How to tell a student they aren’t a good fit for your studio anymore
Learn how we approach the difficult task of firing a student that doesn’t respect their teacher (you), your voice studio or your studio policies.
Winter is Over. Now what?
Happy Spring! Winter is Over. Now what? When things come to an end, how do you move on? (Well, to be fair, it’s supposed to be over, anyway. By the weather, it seems this may not be so true.) Easter, Passover, Vernal Equinox, Nowruz, Holi. These events in our...
Tuition Pricing Models for Voice Studios
Learn 7 ways voice teachers tend to price, and how you can choose the best pricing model for your own voice studio or small business. Wait. What? I don’t need to just pluck a price out of thin air?? NOPE. Ya don’t! Every teacher CAN price strategically. Here’s how.
The SpeakEasy Cooperative is FOUR years old. Please Celebrate with Us!
It’s true! It’s true! While the planning and the thinking and the setting it all up began in the Spring of 2016… The SpeakEasy Cooperative opened its doors in March of 2017, to little fanfare and in much timidness. Now? The SpeakEasy Cooperative is...
Make Yourself Available for the Ridiculous
BLOG ONE IN A PAIR. How many of you have wonderful, caring, well-meaning, incredible humans in your life that insist upon protecting you by telling you about how hard showing up for yourself and your dreams and goals is? If you’re like me, you’ve had to...
Writing Copy is a Love Letter to Your Ideal Client
Writing copy for your website is hard. Why? Mystery. Intrigue. Self-loathing. It’s hard because we are pretty good at writing stuff. Articles, policies, emails, blogs. But writing copy isn’t the same as writing other stuff. Writing copy is a love letter to...
Value-Based Pricing in the Arts
I cannot implore you enough: please stop selling your time. Time is merely a tool to deliver what we sell. One way to move from this paradigm is value-based pricing. Learn what value-based pricing looks like, especially for vocal coaching & voice teaching.
“Picking my Brain” isn’t free so stop pretending that it is.
This week on FB, I ranted. You can watch it here. The premise of my rant was, essentially, “Picking my Brain” isn’t free so stop pretending that it is. I rarely do this, because I generally am the type of person that assumes that people have good...