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
.
Personally I like the $
All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players:
They have their exits and their entrances;
And one man in his time plays many parts, ...
William Shakespeare
"As You Like It"
Act 2, Scene 7