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Setting Expectations for Martial Arts Students Upfront
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Using Text to Increase Enrollments in Your Martial Arts School
Texting is instant and is opened 97% of the time, so it’s a real-time communication that helps to confirm to the parents that they made the right decision to choose your program.
Texts work great and MATA/Empower Kickboxing members have a free dedicated SMS marketing platform in their GenerateMoreStudents.com account that allows them to text up to 100 people a month for free.
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EXCELLENT! And, I mean that. Thank you so much for that. I try to use the word “better.” Then follow up with something like “now, next time try for more speed or power or better stance.” About teaching kids, just got into “debate” on a MA facebook thing they have. About teaching “fun & games” to kids. It got a little nasty when I said that we do not teach games, I teach karate. Maybe they are so desparate to stay open that they teach that kind of stuff. I look at it as stealing for the parents. Telling them that their kids are learning martial arts when all they are doing is learn “recess.”
So true. Some instructors are more afraid of a mom than a mugger. :0)