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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...
Winter is Over. Now what?
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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...
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...
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....
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...
Your Business Model Tells People How to Treat You
Intentional or not - we executing our work in a transactional way or a relational way. Both have benefits, both have discomforts. One thing to be sure, though, is that...
How to Conjure Up HUGE Scary Vision
Jack Canfield says, "You only have control over three things in your life - the thoughts you think, the images you visualize, and the actions you take." And that's all...
We Voice Professionals have SuperPowers
We voice professionals have superpowers. We have the great potential to become superhero(ine)s.. (I am not sure how to say this in a gender-inclusive way, which I would...