How Academy 831 Uses Jackrabbit Integrations to Supercharge Business
Krista Casey founded Academy 831 in Brea, California in 2015 after taking eight years off from owning her first dance studio. With her children being older, she and her husband knew it was the right time and the right opportunity to own a studio once again. Between owning the two studios, Krista taught yoga and pilates classes out of her home and used booking software to manage customers and classes. From this experience, she [...]
What Is A Foot Stretcher and Why Do Ballerinas Use Them?
Part of the grace and beauty of ballet is that the performance hides all the blood, sweat, and tears that went into creating that performance. While ballerina foot care is essential, ballet is as competitive as any sport. Dancers who would be ballerinas will look for any advantage they can [...]
Winning Dance Competition Themes for Studios
When it comes to dance competitions for studios, working around a central theme adds an extra layer of shine that makes a performance and the studio more memorable. Best of all, using a dance theme also helps speed up decision-making, which can be helpful during dance competition season. […]
Use Software for What You Have to Do So You Can Do What You Want to Do
Jackrabbit Handles the Business so Studio Owners and Staff Can Focus on Students The Jackrabbit marketing team visited Miller Street Dance Academy’s Baxter location to see how Jackrabbit Dance helps location manager, Shae Tuttle, and her staff do business. It only took a few minutes to learn that Miller Street [...]
Dance Studio Insurance – The Basics
Insurance. Nobody likes it but everyone has to have it. Speaking with many dance studio owners over the years, there is always a pain when it comes to buying insurance. From the new studio owner who has never purchased before to the veteran studio owner how has had insurance for [...]
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. Besides their structure, feet are quite complex when you consider their purpose: support, balance, and propulsion. This is all the more true for a [...]
