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    The Conscious Business Model: A People-First Approach to Building a Martial Arts Club

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    Phill Payne March 23, 2026
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    Marketing VS Retention

    Which is most important to grow your martial arts club, marketing or retention?

    OK, I admit it, the title ‘Marketing or retention’ is a little clickbaity and most people running a martial arts club will probably have realised…

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    Phill Payne January 20, 2022
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    Teen walking up stairs to success

    Building your Martial Arts Coach Development Pathway

    In the developed world, most children are in school full time for 12-13 years, but you don’t emerge from school as a teacher. If you…

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    Phill Payne January 5, 2022
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    Mission, Vision and Values Signpost

    Creating a positive club culture with a shared Mission vision and values

    Your club has a culture. You may not have constructed it consciously or even have any guiding documents describing it, but it’s there. Documenting your…

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    Phill Payne October 21, 2021
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    Kids martial arts playing

    12 ways our young kids martial arts programme helped us pass 200 members in our first 12 months

    It is now two decades since Kimber Hill (now Tyree) released her young kids martial arts programme (Lil Dragons) into the martial arts world. This…

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    Phill Payne September 9, 2021
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    Members of different stages in the Participation Development Model

    Build A member and staff pipeline using a Participation Development Model

    A participation development model can help you map out your programme and how they fit together. Once you master your marketing and you can successfully…

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    Phill Payne April 8, 2021
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    Lil Dragon vs Skillz VS MAPLE

    Introduction Children’s martial arts programmes have been available since around the year 2000 when Melody Johnson (was Shuman) introduced her Little Ninja’s programme and Kimber…

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    Phill Payne October 24, 2020
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    12 benefits of having a childrens martial arts programme?

    I put a lot of the success of our clubs down to having a great childrens martial arts programme. When we first moved our small…

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    Phill Payne October 18, 2020
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    Martial Arts School, Club, Academy Or Children’s Development Centre?

    Do you call your martial arts service a school, a club, an academy, a children’s development centre? Do you want to be classed as ‘School’?…

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    Phill Payne September 15, 2020
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    What is MAPLE?

    MAPLE stands for Martial Arts Physical Literacy Engine and is the framework Coach Phill Payne has been working on for over a decade.  The term…

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    Phill Payne September 10, 2020
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