by Michelle Markwart Deveaux | Mar 18, 2021 | Business
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.
by Michelle Markwart Deveaux | Mar 4, 2021 | Business
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...
by Michelle Markwart Deveaux | Feb 24, 2021 | Business, Success
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...
by Michelle Markwart Deveaux | Feb 3, 2021 | Business
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.
by Michelle Markwart Deveaux | Mar 15, 2019 | Business
When I watched Mary Poppins Returns around Christmas last year, I ugly cried. UG-LEE.I wasn’t expecting to get hit with a ton of emotional bricks and have an illuminating transformative moment in a dark theater. And I certainly wasn’t expecting to be...
by Michelle Markwart Deveaux | Jan 2, 2019 | Business
I wrote a thing for myself. A reminder. A manifest. A pep-talk. I thought you may relate, so decided to share it: Dear Self (you amazing and delightfully silly and grace-y person, you), You have a choice. Yes, you. You have a choice in how your voice works, your...
by Michelle Markwart Deveaux | May 28, 2018 | Business
Pinball is fun when you are the playfield and not the ball. The playfield is the part of a pinball machine that all the cool dohickeys reside.The place where pinballs get trapped, ramped, orbited, flipped, and bumped. In your Voice Studio, are you the playfield or the...
by Michelle Markwart Deveaux | Mar 3, 2018 | Business, Success, Technique
What would you say if I told you that your mindset doesn’t matter? That all of your goals are achievable no matter what you believe? What if I told you that it DOES NOT matter how prepared you are. Or how knowledgeable? “You don’t have to be great to...
by Michelle Markwart Deveaux | Nov 15, 2017 | Business
We are in charge. If there is something that doesn’t quite fit in the way our studio runs, we can change it. We are in control. We get to make the rules. Here’s a fun game to help you get out of your rut: Write down all the things that make you want to...
