| New students |
| Dear new student, welcome to Gilbert's Martial Arts Academy. Please, read the first steps you should take for your first successful free trial! First let me introduce myself. I'm Stephanie, the owner and head coach of Gilbert's Martial Arts Academy. On this welcome page I will explain to you the first little steps you will take in our little Martial Arts family. Even though we are real professionals, like a real family we also do have our little flaws as I will mention later at different points. Also as with real family communication is the key. This brings me to the first step you will take: 1. Call or e-mail me, Stephanie, at 717-701-3308 or stephanie@gma-academy.com to make your first appointment and wait for a confirmation, before coming in for your free try-out class. One thing that is typical for Gilbert's Martial Arts is the back and forth confirmation to make sure, everybody understood when and at what time an appointment is coming up. This eliminates miss-understandings. If you don't receive a confirmation, please, do not come in that day. There might be several reasons, why you can't come in. You will definitely receive an appointment on another day. If you do not receive a confirmation in a week, please try again. Somebody might be sick or in vacation. Once it happened already, that a message got lost, because somebody was in a hurry and pushed the wrong button and the answering messages were all gone. This happened only once the last 12 years, but it still could happen again. Especially with a little toddler and 10 quick little fingers. Please, keep that in mind. I would like to serve you the way you deserve, but if I never hear from you, I can't do that. For some reason especially new members are very vulnerable to those little flaws. However we're all human. If you are a new customer, keep in mind, that your first trial is for free and you do not need to pay unless you would like to stay with me. One more thing to the trials. I experience every once in a while, that a mom or dad calls in and says: "Can Johnny watch a class at your school?" I would like Johnny to participate rather than watch, because watching can get boring quickly. You also testdrive a new car before buying, right? You do not know, if you like it, by just looking at it. 2. After you came in and received your first free trial, you will most likely make the decision to stay with me. In that case you will choose how many days you would like to train, which determines your monthly tuition. Currently I am offering 4 times per month or unlimited classes, which you can take whenever you wish. You can take 1 per week on various days that you pick or you can take them all at once in the first, second, third, or fourth week, which comes in handy in a vacation. The unlimited version gives you as many classes as you wish. You can basically train until it knocks your socks off. After you made the decision how many times you would like to train, you sign the policy, which are our school rules (note, that we do not have monthly or yearly contracts, so you're not bound and can stop training any time you like), make your tuition payment, write yourself into our student book for the upcoming month and you're all set. The only thing you need to do now is come in and have fun. This is our easy 2-step sign up program! There are several important other points I would like you to know in addition to the 2-step sign up program! Payments: Before you read our tuition page, please read this. The most important thing for you to know right now, is that I am offering the lowest tuition payments from Lancaster all the way up to Lewistown and probably beyond. I did the research and can offer you a brochure with which you can do your own research, if you wish to do so. There are different tuition plans available and we do have an early bird, which is $10.00 cheaper per person. Your tuition needs to be paid until the 25th of the current month to receive the early bird tuition for the next month. Every new student will receive the early bird for the first month automatically, no matter what day of the month you enrolled. After that you need to keep an eye on the 25th to receive the early bird fee. Family memberships are also available. You need to ask for these memberships! The other nice thing is, that you do not have to come in everyday, if you're a busy person. You can if you like, but you don't have to. Most Martial Arts Academies offer one tremendous high fee and excuse it with "Well, you can come in on all these days to train." and they proudly show you their program with all those classes crammed in every day or almost every day. That's all nice and good, but most people do have a life. Also most Martial Arts Schools have the same high price no matter what age, so you pay $100 per month for a little child as well as for an adult. This is not right. At Gilbert's Martial Arts you will find lower prices for less training and/or younger ages, the way it should be. So, if you're still interested (and I'm confident you are), feel free to browse our entire homepage. We have impressive results to show with little kids as well as on tournaments locally and all over the world. Don't forget to call or e-mail me, Stephanie, for your first free trial: 717-701-3308 stephanie@gma-academy.com and welcome to the home of the champions at Gilbert's Martial Arts Academy Back to Intro |
| Gilbert's Martial Arts Academy 5900 Spring Road Shermans Dale, PA 17090 Contact: Stephanie Gilbert Cell: 717-701-3308 (Verizon) Home: 717-582-8859 between 8am-10am and 5pm-8pm only on this phone, please(EmbarQ) E-mail: stephanie@gma-academy.com |