Some good articles to get you started:

Ten Commandments of Running a Successful Martial Arts Business

http://www.fightingarts.com/reading/article.php?id=507

Are You Spending Your Martial Arts Ad Dollars Wisely?

http://www.fightingarts.com/reading/article.php?id=37

Why Students Quit

http://www.fightingarts.com/reading/article.php?id=36

Spotless Marketing

http://www.fightingarts.com/reading/article.php?id=492

Creating A Business Plan

http://www.fightingarts.com/reading/article.php?id=34

Boosting Your Martial Arts School’s Income With Merchandise Sales

http://www.fightingarts.com/reading/article.php?id=330

Budo and Business....Dispelling A Myth

http://www.fightingarts.com/reading/article.php?id=33

Hello Matt:

Any chance you could put a title over any of these wonderful links; give a context what the particular subject might be of the particular article?
Jeff

Thank you for posting these articles.

I'm thinking about possibly starting up my own dojo (someday, far, far into the future). These articles are a great resource and have been giving me lots of things to consider.

BTW: I particularly liked the article "Why Students Quit".

I did a review on small dojo big profits

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Rick

Hey...wasn't there a thread on this topic...between Budoc and Kintama.....???

Ah yes...here it is:

http://www.fightingarts.com/ubbthreads/s...rt=all&vc=1

i have a consultant, he got me to read this book, "good to great". is awesome, a little confusing because is not about martial arts, but business, and its good. www.goodtogreat.com

also, my brother is using gorilla marketing in 30 days. he's doing that right now in my school.

You might also try "The E-myth" by Michael Gerber.

http://www.e-myth.com/

Somebody might get some value out of going thu the articles over on www.24fightingchickens.com

The site owner has some really good and depending on your POV some really out of the box ideas about martial arts and business--and by "out of the box" I mean actually using normal business models and approachs to the martial arts.

The sections on how to run a karate club are gold.

Also some real food for thought about the motivation and reasons for opening and running a club/school.

You may read some opinions and POV that you seriously disagree with--but its a really good read none-the-less.

Here are some really good articles and videos on everything to do with running an MA school: http://www.championsway.com/promos/landing-pages/kick-start-your-school.html
The videos are by John Graden, Melody Shuman and Nick Dougherty. Good luck and enjoy!