor lead — not just the ones who signed up on their own.
Client profile
Zumba
IndustryBranded fitness / instructor licensing
AudienceProspective Zumba instructors
ProgramInstructor acquisition & follow-up
ChannelsWebsite chat, texting, email automation
ToolsHubSpot
DurationTBD
The Company

The largest branded fitness program in the world.

Zumba is the largest branded fitness program in the world, founded in 2001 in Miami, Florida by three Colombian immigrants, and has since expanded to over 186 countries with millions of students. Zumba's classes can be consumed in-person, on DVD, and online, and are led by licensed instructors.
The Challenge

More instructor demand than the team could follow up with.

Given Zumba's meteoric rise, the company is constantly searching for new instructors to lead an ever-growing population of students. Given the high volume of demand from potential Zumba instructors, the team did not have the resources to follow up with every lead. If instructors didn't sign up on their own, Zumba didn't have the capacity to reach out, answer their questions, and facilitate the sign-up process — meaning real demand was going unconverted.
The Approach

Visibility into what worked, and a team to catch what didn't.

Upon engaging with Zumba, FullFunnel immediately implemented HubSpot to enable segmentation and attribution at the contact level for all inbound instructors.
Layer 1

Segmentation & attribution

HubSpot implementation gave the Zumba team visibility into which channels and methods produced the highest number of registered instructors.

Layer 2

Capacity fill

FullFunnel filled the capacity gap with a sales team able to quickly follow up with all inbound leads that did not sign up on their own.

Layer 3

Multi-channel conversation tools

A chat workflow on the website, a texting platform, and email automation were set up to facilitate conversations with prospective instructors.

Why It Works · FullFunnel's Role

Demand isn't the problem. Follow-up capacity is.

FullFunnel fills the gap between inbound demand and the team's ability to act on it. The Zumba engagement is a proof point: the brand didn't need more instructor interest, it needed someone to follow up with the interest it already had. Visibility into what was working, paired with a team to catch what fell through, is what closed the gap.
Client Perspective
The FullFunnel team has exceeded expectations and has proven to be a great partner, providing the resources, support, and expertise we needed to hit our growth targets.
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Lucy Levy
VP of Global Acquisition, Zumba

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