Biz Tips: How To Make It Easier For You To Bring Your Team Together

One of the challenges which studio owners can face is bringing the entire team together. Everyone is always busy, and they may have other plans. It tears your hair out trying to just get everyone all together. I know how frustrating that is. So I want to share with you an idea about how it […]

Biz Tips: What You Need To Know If You Want To Sell Your Studio

  Today, I’m going to share with you what you need to know if you want to sell your studio, maybe not now, but sometime in the future. When we’re talking about selling your studio, what we need to be thinking about is: “How can we show the value of your business?” The first point […]

How to Create a Shock & Awe Welcome Pack

When a student first comes into your studio, that is prime word of mouth time. Those first two to three weeks are really important that we knock their socks off and totally WOW them so they will start spreading the word amongst their friends. If you think about it… It’s like when you find a […]

Biz Tips: Is your price damaging your retention?

In running a studio, there is a very delicate balance between pricing and retention.  Every time you’re asking a parent to make a decision about whether they want to come back or not, it’s like opening the door for them to leave… They have the power: Do they want to stay or leave? In fact, […]

How to Super Glue Your Students with These Top Five Retention Tips

So the best place for us to start, when we’re talking about retention, is to first of all identify which of your programs has the weakest retention. Where do you find the drop-off? You get them in the door, but perhaps they leave at a certain age. Maybe it’s after they finished a particular program, […]

Biz Tips: An Incredible Resource To Help You Be More Productive In Your School

Half the problem with running a studio is that you’re juggling so many things at the same time. You’ve got students coming in and looking to you for the most amazing lessons, creativity and innovation. Then you’ve got parents coming in and wanting your advice and guidance. You also have teachers who are looking to […]

Biz Tips: The One Question to Boost Enrollments

Want more enrollments? Ask this question in the first email to a student… It is really frustrating when you get an inquiry from a new potential student and you write back to them with a whole lot of information; a whole lot of details, thinking they are going to come to your business but instead, you […]

Biz Tips: What are you teaching your teachers about retention?

Today’s episode of Jackrabbit’s BizTips relates to one very important question: what are you teaching your teachers about retention? Retention is the heart of our studio and in many ways it is the security of our studio. If we don’t have our students coming back month after month, we are in a very precarious position. […]

Biz Tips: Save Your Sanity With The Best Time Saving Tools

As business owners, we are expert multi-taskers, adept at juggling 50 000 balls in the air at once!  We’re used to memorizing everything from timetables, parent names, even to when the toilet rolls need replacing.   Something I like to ask business owners is:  if you had to reduce your workload by 30 minutes this week, […]