How to recover revenue at your dance studio
In an ideal world, customers at your dance studio always pay tuition fees on time, credit card information never expires, invoices never go missing, and discounting calculations aren’t confusing. When those experiences take a turn for the worst, dance studio owners are left in the lurch to collect accounts receivable, manually update data, balance late fees, and do whatever they can to recover revenue. So what can dance studios do to create a more ideal [...]
4 Features Every Dance Studio Software Should Include
Every dance studio owner can reduce costs and increase revenue when using well-designed dance studio management software. If you’re unsure whether your business will see a return on expenditures that justifies the cost of your monthly subscription, check out this detailed discussion of the hidden costs of not using software [...]
Getting Dancers to Put Their Hearts Into It
Do you ever feel like your dancers may not be giving it their all? That they're just not putting their hearts into it? Or maybe going through the motions just fine, but they are missing the energy which makes their performance special? How do you get them to step it up [...]
Why Should You Be Using the Store (Point of Sale) Feature in Jackrabbit?
Here is what the office managers at the two Miller Street Dance Academy locations say about it: “We are able to manage all of our inventory- keep track of quantity and sales, The list of tabs that Jackrabbit provides within the store is so useful. We can add descriptions to [...]
Bullying in the Dance World: Dealing With Mean Girls
Sheri from Reflections in Sequins and Satin has shared with us a great article about bullying. This is such a huge problem in our society we are excited to share it with you. A group of girls go out after practice and don’t invite you. When you score a top [...]
Lessons Learned from Dance Competitions
Now that this year’s dance competition season has ended, you may well need a few months away from thinking about competitions to recharge your batteries – especially if the season was particularly hectic. You might even start wondering whether competing is worth all the time and effort. But in your [...]
Foot Care for Dancers
To call human feet complex is an understatement. After all, of the 208 bones in the human body, 52 of those bones are in the feet. See detailed images of foot anatomy. Besides its structure, feet are quite complex when you consider their purpose: support, balance and propulsion. This is all [...]
12 Traits the Elite Dancer Exhibits
Elite dancers rise above others with the quality of their skills and gracefulness on the floor. There are also some traits that establish dancers as elite by exhibiting their manners and consideration for their fellow students and their instructors. These elite dancers have “class.” They are well on the road [...]
12 Good Habits for Your Dancers to Develop
Becoming a dancer means something special. Dancing isn’t a sport, but more of an art form that commands the respect and commitment of those who embody it. Dancers, in turn, earn a unique respect and admiration for their ability to exhibit the grace and skill that it takes to dance. [...]
20 Etiquette Basics for Young Dancers
My lifelong relationship with dance helped me to develop a constant interest in the industry – especially in teaching children to dance. From a young age, I took dance, helped to teach classes of younger children as I grew up, studied with some amazing people and now have the privilege [...]
Promoting Healthy Body Image in the Studio
A dancer’s positive body image isn’t merely thinking they look good in this season’s costumes. It goes much deeper than that. In fact, their body image impacts almost everything a dancer does in the art and outside of it. Something that important must be defined. So what exactly is body [...]
