Posts Tagged ‘fitness’

How To Use Trade Shows and Fairs To Get Students

Trade shows, festivals, and local fairs are a great way to get in front of your target audience.

With warm weather arriving and spring in full swing, chances are good that the local community events calendar in your city is filling up with trade shows and festivals.

In fact, you may have even been invited to do a demonstration or have a table at one of these events.

And that’s a good thing. Even though you may dread doing these events (I know I do), lead generation from trade shows, local community events, health fairs, and school festivals remains one of the best ways to increase your community profile and to generate lots of leads quickly.

However, if you fail to do this lead generation method properly, you’ll just be wasting your time and missing out on a ton of great leads. So, follow my tips for successfully leveraging trade show and fair appearances to the greatest result in marketing your martial art school. Read the rest of this entry »

Marketing Martial Arts to Adults

This month's member ads can be found in the member's download area.

Most martial art school owners do a horrible job of marketing to adults… even the ones who offer programs geared toward the adult market.

The fact is, children’s martial arts has dominated the industry for so long, most of the industry has forgotten what it’s like to have a floor full of adults.

This, in turn, has led to instructors being out of touch with what the adult market wants. Further, even those school owners who focus on adult martial arts programs often get it wrong.

That’s because they are also out of touch with what the market wants, but for different reasons. These instructors are often so focused on what their needs and desires are, they forget or completely miss what the vast majority of people are looking for in a martial arts program.

So, the purpose of this month’s marketing tip is to review the basics of marketing martial arts to adults… read on and you might very well find you’ve been missing the mark in your own marketing efforts.

The Basics of Marketing Martial Arts to Adults

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“Building It” Fast Is Simply A Matter Of Following What Works In The Majority Of Successful Martial Art Schools…

Want to grow your school? Follow a proven plan.

Starting a martial art school is tough – and growing a martial art school is even tougher.

That’s why I spent a lot of time in my first school analyzing my operations and comparing them to what successful school owners did. I traveled and spent time with them, observing first-hand what they were doing to grow their schools.

From those observations, I compared what successful instructors were doing, and settled on the activities that were most common among the schools I observed…

It’s not like I kept a bunch of data tables and graphs; it was nothing so complicated as all that. Basically, if I saw a lot of successful instructors doing something, I figured it was important and made note of it.

Then, I made sure I was doing those exact same tasks and activities in my own school on a daily, weekly, and monthly basis.

Now after 15 years of doing this, I’m able to boil down the key elements to martial arts business success into a very simple formula and very thorough checklists, ensuring that I’m hitting on all eight cylinders in my martial art school operations.

This month, I’ve decided to share that formula and most of those checklist items with you in the remainder of this article. Want to hit 100 martial arts students fast, and then continue that growth? Read the rest of this entry »

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To download an ad, simply right-click the link and choose “save as” to save it to your hard drive. Note: All download links expire after a few minutes. If you get an error downloading a file, reload Read the rest of this entry »

As a martial arts school owner, you need to recognize the relationship between price and value. I feel that it’s important to share this with you because when you raise your rates, you can rest assured that there will be some people who will say that you are “too high” or “too expensive” or whatever… However, the fact remains that: 1. You get what you pay for. 2. Value is always related to perception – therefore, the perceived value of a product determines what a person will be willing to pay. Read the rest of this entry »

Since many studios are trying to figure out ways to capture the adult market, I thought it would be a great idea to discuss how you can increase your profits by adding martial arts fitness services to your studio operations.

Anyone who has read my book knows that I am a big proponent of added profit centers. Experience has taught me that multiple streams of income offer the small studio owner the best chance for long-term success in their business.

There are number of ways you can do this. Let’s look at just a few of the most popular methods: Read the rest of this entry »