This is a great time of the year to sit down and really make a plan for the new season to ensure that everyone who works for you is on the same page. As with all studio owners, there are …
Over the summer it is a great time to get out of the studio and mingle with people in your community. As a studio owner it is very easy to get stuck in the studio and never have an opportunity …
A Four-part Examination into a Special Subgroup
A Four-part Examination into a Special Subgroup
A vision is unique and personal to who you are and what you dream of. For your business it is the first place to start when looking to formulate what you hope to create! The last two months we have …
Making sure that your ballet classes are well structured is important for both you and your students. It is also extremely important that the content is age appropriate for both their physical and mental levels. So often I see young …
A logo is more than just a little design or your company name written in a fancy font. Logo design is a special skill, and there's no one definitive method that is better than the others. All good logos, however, …
Every studio has adults that want to dance. They may be former Students, mothers of students, former dancers or just housewives that dont like going to the gym to work out. Over the years we have experimented with a variety …
When creating different programs and classes for your studio one of the best places to start to look is through the eyes of your current customers. We are constantly searching for ways to better satisfy what the customer wants. Find …
As teachers, it really all begins and end with us! If a student, or even worse an entire class is not listening, not learning, not growing or not getting better, then the cold hard truth is that we may be …
Over the last few years as a judge and a choreographer on the competition circuit, I have noticed a dramatic increase in performances using inappropriate content. Fellow judges, teachers and audience members have recently expressed discomfort during performances that contain …
Last month we started to look at the overall plan to make your studio better. We wrote about the Evaluation part and how every year we have meetings with our staff, talk to customers and take a long hard look …
Your ability to operate your dance studio as a business is the main determining factor of your profitability. To help you sharpen this ability, here are seven significant principles that every business owner needs to follow. They are relevant and …
When you ask most dance teachers why they like to teach and what they get out of it, you will most likely hear in their response the word passion. As teachers, it is a key element that we all possess. …
I find that the summer is a great time to sit down and really take some time to plan classes for the fall. For our pre-school age children we offer two fifteen week sessions and so I like to make …
I try to constantly encourage my students to get out of their comfort zone. As a matter of fact I try to get them to feel uncomfortable at times. I want them to be in an area of movement and …
