How to Start Your Own Pole Business
So you want to start your own business? Maybe it’s a studio, maybe it’s creating a new grip, maybe it’s an event. You’ve got a great idea, some extra time on your hands and now you are ready to be…
How to Foster Professionalism in the Pole Industry
Professionalism in its most basic form is how you conduct yourself in a business environment. In a corporate setting, professionalism is often conflated with unimportant issues like appearance and word choice, allowing well-meaning managers to focus on the length of…
How to Talk to the Media as a Pole Dancer and Not Slut-Shame Strippers
Whether you are officially talking to the media in some capacity for your business or studio, or even just talking to friends about your new passion, it’s easy to get sucked into the stripper/poler discussion and inadvertently slut shame strippers…
Liability Waiver Template
[memberonly level=“Group Membership for Businesses of 2-5 individuals, Student, Individual or Solo-Preneur, PoleCon Membership”] This is a sample liability waiver template. Please review any country/state/local requirements with your legal counsel and/or insurance provider to confirm your liability waiver is defensible…
What is a Liability Waiver?
If you are conducting online or in person classes, your insurance will likely require you to have a liability waiver. If you are participating in an activity such as performing or teaching, or attending a class, the business hosting those…
Business Plan Template
All businesses start in the fundamentally same way: figuring out what you’re doing and why you’re doing it. Begin this conversation with yourself and your trusted support system such as a spouse or friends, formally or informally answering those questions…
The Only 3 Marketing Tips You’ll Ever Need
While there may be a hot, new marketing tool that does dramatically help your business grow, most marketing know-how boils down to three basic elements: do it do it consistently figure out who you’re marketing to and tailor 1 and…
Sample Workshop Contract Agreement
[memberonly level=“Group Membership for Businesses of 2-5 individuals, Student, Individual or Solo-Preneur, PoleCon Membership”] Always have a contract when hiring an independent contractor to teach workshops at your studio or during your event. The contract below is a sample. You…
General Tax Information
This resource is a general post focused on US-based pole dance instructors, performers or SWer/strippers and those with LLC-structured pole businesses. What to Expect Tax law changes and updates every year, sometimes those updates are small and sometimes they dramatic…
What is a Non-Compete Agreement?
2024 update: Non-competes have been ruled as enforceable by the FTC. This was challenged by district courts and is now back in flux. Many states have adopted specific rules on non-competes, defining some limits based on how much money you…