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What Belly Dancing Taught Me about Personal Branding

dance_marketing — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 17:55:08 +0000

“But as my belly dancing instructor has taught me, you don’t have to build a personal brand on being an egomaniac. You can build your brand on simply being human. Or better yet, you can build your brand on being your favorite version of yourself. …. Trying to teach everything would undermine what she’s about and the [...]

Intro

dance_marketing — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 16:50:25 +0000

Since you’re new here, I made a quick video to get you oriented to the site, to me, and the kinds of things you can learn here. I want to keep this as close to personal as we can get and I think one of the best ways to do that is to get in [...]

How to Find Dancers on Twitter – Use These Channels

dance_marketing — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 06:59:23 +0000

I found a nifty little service called ‘twhanel‘ and despite to too cute name is a nifty little tool for organizing groups on Twitter. So, for us, there are TONS of dancers joining Twitter every day and there’s not reall good way for us to find them and encourage them or connect with them, etc….until now. Just [...]

Headlines for Dance Studios and Teachers – Part 2

dance_marketing — Thu, 28 May 2009 14:49:10 +0000

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Headlines: What You Say & How You Say It Are Critical To Your Success

dance_marketing — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 05:08:27 +0000

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Dance Marketing vs Online Technology. Holla Back?!

dance_marketing — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 02:37:30 +0000

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Poll – Dancers Perspective: ‘Superstars of Dance’, Hit or Miss?

dance_marketing — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 03:23:50 +0000

Here is a Method That is Helping Ballroom Dance Studios to Get More Students

dance_marketing — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 17:43:13 +0000

People are funny in that they like to wrapped up in an experience and live vicariously through others. TV is wildly popular because of this very thing. Case in point, Dancing with the Stars in making it’s way back to the ’small screen’ for yet another season. Whether you like the show or not is irrelevant [...]

Dance Teacher Summer Conference ‘08

dance_marketing — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 23:37:05 +0000

The Dance Teacher Magazine Dance Teacher Summer Conference is happening again and I’m gearing up that in a major way. How cool is it to be around a bunch of teachers who love what they do and want to get better at it?! It’s really awesome to all those who are participating this year (and years [...]

SYTYCD – The Judges Aren’t Jerks

dance_marketing — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 17:53:29 +0000

The judges are NOT jerks this year. The show just started with a bunch of drama and it probably came from the Hollywood execs to get people hooked. Now that it’s had some time on the air to develop, it has all the integrity it did in the last few seasons. If I had to complain, [...]