Business Building Part II

The Marketing Plan That Works

Business Building Part I

New Year, New Goals, New Plan!

Developing a Pricing Strategy

'How much should I charge?' 'What do you charge for classes?' These are questions I have been asked by many new and experienced dance school owners. Charging either too little or too much may produce the same results: difficulty luring …

Getting Ahead Of Your Competition

How To Build Word-of-Mouth Referrals

The priceless recommendations are more important than any other marketing you do.

To Get More Business, Focus On The Customers

A lot of advertising focuses on the company that is trying to get your business and what makes them the best choice. You read about how a company does this or that. How they care about their customers and how …

Cash Flow Forecasting

.Cash flow is the life blood of all businesses. The key is to determine how much is coming in versus how much is going out to pay you’re your expenses. If you have been in business for a few years, …

Adding Music Lessons to Your Dance School

For years we would have students ask us who we would recommend for them to take voice lessons from. There were several teachers we knew in our area, but after serious consideration we decided to add voice to our curriculum. …

Developing Multiple Sources of Income

For any business to continue to grow it is important to look at ways to develop multiple sources of income that will increase your bottom line. It may be that you need to think a little outside the box when …

Making The Most Of Hidden Opportunity

In every cloud there is a silver lining! It is true that in the darkest hours of history, some individuals are able to find a way to make success out of misfortune simply because they believed that good things were …

Its All About The Numbers!

As the calendar year comes to an end and you are well into your season, you probably have a good idea of where you are in terms of student headcount and how many student hours that represents. You can also …

Ideas To Help Increase Preschool Enrollment

The key to building a solid student body base is to constantly be finding ways to increase the pre school students. Pre school classes are generally held during the morning or early afternoon hours, both times that are not used …

Fairy Tale Birthday Party

How to give incredibly fabulous fairy tale princess parties in your dance studio! First, to prepare for the very important birthday, a day that children and their friends in your studio are going to always remember as THE VERY BEST, …

The Plan Part 3

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 …

How to Build Your Adult Programs

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 …

Grow Your Business

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 …