There are a thousand things you can do to grow your jiu-jitsu gym. Paid ads, billboards, social media, referral programs, Google reviews, a new logo, a new website.
And almost none of them matter until you answer one question.
In this episode of the Grapple Growth Show, I break down the single biggest reason most BJJ and MMA gym owners feel stuck — and what to actually do about it.
You're going to learn:
→ Why "doing more" is the wrong instruction when you're overwhelmed
→ The one question that cuts through the noise of marketing advice
→ Why "near me" search is the highest-intent audience your gym will ever have access to
→ The leaky bucket problem that's quietly killing your marketing spend
→ Why the website and Google profile are the foundation everything else runs on
→ How to get the time back that you opened the gym to have in the first place This is the first thesis episode of the Grapple Growth Show.
If you run a BJJ or MMA gym, this is the video that puts the rest of your marketing decisions in order.
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ABOUT GRAPPLE GROWTH Grapple Growth is a smart website agency built specifically for BJJ and MMA gym owners. We handle the digital foundation — websites, local SEO, Google Business Profile optimization, review automation, missed-call text-back, and free trial booking systems — so gym owners can stop drowning in the business side and get back to teaching, training, and competing.
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ABOUT TANNER I'm Tanner Sullivant. Brown belt, military veteran, founder of Grapple Growth. I built this agency because I'm one of you — a practitioner who wanted to keep training the way I want to train, and who saw too many gym owners losing leads they never knew they had.