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Here is a Method That is Helping Ballroom Dance Studios to Get More Students
Posted by dance_marketing at 31 Aug, 2008 10:43 AM
Use Dancing with the Stars 2008 to bring in more students
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 because there are TONS of people who do. Tons of people who live in your area, in fact!
If you’re a ballroom dance studio you should be capitalizing on it’s popularity.
How to best do that?
Run ads in Google, Yahoo, & MSN that reference the TV show. You can’t use it’s logo or make yourself seem affiliated with them in any way but what you CAN do is let people know that they can get a piece of the action “just miles from their house.”
Think about it, when you’re marketing your studio, the toughest part of a piece is to convince people to read you ad and then pick up the phone or visit your web site for more information. You have to create all that desire from one little ad.
Now, consider how many people watch the show and how it affects them emotionally. Then, you’ll start to see a capital idea.
I call it ‘turn the corner’ advertising. They weren’t looking for your type of service when they hit the web but you caught their attention and them made them “turn the corner” to your studio.
What I do with my clients is watch for show times in our area, see which times people are on the web searching for the information on the show, and then run ads where people are searching. A lot of them hadn’t really considered that they could actually be trying ballroom dance lessons themselves. You show an ad, make them comfortable, get them into the studio and ‘bam!’, you’re good to go.
Of course, there are more in-depth steps to this process but I wanted to give you the formula. You can also use offline ads with this technique as well. “Turn the corner” advertising works when you use it correctly.
Use it while it’s hot!
Dance Teacher Summer Conference ‘08
Posted by dance_marketing at 4 Aug, 2008 4:37 PM
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 past).
I’m looking forward to getting out there and talking with teachers to figure out what their biggest marketing problems are?
If you care to weigh in, I’m very, very happy to hear it. Post a comment below.
