The pandemic has taken a toll on businesses everywhere, but there’s good news: 72% of small business owners feel optimistic about the future of their business and are more prepared than ever to recover from and tackle any crisis that may come their way. Here are 3 things you can do to prepare your small business for the post-pandemic boom.  1. Write down your growth plans. Be ambitious!  Start at the end goal and work backwards. What do you want…

So you’ve started a martial arts studio. Now what’s the next step? Are you thinking about how you can enroll as many students as possible? Or how you can maximize your profits and increase your revenue? In this comprehensive guide to growing your martial arts business, you’ll find all the answers you need to grow your martial arts business and take it to the next level. 1. Cross-sell: What products can you sell alongside your classes?  One surefire way to…

When you think of subscription services, you may think of companies like Netflix, Spotify, or Hello Fresh. They’ve cemented their place in our lives by offering services that we can’t live without—and making payment for those services easy and automatic. Small businesses can learn from these payment models and, by extension, what frequent customers want from their providers. And if you offer a service where you could call any of your customers “regulars,” you too could adopt a subscription payment…

Building a successful business starts as a labor of love. Your business is like a child. And just like a child, you want to surround your business with the best of everything -- including the best software. When selecting software to support and grow your business, you should look for software that accommodates client information, billing, processing of payments, and scheduling. Ideally, these parts work in unison so that every client’s profile is complete and up-to-date when you look at…