Setting up a business that requires you to be young and fit enough to operate and excel, but really also requires some serious investment and business experience can be a challenge. Dancing for profit is always going to be difficult.
Fear not you should start slowly with a minimum risk to your finances. Here is our suggestion for you:
? Decide what kind of dancing you wish to offer and ensure that there is a demand for this within your neighbourhood. For example hip hop or salsa is not going to be too popular within a retirement area.
?Offer your services as a trainer offering this dancing in a fitness studio, local club or sports club. This will give you some source of income and some exposure to your market.
?Hire a suitable room or studio for a period of a month and then advertise a special dancing course for this period. Make it something catchy like Salsa for the Nervous, Hip Hop for the Happy what ever your dancing area is. Dancing for stay at home mums or weight loss seekers is always popular.
?Contact all of your friends, people you have danced with in the past (dont do it during your dancing classes you are giving above), your hairdresser, doctor, mailman etc and tell them about it.
?Get some flyers made up announcing these classes make it a very catchy name and a great price. Emphasise that you can only take so many!
?Distribute the flyers all around your area ask to leave them at the colleges, doctors, restaurants, clubs, hairdressers etc anywhere you think that your potential clients will be!
?Tell the local radio and newspapers about this great new idea you are starting.
?Review the classes with your customers and ask them what else they would like to learn.
?Make sure you get payment at the start of the class.
?Test this out with several different types of classes.
As you become more experienced and knowledgeable about what people want your empire will expand and you can hire the room for longer and more often. Your success will tell you when you can move onto your own studio.
?Lastly enjoy yourself dancing to dollar!
The basis of a good business is a good service aimed at people who want to buy it and can afford it solve this puzzle and you have a good business.
This is a great way to get experience, try out the market
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Author Bio:
Lee Lister
Lee Lister is Management Consultant and Program Manager with more than 25 year's management and consultancy experience and more than 20 year's program and project management experience in projects for Banking, Finance, Insurance, Leisure and Government bodies. She also have more than 10 years bid management experience ranging from bids for medium companies to large international and infrastructure bids.
British born, Lee received her BA(Hons) Financial Economics from the University of Essex. She went on to work in or for a considerable number of countries within Asia and Europe as well as Australia and the United States. While building a name for herself through helping company restructure, change management and project management consultancy, Lee became a well-known figure for her skills in analyzing, problem solving and trouble-shooting. She has consulted for many major industries, including banking, telecommunications, insurance, transportation, leisure and governments from many different countries. Some of the companies who have benefited from Lee?s expertise are Hewlett Packard, Siemans Nixdorf, Electrolux and the Philippines government.
Whilst working in the Far East she became a recognized expert on preparing and evaluating large World Bank Proposals (infrastructure projects within developing countries). These accomplishments called upon the skills of bid and project management, risk assessment, contract negotiation and supplier management and required dedicated work to very tight time scales. This expertise was acknowledged by an invitation to be the principle speaker at an International Business Development Conference in Washington, USA. She has also consulted at very senior level in several countries.
She owns and manages two companies, Biz Guru LLC in the USA and Biz Guru Services Ltd in the UK as well a considerable number of profitable web sites. She works almost entirely via the internet, visiting clients on site during major consultancies and training. Her Internet skills span from when major companies first started to consider obtaining their own web sites. During these years, she has kept up to date with the rapid changes on the internet, including the dot com boom and the resulting bust ? which her own web based companies survived.
She regularly consults, writes and lectures on business, bid management and marketing and has published numerous courses and books.
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