# Apples analysis (seed — for business context)

## Overview

Tener Rogers is an independent yoga instructor and retreat leader based in Hailey, Idaho. She holds an E-RYT 500 certification from the Nosara Yoga Institute in Costa Rica, backed by a BS in Exercise Science and Corporate Wellness plus 20+ years each as a nationally board-certified massage therapist and ACE-certified personal trainer. Since 2017 she has led 30+ international retreats for 250+ women, primarily to Nosara, Costa Rica (Bodhi Tree resort) and San Miguel de Allende, Mexico around Day of the Dead. Her business carries an estimated annual revenue of $300k–$700k.

She operates two main products. STUDIO TEN is a subscription online yoga studio hosted on Namastream, offering 300+ on-demand classes at $47/month or a $19 day pass, plus live-streamed sessions and a deliberately capped in-person component in Hailey. The retreat side charges $4,000+ per participant and sells out entirely through word of mouth. She self-describes her marketing skill as near-zero and says retreats "fly under the radar."

The core operational problem is fragmentation and manual process at every revenue-generating touchpoint. She maintains three active web domains plus a fourth parked domain, all without canonical consolidation or SEO cross-linking. Retreat bookings run through manual email and deposit instructions with no booking system, no waitlist, and no scarcity signal. STUDIO TEN has no publicly visible pricing on the main site and no free trial, making it effectively invisible to cold traffic. Despite consistent content production and a loyal, high-repeat customer base, there is no email capture funnel anywhere near the top of the funnel.

## Observations

- Business generates an estimated $300k–$700k annually with zero paid advertising and almost no deliberate marketing infrastructure.
- Retreat sell-outs happen through word of mouth only, meaning substantial unmet demand exists that she currently cannot capture or even measure.
- STUDIO TEN holds 300+ classes and charges $47/month but is not discoverable or priced from the main domain for cold visitors.
- Four registered domains (tenerrogers.com, yogawithtener.wordpress.com, yogawithtener.com, tenerrogersyoga.com) operate without 301 redirects or canonical signals, fragmenting whatever organic search authority she has built.
- The entire retreat booking flow is manual email, creating a revenue ceiling that cannot scale and a poor experience for the $4k+ buyer.
- No waitlist exists despite confirmed retreat sell-outs, which actively destroys warm leads after each cohort closes.
- A YouTube channel exists under her name but appears essentially dormant, despite the fact that she films classes regularly for STUDIO TEN.
- Her credential stack is unusually strong for a solopreneur: E-RYT 500, 20+ years licensed massage therapy, 20+ years personal training, exercise science degree — rarely all held by one instructor.
- tenerrogersyoga.com has been registered since 2015 on Bluehost and is not the primary site, indicating early brand confusion that has never been resolved.
- Her confessional, personal newsletter voice is cited explicitly as a brand asset that clients respond to and that any marketing buildout must preserve.
- A verified repeat-alumni base travels with her year after year and has no formal community, first-access booking, or alumni pricing — all standard retention levers left unused.
- In-person Hailey classes are intentionally capped and registration-only, suggesting she is consciously limiting that channel rather than growing it.
- The competitive yoga market data pulled (Bee Well Yoga, Yoga Story, NWA Hot Yoga, Spark Yoga, etc.) is for Rogers, Arkansas — a city name, not her operating market — and has no direct bearing on her business.




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# Apples audits (raw research)

## Audit: audit-2026-04-29.md

# Prior audit for Tener Rogers Yoga

Generated: 2026-04-29 12:13:02

## Summary
Tener has clear product-market fit on retreats and a real online studio, but she runs the entire $300k-$700k/yr business through manual email and three disconnected websites. The job here is **packaging, plumbing, and reach** — she does not need a strategy or a repositioning.

## Pain points
- {"area": "Self-described weak marketing", "detail": "Her own words: 'I kinda suck at marketing.' Retreats sell by word of mouth and 'fly under the radar.'"}
- {"area": "Three split domains", "detail": "tenerrogers.com + yogawithtener.wordpress.com + yogawithtener.com \u2014 SEO authority split, no canonical signal"}
- {"area": "No online retreat booking", "detail": "Entire $4k+ retreat funnel runs through manual email back-and-forth and deposit instructions"}
- {"area": "STUDIO TEN invisibility", "detail": "No public price, no free trial, no landing page that explains the product to cold visitors"}
- {"area": "No homepage lead magnet", "detail": "Email signup buried at end of blog posts. Massive content output not converting visitors to subscribers"}
- {"area": "No waitlist or scarcity", "detail": "Retreats sell out but no waitlist signup, no countdown, no 'X rooms left' counter"}
- {"area": "Family / personal-brand sensitivity", "detail": "Allergic to marketing-speak. Anything we ship must preserve her confessional newsletter voice."}

## Opportunities
### Consolidated rebuild on tenerrogers.com (single canonical site)
Merge content from tenerrogers.com + yogawithtener.wordpress.com + dormant yogawithtener.com into one site. Pillared content (Retreats / STUDIO TEN / Recipes / Reflections / About). Hero stat above the fold: "250+ women, 30 retreats, 8 years." 301 redirects on legacy domains so existing inbound links don't bleed.

### Embedded retreat booking with Stripe deposit
Replace email-to-Tener inquiry flow with on-page booking. $500 (Costa Rica) / $750 (San Miguel) non-refundable deposit charged at booking. Auto-send confirmation + welcome email + calendar invite. Real-time "X rooms left in this cohort" counter (manually updated or wired to a Google Sheet).

### Lead magnet + 14-email ConvertKit nurture funnel
Free "5-Day Reset" — 5 short videos (yoga + breath + reflection prompt). Hosted on Vimeo, gated by ConvertKit signup. Above-the-fold opt-in on homepage and exit-intent on retreat pages. Pipes new subscribers into a 14-email automated sequence: 3 emails about her teaching, 4 about retreat experience (real stories, real photos), 4 with content from her existing blog, 3 with a soft retreat invite.

### AI Retreat Concierge (SMS + chat bot)
AI assistant trained on her FAQ + blog + Bodhi Tree details + retreat itineraries. Lives on retreat pages as a chat widget AND as an SMS endpoint at her Idaho number. Answers "is it for me?", "what's the food like?", "do I need to surf?", "is solo travel safe?" — exactly the questions in her "yogi-confessions" blog post. Captures email at end of conversation. Logs full transcript to Tener's inbox so she sees what people actually want to know.

### Public-facing STUDIO TEN landing page + free trial
Currently STUDIO TEN (her 200+ class on-demand yoga library) is invisible to cold visitors — no price, no trial, no clear way in. Build a dedicated landing page with: pricing tiers visible, embedded sample class on-page, 7-day free trial, member testimonials (already exist on her site, just unused), comparison table vs. Peloton/Glo/Alo Moves.

### YouTube content engine — short-form + retreat previews
She already films classes for STUDIO TEN. Cut 5-min YouTube shorts: "Morning yoga 10 minutes," "Box breathing tutorial," "What to expect at Bodhi Tree retreat," "San Miguel street tour." Auto-caption via tubeify pipeline (already on Apples stack). Targets long-tail searches she currently doesn't own ("Costa Rica yoga retreat," "Day of Dead retreat," "morning yoga 10 minutes").

### Retreat Alumni community (Circle / Slack / private FB)
Many women return year after year. Formalize that with: private community (Circle preferred — invite-only feel), first-access booking 30 days before public, alumni discount $200 off, photo archive from past retreats, monthly Tener-led virtual class for members. Drives referrals (her dominant acquisition channel).

### "Which retreat is right for you?" interactive quiz
4-question quiz: Costa Rica (warm, beach, surf) vs. San Miguel (cool, culture, walking). She already wrote the post comparing them. Quiz captures email at end and routes to the matching retreat page. Reduces decision paralysis on the choice between her two flagship products.

### Structured testimonials + social proof hub
"250+ women, 30 retreats since 2017" appears only in passing in her copy. Build a /testimonials page with: hero stat band, video testimonials (record at next retreat), text quotes organized by persona (first-timer, repeat alum, local class), a retreat-by-retreat photo+quote gallery. Link prominently from homepage and retreat pages.

### Press / mention monitoring + monthly Slack digest
Auto-monitor for "Tener Rogers" + "Bodhi Tree retreat" + "yoga retreat Costa Rica Nosara" mentions across the web. Weekly digest delivered to Tener via email. Catches reviews, blog mentions, podcast features that she's currently missing.

_To be enriched for oranges. Seeded from apples client `tener-rogers`._

_Pending — define what content this person would crave on oranges. Apples context lives in `interests` field above for reference._

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