A little big update: Rapid Credit Card updates for students

We just pushed out a nice little change that'll make managing your members a little easier. For a long time now we've supported memberships and recurring billing, but if someone's card declined and they needed to update it, they had to get in touch with the studio.

No more!

Now, if any member has a credit card failure when we send them an email alert, we also include a link that will take them directly to a credit card update page. Even better, we'll auto log them in so all they need to do is click the link, and update their credit card.

What's great about this update is it also includes a foundation that'll allow us to more easily help new customers migrating to us from other systems.

We hope you like this little enhancement and let us know if you have any questions about i!

Strengthen Episode 4: Sharing Presence

I had the good pleasure of talking with NYC based yoga instructor Leo Rising on Thursday morning about the business of yoga from the teacher's perspective. We talk about a wide variety of topics ranging from building community at a studio, base rates for group classes, the importance of privates and a host of other things. I had a great time talking with Leo and am grateful for the opportunity to talk about a lot of the industry challenges in a mutually respectful way.

On a housekeeping note, I'm also making some changes to the format of the show. First, it's being renamed from 'Strengthen your Studio' to simply 'Strengthen'. This will better reflect the fact that we're talking about the entire industry of yoga. 

Also, I'm now recording these interviews via Google Hangouts on Air. This will allow people who are interested in watching the interviews live to do so and I'll start tweeting out when the live episodes will be recorded. I'll then use the audio from that to post the podcast episode. 

Check out our discussion below by subscribing to the show in iTunes, or listening to the audio or watching the video embedded below.

Andrew and Leo talk about the business of yoga from a teacher's perspective.

Enthusiasm

One of the most under appreciated and unrecognized traits of successful people is Enthusiasm. It's incredible actually, just how much enthusiasm can act as a counterweight to a deficiency in another area.

Companies often get funded based on the enthusiasm of the founder. Employees are given promotions over workers that might technically be more skilled because of enthusiasm. Acquisitions are completed because of enthusiasm. 

Presidents are elected not on their experience or their intellect, but by the amount of enthusiasm they're able generate. 

Of course, the reverse of this is also true.

People often get divorced not because of the intense arguments, but because of the absence of enthusiasm for each other's successes. You can be technically proficient, intelligent, etc., but if you don't like what you do, if you're not pleasant to be around, that can overwrite a great number of your qualities.

I think it's important to be aware of this reality on a regular basis. People shouldn't be disingenuous of course, but if you're able to regularly look at the world and your work through a lens of excitement, I think that's a special trait, and one that's likely to ultimately make you and others better off.

And of course, the real opportunity this presents is that Enthusiasm is free, requires no experience, and is a massive multiplier. The challenge is that it requires effort, insight and importantly requires you to be vulnerable.

Once again, therein lies the opportunity.