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How to Transition to an Online-only Voice Business – Reviewing Your Business Delivery model
It’s June 2021, and for some of the world, it seems as though we are “done” with COVID, and “ready to get back into the studio with real, live people. Problem is, some of us don’t want to go back in-person, now, or ever again. If you’re in that boat, I’d like to share...
How to Transition to an Online-only Voice Business
It's May 2021, and for some of the world, it seems as though we are "done" with COVID, and "ready to get back into the studio with real, live people. Problem is, some of us don't want to go back in-person, now, or ever again. If you're in that boat, I'd like to share...
How to know if you Should Become an LLC
Since it's the funkiest of tax seasons here in the good ol' USofA, I'm getting a lot of complaints questions about taxes. (I owed this year due to the new tax law, even though I am meticulous about records. Le Sigh.) With this in mind, I thought I could shed...
Three Ways to Reduce Overwhelm In Your Voice Studio
Whether we live our lives organized or as a beautiful hot mess, we will come across times where we just cannot seem to get our head above water. We are struggling with who what when where why and how of every task. This isn't the burned-out kind of overwhelm I'm...
What Every Voice Pro Needs To Know About Business Software (And How To Avoid Losing Your Mind)
So you're ready to up your voice studio's game and you're starting to research the software and apps you need to do it. Dear Goodness on High, there is just so much one needs to know about business software. Maybe you're researching software for reaching new people,...
Make Business Boring Again and Embrace the Mundane
Building a business brings with it all the frantic, anxious energy of an Act 1 finale number. There's hope! Setting up a new offer, bringing in your first clients, executing marketing plans! And there's trepidation... Am I good enough? Is this working? Can I really...
How to tell a student they aren’t a good fit for your studio anymore
It happened again. The post in a voice teacher forum. A frustrated and irritated teacher asking - "How do I fire a student?" OOOFFFF, I've been there, for sure. Yet, we sometimes struggle with how to tell a student they aren't a good fit for your studio anymore....
Winter is Over. Now what?
Happy Spring! Winter is Over. Now what? When things come to an end, how do you move on? (Well, to be fair, it's supposed to be over, anyway. By the weather, it seems this may not be so true.) Easter, Passover, Vernal Equinox, Nowruz, Holi. These events in our cultural...
Wait. What? I don’t need to just pluck a price out of thin air?? NOPE. Ya don’t!
In going along with the blog (What's in your hour?) I wrote a while back, and on the heels of giving a fun presentation on pricing at this past weekend's Vocology in Practice conference, I wrote an extra-special blog on some pricing basics. I am super proud of my...
The SpeakEasy Cooperative is FOUR years old. Please Celebrate with Us!
It's true! It's true! While the planning and the thinking and the setting it all up began in the Spring of 2016... The SpeakEasy Cooperative opened its doors in March of 2017, to little fanfare and in much timidness. Now? The SpeakEasy Cooperative is FOUR years old,...
Make Yourself Available for the Ridiculous
BLOG ONE IN A PAIR. How many of you have wonderful, caring, well-meaning, incredible humans in your life that insist upon protecting you by telling you about how hard showing up for yourself and your dreams and goals is? If you're like me, you've had to fight for your...
Writing Copy is a Love Letter to Your Ideal Client
Writing copy for your website is hard. Why? Mystery. Intrigue. Self-loathing. It's hard because we are pretty good at writing stuff. Articles, policies, emails, blogs. But writing copy isn't the same as writing other stuff. Writing copy is a love letter to your ideal...
Value-Based Pricing in the Arts
I cannot implore you enough: please, please please, please stop selling your time. Time is merely the tool we use to deliver what we do sell - which is so much more than our time. How we move from this paradigm can be handled in many ways. I'd like us to look at one...
“Picking my Brain” isn’t free so stop pretending that it is.
This week on FB, I ranted. You can watch it here. The premise of my rant was, essentially, "Picking my Brain" isn't free so stop pretending that it is. I rarely do this, because I generally am the type of person that assumes that people have good reasons for...
Your Business Model Tells People How to Treat You
Intentional or not - we executing our work in a transactional way or a relational way. Both have benefits, both have discomforts. One thing to be sure, though, is that your business model tells people how to treat you, and if your model is set up for transactions over...