Tag Archives: Planning

How to Have Great Meetings

Let’s face it, meetings have the charisma of a of kitchen rag. But unappealing as they can be, they are a necessity in the business world. A team, which I assume you have, requires face to face communication. Meetings are excellent opportunities for everyone to voice their opinions and work out some misunderstandings between each other. Although meetings can present ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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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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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