Introduction and forum rules
Allie Alberigo has been a good friend of mine for many years. As a full time martial art instructor, he has been highly successful at not only teaching martial arts, but making it a profitable career. Starting with a small, 600 foot studio, he has grown into running 5 schools in the NYC area and grosses over 1 million a year. What impresses me about Allie is that he has been able to be successful while teaching traditional Japanese martial arts. He has not had to overly change the curriculum to satisfy the needs of his students. Many successful martial art studios put “business” before “budo” and in my opinion, has lost the essence of what the Japanese arts are.
Allie has agreed to host this forum and to share with you his strategy for building a successful martial art school. I
Forum Rules
1. Please only post questions related to running a martial art school.
2. Allie will try and answer all of your questions. He will most like be responding during the evening. Don’t expect an immediate response
John Lindsey
Oderint, dum metuant-Let them hate, so long as they fear.