Re: Finding Students..
Posted: Wed Jun 20, 2018 5:42 am
Keep in mind that you are advertising to a niche audience.
The good news is that this is easier to do today than it has ever been.
I would also advise looking closely at how BK Frantzis, Tom Bisio and Mantak Chia advertise. Regardless of the quality of their instruction and reputation in the community, they have all been very successful finding students and teaching similar material. Since sword work is a significant part of what you are doing look up Scott Rodell. He is probably the leading Chinese swordsmanship guy in the US and has put together a small Chinese sword fighting league.
The book, video and seminar combination seems to be the most workable combination for making a living. Forming a local practice group seems to work from a perspective of having practice partners and generally covers costs. Unless you want to teach kids and sell frequent promotion belts making money at anything other than MMA is going to be difficult.
And as others have mentioned here, look into the whole multimedia approach (Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, etc.). As a very good photographer and someone who is fairly photogenic, you can leverage these mediums more effectively than most. And make that an hour a day investment of your time.
If you are going to teach regular classes and seminars, come to terms early on that 90% of the people there are simply participating as a form of entertainment and won't practice outside of class/improve much. Maybe 1 in 10 will make any real effort. The rest of the people pay your bills though.
The good news is that this is easier to do today than it has ever been.
I would also advise looking closely at how BK Frantzis, Tom Bisio and Mantak Chia advertise. Regardless of the quality of their instruction and reputation in the community, they have all been very successful finding students and teaching similar material. Since sword work is a significant part of what you are doing look up Scott Rodell. He is probably the leading Chinese swordsmanship guy in the US and has put together a small Chinese sword fighting league.
The book, video and seminar combination seems to be the most workable combination for making a living. Forming a local practice group seems to work from a perspective of having practice partners and generally covers costs. Unless you want to teach kids and sell frequent promotion belts making money at anything other than MMA is going to be difficult.
And as others have mentioned here, look into the whole multimedia approach (Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, etc.). As a very good photographer and someone who is fairly photogenic, you can leverage these mediums more effectively than most. And make that an hour a day investment of your time.
If you are going to teach regular classes and seminars, come to terms early on that 90% of the people there are simply participating as a form of entertainment and won't practice outside of class/improve much. Maybe 1 in 10 will make any real effort. The rest of the people pay your bills though.