Where families quietly slip away
Four checks. Your numbers. Run them yourself — your studio will tell you exactly what's broken.
Your last 10 families
Ten five-minute calls to your newest families — the most honest picture you'll get of how booking actually went.
Call the last 10 families who joined you. Say it like this:
"Hi, it's [your name] from [your studio] — we're working on making things even better for our families. Got five minutes?"
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Anyone 8 or up: send your review link tonight — and ask "Can I use your name?"
Eight minutes to trust you and see the class fits her kid. Under two to book it. Ten minutes, first search to booked — that's the whole window.
And the two minutes means a few simple steps. Not an account to create. Not a page of personal data. A parent asked for that doesn't book slower — she doesn't book. The tab closes.
Answers of "a few days" or "I called twice" are the leak talking.
My tally: of 10 had to call · average search-to-booked:
Your website
The one marketing asset you've already paid for — and what it does while you're busy posting.
Pull your visitor stats — whoever manages your site can find them in five minutes. Last two months.
Visits last month: Families who booked from the site:
Almost no visits? That's a FIND problem — your Snapshot's quick wins start there. Visits but no bookings? That's the leak. Those are parents intentionally searching for a dance class, in your town, gone without a next step.
Name a thriving studio you admire — from competition, or a couple towns over: . Go look at her website. Count how many of the 100 points it checks. That's not a coincidence.
Your booking cost
What answering the phone actually costs you every month — and the one cut that makes the experience faster, not smaller.
Hours your desk spends each month on new-family calls, voicemails, and walking parents through signing up:
Or classes you comp for the help:
My monthly booking cost:
Whatever the number, it only works while someone's standing there. Parents search at 9pm, from the couch. Bring this number to the call — we'll set it next to the engine that never sleeps and never calls in sick.
Your ads & follow-up
If ads are running and students aren't coming, the ad may not be broken. The follow-up might be.
Last month ads ran: Booked families that month — up, or just visits?
The path behind the ad — check what's true today:
- The answers she needs are in the copy on the page — not behind "call us for details"
- She can book a class right then, herself — no waiting on a follow-up call
- The follow-up runs automatically: the reminder, the what-to-wear, the welcome
Any empty box is where the ad money leaks. Ads don't fix a path — they send more families down it, faster.
Count your leaks.
Every family who had to call. Every visitor without a next step. Every ad click that never became a booked class. None of them left because your studio isn't good enough. They left because an easier path existed somewhere else.
Fix your quick wins. Then text RE-SCORE to 833-400-5515 — I'll walk your studio again, and we'll see exactly what moved.
Or bring your numbers to the call: ssidekick.com/book-a-call
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