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.
Intersectionality in Entrepreneurship: How Identity Impacts You and Your Clients
Factors like inaccessibility to wealth and/or resources, education status, race, gender, body type, neurodivergence, and sexuality impact business ownership and opportunities.
Should You Raise Your Rates? A Data-Driven Guide to Making a Strategic Decision
Should You Raise Your Rates? A Data-Driven Guide to Making a Strategic Decision. Raising your rates has never been so tempting – read on to find out how to use data to make it happen! Most likely yes, you “should” raise your rates. Sometimes, no. Use data to drive the decision. Read on!
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.
If I Quit Facebook Will I Destroy My Voice?
When it's time to take a good hard look at our relationship with...
I Already Know How to be a Coach, Don’t I?
So why should I bother having one for myself? Maybe you've asked...