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QR codes are the way of the future. Here’s 3 ways you can use QR Codes in your martial arts school to boost marketing.
Throughout the article I’ll reference our school, BETA Academy and share example of how we are leveraging the power of QR codes in our Muay Thai and BJJ School....
$28,000 Tax Credit per Employee Still Possible?!
Last year I rang the alarm bells about Employee Retention Tax Credit (ERTC) telling every martial arts school owner that I knew they could get u to $5,000 per employee in 2020 and $28,000 per employee for 2021.
Small business owners...
thrive, we need to learn to be effective leaders. One resource that highly recommend is the book, The Effective Executive by Peter Drucker. 
The book lays out the eight practices that made corporate executives effective leaders in their...
Immediately after enrolling, it's important for new students to walk out of the school with something physical in their hands...something that gets them excited and looking forward to the next training session. At BETA Academy, many years ago, we used to give our new students a handbook...
Test out our New AI Appointment System.
Do you have Artificial Intelligence working for your school? The 4th Industrial Revolution (4IR) can be described as the Shift to Cyber-Physical Society and its here to stay. Like all revolutions, it will be extremely disruptive to our current...
Merchandise and gear sales are a great complimentary income stream for martial arts schools, particularly Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu and Muay Thai Academies because we have so many items that we can offer to our students. Jiu-Jitsu Gi, rash guards, boxing gloves, shinguards, etc., the options are...
Not exactly more stimulus money but a reinstatement of some tax credits that were taken away form small businesses in the most ridiculous rug pull ever conceived by the US Government. The Employee Retention Tax Credit (ERTC) that allowed up to $33,000 in refundable tax credits per employee...
Any Reason to Promote
Its going to be President's Day here soon in the good ole USA. On holidays, my mailbox and inbox gets filled with deals for furniture, appliances, and discounts for other stuff I probably don't need. I guess I'm used to it and...I EXPECT it.
We can take...
At the onset of the pandemic, it was clear that marital arts schools needed multiple and alternative income streams in order to survive the crisis. Income streams require time to cultivate, as we need to sow the seeds before we can pluck the fruit. One area in particular that we...
I recently finished a continuing education class about the gig economy and found out some interesting statistics. Studies show that over 162 million working age people have side gigs. For 30% of those people, or 49 million people, it’s their primary means of making income. ...
Beginning in 2022, Third Party Payment Processors (TPPP) will be required to report any payments for goods and services in excess of $600 to the IRS. Thanks to a hidden provision passed in the American Rescue Act Plan, the previous threshold of $20,000 is going to be drastically reduced to...
Looking for more money for your martial art school? Need small business financing?
There is another option to provide small businesses in the southeast United States with a loan up to $100,000. I recently received a call from agent about this opportunity. For a moment, I thought...
