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Introducing The Dance Instructor Blueprint
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You want to explicitly state that the article will solve this problem for them (or at least help with it) instead of assuming they will understand that. This could be as simple as saying "We are going to solve this with a method I call INSERT NAME".
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- If the steps are all obvious to the reader and you point them out at the start of your article, you risk them thinking "Really, that is it?" and losing them before they get to the really valuable information.
- This could include a bulleted list of the most inspiring things they will learn in the article (which doesn't need to correlate with the steps).
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About Dance Ninjas & Andrew Sutton
How To Best Use This Blueprint
If You Have Never Taught Dance
If You Teach Dance Part Time
If You Teach Dance Full Time
If You Are A Traveling Instructor
Why This Blueprint Will Help You Be A Kick-Ass Successful Dance Instructor
Filling out this blueprint will help set you apart from the average dance instructor for several reasons.
Let’s go over them one by one.
Improve Your Dancing: Stand Out Amongst The Crowd
When it comes to improving your dancing skills, we won’t focus on normal dance techniques. A specific posture, styling, footwork, move, etc...these are all valuable things to learn and at the same time, they can be learned in many dance classes.
Plus, the precise way you are asked to do these things will often change depending on your teacher. Ideally, this would change depending on the person you are dancing with, not the person who taught you...and that is what we focus on when improving your dancing (see example below).
"The precise way you hold your posture, do a dance move, place your feet, etc...often changes depending on who you learn from. I'd prefer if this changes depending on who you are dancing with." Andrew Sutton
Instead of teaching a specific fundamental, we focus on helping you understand the “fundamentals of the fundamentals”…
...or what we call “Universal Fundamentals”.
Good dancers strive to master the fundamentals. Great dancers that stand out amongst the crowd, strive to master the fundamentals of the fundamentals (aka: the Universal Fundamentals).
"Good dancers strive to master the fundamentals. Great dancers strive to master the fundamentals of the fundamentals (aka: the Universal Fundamentals)." Andrew Sutton, Founder of DanceNinjas.com
Example: Universal Fundamental of Connection
Your teacher might have taught you a specific way to connect and stated that this connection was a fundamental of the dance. However, you might find other dancers that connect differently and it can feel awkward, less fun, &/or less precise to dance with someone that connects differently than you do.
In this example, the “Universal Fundamental of Connection” wouldn't be a specific way of connecting, but rather it would be to learn how to match up with the connection style of your partner. That way, you can change your way of connecting to suit any partner, no matter what the situation, and always make the dance feel more connected, fun, precise, and of course...less awkward.
(And yes, this applies to both follows AND leads!)
This is an example of what we call a Universal Fundamental (or a fundamental of a fundamental) and what we believe makes a great dancer stand out amongst the crowd of good dancers. This is the type of information we focus on sharing with you to improve your dancing.
Note:
The word “connection” can mean something drastically different to different people. We used this word in the example above because we are confident that, regardless of your specific definition for connection, the example above will still make sense.
That said, we think of connection as a broader term that has many working parts: tension in various parts of the body, arm movement, body movement, counterbalance, etc. So when talking about connection in more detail, we will often be much more specific about what part of connection we are focusing on so we can all be on the same page.
Key Takeaway
We believe improving your Universal Fundamentals is what will make you a great dancer that stands out amongst the crowd, so this is the type of information we focus on sharing with you to improve your dancing.
Improve Your Teaching: Keep Your Students Coming Back For More
If you want your students to constantly improve, love your classes, and keep coming back for more, we believe there are two key ingredients to make this happen.
1. Improve your students
2. Inspire your students
If you improve your students, but you don't inspire them, dancing will probably never be something they fall in love with and they will likely end up losing interest at some point (or continue but only take the occasional lesson and never really be passionate about improving).
If you inspire your students but you don't consistently and clearly improve their dancing, you may keep them around in the short term, but eventually, they will notice they aren't progressing much and will likely start looking for instruction elsewhere.
Improving OR inspiring your students probably isn't enough to keep them in the long run. It's the combination of both that turns them into raving fans and keeps them coming back for years to come (and spreading the word to all their friends).
"Improving OR inspiring your students probably isn't enough to keep them in the long run. It's the combination of both that turns them into raving fans and keeps them coming back for years to come. Prep your lessons to do both!" Andrew Sutton
So, if these two ingredients are so important....
...then we want to improve and inspire you to include multiple proven methods to improve AND inspire your students in every lesson you teach.
Now, if you are like the majority of teachers we have surveyed, you might be thinking "Hmmm, I don't even know what you are talking about."
That is perfectly normal.
But it's time for that to change!
We don't want to help you be a "normal" teacher. We want to help you excel and become a kick-ass successful dance instructor with loads of raving fans that love your lessons and constantly come back for more.
Teaching Tip: Holding Back Information Can Hurt You In The Long Run
Some teachers keep their students coming back for more by holding key information back from them for longer than would otherwise be needed. They seem to be afraid that if they give their students everything too soon, the students will have no reason to stick with them.
We believe this will hurt you in the long run and here are several reasons why:
- Most students won't ever learn everything you have to teach them, no matter what pace you go, and the slower pace can frustrate them. So this strategy might create lots more students who stop taking your lessons earlier due to frustration and this probably won't make up for the few students that might stick with you an extra year or two if you slow their progress to try to keep them taking lessons for longer.
- Your reputation for creating kick-ass dancers won't be as awesome, so other potential students will be less likely to take your lessons.
- As long as you keep improving your own dancing, by the time a student does learn everything you currently have to teach them, you will likely have learned a lot more that you can teach them. Speeding up their progress can encourage you to speed up your own progress, whereas slowing it will likely slow you down too.
Note: There is a difference between holding information back to try and keep them coming back for more, compared to not sharing something because it isn't the ideal time in their learning process to learn that information.
Sharing too much all at once can also hold back progress.
A good rule of thumb is to avoid sharing information with your students just because you want them to know it. Share it with them when you have time to let them actually implement it into their dancing (either at that moment or for homework).
Key Takeaway
We believe using methods to improve your students AND methods to inspire your students are the keys to keeping your students coming back for more, so this is the type of information we focus on sharing with you to improve your teaching.
Improve Your Business: Be In-Demand & Sought-After
If you want to become in-demand and sought-after (locally or internationally), it often requires more than being a good dance instructor.
It's about strategies, processes, consistency and percentages.
Think about it.
Which would you be more likely to purchase? Something that has a 10% chance of doing what it says it will, a 50% chance, or a 99.99% chance?
Most people would want the 99.99% option. The higher the percentage, the more in-demand and sought-after that option becomes.
So how can you apply this to everything in your dance instruction.
How can you consistently increase the:
This is why you want to create processes and constantly improve them so they better serve your customers.
From creating a syllabus, to teaching lessons, to deciding what to offer and when to offer it, having a process for everything you do allows you to know exactly what you are doing. That way, if you change something,measure your success, which allows you to figure out what works best and then do that instead of just randomly guessing at what will work best and never having confidence in what you are doing.
Again, we will dive into the details (and give you some proven systems) below but the main thing to realize is that systems & processes will allow you to improve your services (for you and your customers) and make life feel a whole lot easier as well!
Key Takeaway
We believe proven strategies and processes are the keys to having a kick-ass business and becoming in-demand and sought-after, so this is the type of information we focus on sharing with you to improve your business.
How To Become A Kick-Ass Successful Dance Instructor
Now that you know the what and the why...in this section, we want to teach you how to become a kick-ass successful dance instructor.
We believe there are 3 fundamentals of a kick-ass successful dance instructor.
How To Be A Kick-Ass Dancer
Our goal with this section is to improve your dancing and help you stand out as one of the great dancers amongst the crowd.
We want you to be the one everyone wants to dance with, the one who everyone talks about, the one who constantly has a waiting list of people dying to dance with you.
To do this, we will start by giving you one of our most powerful methods to drastically improve your dancing, then we will show you some of our favorite examples to implement this method to improve your musicality and your connection.
But first, a warning...
Warning! Dance Skills Are Just One Part Of Being Successful
Don't Let A Lack Of Dance Skills Hold You Back
Some people have the mindset of "I have to improve my dancing more BEFORE I can start teaching". This mindset could drastically slow your progress both as a teacher and as a dancer.
If this is your mindset, read this yellow section now. Otherwise, you can skip this section.
First, I'll say that I LOVE that you want to improving your dancing and I wholeheartedly encourage that. This is an important part of becoming a great teacher.
At the same time, if you spend hundreds of hours improving your dancing before you ever start teaching, when you do start, you will likely be a great dancer and a crappy teacher. After all, teaching is a skill and improving your dancing doesn't usually improve your teaching (On the other hand, improving your teaching will often improve your dancing as we'll discuss below).
Since teaching dance is a skill (separate from learning to dance), I encourage you to start teaching as soon as possible...even if it is just your friends.
If you aren't confident enough to charge for your lessons, teach your friends in exchange for feedback on how to improve your teaching.
I started teaching dance (not paid) on my second day of learning to dance. At UC Santa Barbara, that was how our classes were structured. We would learn the Charleston from one person and five minutes later we were teaching it to someone else. While we might not have taught things perfectly, teaching really forced us to analyze what we were doing and better understand it for ourselves. I started out so bad, the good dancers actually warned others not to dance with me and within 1 year I was asked to start teaching local dance lessons, in less than 2 years I was teaching at some of the top Lindy Hop dance camps across the US, and within 4 years I was traveling the world to teach dance. It all started by teaching my friends the Charleston on day 2 of learning to dance.
Start teaching your friends for free. Then as you improve, you can use systematic ways to decide the appropriate amount to charge each step along your journey (which we teach you in our Dance Instructor Blueprint Masterclass).
Ok, now on to improving your dancing skills!
A Powerful Method To Drastically Improve Your Dancing
We believe the fastest and most effective way to improve your dancing is to improve your Universal Fundamentals (aka: the fundamentals of the fundamentals).
After all, if improving your fundamentals can drastically improve your dancing, doesn't it make sense that improving the fundamentals of the fundamentals would be even more valuable?
But how do you know if something is a Universal Fundamental?
It is actually quite simple to define.
A Universal Fundamental is a concept, method, or technique that improves your dancing with everyone, all the time, no matter how they dance (no exceptions).
While it is easy to define, it isn't always easy to discover a Universal Fundamental. We will give you some guidance to discover your own Universal Fundamentals below but first, here is how Andrew first discovered the Universal Fundamental of Counterbalance.
Discovering The Universal Fundamental of Counterbalance
Note: Counterbalance is the act of positioning your body in a way where you need to use your partner's weight (&/or strength) to stay balanced. See video definition here.
As a lead, I remember being taught "the follow is supposed to follow the counterbalance that is led by the lead."
This probably seems like a solid fundamental, right? The lead leads the counterbalance and the follow follows it. Makes sense, right? Plus, it feels great when everything works out this way.
But does this concept improve your dancing with everyone? What happens when someone doesn't follow your counterbalance?
For me, when this concept didn't work, it caused a lot of frustration and crappy dances for many years (even after I was a World Champion).
For many years, when I took a partner into my arms to start a dance, they would often immediately sit back into counterbalance (giving me a little bit of their weight), before I'd ever led or requested any form of counterbalance.
I'd immediately think "Oh god, here we go again" and continue the dance frustrated because they weren't following *my* counterbalance. Many of these dancers were very skilled in many other aspects of their dancing, but this one frustration soured the entire dance for me (and probably for them too because I wasn't nearly as much fun to dance with when I was frustrated).
What's worse is that before I learned this concept of counterbalance, I enjoyed dancing with these people and I didn't even notice that they were adding counterbalance to the dance. It is crazy to think that I spent time and effort learning this new skill, and while it did improve my dances with people who obeyed this "fundamental", learning it actually made me enjoy dancing much less often because so many people didn't obey it.
As I was improving my dancing, I was starting to enjoy less of my dances. This is crazy! Shouldn't learning a new dance concept or technique INCREASE the amount of joy you experience in your dancing, not decrease it?
So how did I overcome this?
It is quite simple.
I decided to follow their counterbalance when they didn't follow mine. I still led the moves (or at least most of them), I just chose to follow that one layer (counterbalance) while leading the rest of the dance (or most of it).
So now, when someone sits back into my arms, I just sit back with them and start dancing. Plus, it makes me feel like a kick-ass Dance Ninja to be able to lead a move while following the counterbalance. 🙂
In this case, the Universal Fundamental of Counterbalance is to match your partners counterbalance.
You can still lead the counterbalance but once you start leading it, don't assume they will follow exactly what you lead. Instead, pay attention to how they follow your lead and match that. And even if you don't lead any counterbalance, pay attention to whether or not they decide to add counterbalance to their movement and match it when they do (and when they don't).
Btw, if you want some specific drills and exercises to improve your Universal Fundamentals of Counterbalance, join our Dance Ninjas Dancer Training and check out the lesson on "Supercharging Your Counterbalance - Like A Ninja", so you can precisely match each different partner at EACH moment of EVERY dance. And yes, we teach other Universal Fundamentals in the dancer training too.
To discover more Universal Fundamentals, it could be as simple as looking at the fundamentals you've been taught and re-assessing them to see how they can work with everyone, all the time, no matter how they dance.
However, I know that isn't always easy to do.
So we have developed 3 main guidelines that can help you turn any fundamental into a Universal Fundamental and we've written another article that goes into detail on these guidelines and includes video examples.
If you want help discovering more Universal Fundamentals, check out our article on how to turn any fundamental into your own universal fundamental. Note: We discuss "techniques" instead of "fundamentals" in this article but the process is exactly the same.
39+ Universal Methods Elements Fundamentals Of Improving Your Musicality
A Universal Method of Improving Your Musicality is a method that will improve your musicality in every song.
There are soooo many ways to improve your musicality!
We have 39 (and counting) different methods to improve your musicality and split them up into 5 categories:
- overall feel/energy
- phrasing and structural changes
- choreography
- rhythm
- and miscellaneous
Each category has at least 6 methods to break down and improve your musicality within that category.
There is so much exciting stuff to learn, we can't even fit it all in one screenshot! Here is an image of just the first category:
Teaching Tip: How To Teach Volume Changes (it is super easy)
Teaching your students to match the volume changes in a song is one of the easiest ways to get them started on becoming more musical. Plus, it is super easy to improve and inspire them with this concept.
Here is how to show/explain this concept to them (and a recommended time frame for each step):
- Show them the difference matching the volume makes in their musicality with these two examples A & B. (15 - 20 seconds total)
- A: With the volume turned up, keep doing the basic with the exact same amount of volume in your movement in every basic. Then, have someone turn down the volume but still keep doing the basic with the exact same amount of volume in your movement.
- B: Repeat the example above but when the volume turns down, decrease the volume of movement within your basic to match the volume change in the music.
- Repeat step 1 (A & B) but start the music low and increase the volume instead of decreasing it. (15 - 20 seconds total)
- Repeat step 2B but only increase the volume for 1-2 beats and then return to the original lower volume while having a smaller volumed basic that only increases in volume during that 1-2 beat volume increase in the music. (10 seconds)
- Explain that music has volume changes all the time, they just aren't usually as obvious as when we physically turn the volume up and down in a song (although some are...like when the horn section kicks in). That said, every drum beat, every pluck of the guitar string, every horn, every sound in a song...they all have different amounts of volume and we can show that in our dancing and we don't even have to change the move we are doing to show it! (15 seconds)
When your students see how strange it looks when you don't change your volume to match the music compared to when you do, they immediately get this concept and they are usually very inspired and excited to try it.
Plus, seeing the control you have over changing just a single beat or two of your basic to match the music (as in step 3) is very inspiring too!
Now that you've inspired them, the next step is to improve them.
Note: Before I show/explain the 4 steps ABOVE, I will often start by having them dance to a song for 30-60 seconds. During the song, I will increase and decrease the volume every 10 seconds or so and see if they increase or decrease the volume in their movements. If they already do this well, I don't need to teach this concept and can move on to teach them something else. If they don't do this well, I show/explain the 4 steps above and then move on to the steps below.
Here is how I get them started improving their volume matching (with time frames):
- Explain that matching the volume of every drum beat, guitar pluck, horn blow, etc is very advanced so we will start off with some easy drills to practice matching the volume and work our way to the more difficult stuff. Plus, rather than waiting for a song to naturally have a volume change, you are just going to change the volume on them at random intervals so they can get lots of practice in just a few minutes. (20 seconds)
- Have them do the basic and nothing but the basic while you change the volume on them every 5-20 seconds. Every once in awhile throw in a 1-2 beat volume change. Make your volume changes drastic so they can definitely tell the difference each time. (3 min)
- Repeat step 2 with a new song but this time call out a different basic move every 60 seconds during the song. Each time you call out a new move, that is the move they are supposed to repeat (and adjust the volume of) until you call out the next move. (5 min)
- Repeat step 3 with a new song but warn them that you are going to make it a little harder (but don't tell them how). This time switch off from making a drastic volume change, to a smaller more subtle (but still quick) volume change, then a drastic one, then a subtle one. (3 min)
- Did they make subtle volume changes that matched the subtle changes in the music? If so, congratulate them and move on to step 7 (skip step 6). If not, ask them if they noticed what you did to make it harder. Then explain what you did by having them imagine the gradual change in volume on a scale (say from 0 to 100) and show how any move can have a gradual change in volume too.
Here is a video example explaining this in more detail.(2 - 3 min) - Repeat step 4 with the subtle volume changes now that they are aware and can pay attention to them. As well as subtle quick volume changes, you can also include some slow gradual volume changes. (3 - 5 min)
- Repeat step 6 but let them choose any moves they want. (3 - 5 min)
- Point out that songs often have different volumes when you compare them to each other and repeat step 7 but instead of changing the volume on them, change songs on them. (3 - 5 min) Note: Before class, pick some songs with intros that have clearly different volumes for this step.
- Point out that songs can sometimes have drastic volume changes when they switch phrases or go from an intro to a chorus, etc and have them practice dancing to some songs that have these clear changes. (3 - 5 min) Note: Before class, pick out some songs and cue them up so they start about 5 - 20 seconds before the volume change for this step.
This should cover about 30 - 40 minutes of your class. I'll leave the rest for you to play with but here's one bonus tip.
Try to create a habit of making sure the last 10 minutes of your class is a ton of fun!
The last 10 minutes is often what they will remember most and making it a ton of fun will increase their chances of coming back for your next class. Even if the rest of your class is boring, or doesn't go well, doing something fun for the last 10 minutes can make all the difference!
Instant Musicality: A Universal Method To Improve Your Musicality
While there are 39+ ways to improve your musicality, one of our absolute favorites is what we call "reactive musicality"...
...and when done really well, we call it "Instant Musicality".
To best explain reactive musicality (aka: Instant Musicality), it helps to compare it to "predictive musicality".
Predictive musicality is where you predict that something will happen in the music and you plan a movement to fit what you predict is going to happen. Predictive musicality is planned before the musical moment.
Reactive musicality is when something happens in the music and then you do something in your dancing to match what happened (technically, after it happened). Reactive musicality happens after the musical moment.
If you react fast enough, you can make it appear like you knew what was about to happen, even if you don't know the song, and even if it is a new style of music that uses a framework that you aren't familiar with (try dancing to a didgeridoo, free jazz, avant-garde jazz, or any of these bizarre instruments).
Reacting at speeds where it appears you knew what was about to happen (even when you didn't) is what we call "Instant Musicality".
Bonus Benefit
Improving your Instant Musicality means you don't have to always be planning what you will do next...which allows you to focus more on your partner, the music, and having a blast!
How To Improve Your "Instant Musicality"
The key to improving your reactive or Instant Musicality skills is giving yourself situations where you can't predict what is going to happen (or at least it is very hard to predict).
Here are 6 Extreme Practice Drills to improve your reactive dancing:
- Have someone randomly change the volume of a song while you dance to it and match the volume changes in your dancing (just as in the first 8 steps of the teaching tip in the yellow section directly above). This is great because you have no idea when the volume changes will happen.
- Have someone randomly pause and unpause a song while you dance to it. Your goal is to pause and unpause your movement to match the random pauses in the song.
- Mystery Medley v1: Have someone choose a bunch of songs that they think you will never have heard before and play the first 10 - 30 seconds of each song back to back while you dance to them. Bonus points if the songs are in genres that you aren't as familiar with. Note: The longer you let the song play before switching songs, the easier it becomes to predict instead of react to the song.
- Mystery Medley v2: Have someone choose a bunch of songs that you have heard before (but they don't tell you which songs) and play the first 5 - 20 seconds of each song back to back while you dance to them. The main reactive practice point for this is catching the song changes. Note: This can make for a fun performance. Here are a few example performances from Andrew.
- When you are watching the news, try matching the rhythms of the words being said with your movement.
- When you are out on the town, match the random sounds you hear (a clock striking twelve, a car driving by, someone laughing, etc).
If you want more drills to improve your Instant Musicality, or a how to guide for creating your own Mystery Medleys in iTunes, or a script that automatically creates random Mystery Medleys (on a PC), join our Dance Ninjas Dancer Training and you'll get all that and a whole lot more.
Teaching Tip:
The 6 drills above are great to give your students.
#1 - #4 can be done in class and can be very inspiring if you show a demo before you have them try each one.
#5 could be used to have a laugh during class or as a fun piece of bonus homework.
#6 could be done during a "field trip" or anytime you are outside the studio with your students. When #6 is done with a group of dancers, it can cause great bonding moments and it is the type of stuff you see the true addicts of dance doing. We will dance anywhere to anything! Even if your dancers aren't addicts yet, if you inspire them to do this, this will likely move them down the rabbit hole!
If you want more drills like these to share with your students, join our Teacher Training.
15 Elements Of Connection
Create Your Own "Kick-Ass Dancer Blueprint"
Which method below do you think would create a kick-ass dancer faster?
- Taking dance classes whenever you are inspired to do so.
- Assessing your skills and lack of skills and creating a strategy for knowing what you need to learn next. Then taking a class that is designed to improve that specific skill.
It is probably obvious that #2 is much more likely to improve you faster, right?
But most dancers slow their progress by taking lots of random classes and piecemealing it all together. Whereas, if you take the time to create a strategy, your improvement will likely skyrocket and feel like you are improving light years faster than normal.
That is why we recommend you create your own "Kick-Ass Dancer Strategy". This will help you understand your skills and lack of skills so you can then search out classes to improve the specific skills that will propel you forward the fastest.
SHOW THEM HOW TO CREATE THIS STRATEGY
How To Be A Kick-Ass Teacher
Our goal with this section is to improve your teaching and help you turn your students into raving fans that keep coming back to your lessons for many years to come (even when it is raining outside and they just had a long day at work).
We want you to be the one everyone wants to learn from, the one everyone raves about, the one who constantly has sold out classes and is getting hired to teach all over their scene, state, country, or even all over the world.
To do this, we will start by.
To improve your teaching skills, you want to constantly be learning more:
Methods to improve your students
Methods to inspire your students (which will ensure they LOVE your classes)
If you want to have kick-ass students that are passionate about becoming better dancers, BOTH improving and inspiring your students is key.
If you improve your students, but you don't inspire them, dancing will probably never be something they fall in love with and they will likely end up losing interest at some point (or continue but never really be passionate about improving).
If you inspire your students but you don't consistently (and ideally drastically) improve their dancing, you may keep them around in the short term, but eventually, they will notice they aren't progressing much and will likely start looking for instruction elsewhere.
Whereas...
Implementing these two things will keep your students coming back to your classes year after year!
Plus, organizers who might hire you to teach at big workshops are much more likely to hire you if they are impressed by how awesome your students are AND your students RAVE about your classes.
Plus, it is fun to get to dance with awesome students and it feels great when they LOVE your classes!
Therefore...
It's extremely valuable to have multiple methods to improve and inspire your students!
That way, you can pick and choose the best methods for each class situation, offering them variety in their learning experience so they stay interested, and covering the same topics in different ways that work for different people.
And again, it all starts by learning one method...and you can get away with teaching quite a few classes with just a few methods.
To learn two methods to improve your students and two methods to inspire your students...
...watch the video below or read the slides and transcript here.
Methods To Improve Your Students
Methods To Inspire Your Students
Bonus Benefit: Improving Your Teaching Often Improves Your Dancing
Improving your teaching often improves your dancing as well.
How To Be A Kick-Ass Business
Start by answering these two questions:
1. How many specific methods do you have to improve your students?
0? 1? 5? 25? 50?
2. How many specific methods do you have to inspire your students?
0? 1? 5? 25? 50?
When we ask this question in surveys, often teachers don't know what we are talking about, and out of those that do, even those teachers often only have a few methods for each. We believe this could be dramatically slowing the growth rate of your students and we want to help you change this.
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This is an example set of testimonials...
See text inside each of the testimonials below for more tips for each section of text and refer to this one for the capitalization of the name and additional text about the person.
ANDREW SUTTON // Coach for Champion Dance Instructors
The best types of testimonials are...
The best testimonials tell a short story and include specific details (like sharing what life was like before compared to after working with you). This is much more powerful than a generic testimonial like "I love this product!"
INSERT NAME // TEXT OPTION #2 = INSERT TEXT THAT IMPRESSES READER (EX: WCS Champion & Instructor)
Best part of the testimonial goes here...
Add a testimonial here and make the best part stand out by adding it as a headline above.
INSERT NAME // TEXT OPTION #1 = INSERT TEXT THAT ALLOWS READER TO THINK "HEY, THAT'S ME!" (EX: Lindy Hop Instructor, Germany)
Sharing is Caring!
ALL THE SECTIONS BELOW (except the "social sharing" sections at the very end)...
...are sections you might want to use multiple times in your article.
Before editing them, make a copy of the section so you always have the original version to use again. Once you are done writing the article, delete this entire content box and it will delete all the sections below at once.
Let's Dive Deeper
Use this section to go into more detail for those that really want to geek out on this part of your article. Avoid putting vital information inside this section. You want the reader to be able to understand the main point (or goal) of this article without having to read this section.
Key Takeaway
Insert the most valuable information you want them to have learned from the section above. You can use this as a mini-summary for a block of your content.
Heads Up, Warning, Note, Read This, Etc...
Use this section for an additional note you want them to understand about the section above.
Update (INSERT MONTH, YEAR)
Use this section to add an update to an article. This way, those who've already read the article can quickly scan through to see the updates and new readers can see you're keeping it updated.
NAME HERE
" Add a quote from an expert to help you make your point."
Insert tweetable phrase here - Tips: Use a catchy/funny phrase/image?, mythbuster, controversial idea, topical content, engaging question, inspiring quote, contest for tweeting, surprising stat, #s, @s, bit.ly, 71-100 characters. More at bit.ly/2CDTwjL
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Feature 1 | Feature 2 | Feature 3 | |
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Product A | |||
Product B |
This is an example set of testimonials...
See text inside each of the testimonials below for more tips for each section of text and refer to this one for the capitalization of the name and additional text about the person.
ANDREW SUTTON // Coach for Champion Dance Instructors
The best types of testimonials are...
The best testimonials tell a short story and include specific details (like sharing what life was like before compared to after working with you). This is much more powerful than a generic testimonial like "I love this product!"
INSERT NAME // TEXT OPTION #2 = INSERT TEXT THAT IMPRESSES READER (EX: WCS Champion & Instructor)
Best part of the testimonial goes here...
Add a testimonial here and make the best part stand out by adding it as a headline above.
INSERT NAME // TEXT OPTION #1 = INSERT TEXT THAT ALLOWS READER TO THINK "HEY, THAT'S ME!" (EX: Lindy Hop Instructor, Germany)