Operate Well with Marissa Mosunich

I recently worked with a friend, owner of Rythmique Music School in Salt Lake City, who was looking for a new type of registration software that would be easy for her to use with her students.   Mira is a wonderful cellist and teacher, and her desire is to focus on her craft: teaching Dalcroze methods to budding student musicians. An important piece of Mira’s business is the registration software that students and parents use to enroll and pay for classes. It acts as a point of sales for her students so that she doesn’t have to worry about late payments reminders, depositing checks, and keeping manual record of who has and hasn’t paid.  Mira was interested in learning more about what other software is out there. As I did an analysis for Mira, I came up with the following take-always that might be helpful to you, if you run a school of any type (Karate?, Yoga?, Underwater Basket weaving?) There are hundreds of registration software platforms out there, and it was a matter of finding the

I've recently had the pleasure of working with a talented craft maker, Amanda , who dyes and sells yarn and more. You can see some of her gorgeous dyed yarn below. Image courtesy of Amanda Baxter Studio After an initial consultation with Amanda, it was clear she needed to: Track inventory of both unfinished and finished products Calculate the cost versus price of goods. Now, when things get complicated (think # of products times # ingredients per product), keeping track of inventory is important for functioning both operationally and financially. It reduces the amount of times you have may be thinking, "Shoot, I'm out of beads but I need to make 400 necklaces!" or something to that effect. Let's say you have a bunch of customers who rely on you regularly having certain products that they can depend on. You need to know: a) How much do you need to have on the regular? Forecasting or "water levels" is where it's at. b) Do you have the ingredients (aka