{"id":36245,"date":"2011-08-21T19:13:30","date_gmt":"2011-08-22T03:13:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=36245"},"modified":"2011-08-22T08:53:05","modified_gmt":"2011-08-22T16:53:05","slug":"common-mistakes-alexander-technique-teachers-make-with-their-websites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=36245","title":{"rendered":"Common Mistakes Alexander Technique Teachers Make With Their Websites"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/alexanderaudio.com\/web\/#web\">I was listening to Robert Rickover list off mistakes<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>* Putting skeletons on your website.<br \/>\n* Using jargon such as &#8220;inhibition&#8221; or &#8220;primary control&#8221; or &#8220;constructive conscious control&#8221; and the like.<br \/>\n* Putting up photos of the teacher with his hands around a pupil&#8217;s neck.<br \/>\n* Putting up a picture of <A HREF=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/F._Matthias_Alexander\">F.M. Alexander<\/a> on the home page.<br \/>\n* Not listing your location.<br \/>\n* Not using a working email address.<br \/>\n* Not having a website.<\/p>\n<p>Most <A HREF=\"http:\/\/alexandertechnique.com\">Alexander Technique<\/a> teachers in the world complain about not having enough students. The best way to get students is with a compelling web presence. <\/p>\n<p>It seems to me that for every ten Alexander teachers who would like to make their living from teaching the Technique, only one succeeds in doing so full-time (and these are almost always positive people skilled at marketing who just make you feel great to be around them, so great that you will pay for the privilege, I&#8217;m thinking about teachers such as Santa Monica&#8217;s <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.lengthenandwiden.com\/\">Julia Caulder<\/a> and downtown&#8217;s <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.alexandertechniquela.com\/\">Sharon Jakubecy<\/a>). Generally speaking, teaching the Technique works best as a second profession, which is why I&#8217;m never going to give up dancing. That and I just love to perform. <\/p>\n<p>Khunrum emails: Of course there are few students. Why pay 50 bucks an hour when you can waltz into the <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.harborsidehealthcenter-oakland.com\/index.html\">Harbor Health Center<\/a>, smoke a good spliff and get a freebie.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was listening to Robert Rickover list off mistakes: * Putting skeletons on your website. * Using jargon such as &#8220;inhibition&#8221; or &#8220;primary control&#8221; or &#8220;constructive conscious control&#8221; and the like. * Putting up photos of the teacher with his &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=36245\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10268],"tags":[19786,16831,27564,27565,15663,19784],"class_list":["post-36245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alexander-technique","tag-alexander-teachers","tag-alexander-technique-teachers","tag-caulder","tag-conscious-control","tag-f-m-alexander","tag-robert-rickover"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36245"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36245\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36262,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36245\/revisions\/36262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}