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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

I present to you a video on training  your Chi Internal Energy. I did an intimate training course with a small group of martial artists way back. Thought to be lost forever, I happen to come by this old recording!

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 ...

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 ...

The way your business will survive is by selling the goods and services you offer. marketing them is the key to success.  That’s why a plan setting out just what your sales goals are is so important. The first of these steps on how to create your own martial arts business marketing strategy is your image and the image of ...

Martial Arts Business Magazine How it got started and … WHO was the FIRST? You may wonder how Martial Arts Business Magazine got started. If you’re not a 20-year martial arts veteran you may never have heard of it before. It was the brainchild of me – Ric Black in 1989. Yep – that’s 20 years ago, give or take ...

When I sat down to write this article I wondered to myself why it is that Police and Security Officers will spend every free minute on the firearms range, but except for a few, will do everything they can to avoid any Defensive Tactics training they can? I know that I am one of the few, because of my Defensive Tactics and Martial Arts background, but I contend that Defensive Tactics is at least as important as firearms training if not more.