February Contest - Four $25 Winners

To join us in celebrating our 10-year anniversary, here's your chance for a super-easy way to win $25. Simply be one of the first 25 to submit the correct answer to this question: "Name the three top reasons why businesses switch to ClassJuggler." (Hint: you can find the answer in our January 2015 newsletter).

To win, submit your answer as a response to contest@classjuggler.com, or enter your answer on our Facebook profile's announcement.

Four luck winners will receive a check for $25!

The Rules:

• You must be 18 years of age
• Only the first 25 correct answers will be placed into the drawing
• Winners outside the US and Canada will receive a $25 credit to their ClassJuggler account
• Deadline for entries is February 15 at midnight PT

Merchant Processing Partner Improvements

As we cruise into 2015, we took a look at the services that we offer through third-party providers to see where we could make improvements. One of those improvements is in our credit card processing partnerships. In the next few months we will be rolling out new services to our existing and new clients. Will will be shifting the majority of our business from Global Payments over to First Data. This move will provide a number of improvements to our current offerings:

• Better customer support options
• Simpler application process & less paperwork
• Online statements and account management option
• Lower pricing

We are in the process of rolling this new service out and look forward to having this ready by April 1st or earlier.

Business Resources Guide

Useful Online Information For Your Business.

We run across tons of great publications and online resources while working with our clients. We thought it would be fun to share just a few of these that you may find useful. Many of the links below have a bevy of great articles, tips, discounts, and more. We hope you find them useful for your business.

Dance

• Dance Teacher Magazine – One of the best resources for dancers and dance studio owners.
• Sharing Dance — Canada – The Sharing Dance Program is a project of Canada's National Ballet School (NBS), a world leader in the training of professional dancers and teachers. Supported nationally by the Royal Winnipeg Ballet School and Physical and Health Education Canada.
• Dance Exec – Packed with tons of original articles and resources for dance. Check out some of the articles written by the ClassJuggler staff!
• San Francisco Ballet – Provides opportunities and tools for educators. Curricular materials incorporate both state and national standards that outline expectations and outcomes for learning in the arts.

Gymnastics & Cheer

• USA Cheer – The USA Federation for Sport Cheering is the non-profit National Governing Body for Sport Cheering.
• Drills and Skills – Tons of gymnastics techniques, training, and videos on a variety of skills, conditioning, stretching, and more.
• About.com.net – Contains a number of cheer articles, tips and techniques. You can even browse by topic in the sidebar.
• AES Cougar Cheerleading – A lot of great articles for coaches on dance, tumbling, stunting and more.
• USA Gymnastics – A definitive resource for gymnastics.

Martial Arts

• USA Dojo – A large resource site with a variety of topics and information.
• Kataro.com – Contains a variety of resource links for many MA disciplines.

Swimming

• USA Swimming – The National Governing Body for the sport of swimming in the United States, USA Swimming has a variety of educational resources.
• Swimming World – Videos, competition coverage, online magazine and more.
• American Swimming Coaches Org. – ASCA develops and supports professional coaches through its online resources, job listings, and professional training.

K12, Music, & Arts

• MoMA – Explore MoMA's free online resources for teachers and students.
• Association of American Educators – A variety of resources for educators.
• National Art Education Association – Resources, standards, publications, and more.
• K12 Music Resources – An extensive listing of resources by teacher type.

If you have Web sites or resources that you use regularly, and would like to share, we'd love you to send them to us. Just email the name and link of your favorite resources to education@classjuggler.com.