3 Ways To Grow And Evolve Your Dance Studio Business
"And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." - Anais Nin
Your comfortable place is often your happy place, but if you get too content you are no longer challenging yourself or your business. It is easy to get stuck in the cookie cutter way you have been doing things for years. Change can be a difficult process for many reasons, but if you're not changing, you're not growing.
The experience of having outgrown a business practice, a teacher, a studio space, or way of doing things tends to feel more like something is wrong or not working. Usually it's as uncomfortable as wearing tap shoes two sizes too small. But if you analyze the problem and brainstorm to find better solutions, you will end up in a position leaps and bounds ahead of where you stood before.
Whether you are a newer studio owner or a seasoned professional you are going to outgrow people, policies and procedures at your studio. No matter what you do, people and employees will come and go. Some will love the new changes you put in place and some will complain that the old way of doing things was better. Don't let this stop you from moving forward! Take into consideration these 3 areas with helpful questions to help you focus your intentions and make sure your studio is growing and evolving.
- New Leads: How can you enhance your website to make it easy for potential students to do business with you?
- New Perspectives: What can you do to gather constructive feedback from your dancers and parents to help positively impact your business?
- New Goals: What is one main goal you would like to achieve by the end of the dance season that pushes you out of your comfort zone? How are you going to accomplish that goal?
Whether you are in the process of moving to online registration, setting up tuition auto-billing, launching a new website, using online recital ticketing, selling dancewear online, raising your prices, hiring a new teacher, or moving to a new space...all of these will require you to grow and evolve. Typically you will feel uncomfortable, but remember, that's a sign that you are taking your business to a new level.
Thank you for a great webinar! It's good to know that we're all feeling the same, no matter where we are in the world. Thanks so much x I cannot tell you enough how good it feels to connect with someone who's willing to look at the truth of the situation with humor and cautious optimism... I definitely needed a lot of that advice, but more important, I needed to hear it from two badass, empowered women. Thank you, the webinar has definitely given me some motivation to put some work and time in to plan our new normal in the studio. Thank you so much for today. Lots of great ideas. Thank you!
