What’s the secret to hiring dance teachers?

When it comes to hiring dance teachers, you know what you’re looking for. You either need a staffer to handle administrative tasks at your studio, an energetic teacher who is going to help inspire students and improve their technique, or anything in between. You know the qualities that make a dance teacher appealing. But do […]

What parents need to know: how to communicate dance studio policies

Whether you are planning an exciting summer camp program or you are preparing for the registration rush of a new dance season, you’ve likely had discussions with your staff around your studio’s policies, such as: Which policies should we keep? Which policies need to be updated? What policies should be added? These are great questions […]

How to Get Your Parents Using the Jackrabbit Dance Portal

What’s one way you can ensure that your customers stay engaged with your dance studio? Make it easy. That’s why the Jackrabbit team makes every effort to help your studio connect with customers through a single location – the Jackrabbit Dance Parent Portal. With a new season of dance underway, it’s important to set a […]

Filling Daytime Hours at Your Dance Studio

Everyone wants to be at your studio at the same time. It makes sense. The peak activity windows are the after school into evening and Saturdays. But you have a limit to the number of classes you can reasonably hold and the number of students you can actually (and legally) fit in your dance studio. […]

How to Prepare Your Instructors to Return to the Dance Studio

As a dance studio owner, you may be seeing lots of updates about what other dance studios are doing to prepare to reopen their facilities. You probably have your reopening plan created, and, to some extent, are executing parts of it. But have you thought about what your instructors need to return to the dance […]

Want to Buy a Dance Studio? Here’s Step 2: Create a Marketing Plan

We see you, potential dance studio buyer. Once you decided to move forward with your dream of owning your own dance studio, you started Googling tips for how to buy a dance studio and your brain has been racing with ways to turn that dream into a reality ever since.  While compiling a list of […]

How to Buy a Dance Studio: Step 1

You’ve grown up dancing; you’ve been a dance teacher for years and possibly even a manager or director of a studio, but you have the desire to do more. You want to own your own dance studio.  When building a dance studio and community of students from the ground up doesn’t fit into your plan, […]

3 Big Ideas to Profit from Your Holiday Dance Recital

Is it OK to make money from ticket sales for your holiday shows? The answer is yes! It’s your business and you need to profit from the holiday dance recitals you produce. Online ticketing software is a sure way to make selling tickets easier for you and to provide a better ticket purchasing experience for […]

How to Run a Successful Dance Studio

When you started your dance studio, you probably did it to share your love of dance with children. You didn’t dream about burying your head in paperwork and spending endless nights manually collecting your tuition, scheduling your classes, maintaining your website and marketing your studio. It takes time, patience and a lot of coordination to […]

After the Competitions: How to Store Your Dance Costumes for the Summer

Well-maintained dance costumes help you and your parents get the most from your investments. They can be handed down to younger siblings or re-purposed for the next season. And at the very least, a particularly special dance costume can be kept as a memento of hard work and achievement that can inspire young dancers.