My friend had a small photography business when I was still in college. He had a professional camera, a decent computer, and a printer. He couldn’t charge a high price because he felt that he was offering a low quality service. On the contrary, his pictures were amazing, but due to the low price that he asked, he couldn’t put ...
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Martial Arts School Lesson: How to Face Competition
Martial artists live and breathe competition. Although basically, martial artists strengthen themselves to promote peace and protect the weak, but rising on top and winning a big trophy is a lot of fun. ON the business side, your martial arts school may be facing competition right now. If you’re not, sooner or later someone will start a school and face ...
Read More »How to Use Social Media to Boost Your Business
Around 3-6 years ago, almost every business had a website. It was like a requirement for all businesses to have their own page on the world wide web. Now, social media is taking the world by storm. You can see it everywhere from your personal computers, smart phones, radio, and even in tv. Although technically, social media sites are also ...
Read More »How to Monitor Expenses
They say that a smaller house is easier to clean. When your martial arts school was just starting, keeping an eye on your expenses was not that hard. You had everything on paper and yes, there were some miscellaneous costs but they were very small and easy to ignore. But now, your business is growing. Having an oversight on everything ...
Read More »How to Face Setbacks in Times of Uncertainty
Nothing is certain in this world because if it was, most of us will be successful. Even if you plan, strategize, and even forecast your future plans, a single event can change it all and ruin all of that you have prepared. This is one of the reasons why businesses are so risky. The factor of uncertainty is always there. ...
Read More »How to Take Care of Customers
We all know that the biggest investment that we can make is of the financial kind. But we often dismiss the fact that time is also another great asset. Investing time to create relationships with your students is also important because they are the reasons why your martial arts school is still afloat. I know that you’re already too busy ...
Read More »How to Take Care of Employees
Who is your best employee? Did you think of a name? Are you seeing her face in your mind? Now imagine a scenario where she hands you her letter of resignation, that would be a disaster right? Before we dive in on how to take care of employees, I’ll share some signs to know when your employee is planning to ...
Read More »How to Treat Customers
Are customers always right? Is it true that you have to do everything that they ask? In this article we will look at some of the ways on how to treat customers better and where we draw the line on some of your hard to handle clientele. Handling customers is an important job. In the martial arts school business, your ...
Read More »Growth in Martial Arts Business
I’ve made an article on what to avoid in business a few weeks ago and it had some pointers on how not to get distracted and the negative implications of keeping things to yourself, among other things. For today, let’s discuss the ways on how to promote growth in martial arts business. Successful martial arts school owners do not steer ...
Read More »How to Strategize in Business
Skills, without strategy will lead to your downfall. We all know its importance, and the amazing stories of great martial artists who used different strategies to better their opponent. Bigger is not always better. It doesn’t mean that if your opponent is bigger, stronger, or more skilled, that you automatically lose the fight. If you apply the right strategy with ...
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