Interview by Toby Milroy, NAPMA Vice-President of Sales and Marketing Frank Brown As the Mile High Karate franchise trainer, Frank Brown is in a unique position to observe why school owners are unable to grow their schools; and, often, the major reason is a misperception of their self-worth. That low self-worth results in low tuition [...]
Jonathan Metcalf. It’s clear that the proverbial bright light has flashed in Jonathan Metcalf’s mind-because he understands the BIG IT: owning a martial arts school is an extraordinary opportunity. He has discovered that you can continue to honor the traditions of your art as you change people’s lives and serve your community, which just so [...]
WarriorWiz Terry Bryan, Ph.D. Terry Bryan, Ph.D. and Extreme Success Academy speaker, teaches you how to use your warrior spirit to win at the real estate game Interview by NAPMA President Rob Colasanti Terry Bryan, martial artist, former school owner and real estate coach and entrepreneur, gives you an inside look at how an average [...]
Interview by Toby Milroy, NAPMA Vice-President of Sales and Marketing Joe Borucki is a successful school owner who really understands the unnecessary condition of many martial arts schools because he’s been there. He had erected a number of obstacles (which existed only in his mind) that blocked the growth of his school. He learned how [...]
An Interview with Master Robert Lewis, Colorado Regional Developer for Mile High Karate. Learning and utilizing the secrets to success is the real difference maker; and Master Robert Lewis, the Colorado Regional Developer for Mile High Karate, is the one person with the inside information on the franchise system because he works in the trenches [...]
Jason Yi, a NAPMA Inner Circle member, who will also be in attendance at the 2008 NAPMA Extreme Success Academy, serving on a panel of experts with other Inner Circle Group members to help you grow your school, is the subject of this month’s Member Success Story. Jason is a bright, entrepreneurially minded school owner, [...]
You may never thought you could play and win the commercial real estate game, but you can with the help of Chris Hurn and Mercantile Commercial Capital. His company specializes in creating opportunities for small business owners, including martial arts school owners, to purchase their buildings. Mr. Hurn explains why a commercial real estate portfolio [...]
The philosophy of martial arts is ready-made to attract the attention of the public. Few professionals are better qualified than Paul Hartunian to help you learn and use his low-cost public relations formula to create and benefit from a celebrity status in your community and achieve recognition that can translate into a growing, prosperous school. [...]
An Interview by Toby Milroy with Miko Peled, NAPMA Maximum Impact Member and Stephen Oliver Coaching Client and Millionaire Wealth Group Member. SENSEI MIKO PELED is another out-standing example of a NAPMA member and martial arts school owner who has learned to balance tradition with a new mindset of how his school and its programs [...]
Zig the master of motivation, developed the I CAN Program that is a comprehensive character-building curriculum for your students—parents and your community will recognize it as an “added value” that makes your school unique. You’ll enroll more students easier and improve retention, with the I CAN Program. It’s already being used in academics schools across [...]
Ranulfo Gonzalez is a multi-style 4th-, 5th- and 6th-Degree Black Belt and ultimate martial arts enthusiast and long-time instructor and Mile High Karate chief instructor and corporate trainer. In this interview, he shares with you what he has learned about the extraordinary beneï¬ts of utilizing sales, market-ing and other business systems to operate a school. [...]
NAPMA will be presenting at the 2011 Action Martial Arts Magazine Hall of Honors Award Show. January 21–22, 2011 at the Tropicana Casino and Resort in Atlantic City, New Jersey, Jeff Smith, Toby Milroy and Stephen Oliver will be featured seminar leaders along with some of the biggest names in martial arts. This year NAPMA [...]
Martial Arts Business Masters Reconnect Recently I sat down with my old friend Andrew Wood, who made a surprise guest appearance at this year’s NAPMA convention. Andrew was a true pioneer in the martial arts business, writing the book that changed the life of many instructors: How to Make $100,000 or More Teaching Martial Arts. [...]
The air on the Santa Monica pier is usually alive with the emissions of countless biological organisms, giving it that fresh, faintly fish-smelling sourness that lets you know that you’re in the midst of life; and this despite the fact that tons of raw sewage are dumped from there into the Pacific Ocean every day. [...]
How to Maximize Fitness Results for your Students
The secret about fitness that no diet guru or so-called “weight-loss expert” wants you to know is that there is no one answer to fitness. You must understand this important factor when developing your martial arts fitness course because it’s the key to a successful fitness program for your students. Many of you are probably [...]
Transform Your Fears into Strengths—and Success, Part 2
You must feed your mind and heart with information that uplifts and keeps you on the “right-thinking” track, allowing you to be resourceful at all times. When you take the time to nurture your mind and heart, you will always land on your feet and make lemonade from lemons. From teaching woman’s self-defense seminars, I’ve [...]
