Category: Industry Expert Content
Dance Studio Growth: 5 Ways To Support And Connect To Your Studio
Whether your studio is in its first season, its fifteenth, or its fiftieth, chances are you want to see it grow! And when I say “grow” I’m talking about making real progress, ...
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3 Best Practices For Coaching Your Dance Studio Staff
By now your studio’s season is officially in full swing and your classes are humming along. Your students and their families are getting used to their new dance schedules, school ...
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4 Ways to Boost Dance Studio Retention Early In The Season
You’ve held your open house. You’ve put out your back-to-school social media campaigns. You’ve advertised in a local parenting publication. If you’re like me, you are feeling like ...
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Six Keys to a Successful Dance Studio Open House
It could be the BIGGEST promotional day of the year at your studio...the open house! You know you want your studio to look its best, and you know you want to positively engage ...
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Dance Recital Prep: It’s The Final Countdown
It’s biggest day of the year for your families. If your students are like mine, they are raring to go! And it’s easy to see why when you consider all of the hard work they have ...
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Don’t Miss Promotional Opportunities at Your Recital!
Literally speaking, producing a recital is the act of looking back and showing what you have learned or accomplished over the course of a school year. It’s all about making great ...
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Studio Owner Dance Recital Checklist: 4 Weeks Out
I remember it so clearly...during one of my early years of studio ownership, I was sitting at the kitchen table with my head in my hands, completely paralyzed and overwhelmed. We ...
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Making the Most of Your Studio Dance Recital
Of the many hats studio owners wear, one of the most important ones is that of a marketer for our business. In fact, if you think of all of the ways you have marketed your studio ...
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Dance Class Size: Why 9 Students Are Much Less Profitable Than 8
About seven years ago I was a partner in a business that managed five daycare centers. It was an excellent learning experience, but one lesson continues to rise above the rest: ...
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4 New Ways to Increase Dance School Registration
When I was a child and my mom went to enroll me in dance classes, there was only ONE OPTION: sign up for a weekly class for an entire school year. In fact, enrolling in a weekly, ...
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Three Ways to Evaluate Your Dance School Enrollment
As I travel the country talking to studio owners the question I hear exchanged more often than any other is some version of: “How big is your studio?” I understand the motivation ...
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Dance Studio Teacher Staff Meetings That ROCK
The school supply lists are posted at Target, the mailbox is filling up with registration paperwork for my children’s schools and Facebook is blowing up with pictures of kids in ...
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First Impressions Still Matter
In business we call it “first impressions.” Psychologists call it “thin slicing.” Regardless of what you call it, career experts say it takes just three seconds for someone to ...
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Summer Dance Camps and More: Filling Hours at Your Studio
To borrow a made up word by one of my favorite bloggers, Glennon Doyle Melton, Summer is a BRUTIFUL season at the dance studio. BRUTIFUL? Yes. Beautiful + brutal = brutiful. ...
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Dance Studio Registration: Back-to-School Starts TODAY!
It’s mid-April, right? If you own a dance studio, that’s not EXACTLY true. It may be the middle of April on your Google calendar, but if you are like me, your mind is somewhere ...
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