Posts Tagged ‘Robby’

After 8 years of coaching people on how to start and run martial arts schools (12 if you count the time I spent doing it for free for my friends) I’ve heard just about every excuse for failure imaginable. The other day, I was telling a client that I was starting another studio. He asked me if I’d been out of it long, and I explained that I sold a studio in ’09, and that I am re-entering the market because I believe now is a great time to be a school owner. Read the rest of this entry »

Do Your Enrollment Numbers Look This Good?

Actual enrollment numbers from Martial Art School Alliance site members this month: – Paul Halme, 18 members so far… – Robby Bray, 17 members so far… – Jim Mahan, 12 members so far this month… and he teaches out of an old equipment warehouse with no heat or AC! (I’m actually interviewing him today on how he’s doing so much with so little. It’ll be on the website tomorrow – stay tuned for that…) Now that’s recession-proof martial arts success! And these are all small school owners without big marketing budgets who are boot-strapping their businesses. Read the rest of this entry »