ATTN: Martial Arts School Owners

Discover the secrets of how I grew my school from two locations to six with over 2000 students:

Be a resource to your community

Have a bigger impact on your students

Get invited into schools

Increase enrollments and retention

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Help your kids become “bully-proof” by becoming your community’s exclusive Certified Bully Expert

My name is Master Chan Lee and I’m a martial arts school owner in Milwaukee, WI. My father, Grandmaster J.K. Lee, started our business in 1975 and I took over the reins in 1996.

Back in 2008, I was a “copycat” local business owner — I ran my school the same way as almost every other martial arts school owner.

I knew these methods backward and forward because, for most of the 2000 decade, I’d been a ravenous student of how to best run a local youth-focused local business. I joined several group-coaching programs, attended tons of seminars, and had a room full of home-study courses.

I was faithfully doing what all of the gurus were telling me to do and, while my results were OK, that was my rub — they were just OK. Here I was busting it every day, using methods that made me feel like a sleazy car salesman, and new students were only trickling in.

Then I was introduced to three renowned experts from outside of the martial arts industry and my world changed.

As a result of the training, help, and advice I got from these three professionals, I started taking some radically different approaches to how I promoted my school. I effectively abandoned almost everything I’d been taught previously — and my school’s growth exploded.

Today I have six locations (with more to come) and over 2,000 students. It’s been an incredible ride — and I don’t expect things to slow down anytime soon.

“Educational Marketing”

Given my school’s incredible growth, I thought I had some expertise to offer other martial arts school owners. Therefore, with a couple of partners, I formed the Martial Arts Marketing Network in 2007.

At some point, you should learn about everything this company does to help martial arts schools grow (that I’ve used at my school to go from two to six locations — with no cheesy gimmicks), but here I want to tell you about just one of our flagship products.

To do this, let me first explain the concept of educational marketing that the three professionals mentioned above drove into my head. Here’s what they told me:

Master Lee, the parents you want to attract to your school are those who are looking for a school to best help their child period. They arent looking for someone dressing up in a panda suit, spinning a gift wheel, or using some other cheesy sales tactic to get new students.

This really hit home for me because helping kids is why I decided (after graduating from college) to make a career out of martial arts.

They went on to say, “To attract those kinds of parents, you need to be seen in the Milwaukee community as the recognized authority in youth character development — and the ONLY way to accomplish this is by devoting your marketing resources towards being an educator, rather than an advertiser.

Around that same time, I had the opportunity to take a series of classes on how to best manage conflict from a team of police trainers. Since almost all physical confrontations start with verbal and non-verbal interactions, this skill is critical for any law enforcement professional. 

The principles and tactics I learned in this training had been proven for over 40 years to work in managing conflict with the most violent of criminals. I thought if it worked there, why wouldnt it work as well with kids being bullied.

So, I approached these trainers with an idea — what if I took their curriculum, meant for professionals in law enforcement, and adapted it for kids?

The trainers loved this idea so we started working together to develop a youth-focused anti-bullying curriculum. It took a couple of years of collaboration and testing to work through the kinks but, ultimately, we had a program that really worked.

Frankly, the results were far beyond my expectations.

I’d Been A Fool

Everything I’d taught previously about bullying I had learned from MSU University (making *$#%* up university). The conflict management law enforcement trainers let me know that what I thought was good stuff was ALL WRONG.

I’d clearly been a fool. I’d been playing with my students’ lives with advice that either I’d made up or someone else concocted who had no authoritative background in conflict management.

Once I started teaching the right stuff, the impact on my students was stunning. I literally saw kids being bullied one day and, after learning just a couple of our concepts, had the bullying stop the following day. Then, the results over time were even more incredible. 

Seeing this happen was incredibly rewarding but actually, the bigger deal for my school was what this new anti-bullying program did for my credibility. I went from being the local “Karate Guy to being the recognized anti-bullying authority.

Frankly, I was astonished by the impact of my newfound credibility as the anti-bullying expert. I was selected to receive Milwaukee’s prestigious 40 under 40 award, I had the opportunity to do an anti-bullying promotion with the Milwaukee Bucks, I was asked to do an anti-bullying talk at school principal conferences, I was repeatedly invited to be a guest on local TV programs, and I received referrals from local school resource officers.

My experience was so incredible (student impact, increased enrollments, and getting into schools), it was a no-brainer to turn this program into a product to offer to other local business owners who work with kids. As a result, The Bully Expert program was launched in 2010 at the Martial Arts SuperShow in Las Vegas.

Life-Changing Results

Since then, hundreds of youth leaders have been certified as a Bully Expert with exclusive territories (note: as a result, many territories are taken and not available) — and over a million kids have had their lives changed by learning to use the principles and tactics taught in our curriculum.

I confidently say “lives changed” because this program isn’t just an anti-bullying program — it’s actually a life skills program that’s heads and shoulders above any other program out there (and I’ve seen almost all of them).

Once a youth leader is certified as the Bully Expert in their community, they have the exclusive rights to:

  • Incorporate the anti-bullying principles and tactics into their curriculum for kids, parents, and adults
  • Give anti-bullying talks and workshops at their local schools
  • Offer anti-bullying presentations and workshops within their community

In addition, by learning and teaching the material, our Bully Experts become exceptional role models for effectively managing conflict with their kids, with their parents, and in their personal life. This program develops an individual’s knowledge, skills, and abilities to interact with anyone — in person, by phone, or in writing — and to

  • recognize threat indicators that may compromise safety
  • identify gateway behaviors that can be a precursor to violence
  • engage with others in ways to maximize safety without unnecessary escalation
  • end interactions better than they started and with a positive foundation for future contact
  • resolve refusals and de-escalate verbal confrontations
  • stay safe and promote recovery in crisis situations
  • recognize when verbal methods have failed and it is necessary to take further action
  • articulate the reasons for taking action

After teaching this program since 2008, I’ve seen the lasting impact this program has on kids during their journey to adulthood.

In addition, I’ve seen the positive results this program has had on my parents, our school culture, and our level of customer service (it turns out that having my staff know conflict management principles and tactics led to much-improved interactions with our customers).

Comprehensive Update In 2017

In early 2017, we decided that, despite how great the original program was, an updated program needed to be developed to capture everything we’ve learned about anti-bullying training over the prior seven years. After training more than a million kids at hundreds of youth-focused organizations, we had learned a lot.

An initial version this program was completed in the fall of 2017 and put into a final form early in 2018 after months of refinements, based on feedback on the initial version from our current certified Bully Experts.

Become your community’s exclusive Bully Expert by getting certified to teach a professional youth anti-bullying curriculum that is

  • based on the conflict management principles and tactics used by law enforcement professionals for over 40 years

  • proven effective — since 2010 — by hundreds of youth-focused organizations, and with over a million students taught

  • thoroughly updated to reflect everything we have learned about how kids can confidently prevent and manage bullying

When you couple this with the word-of-mouth enthusiasm of kids and parents who are exposed to the program (as well as the media attention in which this enthusiasm often results), our Bully Experts rapidly become known as their community’s recognized anti-bullying authority.

Also, because our Bully Experts are given exclusive territories, they have no competition. They are the ONLY source of this highly-credible and proven Bully Expert curriculum for preventing and managing bullying.

The explosive results include increased student enrollments and retention, ready access to local schools, attention-getting media exposure, and enhanced credibility as an authoritative character-development expert.

Bullying is one of the biggest issues facing kids, parents, schools and youth-focused local businesses and everybody is scrambling for answers. And the answers they are finding (e.g., ignore it, walk away, fight back, tell the teacher) don’t work because they’re based on myths and opinions instead of real-world experience.

How to apply and, if you’re accepted, what’s included

We have specific standards for individuals to become certified Bully Experts and not all territories are still available in our exclusive network. Therefore, we require individuals to go through a simple application process.

To apply, please fill out the form at the bottom of this page and we’ll get back to you with our determination within a couple of days.

Then, if you’re accepted and decide to sign up, here’s what you’ll get:

1. Local area exclusivity. We only allow one martial arts school to be certified as The Bully Expert in each community

2. Access to our online Verbal Martial Arts Course, which includes:

  • Eight anti-bullying video lessons (each less than ten minutes long) where I (Chan Lee) train you on what to teach and how to teach it. Included with each lesson are written key points from the video and a downloadable one-page overview of the lesson to provide to your parents (named “Car Talks” because they include an assignment for parents to complete with their child while driving).
  • For each lesson, a five to ten-minute video where I demonstrate — in an actual class — exactly how to teach that lesson
  • Cyberbullying lesson — what it is, how to prevent it and what to do about it once it happens
  • Six modules that, via eighty minutes of audio and transcribed text, provide you with the fundamentals of Vistelar’s Conflict Management Framework™ and Systemized Structure of Tactics for preventing and managing conflict at the point of impact. This section covers these topics:
    • Foundations
    • Conflict Triggers
    • Non-Escalation
    • De-Escalation
    • Ending An Interaction
    • Fundamentals Review

The information in these six modules will help you develop a deeper understanding of the anti-bullying information from the previous module. The information in these modules will enhance your knowledge, skills, and abilities to deliver this program to kids.

This information will also provide you with a solid foundation for you to talk with parents about how to help their children prevent and manage bullying.

In addition, you’ll find that this information will help you better manage conflict in your professional and personal lives and help you deliver exceptional customer service within your business.

  • Downloadable certificate of completion, suitable for framing

The entire course takes less than three hours to go through.

3. Access to our online Bully Expert marketing resource, which includes:

  • Video of me (Chan Lee) teaching a 45-minute anti-bullying workshop
  • Training — via video, audio and text — on how to use Verbal Martial Arts to increase student enrollments, enhance student retention, get into schools, and generate media attention.
  • Downloadable marketing materials you can customize and print locally
  • Bully Expert backgrounder and press releases to provide to your local media

4. The Bully Expert search-engine optimized website, that positions you as the anti-bullying authority in your community and which includes our “Anti-Bullying Toolkit” as a lead-generation magnet.

5. Anti-bullying posts (articles, images, videos) added to your Bully Expert website and social media accounts at least once per week to give your school “anti-bullying authority” status within your local community.

Value-Added Bonuses

1. Box of publications shipped to your business to support your learning and for use to enhance your credibility when talking with parents and others within your business. In this shipment, you will receive:

  • Bound transcripts of the anti-bullying video lessons in the online program (eight modules), to provide you with a written reference of the content covered in these videos
  • Vistelar’s Conflict Management Workbook, which can be used in conjunction with the six-module conflict management section of the online program
  • Bound version of the eight parent “Car Talks”
  • These published books
    • Conflict Management For Everyday Life: How to Prevent and Manage the Inevitable Conflict in Your Work and Personal Life
    • Conflict Management For Campus Life: The Must-Have Safety Resource for Every College and College-Bound Student
    • Conflict Management For Sports Officials: Practical Tips for Staying Out of the CrossFire and Keeping Peace During the Game
  • This published manual: Conflict Management For Martial Arts Schools
  • Ten Non-Escalation De-Escalation reminder cards

2. Listing of your school on the national http://www.BetterKidsInstitute.com websites, with a link back to your local martial arts school website.

Again, the first step to becoming your community’s recognized anti-bullying authority is to apply so we can determine if you meet our standards and if your area is still available in our exclusive network of certified Bully ExpertsJust fill out and submit the form below and we’ll get back to you within a couple of business days.

Note, this application is just meant to ensure we aren’t wasting your time if you don’t meet our standards or your area is already taken. It doesn’t create any obligation to sign up. If we decide you should not be one of our Bully Experts, we’ll let you know right away. However, if you are accepted, then we can get on the phone to discuss if becoming your community’s Bully Expert makes sense for you.