The Hive: A Resource for Bizee People by BizeeBee

Your students checkin, do you?

I’m a bit of a yogadork, I practice at a few studios around town, at home, compete, and even build software to help manage studios! I understand most styles of yoga, postures and their healing benefits. I was introduced to yoga through a friend of mine while we were in college, and I’ve had a [...]

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2 Small Steps for Big Savings!

I know that cost is a major concern for studio owners. But the other important element to building a successful community is time! Over and over again I see people sacrificing their time by adding up receipts, sifting through note cards to track attendance, and tallying up classes taught by instructors. The amount of time, [...]

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Good Groupon Has Done for Small Businesses

The daily deal leader Groupon and its many clones have received a lot of flack for supposedly “screwing-over-merchants”. Most folks are taking a strong stance against them because of the way in which they take revenue from local merchants and inundate them with leads. However, what most fail to realize is that since the advent [...]

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Keeping Yoga Studios “Cool” in the Summer

How can studios keep students coming into class when it is so hot!? Remind students that the summer is the perfect time to do yoga – your body is already naturally warm, so you will be able to explore yoga poses in ways you haven’t been able to before. You hips, shoulders, chest are all [...]

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How to handle competition in the studio business

The number of yoga studios opening up across the US is on the rise, which is great news for all of us yogis who want to get our fix! However, the side effect of an increase in the popularity of yoga and studios opening is an increase in competition. So unless you’re operating the only [...]

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Got Promotion Pains? Tips to dealing with the deal.

It’s no secret that the most popular times of the year for yoga are when it’s cold outside or right after the new year when people are making resolutions to lead a healthier lifestyle. During the summer months, studios compete with the sun! People want to be outside and spending time with friends and family. [...]

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3 Basics of Small Business

Any type of business whether its a studio or private instruction should fundamentally be concerned with money. I don’t mean the owner needs to be obsessed with trying to get-rich-quick, but it is what makes a business run everyday and helps a business owner achieve their goals. Too often I meet owners who get caught [...]

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5 Ways for Yoga Studios to Use Facebook

There is a trend happening amongst yoga studios lately that seems to be growing and evolving by the day: Facebook is fast becoming more useful to yogis, both students and studio owners, than a website! With the ability to quickly and easily add posts, change photos and communicate with students (in a place where so [...]

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Yogis Pose for Paws! Interview with Kathryn Budig

Yoga has given me many gifts, from improved health, community and friendship. One thing that has always impressed me about the yoga community is their compassion towards one another as well as all living things. I personally am a huge animal lover, I have a literal menagerie of adopted critters. I was delighted to interview [...]

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Run A Yoga Practice Remotely

How can one manage a yoga studio remotely and be able to keep track of all aspects of the practice? To shed a bit of light on this question and others, Theresa Brandabur of shared her thoughts with BizeeBee. Why did you start a yoga studio? When I started yoga, I not only fell in [...]

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