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BjjBrick Quick 60 Customer Service, You Are in the Business
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Epi 347 Taking Care of Business
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In this episode we bring you Jason Neef of Kicksite. Jason has a great background in helping BJJ schools run effectively as a business. During this time of covid19 Jason offers advice for owners of BJJ gyms.
We talk about:
- What to do and not do if you are low or out of money
- Closing the gym
- What to do with your employees
- How to treat your students
- Bringing value to your students
- Video content
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- Your First Year of Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu
- Six BJJ Training Games to Play While Rolling
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Epi 149 Employees & BJJ with CEO Brown Belt Brent Lillard
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Brent Lillard is a brown belt that co-founded a business called Govsmart in 2010, selling IT products to the government. Govsmart is a 69 million dollar business and was listed as number 20 on the Forbes list of America’s Most Promising Companies. Brent credits much of culture of his business and the team to the fact that many of them train Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu.
Brent Lillard (photo by Alex Brown)
We talk about:
- How Govsmart was started
- Some of his perfected methods and techniques of taring
- Keeping it playful vs keeping it real
- Why the basic techniques are so important
- How BJJ became a part of Govsmart culture
- The incentive program for employees to do BJJ
- How he brings a new employee to try the mats
- A comparison between the culture of BJJ and the corporate world
- The story of an employee that lost 160lbs
- Other team building activities for work
- Dealing with an employee with a bad attitude
- How BJJ has effected turnover of employees
- Selling the idea of doing BJJ to employees
- Training with a busy work schedule
- Training safely
- Personality traits that do well in BJJ
Links:
Quote of the week: “Correction does much, but encouragement does more.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Article of the week: 5 lessons to learn as a white belt that will be worth for your entire Jiu-Jitsu journey
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Epi 15 The Business side of Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu
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This week we talk to Shawn about the business side of Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu. We get some great advice from Shawn about how to start your own gym or help make it more profitable. We also get some advice for professional athletes, and how they can save some money. He give some advice on where to go to get help making a business plan.
Shawn also gives tips about using social media to promote your business.
Quote of the week: “If you work hard and smart, you will be successful in life” Renato Tavares
Links
Article of the week: Bjjee.com 20 warning signs of a BJJ McDojo
SCKEDD.org this website is for Kansas but there are economic development sights like this for every state.
SBA.gov this website can help you get your business off and running, for free.
If you need to contact Shawn email him here shawnr@cuofamerica.com