Case Study

How Ashley Hagen built a thriving wellness business

Ashley Hagen went from a yoga teacher piecing together separate tools for scheduling, courses, and email, to the founder of Ashes Academy, helping hundreds of wellness professionals build their own online businesses on OfferingTree.

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Ashley Hagen
Founder of Ashes Yoga
Context

An expensive platform and a pile of piecemeal tools

Ashley inherited Mindbody when she took over her studio in 2019, and quickly realized it wasn't the right fit, in cost or in flexibility.
  • Mindbody cost over $200 a month for features Ashley didn't need, with no lower tier available
  • Persistent upsell calls made canceling or scaling down feel like a fight
  • A follow-up platform, Acuity, was cheaper but clunky, requiring codes for package redemption that confused clients
  • Free community classes with optional donations had nowhere to live. Her system only allowed strictly free or strictly paid
Solution

Introducing OfferingTree, the platform that made the difference

"The team really expressed that and clarified that this was made for wellness professionals and for people in my industry. And the fact that they wanted to talk to me personally, that made me feel special."
Ashley Hagen, Founder of Ashes Yoga
  • OfferingTree reached out through mutual connections in the yoga community in 2021
  • Tiered pricing and sliding-scale event options were the feature that first sold her on switching
  • She integrated OfferingTree with her existing WordPress site while also running a standalone OfferingTree site
  • Her online clients told her registration instantly felt easier after the switch
Favorite Features

Everything Ashley built her business on

Sales & Landing Pages

Tiered pricing (Join for Free, Buy Me a Coffee, Pay It Forward) turned her donation-based classes into real, recurring revenue.

Sales & Landing Pages

Tiered pricing (Join for Free, Buy Me a Coffee, Pay It Forward) turned her donation-based classes into real, recurring revenue.

Booking & Payment

Registration became simple enough that Ashley's clients told her directly how much easier it was compared to her old system.

Booking & Payment

Registration became simple enough that Ashley's clients told her directly how much easier it was compared to her old system.

On-Demand Content

Ashley hosts her course library, webinars, and a paid Replay Membership all through OfferingTree.

On-Demand Content

Ashley hosts her course library, webinars, and a paid Replay Membership all through OfferingTree.

Studio Support / Community

Regular check-ins with the OfferingTree team and an active Facebook community give Ashley a direct line to product feedback and peer connection.

Studio Support / Community

Regular check-ins with the OfferingTree team and an active Facebook community give Ashley a direct line to product feedback and peer connection.

Results

From zero revenue to a full coaching business

  • Free donation-based classes went from generating no revenue to several hundred dollars a month
  • A new Replay Membership added another steady stream of monthly income
  • Ashley built Ashes Academy, a course and mentorship business helping other yoga teachers launch online, on the same platform
  • She now recommends OfferingTree to her own students with full confidence, not because she has to, but because she's seen it work
"When I switched to OfferingTree, I just remember a lot of my online clients being like, 'Oh, this is so easy, so much easier. Thank you so much. It's so easy to register. No problems whatsoever.'"
Ashley Hagen, Founder of Ashes Yoga
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