Why are the best schools so evasive?
The best schools seem to be the hardest to find. Why is it? Is it because the owners of the school spend too much time practicing their kung fu and too little time learning business strategies, or they just want to remain small? There is one place in my area that isn't a karate tkd mcdojo, yet it doesn't advertise at all. How much is a yellowpage ad? $50? If that ving tsun place had put just a tiny little ad in the phone book, I wouldn't have made the thousand dollar mistake of temple kung fu.
To those of you who have schools or are thinking of opening them; for god's sake, advertise! Put up a website! Even a small ad in the phone book can make a huge difference. If you want to keep a select group of students, then simply turn away the undesirable applicants.
Re: Why are the best schools so evasive?
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Originally posted by KungFuGuy!
How much is a yellowpage ad? $50?
Try $150+ a month
Kung fu is NOT a business nor is the path to attainment of Kung Fu.
So true take it from me. The Club that I'm managing is anything but a fighting club it's basically just for fun and excersise. We heavily market the club and have over 00 member and we have only been open for 2 months. Although most of our instructors have over 10 years of experience in boxing or martial arts the format of our classes is not to develope fighting skills but to have fun and loose weight and or get into great shape.
My piont is that for a school to be successfull attention to running it as a business is essential. This means more time spent on the phone, in sales meetings and marketing. This leaves less time to train and concentrate on teaching for the owner.
Most MA school are run by one person who is also the teacher sales rep ect.. you get my point?
Perhaps it;'s better that the good schools don't concentrate on the business side of things. Success is not measured in $ but in
:D .
Personally I like the $;)