Work your ass off at keeping records of where each new student or better each lead [be they called and never came in or came in and never joined] came from. This will help you to put the maximum effort into areas that is gaining you maximum exposure...
Work on building a dojo of Karateka not of kyokushin K/D fighters...
Kyokushin is first and for-most a style of Karate well before it is K/D fighting. If it was not then we would not have kata, kihons or rank ...
Believe in yourself, but don't be blinded by yourself. You will and do make errors and need to adjust to fix them.
Be present and available for the parents of the kids to talk to and discuss how each of them are doing.
Be aware that for a very high percentage of dojo's [of all styles] in USA 80% of the students is under 13!!! That is where you need to target and focus on, even if you don't like to teach kids!!!
AND remember to teach kids as kids not small adults...
Talk to each student who quites to find out why, you may find out that 50% will come back do to the reason they left was not your fault, and if it is you can learn from the reason they did.
Remember it is a business first, without paying customers you can't keep the doors open!
Then as the Sensei teach them wisely and with balance gaining their trust because you are teaching with dignity and good ethics in mind.
You can balance business with ideologies just a matter of seeing what does what and when it does it...
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