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Nov 6, 2017 11:46am

By Rebecca Ballard

Under Singing, Workshop, bookings, break-even, Excel Geek, Facebook, money, online tickets, Stripe, viable & WordPress Geek

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My First Workshop - Part 1a

Somebody asked me the other day why it's taken me so long to run one of my own singing workshops.

It's a really good question. If you know me personally, you know that I love singing and I love singing in choirs and I recently started leading choirs myself. I've "subbed" for the leader of the community choir that I sing with once a week, which is always great fun. With her cajoling, I did a choir leader course with the lovely Candy Verney, joined the Natural Voice Network, led busking sessions an…

My First Workshop - Part 1

I have finally organised my first singing workshop! Yay! But, I want to be sure that I am not going to lose money.

So my "Inner Excel Geek" created a spreadsheet (obviously - that's what all all good geeks do, isn't it?) to check my figures and to use next time. I was very happy with it. The spreadsheet, helped me work out what was a reasonable price to charge for an early-bird ticket and how many tickets I had to sell to know that I could run the workshop and not lose money. It also allowed my t…

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My First Workshop - Part 1a

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