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Maximizing profit in your dance studio (breaking down the numbers)

There I was, sitting with my Accountant/CPA as he went through all the numbers in my dance studio with my business partner and me. I was 16, she was 18, and to…

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Open House horror

You’ve been working on your Open House event for a month or so.  You have the face painting set, you’ve organised the guest teacher workshops, you have snacks ready to go and…

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The truth about running a dance studio

Can you remember what it was like the day you woke up to run the first class at your own dance studio? But let’s go further and think about what made you…

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Automate your administration tasks with 2 simple steps!

Stacks of paper, envelopes with money, invoicing sessions that continue into the wee hours of the morning, updating spreadsheets with thousands of rows…any of this sound familiar? I bet it does!  I…

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Dance Teacher vs Studio Owner

It was 2am. I finished teaching at around 9pm and I was wide awake for hours as I found myself sending out invoices at 2am. In that moment I sat there and…

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Boosting Class Numbers

An interesting topic came up with our members’ online group last week that I wanted to discuss – class capacities. As you would know by now, I’m a lover of the numbers……

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4 Steps to Recruiting & Retaining A-Grade Dance Teachers

It’s hard to forget, when you get to that point in your studio, when you first start needing to employ more teachers. Now, you may be reading this and thinking: “Clint, I’m…

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3 Website Mistakes Dance Studios Make

This week only, I’ve already looked over about 20 dance studio websites—which is what sparked today’s post. You see, time and time again I visit a studio’s website only to see one…

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