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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...
How to Conjure Up HUGE Scary Vision
Jack Canfield says, "You only have control over three things in your life - the thoughts you think, the images you visualize, and the actions you take." And that's all true. But if you've never known how to conjure up huge scary vision, this can seem a little cart...
We Voice Professionals have SuperPowers
We voice professionals have superpowers. We have the great potential to become superhero(ine)s.. (I am not sure how to say this in a gender-inclusive way, which I would prefer to do, so if you have an idea, let me know in the comments, please! For this post, I ask...
Decision Ninja: BE ONE in 2021
Be a decision ninja in 2021 and give decisions a kick in the butt. Throw down to every choice you have in your world… dare them to prove to you that they deserve your precious time and brain resources. DARE EVERY CHOICE TO MAKE YOUR DAY. (Yes I have found the gif...
How to Fire a Student. Hint: DON’T
Do you have folks in your studio or business that you're feeling way down deep in your nuggets need to get the heck out? It's been a rough year, and those folks who fit with the old you just don't anymore. You are wondering how to fire a student. Hint: Don't. They...