Author Archives: Gian Laquindanum

How to Retain Students

In our last article, we’ve talked about how a business plan helps the survivavility of your dojo. In today’s article, we are going to discuss how we can further extend the life of your martial arts business by making sure that you have a high percentage of student retention. Before we dive in, it’s very important to note that students ...

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How to Create a Business Plan

Everything is automatically better when you create a plan. Some people are happy go lucky, people who let fate decide and never think twice on anything. Sometimes, this is actually good, if you do it with your friends, on the weekends or maybe on your vacation. But when it comes to opening and operating a martial arts studio, you must ...

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The Importance of a Martial Arts Studio

Business trends are always changing, but one thing hasn’t. Martial arts studios should be run as businesses. Aside from mastering your discipline, every Master, Teacher, and business owner should also know the ways of doing business. But what if you say “I’m just teaching kids in my neighborhood in my garage”. Sure, you don’t have to pay any rent or ...

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How to Increase Revenue

What makes a Master successful? Is it the total learning of all the secrets of martial arts? Is it becoming rich by being a successful small business owner? Or is it producing the best students and bringing forth the new hope for martial arts? Some people may only choose one from the options that I’ve listed, but I really do ...

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Martial Arts and Women

There are a lot of reasons why girls or women are rarely seen on the mat. Most of the world’s cultures think that physical activities like sports (in this case, martial arts) are more suited for boys rather than girls. In the old days, men were the ones who took the responsibility to fight on the battlefield, so they learned ...

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How to Be the Best Employee

In our last article we’ve talked about creating a better and more unified team. Now, I will be talking directly to those team members on how to be their best. But you don’t need to be an employee to appreciate this article. You can be the owner who just wants to know more information to share with the staff or ...

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Building Teamwork in Your Martial Arts Studio

From a past article we have learned the importance of delegating work to other people. These may be your family members or your employees. These people, act like cogs to the machinery which is your martial arts studio and for the business to run smoothly, you need to make sure that those cogs are in sync and aligned. In this ...

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How to Promote Your Martial Arts Studio Online

Let’s face it; we now live in the age of the internet. Newspapers, books, radio, and even TV has been slowly being replaced by computers that can do it all. The good thing is, it’s not too late to jump in the bandwagon and take part in the digital marketing revolution. One advantage of using the internet is the huge ...

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Martial Arts Studio Software Reviews

Learning how to delegate work is a skill which every martial arts teacher should know. We all know that this is important because a single body cannot do everything that needs to be done. If you have a lot of work that needs to be done, you should consider passing the responsibility to another person, or, you can just use ...

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