What do you do with a toxic client?

How do you deal with a client that doesn’t meet your standards of conduct or respect your boundaries?

It’s not as simple as just “cutting that person out of your life.”

The threat of a bad review or negative word of mouth looms large… There are financial and reputational risks!

In this episode, Nate and Daniel teach from experience… giving plenty of verbiage that you can use to defuse these uncomfortable situations in your studio.

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Do you know who often gets neglected or overlooked or even maligned in most studios?

Our true customers… the parents of our students!

In this episode, we invited Brady Davies back to talk about how his chain of studios has created a great customer experience for parents in their studio.

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A lot of things have to go right for someone to discover your studio, be interested in your studio, contact you, and then set up a phone consultation or trial lesson.

After getting all of that right… It can be really discouraging to see that only 3 out of 10 of your trial lessons or consultations turn into a new student.

Why don’t people sign up!?!?

In this episode, we look at 5 reasons why your trial lessons aren’t converting.

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Do you know how much the school you’ve built is worth?

Do you think of your school as an asset? 

An asset that you could sell, or pass on, or even use as a piece of your wealth-building strategy?

If you haven’t, you should listen to today’s podcast episode, because we’ve brought back Jeff Homer (friend of the show) to talk about putting a valuation on your school.

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From the moment a prospective student reaches out to your studio… They are deciding on whether or not they want to work with you.

Should you sell your studio or school?

Would it even be possible?

What questions should you ask?

This is the topic that we are covering today… and whether you want to sell or think it would be possible to sell… You should listen to this episode!

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From the moment a prospective student reaches out to your studio… They are deciding on whether or not they want to work with you.

How do you influence their decision?

Here’s a word that isn’t often used in our industry…

Sales.

You must take them through a sales process that helps them see, understand, and value you, your studio, and the results that you can provide for them.

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Owner spotlight episode!

Brady and his wife started with just 1 location… and grew their business to 11 locations and 180 employees.

And, in this quick, hard-hitting interview… Brady reveals the thoughts, the mindsets, the habits, and the actions that he took to make this happen.

There are plenty of nuggets of wisdom to take and apply in your own business… no matter the size!

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In this episode, you will learn over two dozen ways to build community, connection, and collaboration in your school…

So that students stay longer and parents see your school as more than “just music lessons.”

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Music school owners know that we “need” ads, social media, directory listings, and SEO if we want to get new students.

But, our guest today built a school from zero to 250+ students in a short time using one “old school” marketing technique.

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What’s your school’s main business strategy?

How do you intend to hire and retain teachers?

How will you find and retain students?

How will you motivate your students to practice and excel?

All of these issues are directly impacted by the core values of your studio.

And you have a choice as to what those values are!

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