This is a podcast episode titled "Ditching Printed Programs for Digital Solutions - No Bulls#$t Business Tips 33" recorded in July 2024. It features Amanda Barr and another speaker discussing practical business advice for studio owners, specifically focusing on transitioning from printed programs to digital formats using tools like Canva and QR codes to save money and improve accessibility.
Hey, friends, welcome back. We're here with more no bullshit business tips and small actionable items that you can do right now to grow the studio of your dreams.
Now, I don't know about you guys, but I have spent so much money in the past on programs, putting them together, printing them out, and then you come back with the box of programs because no one wants to buy them. Oh, it's such a nightmare. Have you done this?
Absolutely. And remembering to put them on the seats when you've got multiple show. I've done that as well and forgotten to put them all out. You know, we've all had those moments as studio owners. Printing used to be super expensive and it would be hard, but there's such a better way to do it. Now, please start using online digital programs if you don't already.
Absolutely. Now, this is a super simple way to have your program there. Everyone can just put it onto their phone and, you know, you don't have to do that icky printing that we were talking about. And we just can use Canva for this. Right. Canva should be our best friend.
Absolutely. So if you don't know how to do this, you just design it on Canva, you then click the publish button. Super easy. Or the share, and you get the code that goes, the website, the URL, the whatever that you get. And it's super easy to then turn that into a QR code, which is the next thing.
Right, right. And Canva does that as well. So you can go into Canva and create QR codes and then you can put that QR code up on the screen. You could put like a few signs up and down the chairs, which I've done in the past.
You post it when they walk in.
Yeah.
So many things.
Yeah. Or even like just the staff. You know how you have the door staff? The door staff, you give them that QR code so that people can scan it when they come in. There's so many easy ways to do that. But then everyone has the program and you have not spent a billion dollars on printing.
Absolutely. So jump onto Canva, create your program there and make it free, make it easy. Don't kill the trees and waste the money 100%.
But you can also make it look really bougie. Like, I know a lot of people like, oh, I love the program to have the photos and all the things. You can still do that on Canva. Probably even more so, actually. And you can still make it look super fancy and pretty, but it's just on everyone's device. Instead.
So much easier. It is such a game changer. We have done them in the past on, like, a flipping books website because, you know, it, like, has that, like, the coolness of, like, turning it over like you do with the digital catalogs. But that was before Canva, and that is a subscription. So, you know, whichever works for you totally is fine. But make it easy on yourself and do a digital program this year.
All right, guys, that is our tip for today. Make sure you action it.
