The 3 Numbers That Build a Million-Dollar Martial Arts School
A million-dollar martial arts school comes down to three numbers: dropout under 2% a month, 100 leads a month, and 20 enrollments a month — at the right revenue per student.
Stephen Oliver, MBA, is a 10th Degree Black Belt and the founder of Mile High Karate and Martial Arts Wealth Mastery. He is CEO of NAPMA and publisher of Martial Arts Professional, and has coached hundreds of martial arts school, BJJ, and MMA gym owners to build profitable, premium schools. A martial arts school owner since 1975, he is the author of several books on martial arts business growth.
A million-dollar martial arts school comes down to three numbers: dropout under 2% a month, 100 leads a month, and 20 enrollments a month — at the right revenue per student.
If you are charging $150 a month for jiu-jitsu, you are leaving real money on the mat. Here is the pricing-tier and student-value math that fixes it.
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Inflation never stops raising your costs. Here’s the Inflation-Indexed Tuition System for pricing premium, raising rates on new vs. existing students, and protecting your margin.
After 40+ years measuring the numbers, I found exciting classes don’t drive retention – structure does. Here are the two real secrets, expanded into a full retention system.
Students quit when their motivation tank runs empty and nobody refuels it. Here’s the Full Tank Retention System for spotting at-risk students early and re-motivating them before they drop out.
The five beliefs that secretly limit your martial arts school — and the Myth-to-Reality Reset that breaks them so growth gets dramatically easier.
Pricing is the fastest lever to a million-dollar martial arts school. Here is the Value-First Tuition Ladder — premium tuition, the 12-month Trial Enrollment, and the math that cuts the students you need in half.
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