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Tip of the Week #80
"No one can whistle a symphony. It takes a whole orchestra to play it." ~ H.E. Luccock - Recital season has arrived...and one of the biggest indicators is not only the thousands of details that have to come together on the to-do list but mostly because of the dreams I start to . . .
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Tip of the Week #79
"If you can't say something nice, don't say nothing at all" - Thumper - Have you noticed that people will have an opinion about everything you are doing or not doing? I wish more of our own studio parents and . . .
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Tip of the Week #78
"It's kind of fun to do the impossible." - Walt Disney - Just this week we decided to completely change how we are going to run our summer classes at our studio. It's both exciting and scary all at the same time. We arrived at this decision after taking time to answer the following two questions . . .
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Tip of the Week #77
"Stay committed to your decisions, but stay flexible in your approach." - Tom Robbins - Doesn't it seem that people today quickly throw out threats, overtly shop around, and give the attitude of your-rules-don't-apply-to-me in order to get what they want? A perfect example happened this week when a potential student's mother called our studio to . . .
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Tip of the Week #76
"People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing." - Dale Carnegie - You might notice at this time of year it's that students come...and students go. It is the nature of the business and when you hear that a student is dropping out of class it can bring up the range of emotions from . . .
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Tip of the Week #75
"Do not wait; the time will never be just right. Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along." - Napoleon Hill . . .
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Tip of the Week #74
"Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world." - Harriet Tubman - I hope this finds you well! Today is the first day of classes at our studio, kicking off a new school year. Before I was born, it was my mom's dream to . . .
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Tip of the Week #73
"Be your own kind of beautiful" - Audrey Hepburn - If you ask your students and parents, "What do you like most about being a student at our studio?" What would they say? We've made it a habit to ask this and other useful questions to our enrolled students each year. Did you know that no one has ever . . .
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Tip of the Week #72
"If we're growing, we're always going to be out of our comfort zone." - John Maxwell - Tomorrow is the start of our 38th annual recital weekend for our studio and having been born into this business, every June of my life has been filled with the excitement and intensity of . . .
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Tip of the Week #71
One of the things that makes running a dance studio unique is that personal relationships often form between teachers, students and families. So when you hear about a parent gossiping in the waiting room that they are . . .
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Tip of the Week #70
"Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all..." - Helen Keller - This is right about that time of year when we hold our breaths and say, "Wow, will everything really come together by the recital?" It's that feeling of eight thousand loose ends all being managed at once yet nothing really . . .
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Tip of the Week #69
"If nothing ever changed, there'd be no butterflies." - Author Unknown - As you may have heard, Facebook is changing all pages over to the new Timeline design by March 30th, 2012. Some studio owners have shared that they are frustrated because they . . .
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Tip of the Week #68
"The person who seeks all their applause from outside has their happiness in another's keeping." - Dale Carnegie - Emotions can run high in a dance studio - especially when you are managing the expectations, demands, and concerns of parents. As the mom of two kids I understand how . . .
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Tip of the Week #67
"Not everything that counts can be measured. Not everything that can be measured counts." - Albert Einstein - You probably spend a lot of time at your dance studio tracking and measuring: enrollment, absences, weeks until performance time, costumes, the list goes on and . . .
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Tip of the Week #66
The upcoming weeks ahead are a great opportunity to bring back students and generate some new business before the rush of the holiday season. The Fall Sports Players: Do you have the soccer effect at your studio? We sure do! Soccer season is ending and this is a great time to . . .
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Tip of the Week #65
Enjoy the little things in life, for one day you'll look back and realize they were big things - R. Brault - Open any magazine or tune into a reality TV show today that focuses on dance and it's easy to find successful students shown as the ones who . . .
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