Business

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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Tips and Tricks to Managing Your Martial Arts Studio

Introducing Small Business Management             As a sophomore in college my accounting professor in one of his many fits of philosophy told us promptly after an examination on which a full two-thirds of the class failed that should we choose to separate ourselves from the animals of the earth we would learn how to make order out of chaos.             ...

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Taxes and Your Martial Arts Studio

Taxation and Your Business In my first business class in college the teacher pointed out that nothing was ascertain as deathand taxes. This unfortunately is very true and your business is certainly no exception to the rule. You will be taxed it will seem to the point of exhaustion from the local, state, and federal levels. You as a business ...

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Startup Marketing Tricks for Martial Arts Studios

Small Business Marketing You don’t have to spend a lot of money to have effective marketing…             One thing every business can’t live without is marketing. It is the life-blood of a business and many people in business lack the know-how to be successful.             A business-person has to be innovative, open-minded and have a defined knowledge of his/her market ...

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Start Planning Your Martial Arts Studio’s Success

Start Planning for Success The mystery of why so many new businesses fail has been solved in “The Case of the Missing Business Plan” by Dr. Ric Black Most business owners today can learn a valuable lesson during this 51st anniversary of the motion picture, The Wizard of Oz. If Dorothy had had a map, a plan, some kind of ...

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Six Steps to Marketing Your Martial Arts Studio

The things we’ll be discussing at length during this module. 1. Discovering where the money is? Finding underserved customers. 2. Becoming better than anyone else. Find where you have a sustainable advantage. 3. Finding enough customers. Customers who need you and how best they might locate you. 4. Motivating customers to take action. Recognizable logo 5. Communicating on a regular ...

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Providing Employee Benefits to Your Martial Arts Studio Employees

Can I Afford Employee Benefits?             The one area of small business that fosters more resentment from employees than any other is not having the protection of insurance if they are taken ill or become disabled.             As an employer you may want and need this protection for yourself and your family, but you assume it is out of each, ...

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