A common nuisance for me when I was a studio owner – and a problem for virtually every other dance studio owner I have ever talked to – is how to collect past due monthly tuition. Sometimes even when there’s ample notifications in the lobby and we send things home with children, parents still get
As a former dance studio owner, I know how it is a dance studio owner: you obsess over every little detail, wondering if there’s anything you could be doing differently that would help grow your business. But what if I told you the one thing holding you back could be your website? When you think
If you want a custom made costume for your dance competition routines, you may be wondering where to turn to, but I’ve got ten stores you’re going to want to check out. You’ll be able to get great costumes for competition dances at incredibly reasonable prices. Luxe Dance Costumes Black Sapphire Design Angils Custom Costumes
Portable ballet barres are a wonderful addition to your dance studio. They can be great for larger classes where there isn’t enough room at the barres you already have, or they can be a great alternative to ballet barres mounted to the wall. Portable barres can often be more economical than barres mounted to the
As a former dance studio owner, I know that I spent many sleepless nights wondering how I get the word out more about my dance studio with a new advertising campaign. I tried many, many things over the years I owned a studio – some successful, some that ended up being a huge waste of
So as studio owners you can do your best to order costumes way in advance, but life happens. What happens when you need a last minute dance costume? One way dance studios – and even dance teachers and dancers – can work around that is by buying costumes from Ebay stores. I have had a
If you own or run a dance studio then you really should try email marketing if you haven’t already. You can add something to your website so that anyone who visits your website can sign up for your newsletter and you can add something to your registration form asking customers for their email and stating that
One of the best decisions I ever made as a dance studio owner was offering acrobatics & tumbling classes. Those were some of the most popular classes and brought in a lot of extra income. The acrobatics classes also really helped the competition dancers at our studio. One of the reasons why some dance studio
One of the best decisions my partners and I made when we opened up our dance studio was to run the website ourselves. A lot of dance studio owners pay someone else to run their website, but I personally think you are doing yourself a disservice when you get someone else to do your website.
Good news for dance studios and dance teachers in Santa Ana, California: per the Orange County Register, of 116 cities evaluated by the California Policy Center, Santa Ana came in 5th for fiscal health. One of the factors used to determine Santa Ana’s fiscal health was a change in local unemployment rate. This is great