Customized Ballroom Dance Studio Consulting
Enlist a seasoned consultant to build a vibrant and profitable studio
You've learned to dance. Now, learn the skills to build a thriving studio.
So many incredibly talented dancers have opened studios only to learn that teaching alone isn’t enough to create a successful business. It’s so sad to watch dancers’ passion get buried under the pressures of running a studio. Marketing, bookkeeping, managing staff, and maximizing profit all seem like their own unique skills. Too often, owners’ lack of understanding in these areas prevent their studios from doing the one thing that’s absolutely necessary – spreading the joy of dancing to their students and communities.
If you’ve found yourself struggling to turn your passion for dancing and teaching into a profitable business, you’ve probably felt:
- Overwhelmed by the administrative load of running a studio
- Frustrated with the process of hiring, training, and retaining staff
- Lost among the various ways to advertise
- Intimidated by your local competition
- Unsure how to scale up and find consistent revenue
- Disillusioned because your dream of studio ownership is so challenging
You’re not alone. When studio owners feel like they’re drowning or want to find a way to stop trading their time for money and scale up their studios, they they enlist the help of seasoned experts to help shift their thinking and implement winning strategies.
Coaching and Consulting that will turbocharge your studio's success
We want to provide you with the expert advice and support that will turn your dance studio into a profitable venture that you can rely on and be proud of. To do this, we provide various complementary services:
Consulting
Consulting is the infusion of expert advice. Typically, you'll arrange consulting on a temporary and short-term basis, ranging from a single day to a few months. During that time, we'll provide you with an analyses, recommendations, and implementation strategies. Or, you might keep us on retainer so that our expert advice is always at your disposal.
Coaching
Coaching is a more collaborative effort toward success. You may have unproductive thoughts, unhelpful habits, and limiting beliefs that are holding you back and preventing your business from reaching its potential. Your coach will act as a thinking partner that will challenge your preconceptions and encourage your personal and professional growth - growth that will immediately translate to more confidence in making crucial decisions for your studio. We provide coaching on a temporary or ongoing basis via weekly video chat.
Skills Training
As a business owner, it's your responsibility to develop your own skills if you want your business to flourish. Plus, you'll be the one responsible for teaching your staff to be more skillful if you want your business to scale. While a studio owner's skill set is vast, varied, and constantly evolving, some of the most requested competencies are business planning, accounting, marketing, management, sales, teaching, and staff development.
Management Services
Ideally, as you build your studio and scale it, you should act as your studio's manager so that you can instill in your business your unique culture. However, you may find yourself in a situation that forces you to hire management. If so, we offer temporary management services; contact us if you think this is a solution you require.
Undoubtedly, your studio’s situation is unique, and you face a combination of challenges unique to you, your team, and your position in the local market. You may have an idea of what support you need, or you may not. During your strategy session and preliminary consultation, we’ll discuss your studio’s challenges and determine what support would be most beneficial to the growth of your studio.
The formula for a winning studio
It may not be easy, but it is simple. For a studio to go from surviving to thriving, all these parts should function in tandem:
Brand and Market Positioning
Establish your studio's identity, build customer loyalty, and set yourself apart from your competitors.
Organization
Set clear business goals, create a business plan, and institute systems to keep your studio efficient and productive.
Varied Revenue Opportunities
Use data from your current students as well as your local market to find new and exciting income streams.
Staff Retention and Development
Foster an environment that provides opportunities for staff growth and incentivizes long-term employment.
Student Experience
Nurture a community with a culture centered on personal growth, camaraderie, and a shared appreciation for the joy of dancing
Decades of coaching and management experience at your disposal
Andrew has spent his entire life in the dance industry. After decades of dancing, coaching, and competing, Andrew has spent the last 15 years helping build multiple successful studios in Southeastern Pennsylvania.
In 2023, Andrew and his wife welcomed a baby boy with a rare genetic condition. To provide the support he’d need to thrive, Andrew retired from studio life to focus on caring for his son.
Now, consulting provides Andrew the opportunity to share the valuable wisdom he’s learned over a lifetime in the dance industry while allowing flexibility to be there for his family.
"...the input and advice I needed to get my studio up and running... I'm finally making way more than I was as a teacher..."
Consulting is a big step, and you should feel good about your decision.
If you have questions about the process, we encourage you to ask upfront so that you feel confident in your decision to move forward. Fill out the contact form and we’ll get back to you as soon as possible.
Once you’re ready to take your studio’s profitability to the next level, apply for coaching or consulting services. After receiving your application, we’ll set up a free video strategy call to discuss your studio’s situation and decide if we’re a good fit.