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Beginner Pointe Lesson Plan

Check out this great beginner lesson plan for your first year pointe students by Angela D'Valda Sirico

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Best Way to Sell at Your Front Desk

Your front desk needs to serve a variety of purposes. As a result it is important to train anyone who is working at your front desk to be a reflection of you and your philosophies.

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The Top Seven Marketing Ideas for Your Dance Studio!!

Marketing is the key to building your business. If you are not where you want to be as far as your numbers go, don't worry, it may be that you need to boost your marketing efforts. You know that and …

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THREE THINGS YOU CAN DO FOR YOUR DANCERS MOVING FORWARD

As we emerge from COVID-19 and embark on our, “new normal,” we are all looking forward to being back together in the studio, however different it may look. While Zoom classes were a lifesaver, a “filler,” to keep our students …

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BRINGING DIVERSTIY TO YOUR DANCE CURRICULUM

Ballet. Tap. Jazz. That's the very basic core curriculum for many dance studios. While a well-rounded dance education is key for nurturing a well-rounded dancer, many times the idioms included in their training lack cultural diversity. Including multicultural dance in …

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I Can, I Will... End Of Story!

Now more than ever we as business owners need to have an “I can” and “I will” mindset. Sometimes we may even have to fake it a bit but as the saying goes “Fake it until you make it!” This …

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HOW TO PROMOTE HEALTHY COMPETITION & CAMARADERIE EQUALLY

In a time when we are trying to promote unity and fair play, consideration and support, an end to bullying and equality among ALL of our children, the idea of our dance students “competing amongst one another” is a tricky …

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The Six Million Dollar Question

Would you like fries with that? That's an expression McDonalds made famous. I wonder how much money those six little words have been worth to them over the past several decades...it has to be in the billions.

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How You Follow Up Will Make A BIG Difference To Your Bottom…

What happens after you receive a phone call from a prospective customer requesting information about your school? Do you send out a brochure and schedule? Then, what do you do next? I have found that most small businesses especially dance …

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8 QUESTIONS TO BUILDING AN EFFECTIVE SUMMER INTENSIVE

Lining up your summer intensive schedule can be as daunting as your yearly schedule as there is a lot to include in a condensed amount of time. With the addition of Covid-19 to consider, there are even more things think …

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Setting Good Examples as Dance Teachers

As dance teachers who spend countless hours with our students in the studio week after week and year after year, it’s sometimes easy for the lines of the relationship to blur in terms of dance teacher to student vs. friend …

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7 Tips On How To Make A Positive Impression With Your Custo…

With the new season of dance upon us this is the time of year to meet new customers and reconnect wit your current ones. When you have a chance to meet your customers face to face this is a great …

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TECHNOLOGY IS NOT A SUBSTITUTE FOR MEMORY

I have a new rule in class- you are not allowed to bring in your phones to video a rehearsal while learning choreography. This hasn’t always been the case, in fact videoing is in fact quite helpful (for myself included) …

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How to Handle an Angry Customer

When a customer has a complaint, you have an opportunity to strengthen your relationship! None of us want a problem with one of our customers but as this season gets underway there is a very real possibility that sooner or …

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TWO SIMPLE EXERCISES TO ENHANCE PORT DE BRAS

We all come across dance students that lack the strength and flexibility to sustain a proper port de bras position. Whether it be the non-engagement of the shoulders and back, not pulling up, the drooping elbows or the sole initiation …

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THE DANCE TEACHER EVALUATION

So another season is just about in the books. We believe this is a good time of year to reflect back over the past twelve months to see what we were able to accomplish not only in our work lives …

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