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**Thifiadardivy** · 06-13-2007, 01:57 AM

Back to the topic,

Paburo is very right, practically all of our new memebers come from our website, it has made a huge difference as they can enroll online. Having a top of the page google sponsored link has also helped a lot.

The intention of those ideas (maybe not the best of ideas after all) is not to make Kendo affordable per se, but to make it visible to a wider audience. If you have several people in the Dojo working in large organisations that might be of help in spreading the word.

Oten times new members come in saying 'I had no idea you did Kendo in Ireland, it was great to find the website'. In my case, I always wanted to do budo but would not get of my a**e, until I saw a BBC documentary and said to myself 'I must look into it...'. I think is the same with a lot of people, if you make it visible it can be a sort of gentle reminder.

I do agree about some of people's reactions when you try to evangelize, the go along these lines:

Sweet, Kenpo, is kick ass!!, good for you... (reply: 'no, no, Kendo') what?
(Mentioned above) Look at you funny and change the subject, I reckon they get flashing images of you walking into the office naked wielding a smurai sword babbling about being 'the chosen one'
So you are a stick fighter then?

My point was that people here do Pilates and Yoga/join the gym just because is available as an employee benefit, why not jump in that bandwagon?

06-13-2007, 01:57 AM	#16
Thifiadardivy Join Date Nov 2005 Posts 552 Senior Member	Back to the topic, Paburo is very right, practically all of our new memebers come from our website, it has made a huge difference as they can enroll online. Having a top of the page google sponsored link has also helped a lot. The intention of those ideas (maybe not the best of ideas after all) is not to make Kendo affordable per se, but to make it visible to a wider audience. If you have several people in the Dojo working in large organisations that might be of help in spreading the word. Oten times new members come in saying 'I had no idea you did Kendo in Ireland, it was great to find the website'. In my case, I always wanted to do budo but would not get of my a**e, until I saw a BBC documentary and said to myself 'I must look into it...'. I think is the same with a lot of people, if you make it visible it can be a sort of gentle reminder. I do agree about some of people's reactions when you try to evangelize, the go along these lines: Sweet, Kenpo, is kick ass!!, good for you... (reply: 'no, no, Kendo') what? (Mentioned above) Look at you funny and change the subject, I reckon they get flashing images of you walking into the office naked wielding a smurai sword babbling about being 'the chosen one' So you are a stick fighter then? My point was that people here do Pilates and Yoga/join the gym just because is available as an employee benefit, why not jump in that bandwagon?
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