My School's Website and Newsletter

[OlgaNor]

Hi everyone,

I have been building a website for my school and it is now up and running. Recently, we've added tons of new tricks to it, including a great feature that allows you to sign up for our newsletter, event notices!and special offers.

Our newsletter has been growing and is a great source of information about the Arts, our Dojo and upcoming activities. Last week, in the Seminars section of this forum I posted an anouncement about our Seminar that's coming up!on July 14th in the Washington, DC Metro area, I am pretty excited and maybe will to get to meet some of you in person.

We are having great success with our site. The number of visits and positive feedback seem to be doubling each month as we have exceed 750,000 hits!in the last 16 months and the counter is clicking.

Please check out my school's site at www.camausa.com. <http://www.camausa.com> Feel free to use our newsletter sign up feature, I installed it and think it's pretty cool. It's totally free.

Anyway, I am just one of the students at the dojo and it's site was the first one I ever built—so you can understand how excited I am to see it grow. I am curous to find out whether your schools have websites, what purpose they serve if any, and how successful they are.The internet is a great way to deliver information to anyone anywhere—quite a few students joined our school because they found our site and were intrigued by the information it contained.

So please share how does your site do, is it a major source for obtaining new students, do you use it to share information about your dojo or is it just a simple page to let people know you're in the MA world?

Look forward to learning more about other school's sites and hearing about your web successes.

Olga

[Aozora]

This seems to qualify as spam. Check out their bio page http://www.camausa.com/BBcouncil.html then check out our Ugly section on e-budo.

[pgsmith]

Hello Olga,
A couple of things .... First, this forum is about Japanese martial arts. The only connection that I can see between your group and Japanese martial arts is that your group has used a couple of Japanese terms. Other than that you seem to be just another eclectic American invention. Second, the vast majority of Japanese martial arts schools aren't very interested in large numbers of students or making themselves well known. Most are quite traditional and are only there to pass on what was learned, not to grow into a large organization.

That being said, from a traditional point of view it looks to me like you are trying to sell something, like used cars maybe. The colors and layout make it look very commercial, and that is something that most Japanese martial arts attempt to avoid. I think you would do much better asking for input on other forums.