Testimonials
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Excerpt taken from an interview by Dance Teacher Magazine about their Dance Teacher Summer Conference in ’08
Q:What’s your favorite memory from the 2008 conference or the award luncheon?
A:Having the opportunity to thank David Howard for his inspiring help after taking his master class. At a discouraging time in building a youth ballet in NYC, I called him for advice. He was very encouraging, sincere and remembered how he began and even offered to help me build the program. It was a wonderful place to meet up at such an event!
Q:What was the response from the community when you won the award?
A:It was featured in a downtown publication and put our school on the map!
Q:Has winning the award opened up any opportunities for you professionally?
A:Yes! I have produced a series called “My Ballerina and Me” – an educational DVD / CD. We lacked a marketing team. Meeting Chad Michael Lawson (one of your vendors ‘Real Deal Dance Marketing) is working with us to market our educational dance products. It was a perfect match!
Q:Any highlights from the past few months – accomplishments of your students, new programs you’re involved in, etc.
A:I just had a baby girl! Camilla Sol and she has her own little room right in my studio! When I was at the conference I met another teacher with the same due date as me! It was great to share experiences on how to handle having a baby and keeping the school going. It was such a well planned event that allowed me to network in the best way possible. Thank you Dance Teacher for this exceptional conference!
Thanks so much Kina! Let me know if you need anything else.
Best,
Elizabeh
New American Youth Ballet
http://www.newamericanyouthballet.org/
“When I first started to being able to work with Chad our studio had been using conventional advertising; print media, radio, flyers, etc. We tried a lot of the things that have traditionally been successful. And, the first summer that I’d owned the business we had dropped down to one a week. And, there were weeks when we didn’t have that. So we had one month where we had 4-5 people[new students]. After I got involved with Chad: After about 1 month of being able to get everything up and running the studio was already at 6 [new students] a week. And, that was after the first month after he was able to get things established. And after that it just continued to build and continued to be able to drive new business than the weeks before.
If it hadn’t been for the switch to a more intelligent, more easily tracked form of advertising where I could see the direct relation to the numbers that I was getting back to the money that was going out my business wouldn’t have made it and [there] wouldn’t still be an Arthur Murray Studio in Mesa [Arizona].
I can tell you that if you listen to what he says and take his advice you’ll definitely be able to grow you business faster and with less money than any other form of advertising than I’ve been able to find.”
Lowell Fox
Arthur Murray Mesa
“Thank you, Chad, for delivering outstanding dance performances on all of our jobs over the last couple of years. It is such a pleasure working with you!
I appreciate being able to call on you, explain our needs, and know that the dance you provide will match perfectly to our client’s vision. It must be your experience as an accomplished dancer yourself that gives you your keen intuitive insight. You are always on point.
Your dancers have always been excellent, professional, and flexible. They have been great about accommodating the changing needs during the flow of an event, which can be pretty stressful. But thanks to your leadership, it has been a smooth process.
Your consistent attention to detail is of tremendous importance to me, as it is to my clients. Our company is a premier entertainment agency, and as such we have very high expectations for everyone with whom we work. Your level of service meets and exceeds those expectations.
I have received high accolades about your dancers, from our small corporate events, up to the large annual ball that we’ve done. Thank you for making our company look good!
I look forward to continuing to work with you.”
Susan Vargo
The Charles Agency
“In regards to working with Chad Michael Lawson on building my websites. I know that it’s no easy task on getting the site ready, the shopping cart and working with merchants to get your site live. Chad has the know how on getting all this job done also his phone is not automated. If their is a problem you can get Chad on the phone to work things out. If I was to build a new site today Chad Michael Lawson would be the person in charge.”
Chuck Molter
Nifty 50s Shop
USA Dance Shop
