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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.
The Importance of Pricing in the Arts Industry: A Guide
Don’t undercharge for your art. Learn how to set rates that align with your business needs and market with our Six Pillars of Pricing framework.
All I Really Need to Know About Life I Learned From Doing Paint-by-Number
Learn 20 valuable lessons about business and life. Get inspired with my paint-by-number tips!
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...
Make Yourself Available for the Ridiculous
BLOG ONE IN A PAIR. How many of you have wonderful, caring,...
Writing Copy is a Love Letter to Your Ideal Client
Writing copy for your website is hard. Why? Mystery. Intrigue....
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...
Your Business Model Tells People How to Treat You
Intentional or not - we executing our work in a transactional way or...
How to Conjure Up HUGE Scary Vision
Jack Canfield says, "You only have control over three things in your...
We Voice Professionals have SuperPowers
We voice professionals have superpowers. We have the great potential...
Decision Ninja: BE ONE in 2021
Be a decision ninja in 2021 and give decisions a kick in the butt....
How to Fire a Student. Hint: DON’T
Do you have folks in your studio or business that you're feeling way...
The Key to Implementation: It’s not the planning
This month, The SpeakEasy Cooperative is talking about planning. One of the themes that keeps coming up is that pesky concept of implementation. Today I will show you five strategic points that lead to failure to implement on your plans. Then, I will dive deep into two of them.