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HOW TO USE THIS BOOK

Who Is This Book For?

Do you dream of opening your own martial arts school some day? Are you now in the process of planning and building a school? Do you have a school but struggle to run it efficiently and pay the bills? Do you have a successful school but want to learn ways of streamlining day-to-day management so you can spend more time training and having fun?

Then Starting and Running Your Own Martial Arts School is for you.

Starting and Running Your Own Martial Arts School is for experienced martial artists who dream about owning a successful school. It’s a thorough, practical introduction to the tasks and obligations involved in opening a martial arts business. Written in language that doesn’t take a business degree to understand, Starting and Running Your Own Martial Arts School shows martial artists what they can do to ensure the success of their school before they put their hard-earned cash and reputation on the line.

Starting and Running Your Own Martial Arts School also offers guidance for martial artists opening a new school. It provides step-by-step information on what to do, when to do it, and why. Based on years of practical experience, Starting and Running Your Own Martial Arts School helps new school owners establish successful habits while their school is still in its infancy. It helps them start right so they don’t have to undo mistakes or relearn habits as their school grows.

Starting and Running Your Own Martial Arts School offers assistance to martial artists whose schools are struggling. It contains a troubleshooting guide to help school owners pinpoint their school’s symptoms and diagnose its problems. It gives them simple steps they can take to help turn their school around. It provides practical, proven ideas to put their school back on the road to success.

Finally, Starting and Running Your Own Martial Arts School contains insights for those who have a healthy school but who are always on the lookout for ways of making it better. It offers experienced counsel on choosing advertising methods that work. It shows school owners how to sign up a higher percentage of people who walk through their door. It helps them reduce their drop-out rates. Starting and Running Your Own Martial Arts School is packed with real-life information and ideas that school owners can use today to make their school even more successful.

Starting and Running Your Own Martial Arts School lets ordinary martial artists in on trade secrets usually reserved for business school graduates. It turns complex business information into simple, practical solutions to everyday business challenges. Starting and Running Your Own Martial Arts School takes the mystery out of business.

How Do You Use This Book?

Starting and Running Your Own Martial Arts School is a practical guide. Pull ideas and information from it. Use it to help you focus your dreams. Use it to spark new ideas and breathe new life into your existing school. Most of all, use it to spur action.

Before you start reading, get a three-ring notebook and a package of paper. Every time you get an idea for building or improving your school, write it down on a page entitled “Ideas.”

You don’t need to read this book from cover to cover. Read the first chapter to help you nail down your marketing identity. Then, dip in any place you need information or ideas.

As you work through the book, dream a little. Decide where you would like to be in a month, a year, five years. Then turn each dream and idea into a goal. Write your goals down. Compile a list of short-term goals, another of one-year goals, and still another of five-year goals.

Then determine what you need to do to make your goals a reality. Label another page “To Do List.” Go through your goals and break them down into specific tasks. Decide when you want to do these tasks. Give yourself deadlines. Put each task into your calendar. Then get to work. Start building your future today.