Business

Have you ever thought of going off-line just for a few days? You know, leaving all of your gadgets, going for a walk in the woods or holing up in a cabin in a middle of a forest and passing your time by reading books. You can also sit beside the lake and appreciate the still calmness of the water, ...

They say that continuing to be successful is harder than being successful. That is why some people become prominent and famous for today, and tomorrow, they’re forgotten. It’s really scary to think that all the hard work that you are putting for your martial arts school will one day be lost because not everything lasts forever. For small businesses, the ...

There is a misconception going around when it comes to business plans. People say that they only need a business plan when they need to attract financiers or other companies to do business with. Yes, businesses can operate without a plan but it’s like going sailing without a map and a compass. Business plans aren’t just money raising tools, they ...

The word efficient is defined as achieving maximum productivity with minimum wasted effort or expense. For business, this means that as a martial arts master and school owner, you need to use all your available resources and produce top quality products and goods with the littlest amount of wasted energy and money. One way of making sure that you have ...

I really do believe that making goals is the start of everything that we do in life. Even in the simplest actions as getting up and getting a glass of water involves the creation of a goal then acting upon what we wanted. For bigger things, it’s the same process, a more complicated process, but still the same. It all ...

I’ve written about customer loyalty a couple of times here at Martial Arts Business Magazine. I’ve dealt with the reasons why consumers become loyal to a company and how companies can increase their revenue through repeat business. There are a lot of tips on how to make people dependable on your martial arts school, but honestly, it all boils down ...

Rut, curse, slump, whatever you call it, it happens to everybody. At one point in our lives, we may experience a cascade of downfalls, disappointments, and just bad luck. I was watching this new cop show and he was experiencing this phenomenon where everything that he did wasn’t going right. At first he was just plainly dismissing that he wasn’t ...

“Successful people are simply those with successful habits.” – Brian Tracy There are successful people that we look up to and undeniably, some of these people can thank their mental prowess and talents for their accomplishments. Bill Gates has his high IQ and Michael Jordan has his athleticism, some of us normal people don’t have what they possess and we ...

Marketing is all about attraction. People live in a busy place so you can’t ask them to look at your product, you have to make them look at your product. Normal doesn’t cut it anymore. If you own a TV or read articles on the internet, you could see people like Miley Cyrus and Ted Cruz going the distance for ...

I made an article about the morning habits of successful people and what I noticed was, generally, it seemed that successful people had less sleep compared to their less successful counterparts. But as I’ve said, there are only a handful of people, 1 – 3% of the total population, who are lucky enough to operate with only 4 hours of ...