Altea Liberty Village, Toronto
Avant Yorkville, Toronto
Altea
AvantAvant
RYAN HAWKES PREPARED FOR ALTEA · AVANT
A look from the outside

You built two of the best clubs in the country. The story they tell online isn't as good as the story they tell in person. This is a look at the gap — and what it's worth.

↓   A 5–10 minute read
Why I put this together

I've spent real time inside Liberty Village, and studied Avant just as closely. What you've built is, genuinely, some of the most ambitious premium fitness real estate in Canada — the spaces, the concept, the ambition, the brand.

So I did what I do: I looked at how those two clubs show up everywhere a future member actually meets you first — the feed, the ad, the profile, the page. It's a short, honest read of the gap between the experience you deliver in the building and the one you deliver online — and what closing that gap is worth.

// WHAT THIS COVERS

01   Digital real estate — your 24/7 front desk
02   The anchor films — what actually converts
03   How we'd shoot it — the facility, done right
04   The engine — ads → landing → members
05   The data — what comes back
06   Where it goes — the 90-day rhythm

// ONE ASK AT THE END. THAT'S IT.
01 — Digital Real Estate

The experience you deliver in the building — and the one you deliver online.

Two of the best clubs in the city, and the spaces are extraordinary. But the path from a scroll to a signed member isn't finished. Here's what each front desk looks like today — and what it should be pointing to.

Altea and Avant profiles annotated — bio, highlights, link, pinned posts and landing pages mapped to the member journey

Every path in that picture — the profile, the link, the landing page — should end in the same place. The moment someone acts, it can't be left to chance.

Then it's captured — the CRM.

Name, email, phone the moment they act. A five-minute response window. Every lead tracked from first tap to signed member — and to lifetime value.

The clubs themselves are the hard part — and you've already nailed it. What's left is making the story online carry the same intention as the buildings: one unified voice, produced to a standard that matches the spaces, and every platform pointed at a single conversion. That's the difference between a brand people admire and one they can't stop joining — and it's the part we obsess over.

And this is only Instagram. I've been through your TikTok, YouTube, and Facebook too — there's a bigger conversation to have about what your digital real estate could look like across every platform.

02 — The anchor films

Three films carry the whole thing. The rest of the profile is supporting cast.

People read top to bottom, left to right — so the top row of the profile is the first thing a serious prospect's eye lands on. That's where these three live: pinned, front and center, still working years from now while everything else scrolls out of sight in a day. Those posts earn attention for a moment; these three convert it — the films someone watches before they ever fill out a form. Each answers a different question, each has to be made a specific way — and each is only as powerful as the engine that puts it in front of the right people.

FILM 01
The Client Journey
~75 seconds Pinned · top left Answers "how do I start?"
The one video that removes every reason not to walk in. Where to begin, what the intro offer or first tour looks like, what actually happens on visit one, and just enough of the club to make it feel like theirs already. Sixty to seventy-five seconds that carry someone from "I'm curious" to "I know exactly what to do next" — every worry and objection answered before they can raise it.
FILM 02
The Facility Tour
Highly produced Narrated · the entire facility Pinned
From the front door, all the way through — but the footage isn't the point. The narration is. A club your size can't hand someone two minutes set to music and assume they understand what they're looking at. This is where you take them by the hand and walk them through it: what this room is, why it's here, what it feels like to train in it. A story with a voice, built to pull them to the last frame — not a highlight reel, a guided walk through the best version of your building.
Beyond the feedQueue it on an iPad while a prospect waits, or make it the tour every new hire learns to give. They arrive already knowing what they care about — so your team opens with “what do you want me to go deeper on?” instead of a cold walk-through.
FILM 03
The Origin Story
Interview-led Pinned · also LinkedIn Why you exist
This one isn't about what you do — it's about who you are, and why you built this. The DNA, the character, the mission underneath the brand. It's more ethos and pathos than logos, and you can't script it — the only way to get it is an organic interview, real conversation between me and the people who built the place, to pull out the most authentic version of the answer. A member isn't just buying a membership; they're trusting you with their health on a journey that lasts decades, and they want to feel who's behind that. It's also the most valuable thing you can pin on LinkedIn — the talent you actually want to recruit gets to see exactly who they'd be joining.
03 — How we'd shoot it

We don't shoot a gym. We shoot every piece of your digital real estate — in one production.

A facility shoot done right isn't a videographer with a gimbal — it's a choreographed production, designed backwards from every asset your front desk needs. Content built to carry the heavy lifting for years, until the day the brand or the building changes.

Ryan Hawkes directing a facility production — cinema lighting, multiple cameras, boom audio, on the training floor
On setCinema lighting, multiple cameras, directed audio — a real production, on the floor.
01

Pre-production, with your team

We cast the right participants, write the tour script, recruit the voiceover, and sequence the interview questions that pull the real story out of your founders. The tone is set before a camera ever rolls.

02

Directed and coached on camera

I direct the talent myself — teleprompter, tempo, cadence, expression — coaching every delivery until it sounds like your brand, not a script being read. Not a crew you hired. Me, in the room.

03

The facility, after hours

Outside, through the doors, across every space — cleaned, staged, and shot empty in the early morning or after the last clean of the night. The building at its absolute best, and not one member disturbed.

04

The floor, choreographed

Planned with your team, down to the wardrobe and the movement — participants in coordinated colors, classes choreographed for sequence across the reformer, the strength floor, cycle and recovery. Not a random class someone pointed a camera at. Real energy, directed to read as intentional in every frame.

What you walk away with

  • The three anchor films — client journey, facility tour, origin story
  • Your most powerful evergreen content for every platform, built to one visual standard
  • The ad creative, engineered to run 90–120 days before a refresh
  • The full, organized B-roll library — handed to your team to fuel your own ongoing social, whether or not you run the engine with us

That's the production — assets built to the highest level. But the best content in the world does nothing sitting on a profile; what turns it into members is the campaign that puts it to work. That's next.

04 — The engine

Then that content goes to work — a campaign built to turn attention into members.

We don't sell to strangers. We earn attention first, then convert the people already paying attention.

Phase 1 — Discovery · cold audience · brand lust, no hard sell
PILLAR 01

Brand Lust

Cinematic, silent-luxury footage. Texture, light, architecture, atmosphere. No CTA — they discover you. You become a landmark, not a gym.

PILLAR 02

The Story / Member Journey

The internal shift — who they become as a member, over months and years, and who they're doing it for. Spotlight off the brand, onto the version of themselves they want. We sell identity.

PILLAR 03

Pattern Interrupt

A scroll-stopping open that drops into the room. It stops the thumb and identifies the people drawn to elevated training and premium space.

None of Phase 1 hard-sells — but every piece drives to your landing page. Who watches, who clicks, who lingers is the data that tells us exactly who's leaning in. The ready ones book on the spot; everyone else is who Phase 2 retargets — with the offer.

Phase 2 — Conversion · retarget only · the undeniable offer
PILLAR 04

The Offer

A warm, direct-to-camera invitation, shown only to people already engaged. Never a free pass — free cheapens a premium brand — but a low-priced paid trial that earns commitment: a 3-day for $30, a 5-for-$50, a 7-day all-inclusive, or simply "book a tour" where that's the right call. Tuned to exactly where each club is.

PILLAR 05

The Visual Close

Stills and carousels that give the reason to move now — run not as one ad but as 50 to 100+ variations: different body types, classes, poses and copy, each speaking to a different person. We measure what converts and put the budget behind the winners.

// What's live right now

You're already running ads — and we went through every one of them.

facebook.com/ads/library · Avant Toronto
Avant Toronto Meta Ad Library — about 8 active results
~8live · Avant
facebook.com/ads/library · Altea Toronto
Altea Toronto Meta Ad Library — about 16 active results
~16live · Altea

Between the two, a couple dozen live creatives — and by the library's own labels, mostly the same few ideas running in multiple versions. That's exactly where nearly every premium club sits. The next level is an engine — 50 to 100 distinct, high-production creatives running at once, tested against each other so the winners surface and the budget follows them. Not more of the same; a system that sharpens every week.

Every ad points to one destination — a landing page built to convert, not to browse. Where it earns its place, a VSL carries the close: a short video sales letter that does on the page what your best salesperson does in the room. Not every club needs one — but the ones that use it convert at a materially higher level.

Discovery Retarget Landing page + VSL CRM Members
A straight continuum — from stranger to new member
05 — The data

And you see all of it. In numbers, every week.

No guessing which post "did well." Every dollar, every lead, every booked tour, every signed member — tracked and reported back to you.

Growth Dashboard — Illustrative● LIVE
Leads · 30d
412
▲ tracked to source
Cost / lead
$38
▼ vs. boosting posts
Tours booked
96
▲ from one funnel
New members
38
▲ to lifetime value
ILLUSTRATIVE FIGURES — SHOWS THE REPORTING YOU RECEIVE.
06 — Where it goes

You don't need an in-house studio. You need us every 90 days.

We're not here to replace your team — we're the production engine that feeds them. Every quarter we come in, shoot your next flight of ads and your premier social content, and hand it over for your team to run. A clean rhythm, not a retainer you have to manage.

And it's not only ads. The same engine can feed your ongoing layer — trainer bios, member testimonials, educational content — the pieces that keep the feed alive between campaigns, all held to the same standard.

Q · SHOOT2–3 day production — new ads + premier content across both clubs
Q · HAND OFFDelivered + organized — your social team distributes and runs it
Q · RUN90–120 days live — the creative works while it's fresh
Q · REFRESHWe're back — the next flight, before the last one fatigues
// The fuller conversation

This deck stays on the two clubs and the Meta engine — on purpose. The fuller conversation runs wider: YouTube ads, Google Search, and being the name AI recommends when someone asks where to train in Toronto. All for when you're ready — one thing at a time.

Let's talk about these two clubs.

You've got five clubs and more coming — let's just start with Liberty Village and Avant. All I'm asking for is one meeting: a video call, or I come to you at Altea or Avant, or wherever suits you.

You just saw the thought I put into two clubs I don't even work with yet. Point that at your business for one conversation — I don't think you'll walk away disappointed.

Take one meeting
— Ryan Hawkes  ·  ryanhawkes.com  ·  info@ryanhawkes.com