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| We're down to 265 as of today. That SUCKS... and I wanted to document the dip, even though it's mid-month. It does partly explain some cash flow issues we're having. In the meantime, we're holding recitals all weekend. The adult-only recital was fun tonight. We cheered each other on over wine, pizza and cookies, and then we jammed to "Baby" by Justin Bieber. Oh, yeah.  That's just how awesome we are at Michelle Tuesday Music School.So our volume is less than awesome at the moment. Recitals are keeping me too busy to think about that problem. I'll look at it Monday. Peace, M |
| ...takes work. Time. Effort. Or possibly, stupidity, if "notoriety" is an acceptable form of fame for you (I'm thinking of Lindsay Lohan, here.) If you want to stand out - as a business, as a brand, as an author - you have to work at it constantly. You're forgettable, unless you make yourself unforgettable. "Forgettable" sounds like an insult - but why should it be? It only means that you're equal to the thousands of people living around you. So it's not an insult, but it certainly won't sell you any books (or records, or music lessons, etc.) I used to look at farms and think, wow, those dudes (sexist, I know, and my apologies to any female farmer readers) must be so disciplined. If they miss any of their deadlines - plow, plant, cultivate, harvest - their whole entire year tanks. But after two years of self-employment, I realize that applies to any business. It hit me on Friday, when I sang at Senor Patron thinking, I hope they advertised the hell out of Cinco de Mayo, because it's the biggest business day of the year for a Mexican restaurant. If they miss it, they don't get to do it again until next year. It's the same with my business. We're seasonal, so we only have so much time to advertise for back-to-school, Christmas, summer camps, parties, events. If we don't start early enough, we miss opportunities, and business tanks. But here's the thing - the school won't go completely under if we miss a deadline or two. It just doesn't grow as fast as it could. Mexican restaurants sell food and beer and margaritas the other 364 days of the year. Farmers successfully plow/plant/cultivate/harvest the other nine fields if they didn't quite get to the tenth. And we all make it to another year and try again. So it's not as black and white as I used to think, and neither is author success. Some authors might make millions on a book, then disappear for years (anyone know what Harper Lee or JD Salinger are doing these days?) Some authors might "just" make a thousand. Some might lose money and gain only experience. Popularity yields sales, and it takes effort to maintain popularity. Not just effort - constant effort. I recently saw Bobcat Goldwaith (the Police Academy comedian with the weird voice) do a stand-up routine and joke that he was doing it because he ran out of money. It's constant effort, and it's all relative. To whom do you compare yourself? I looked up Stephanie Meyer's Klout score (because I'm so fascinated by my own popularity) and discovered that I have more Klout than she (that's Klout with a "K," just to clarify.) Do I believe I'm more popular than Stephanie Meyer? Well, that depends on whom you ask. Sammy, my yorkie, definitely likes me better than Meyer. Keith, my boyfriend, also likes me better - he's not into books, let alone vampire books. Many young music students in my studio love the Twilight series, but when asked if they liked me better or Meyer, they might have a hard time deciding, because they know me personally and look up to me. Some random person in Wyoming who has no idea who I am probably likes Meyer better, even if they don't read or like vampires. To the vast population of tweens and teens across America, I'm just "Michelle who?" Meanwhile, I started an experiment on Facebook with a false account (shh, don't tell anyone.) I discovered a HUGE network of authors obviously looking to stand out via superior friend counts, because they all accepted me without question. My false account friend count shot past that of my legit account, which I've had for years, in about a month. Among all these author friends, all of whom have huge friend counts, pretty much none of them stand out. They all seem like a bunch of authors to me. I can say that the ones who post most often are the ones I would probably recognize in a lineup (of names, not faces.) The point of all this: Sales are better when you stand out from the crowd. Standing out is temporary, unless you apply constant effort to maintain your popularity. In most businesses, not the least of which is writing, popularity is branding and branding yields sales. Work hard, and you will be rewarded.  |
| In the words of Ursula the Sea Witch: Life's full of tough choices, isn't it?? I want to do all these things! I love them all. But branding is all about association. And time is all about the number of minutes in a day. The more I can focus, the better I can be at the limited things I try to do. Damn it. I seem to have backed off of writing, except for blogging, and that's probably good. I can't focus on it right now, so it won't be good. I'll save all my ideas for later, after I retire from the music business. I can keep the writing skills up by continuing to blog about the brand I'm working on now, which is all about music and a music school. I'm not very good at blogging. I'm thinking I should work on that. |
| Sometimes I don't have any. See, I've been paying close attention to Klout, as of late. At first, I was like, check it out, I have a number. Some people have lower numbers, some have higher numbers. Most of those people weren't real people in my mind; they were just avatars. So it didn't bother me to compare myself to mostly-anonymous competitors. The few people I did know had fairly comparable scores, +/- a point or two. However, my score has been climbing. Klout lately compares me to people I actually know, clarifying whom I influence and who influences me, and by how much. Most are local people like customers and church family, and some of the comparisons are big. That feels weird, like a popularity contest... a popularity contest I got hungry to win. Today, Keith and I rode on the motorcycle for awhile. Riding with Keith is always pleasant: beautiful, sunshiny day, nice boy in my arms, dreaming about one day owning some wooded land with a babbling brook and a big, pretty house. We talk a little, but most of the time we just enjoy it. In the quiet of the countryside, I got to thinking about that stupid Klout score, and how some random website somewhere in the world wide web decided that I'm better than Jane Doe, and that Joe Blow is better than I, primarily based on the number of Facebook friends and retweets I can claim. It bugged me. Humility is a rare emotion for me. But, lately... something's changed. Don't get me wrong; I don't mind comparing my business with other businesses. I live in a capitalist country, after all. But Klout compares people, not businesses. I'm not sure why that is such a problem with me. Who wouldn't want to strive to be quantitatively better than everyone else they know?? WTH? I think I just got philosophical. My most humble apologies. |
| Chris and I always worry. And then, later, we wonder why we worried. Things always seem to work out. Student count = 275.5 This is good, that we're back up to 275, because we've already moved up to that budget level. If we hover below the number (say, at 270), we'll slowly drop in cash flow (in layman's terms, that means our bank account gets lower and lower every month.) Since we took a couple of high-dollar risks (specifically, we purchased two pianos and invested in a huge summer camp marketing campaign), we're already running on the low side. I don't like being there. On the other hand, if we exceed the budget target, our cash flow steadily increases. So as we climb above our target student count of 275, our bank account will likewise climb. That's a good thing. We do have a whopper of a budget change coming in August in the form of a permanent rent hike. That costs 300 students, so keep your fingers crossed that we make the goal. Also keep your fingers crossed that we meet and exceed our summer camp minimum enrollments, because if we do, we'll refund that expensive marketing campaign in our bank account, plus make a profit. We had our first Summer Camp Giveaway drawing last night, and a 13-year-old boy won a prize package worth $50. Meanwhile, we've had somewhere between 15-20 sign up for the drawings, which shows that even though these people aren't enrolling in the camps, they're interested in winning a free one. Another interesting side effect - it will show us which camps are the most popular, because we required the registrants to list their first, second, and third choices. Whee! Business can be so uncertain. I've had "create mobile website" and "clean up blog consolidation" on my list for awhile now. I started working on the website yesterday, and it turned into the scope creep I expected it would. I hope to keep working this weekend while the momentum is high, but I'm camping tonight, and sadly, have no access to WiFi on my laptop. I can get on with my phone, but reception is spotty, and there's no way I can do web design on my phone. ...and that's all. With the exception of this blog, I haven't done much to earn my "writer" title. |
| I don't think I'll ever be happy with my accomplishments. I could be a five-time New York Times Bestselling Author (which, apparently, is a mark of success), and I would lament my failure to devise a student database for my (side-, at that point) business. MTMS could be gross higher than WalMart, and I'd beat myself up over not earning better margins. I could (and do) employ twenty-five central Ohio workers, and regret my inability to help out three good friends who have lost their jobs and can't seem to find replacements.It's starting to bug me that I can't do it all. I'm one of those people who will never "retire" in the traditional sense, though I may pull a pension or two. Time is stupid. Theoretically, I could drop everything else for a year, and focus on nothing but my database / fiction career / margins / business growth. But, in my opinion, I should get four years all at the same time, so I can do all those things. Add in one more year for exercise and weight loss, and another year for web development, plus a year for family time, and a year for social networking and beating arbitrary web grading scores like Klout and MarketingGrader. Where am I? Ten years? I'll take ten years, please. All at the same time. Student count = 273.5, but don't get excited. It's withdrawal week. |
| Student Count = 271.5. To the point made by Robert Waltz  in the comments section yesterday, I could see how the SEO race would be much more applicable to Internet-only businesses like WDC, for example, or Amazon. For a brick-and-mortar local business like MTMS , it's just one of a dozen ways to generate traffic (foot traffic, not Internet traffic) and sales leads. We do collect marketing data, and here are some statistics:Total enrollments (ever): 715 (a little skewed because we changed the way we collected this data about six months ago, but close enough for this analysis.) Marketing referrals: 205 signage 159 existing customers (a student added another instrument or class, returned after a break/two-month trip to India, or enrolled a sibling or other family member) 134 customer or employee referrals 98 unknown 87 Google/website 22 print ads The rest are miscellaneous. SIGNAGE: Includes a 30-foot sign facing Hamilton Road ($3000) and a 12-foot sign facing the parking lot ($1000), along with a couple smaller $100 window signs advertising our summer camps, what we teach, and how to find us online. The best advertising investments we've ever made (not counting the lease agreement that places us so visibly on Hamilton in the first place.) EXISTING & REFERRALS: Clearly, we are a large referral business, and that's something we need to cultivate. UNKNOWN: Yikes. We need to collect better data. GOOGLE/SEARCH/WEB: Here's the thing: about half of these are just strictly "website" referrals, which means they enrolled online. So we have no way of telling how they stumbled upon our site in the first place. Did they Google us? Bing us? If they did use a search engine, what did they type? Music lessons in Gahanna? Or "Michelle Tuesday Music School" because they drove by and saw our sign? PRINT ADS: Easily the most expensive marketing tactic we employ, with ads ranging from $150 for a tiny business-card sized ad to $1000 or more for a full-color, full-page ad, all in a one-time printing that probably ends up in most people's trash bins before it makes it into the house. Our sign works for us, and it requires no ongoing marketing maintenance (besides occasional burned-out light bulbs that the Plaza handles). Referrals work so well for us that we need to find a way to encourage it. Print ads seem to be an evil necessity but maybe a bit of a waste. Either we're printing in the wrong publications, or our ads are not compelling, or people just don't read print ads. We're about to find out, because we did a very expensive direct mailing, meaning we're right on the cover of the thing that appears in your mailbox (as opposed to Page 7 of a booklet or ads inside of a local town newspaper.) But if it doesn't pan out, print may be the wrong direction for us. That leaves Google and Internet searches, which in my opinion are an opportunity for us. The thing about marketing and advertising is that each venue attracts a certain crowd. You have a certain group of people reading those town papers, and they may or may not be the same people who go to Google first for their kids' activities. I think we're leaving a market untapped by being optimized for "Michelle Tuesday Music School" (which requires customers to seek us directly) instead of "Music lessons in Gahanna" or even "Music lessons in Columbus" (although, this is a local business, because people don't want to drive their kids across rush hour traffic from the other side of Columbus for a 40-minute music lesson every single week.) All things to consider, and reasons why I'm looking at SEO now. It's something of an experiment. Our Google PageRank is 2, which is somewhat typical for local area businesses. I'd be thrilled to bump that up to a 3, but even more thrilled to optimize for new keywords. The majority of our traffic comes from people who have already seen our sign and know we exist. Could we tap into a new market of people if we optimize for people who don't know our name? I'm thinking maybe. But it still annoys me that I have to play the game. I did leave a comment on a piano teaching blog yesterday. Maybe one per day is a good target. |
| I'm working on it. We do pretty good business just based on our signage; people see our sign, they Google the name, they find us. But it excludes people who haven't seen the sign. We have some print ads out, but I'd like to build our web presence so we're more visible to Googlers not specifically seeking "Michelle Tuesday Music School ". I've managed to get our MarketingGrader.com and Klout scores up a smidge, and though I've improved my blogging and social networking, it's still just numbers. MarketingGrader thinks I have a mobile-friendly website, but I don't; not yet. I just have the building blocks in place. The next trick is inbound links. I hate talking about SEO. If you have a good website, with good information, that answers the right questions (where can I find "music schools in gahanna ohio" or "guitar lessons in columbus"), that should be all it takes. Google has worked hard to be smart at figuring out if you're the right answer to the question. Meanwhile, people have worked even harder to be sure they are the right answer to the question by outsmarting Google. I just don't think that's the right way to go about it. But facts are facts, and I can clearly see the statistics that prove my site gets more traffic than many of my competitors, most of whom don't know the slightest thing about SEO, web design, or even marketing at all. And I've gotten there in part by following SEO advice. And all the advice I've researched points to more inbound links. Some of those can be purchased, and I don't mean buying or trading junk links. I mean buying advertising on legitimate, highly-ranked sites like the local chamber of commerce, school districts, high school sports calendar sites, and the like. You would be surprised at how expensive those are, and I can only afford a few key links. Therefore, I need to supplement that with some cheaper inbound links. I discovered in my Google analysis that I have an inbound link from this page defined by HubSpot as "authoritative" (which counts more, from a link referral perspective, than a non-authoritative page): http://www.sarah-holroyd.com/blog/welcome/ . Now, I didn't comment on this blog post to get an inbound link. I commented because Seisa-sleepingcatbooks.com  is my friend, and I want to see her business succeed. Little did I know that Google would appreciate my support, too.It got me thinking. An easy way to get inbound links is to read blogs and comment on them. Isn't that what HubSpot has been saying all along, in so many words? It's all about blogs. Social networking, yes, content, yes, but also blogs. Write one, read others, comment comment comment. I do read blogs, and I read them all the freaking time. They suck me in. I find hours lost because I spent the morning clicking from one interesting article to the next. Do I ever comment? Nope. Not unless it's a friend. Why? Too busy? I read the article, didn't I? I have no opinion? Yeah, RIGHT. I have lots of opinions. So I'm considering adding "read and comment on blogs" to my daily agenda. I do it anyway. Why not add another item to my to-do list that I get to check? I may never see sunshine again with all this SEO crap. |
| It's disappointing, even though it follows last year's trend. We opened in September 2010. The first few months were "ooh, what's this? A new music school?" But I believe that starting in January of 2011, we settled into what will become our typical seasonal trending patterns. Which, for spring, means backwards. Student count = 269. The good news is that June is a record enrollment month, and our summer camps are filling up better than they did last year (and we haven't even launched our promo yet... the ads come out May 1st.) So, yay. My brain is fuzzy, and so is my throat, neither fact of which will help me sing at Senor Patron today. I'm dipping my toes into new opportunities, because SP just doesn't get much of a lunch crowd. I'd hoped that my performance would boost volume, and maybe it has a little, but I could get better exposure in a joint closer to my school and with more people already eating there. On a web design kick. These kicks can be so time-consuming, because I get engrossed - in reading articles, in trying tutorials, in experimenting with the site / blog / QR codes / etc. etc. So... that's what I'm doing. I swear I'm not spending all my time playing with my new android phone.  |
| I'm such a geek, I know. But this just made my freaking weekend. I discovered that I can pair a bluetooth keyboard with my new android phone. I may never use a laptop again. Okay, I'm exaggerating. But seriously. This is exciting news. *runs to Amazon to spend a bunch of money on new accessories* |
| Pretty psyched about my new android phone. I've had it less than 24 hours and haven't done much but play with it. Sadly, it doesn't look like I can IM without it. Anyone know differently? Regards, Michelle
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| I'm about to go crazy with this. A local radio station is looking for a web developer. It's a full-time position, which is BAD. They strongly encourage women to apply, which is GOOD (in case you didn't know, I meet that specification.) And when I saw the posting, I thought... holy crap, I'd much rather do that than write Textbroker articles. It just sounds so much more fun. And I have radically different reference websites to highlight, my own and my church's, for which I've served as administrator for a couple years now. I've set up a podcast site and overseen the podcasts. I'm creative AND geeky. I know Wordpress, html, css, php. I don't know MySQL, but I know Access and want to learn MySQL (and, by the way, that one is listed as a "plus".) It's a Christian radio station, which is obviously a good fit for me, not just because it's my personal faith, but also because I have a job history in the church, both as a worship leader AND web developer. WTF? I must be out of my mind. But it's rare that I get so excited about job opportunities. |
| Blogged at http://michelletuesday.com/blog/?p=3434 about writing. My day is complete. Oh, wait. I still have church and a day of camping ahead of me. Never mind. My day just started. Student count: Still at 268.5. |
| Can I get three more LIKES for this page: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Michelle-Tuesday-Music-School/120753377955624 It's an automatically-created FB page, which appeared because people started to list "Michelle Tuesday Music School" as their employer before the MTMS official page was created. I hear 25 is the magic number, and we're at 22 Likes so far. I have no idea what happens when we hit the magic number, so you're helping me experiment. Thanks! |
| Student Count = 268.5. Which is lower than the 275 - by a lot - on which we based our last staff addition. I'm not worried... much... My schedule, my motivation, my volume, all whacked. I think I'm still a little numb from Holy Week. I've been relaxing the last couple days, not replying to messages or taking care of business, mostly just reading (yay, Dresden) and working on the website. I've consolidated blogs (my blog with the school's news blog, that way the posts happen twice as often); started to reorganize my files (and reap the consequences of moving things around); and set up redirects like they're going out of style. I base a lot of my web design decisions on my ranking at marketing.grader.com (formerly website.grader.com) because I'm irrationally competitive. I know, deep in my gut, that the true grade for my marketing strategies - web or otherwise - is in volume and sales. Since I'm not a web business, I don't need "engaged" visitors or a compelling blog that brings people back over and over. My website is not about engaging visitors. It's about making sales. But, damn it, I'm going to get that grade higher if it kills me. |
| I was reading an article about genre and marketing, which I hated but totally agreed with. In summary: as an author, I don't want to be pigeonholed into a genre. But if I want to be successful, it doesn't much matter what I want. I have to specialize to create a loyal reader base. I decided that my best genre is fantasy. I'd bet a paycheck (small as they are) that most of my readers prefer Poor Witch, and even The Butterfly Stone, over Andromeda Sings. Maybe I'll revisit Meda someday and rewrite her to be a bit more speculative. I also decided that this explains why I'm floundering in the writing department. I've dabbled in romance and mystery and decided I suck at both. I'm trying to write fantasy, comedy, thrillers and nonfiction,which I don't suck at, but the whole thing feels like massive scope creep because it's too much. So when I sit down to "write" on a given day, I end up farting around on Facebook instead, because I have no idea what to work on. Picking a genre will help me focus on attainable goals. So, I have decided to NaNo Poor Witch again this year, and continue the saga with a sequel. (Like how I verbed that noun, just now?) I've already started to outline what comes next, and it involves at least two, maybe three, sequels. |
| I love spring sports season. Student count = 270. Bleh. Speaking of holy, it's Holy Week, which means I'm honkin' busy. I recently regained web administrator status for my church, as well as being music director, so I'm hopping. I think I remember about writing... what it is, I mean... I need blog posts for MTMS , as well as some progress on the fiction front. I'm starting to wonder if I really want to be a writer anyway. There's an awesome Open Order at Textbroker that I might have taken any other week, but I looked at it and thought... ugh... that would be work.These days, there's very little I consider "work". I don't consider writing or even editing fiction as work, nor almost anything that has to do with my business. Music direction at church has felt like work the last few years, but minimal. So to look at a writing assignment and think... no thanks, that's more work than fun... makes me wonder if writing is for me. Maybe it's just this week weighing me down. Which is sad, because it's supposed to be the happiest week of my year. |
| I keep calling it a store, but I need to change my lingo. When I open my next MTMS location, it will become the Westerville (or Pickerington or Pataskala or Bexley) "Campus" - not "store". And if you're keeping track, the next campus is planned for fall of 2013. On a completely unrelated note, I've been thinking of looking up literary agents again. I don't want to do the work beyond writing the books - blog tours, promotions, physical sales, blah blah blah. Book signings, okay. Not all the other crap. I just don't want to. I'm not good at it, because I'm not focused enough, so I can't be consistently witty on Twitter or fascinating on Facebook or anything but boring in my blog. It's a failing, I know. So I looked up blogs for Stephen King, JK Rowling, Nora Roberts. Steve's was dry and last updated in 2009. JK and Nora don't have blogs, that I could find. But these authors didn't get readers by writing blogs. They got readers by connecting with the right people, the people who had the business know-how and drive to promote and sell their first books. Steve and Nora, incidentally, happened across fledgling genres for their times and thus gained notoriety as pioneers. Rowling is an enigma, unless maybe she hit a new target market with her cross-generational appeal, but there's no doubt she sells books, not blogs. Their kind of fame might be unattainable, unless some new, untapped genre or target market waits to be discovered. The business person in me cringes at the thought of a book debut that might lose money, so I think I want to do it right, by hiring an agent who knows the business. The problem is, who is that person? And how does one go about capturing the attention of that person? Research? Interview agents who express interest to make sure their clout is sound? It almost seems like finding a literary agent is just as much work as the crap I'm trying to avoid by hiring an agent. And so we return to the age-old question: agent or self-publish? I know enough about how business works to know it takes time in before you get money out. In most accepted business models, time in equals eighteen months. Eighteen months of hard work for no pay before you break even on a business. I wouldn't consider one book an entire business, unless it's the first book, which, in my case it would be. So, I shy away from self-publishing because I figure I should expect eighteen months before I see a profit. But here's the thing: "Campus" or not, technically, I own a retail STORE frequented by kids and parents. I could sell stuff there. Stuff like books. Just sayin'. *ponders* |
| I'll be checking in eventually, but for recordkeeping: Student Count = 271. |
| I was that college kid who spent four hours every finals season calculating exactly what grades I needed on each exam to pass all my classes instead of, you know, using that time to study. True to form, I spent the bulk of my morning today calculating the percentages of time spent on each of my life facets to create "Balance". Here's what I found. My 2012 "Balance" New Year's Resolution involved balancing three areas of my life: Family, Work, Body. Incidentally, these are also the keywords that (are supposed to) drive my everyday choices. FAMILY 38 hours per week. BODY 61 hours per week WORK 69 hours per week You might think these should be 33% (56 hours per week) apiece, and I certainly started my analysis that way. But I had to make some concessions, and ultimately, this target balance is much better than my 2011 performance. The hours are broken thus: 1. FAMILY, 38 hours 30 hours shared time (stretch goal) 8 hours chores (stretch goal) I can't share more than 30 hours at this time because of our conflicting work schedules, but I do commit to "being there" during the 30 hours we do have together. Next year, maybe I'll shoot for more shared hours. And 8 hours of chores is more than plenty, thankyouverymuch. 2. BODY, 61 hours 52.5 hours sleeping. 3.5 hours grooming. 3.5 hours exercising (a stretch goal!) 1.5 hours meal planning and recording (somewhat arbitrary) 3. WORK, 69 hours  MTMS, 40 hours Breakdown TBD Church, 7 hours1 hour worship planning 1 hour music preparation 3 hours rehearsing 2 hours worship Performance, 7 hours2 hours Senor Patron 2 hours other gigs or events (this doesn't happen every week, but I would like to shoot for this) 2.5 hours practicing 0.5 hours administrative (organizing music, landing gigs?) Writing, 15 hoursBreakdown TBD So... I determined my weekly writing hours by what was left. Some of that has to go to things like to-do lists and "daily" blogging at WDC, but there's still a pretty good chunk there for freelance articles, editing and new fiction. I'm happy with it. I still need to figure out exactly how to break down both my writing and my MTMS hours, but that's a task for another day, when the procrastination bug bites me again. |
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