Tag Archives: Martial arts

With Every Breath You Take

Click the link to hear the podcast: http://level-meeting.flywheelsites.com/with-every-breath-you-take.mp3 Good morning, my fellow Americans and those listeners throughout the world. Welcome to another edition of martialartsbusinessmagazine.com. What I want to do today is I would like to share an article with you. I would give it to you in a printed form but I have to type it up and I ...

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How to Communicate With Respect

Are you talking to people with respect? Because if you don’t, your martial arts school may be seen as unfair and indecent. Why is it important to treat other people with respect? Well, there are a lot of reasons. First, business wise, customers and students expect to be treated with respect, without them, you won’t be able to run your ...

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Evolution: How to Keep Up with the Changing Times

Comfort is the enemy of progress, its friend… stagnation. Businesses should always have advancement as its goal. Being satisfied with what you currently have is one of the signs of future failure. For example, past businesses who were giants in their industries like pagers and certain movie rental businesses are nowhere to be found. The thing to learn here is, ...

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What to Look For When Hiring People

You are sitting in your office, waiting for a potential employee to come inside, sit, and discuss his credentials. You look at his resume and you’re just simply impressed. But you know, deep down inside, that resumes are not everything, that there is something more that what a piece of paper tells you. Call it instinct, something that you feel ...

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How to Be a Great Leader

When it comes to life, we all have been followers. In business, we all have been employees, even if you say that you were born with a silver spoon in your mouth, you still had your parents to lead you through life and eventually into work. My point is, there are persons that we look up to, people that we ...

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Women Taking Precautions

Click the link to hear the podcast: https://www.martialartsbusinessmagazine.com/women-taking-precautions.mp3 Welcome back, my fellow Americans and martial arts listeners throughout the world. Welcome to another edition of martialartsbusinessmagazine.com. This is Dr. Rick Black and I am back again. One of the things that I want to talk about today, very briefly, is assault against women. Each year, cringe of the dramatic increase ...

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How to Sell: A Reiteration on the Power of Sales

We’ve discussed in our past articles on how to integrate merchandising into your martial arts school. I hope you picked up a few pointers and decided to create a sales department in your own business. I’m here again to remind you of the importance of sales and some tips on how to improve on your selling techniques. There is no ...

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Professor Ed Malley (A 1987 Article)

Click the link below to listen to the podcast: https://www.martialartsbusinessmagazine.com/professor-Ed-Malley-a-1987-article.mp3 Good afternoon, my fellow Americans and those martial arts listeners throughout the world. Welcome to another edition of martialartsbusinessmagazine.com. This is Dr. Rick Black. One of the things that I want to share with you today is a story that was written by a martial arts acquaintance and submitted to ...

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How to Stand Out in the Martial Arts Business World

I’ve mentioned “think out of the box” and “be creative” in my past articles a couple of times. It’s easy to say these words to people but the execution is the hard part. Being creative and doing something is new can be very hard, but when it succeeds, it’s very rewarding. Thinking of a new service or creating a new ...

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How to Manage Time Effectively

There is no such thing as “no time”. Everybody in the in the history of the world has been given the same amount of hours in a day. Just imagine if Bruce Lee had that same “no time” mentality. He would’ve never studied Wing Chun, never created Jeet Kune Do, never had the time to do 800 jumps on a ...

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