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From the mind of Michelle Markwart Deveaux…
Do you own a business that helps people use their voice? I do too. Here on the FcK blog, I do my best to provide actionable tips, words of wisdom, and high fives of encouragement so that running your voice related business will be easy and feed your soul.
Why a Year-Long Tuition Plan Isn’t as Impossible as it may Sound – Moving to a 12-Month Tuition Instead of Following the School Year
If you are a voice teacher that begins their tuition plans in September, follows the school year, and loves it, this blog isn't for you. If you are a voice teacher who uses the school year as your tuition and is left irritated and scrambling in the summer, or even in...
How to Have (and implement) Boundaries During the Holidays
Every year, I read multiple comments and stories about what it's like to run a voice studio during the holidays. We are singers, after all, and even now in the semi in-person/semi-virtual world, we add performing, extra worship/church services, prepping students for...
Three Ways to Reduce Overwhelm In Your Voice Studio
Whether we live our lives organized or as a beautiful hot mess, we will come across times where we just cannot seem to get our head above water. We are struggling with...
What Every Voice Pro Needs To Know About Business Software (And How To Avoid Losing Your Mind)
So you're ready to up your voice studio's game and you're starting to research the software and apps you need to do it. Dear Goodness on High, there is just so much one...
Make Business Boring Again and Embrace the Mundane
Building a business brings with it all the frantic, anxious energy of an Act 1 finale number. There's hope! Setting up a new offer, bringing in your first clients,...
How to tell a student they aren’t a good fit for your studio anymore
It happened again. The post in a voice teacher forum. A frustrated and irritated teacher asking - "How do I fire a student?" OOOFFFF, I've been there, for sure. Yet, we...
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...
Wait. What? I don’t need to just pluck a price out of thin air?? NOPE. Ya don’t!
In going along with the blog (What's in your hour?) I wrote a while back, and on the heels of giving a fun presentation on pricing at this past weekend's Vocology in...
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, please please, please stop selling your time. Time is merely the tool we use to deliver what we do sell - which is so much more...
“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...