CourtSide with Evan Dechtman

business, marketing, sports, tennis · EN

CourtSide is the podcast about the business side of racquet sports.Tennis, pickleball, padel, squash. If you own a facility, run programs, coach players, or operate in this industry, this show is for you.Host Evan Dechtman sits down with facility owners, directors of racquets, head pros, club managers, and operators across the country for honest conversations about what it actually takes to run a racquet sports business. How to fill courts. How to keep members. How to build programs from scratch. How to hire good coaches and keep them. The stuff that happens off the court that determines whether the stuff on the court survives.No scripts. No highlight reels. Just two people talking about what they've built, what's working, what's not, and where they think this whole thing is going.New episodes every two weeks.Evan is the founder of TopSpin Digital, a marketing agency built from the ground up for racquet sports, and HEARD Digital Marketing, its parent company. 25+ years