Focus is not bad, but too much of it can be damaging. Let’s take for example a focused master of a martial arts school. His eyes are on a prize, too set in on the goal at hand. But he becomes this blunt person who doesn’t think twice on what he says just to get the job done. I’m talking ...
Read More »Why You Should Advertise on Facebook
Martial arts business owners and masters have a lot of roles to fulfill when managing and operating a school. One of them, is also a marketer and an advertiser. If today, you are still ignoring the millions of users that visit social media sites like Facebook and Twitter, then you are denying yourself of potential customers that can increase your ...
Read More »How to Get Positive Customer Feedback
It feels good when you hear other people say good things about you. This is about your personal reputation. But when people talk about your about your martial arts school, what they’re discussing is your company’s integrity. One of the best kinds of advertising is by word-of-mouth, mostly because it’s honest and will not cost you a single dollar. The ...
Read More »The Awakening
Click the link to listen to the podcast: https://www.martialartsbusinessmagazine.com/the-awakening.mp3 Good afternoon, my fellow Americans and those listeners throughout the world and welcome to another edition of martialartsbusinessmagazine.com. This was an interesting article, I was going back through some old publication that I had done. This one was in International Martial Arts Journal that was found in February at 1989, a ...
Read More »How to Negotiate
Negotiating is a part of life. In the martial arts business world, we must also learn how to fight to have the advantage in terms of negotiating. Having the upper hand is always important, whether it’s talking to your employees about a raise or to a middle man where about merchandise, or when you are talking to parents about tuition ...
Read More »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 ...
Read More »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 ...
Read More »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, ...
Read More »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 ...
Read More »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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