{"id":1768,"date":"2016-01-18T10:00:18","date_gmt":"2016-01-18T10:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/bloomfield-hills\/?p=1768"},"modified":"2016-01-18T10:00:18","modified_gmt":"2016-01-18T10:00:18","slug":"value","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/bloomfield-hills\/blog\/dance-lessons\/value\/","title":{"rendered":"Value"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/bloomfield-hills\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2015\/12\/value-adding-for-clients.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1770\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/bloomfield-hills\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2015\/12\/value-adding-for-clients-300x209.jpg\" alt=\"value-adding-for-clients\" width=\"300\" height=\"209\" \/><\/a>I have this conversation throughout the year: We&#8217;re not the cheapest, but we&#8217;re the best value.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps a student comes in and says they danced somewhere else on a Groupon or special offer. The other studio is always cheaper, and they often say disparaging things about why we are more expensive.<\/p>\n<p>The student shares the story with me, waiting for an explanation. This is how it goes:<\/p>\n<p>He says, \u201cYou know I was taking lessons at another place and you charge more than they do, but I like the feel here. The other place was kind of a dive. They said you charge more because you have to pay franchise fees.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I explain that it\u2019s not why we cost more.<\/p>\n<p>Rather, the higher pricing comes from our environment, our studio, the quality of instruction, the friendliness and ongoing teacher training alongside current continual teacher certifications. Those are the reasons: in short, the value.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/bloomfield-hills\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2015\/12\/Value-Proposition.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1769\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/bloomfield-hills\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2015\/12\/Value-Proposition.jpg\" alt=\"Value-Proposition\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>I\u2019m proud to say, we&#8217;re not the cheapest in the ballroom dance game, and that\u2019s ok.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m tired of all the other studios blaming it on the franchise. It&#8217;s not that. We charge what we need to charge to offer the best quality and the best value.<\/p>\n<p>Plus, our private lesson pricing includes FREE group lessons and FREE parties, all week every week.<\/p>\n<p>When comparing pricing, it\u2019s important to look at the whole package. We&#8217;re not for everybody. But you know, I don&#8217;t want everybody. I don&#8217;t want to be the cheapest one on the block.<\/p>\n<p>I just want to be the BEST.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have this conversation throughout the year: We&#8217;re not the cheapest, but we&#8217;re the best value. Perhaps a student comes in and says they danced somewhere else on a Groupon or special offer. The other studio is always cheaper, and they often say disparaging things about why we are more expensive. The student shares the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dance-info-news-trends","category-dance-lessons"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/bloomfield-hills\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/bloomfield-hills\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/bloomfield-hills\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/bloomfield-hills\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/bloomfield-hills\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/bloomfield-hills\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1768\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/bloomfield-hills\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/bloomfield-hills\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/bloomfield-hills\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}