How do I start my own online dance school?
How to start your own online dance school
Film your classes on your phone, upload them to your Dancetomic academy, set a price and get paid per video, per course or every month. Free to start.
The short answer
Have you always dreamed of running your own online dance school? With Dancetomic you can open one today: create your academy, upload your video classes from your phone, set your prices and your students pay you directly. No website to build, no course platform to hire and no professional camera needed.
Opening it is free. Create your online academy here and see how the ones already running look in the course catalogue.
What you can sell
An online dance school is more than one course. You can sell single videos —a move, a technique, the step everyone asks you to repeat—, full courses organised by level or style, and monthly subscriptions that give your students access to your whole library for as long as they pay.
All three work side by side. One student buys a video to practise before a social, another takes a complete beginner bachata course, and another subscribes because they want to keep learning with you every week.
The three steps
1. Create your academy. Give it a name, a cover and a short introduction about who you are and what you teach. Your academy gets its own page to share on Instagram or WhatsApp.
2. Upload your classes. Film on your phone and upload from the same phone; if the connection drops, the upload carries on where it stopped. Group your videos into courses and decide what is free to try and what is paid.
3. Set your prices and share. You decide what everything costs. You connect your payment account once and every sale lands in your account, not ours.
It does not replace your in-person classes: it adds to them
What works best is starting with your own students. They already know you, they trust the way you explain, and many want to go over at home what they saw in the studio. A monthly subscription for them is income that arrives every month, even in the months you upload nothing new.
Then there is reach. A class in the studio is seen by the people who fit in the room; an online course can be taken by someone in Mexico, Spain or Japan. You can charge in euros, Mexican pesos, Argentine pesos or US dollars, and each student pays in their own currency.
What it will not do on its own
An online dance school does not find students by magic. The first ones come because you share it: in your stories, in your classes, in your school group. What it does do is give everyone who follows you a concrete way to learn with you when they cannot make it to class.
Nor does everything need to be filmed before you open. Many teachers start with three or four videos of what they get asked most and keep adding. The important part is the first step: open your academy.