The Endorsed-Marketing Playbook: How to Turn Someone Else’s List Into Your Next 100 Students
The exact questions to ask any business, club, or organization sitting on a pile of your ideal prospects.
Grand Master Stephen Oliver, MBA, is a 10th Degree Black Belt and the Founder and CEO of Mile High Karate and Martial Arts Wealth Mastery, one of the martial arts industry's leading coaching and consulting organizations for professional martial arts school owners, BJJ academies, and MMA gyms. A martial arts school owner since 1975 and business coach since 1985, Oliver has spent more than five decades building, operating, and advising successful martial arts schools. He also serves as CEO and Chairman of NAPMA (the National Association of Professional Martial Artists) and Publisher of Martial Arts Professional magazine. A Georgetown University cum laude graduate, he earned his Executive MBA through the Executive Program at the Daniels College of Business at the University of Denver. He was promoted to 10th Degree Black Belt in April 2026 and inducted into the Official Taekwondo Hall of Fame in August 2026. Learn more at MartialArtsWealth.com and StephenCOliver.com.
The exact questions to ask any business, club, or organization sitting on a pile of your ideal prospects.
Master martial arts school marketing: Facebook ad ROI math, retargeting lists, free vs. paid offers, automated direct mail, and gifting that drives enrollments.
Six weeks, six enrollment systems, 100 new students. Stephen Oliver lays out the 42-Day Blitz Map — the week-by-week campaign structure that adds $20,000+ in monthly recurring revenue with little or no ad budget.
Adults join your school to lose 20 pounds — they stay for confidence, discipline, and focus. The Come-Stay Bridge is the five-span system that turns adult fitness buyers into lifetime martial arts students.
Likes don’t enroll students. The Vacuum-First Media Map shows martial arts school owners how to turn social media into a direct-response enrollment engine — interest-first targeting, message-matched landing pages, phone-first conversion, and a social-proof moat.
Most school owners start the new year running last year’s plan. The Annual Reset Sequence is Stephen Oliver’s five-step annual planning process: audit your assumptions, reorder your budget, rebuild 20 enrollment pillars, upgrade your follow-up stack, and upgrade your peer group.
A million-dollar martial arts school is $83,333 a month — about 300 students at premium tuition. Here’s the five-layer Proof Stack that shows why the numbers nobody believes are real.
Back-to-school is one of the three peak enrollment seasons of the year. The 12-in-6 Method compresses a full year of marketing into the six weeks around the first school bell — reactivating every old lead, owning the school calendar, and tripling your media — to add 100 students fast.
Stephen Oliver takes school owners backstage at Walt Disney World and translates its systems, culture, and customer experience into the Show-Ready School System — five components every martial arts school can install.
A behind-the-scenes look at how $100K-a-month martial arts schools actually run: day-one qualification framing, floor-sold renewals, leadership pipelines, and a 12-month marketing calendar — the Six-Cylinder $100K Engine.
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