Martial Arts Management

Step #1: Be a collector of good ideas for your business, for your relationships, for your future. My mentor taught me to keep a journal when I was twenty-five years old, and I’ve been doing it ever since. I will pass them to my children and grandchildren. If you hear a good health idea, then ...

Call-Out: “Beginning in 1983 in Denver, I made an effort to emulate IBM’s approach. My ads always touted the benefits of martial arts instruction, explained the benefits of our approach, and never mentioned that anyone else taught this stuff but us.” Years ago, I read a really interesting book called Positioning: the Battle for your ...

The 2012 Action Martial Arts Magazine’s 12th annual Hall of Honors, widely known as the “Academy Awards of the Martial Arts” marked another milestone in the professional development of the martial arts business. This years’ event featured a trade show with more than 60 exhibitors, a traditional martial arts tournament, the first ever “Action Martial ...

[Editor’s note: This rotating column will introduce readers to new authors and consultants who will expand your thinking to drive your success. This column is an except from Jim Rohn’s book, Seven Strategies for Wealth and Happiness.] To start any part-time or full-time business, you typically need plenty of capital (money); but, occasionally, you’ll hear ...

Any factor that you would consider important to your happiness can be placed in one of seven categories. These Seven Ingredients of Success are consistent with all of success and happiness.You must start with your vision of a perfect future. You begin unlocking your inner powers by “seeing” your life exactly as if it were ...

    It has been said that men and women start to become great when they begin to listen to their inner voices. Your intuition is your direct connection with infinite intelligence. Intuition is so powerful that the greatest men and women of history have written and studied it for thousands of years. When you ...

Self-knowledge has always been the key to prepare for competition. Knowledge of your attributes, abilities, interests, strengths, weaknesses and traits is essential to riding the front-end of the wave of change into the new century. To assess fully your talents, realize that studies confirm that what we loved to do when we were children continues ...

There are those running around the industry teaching you how to be the martial arts school equivalent of Wal-Mart.

  Some skills are peripheral to success. It’s nice to have them, but they don’t make much of a difference. There are other skills, however, that are absolutely essential to fulfill your potential; and you must develop them to a fairly high level, if you are to achieve all of your goals. One of these ...

At last year’s Extreme Success Academy, Pat Burleson was presented with the 2009 NAPMA Lifetime Achievement Award for his pioneering contributions to the martial arts professional school instruction industry. Grand Master Burleson created many of the business systems that are now standard in the model used by most schools. He studied under Grand Master Jhoon ...