Resources

Get your singers engaged.

• Send the onboarding email templates in Get Started.
• At rehearsal, ask questions of your group from the weekly discussion questions and prompts resource.
• Ask singers for feedback on their progress, 1:1 in person or via 1:1 email.
• Tell singers to reach out directly to Edward via a help ticket, if they have any tough questions or hang ups.
• Remind your singers to click the "Sign up for daily reminders" link on the course page.
• Put up a poster on your choir room door. The message could be anything from "Have you snacked today?" to a silly inside joke from your choir.
• Ask another leader (pastor, principal, community leader) to talk up Choir Snacks as a great opportunity for your choir, perhaps in a related announcement. Witnessing a leader show interest and support can be inspiring.
• Put out a bowl of peppermint patties, a straw, and a backpack on your piano. Visual references to course materials can spark intrigue.
• Buy a pack of mini notebooks for Singer's Toolboxes. Put your singer's individual names on them, so that they feel that they've been given a personal gift. Ask them to bring it to every rehearsal, to reference in the group discussion. A small gesture like this can go miles in building enthusiasm and follow-through.
• Pair up your singers in a buddy system. Each singer must text or email their buddy every day when they've completed their snack. You can also pair up people who don't sit near each other, to build your community.
• Tough group? Give them agency. Present qualities of Choir Snacks you think will be motivating to them (low commitment, potential high personal development, world class teacher, etc.) and then let them vote on whether or not they want to take Choir Snacks as a group.
• Demonstrate competence. Many are very skeptical of online learning, and that's reasonable! When introducing Choir Snacks, you can emphasize the bona fides of the teacher (3 degrees, 20+ years experience, 1,000s of positive student outcomes) and share recordings of choirs that Edward (the teacher) has directed (Rachmaninoff, Tallis, Behold the Dwelling) or his solo vocal performances (Dein ist mein ganzes Herz, Ave Maria - Caccini).

Ways other directors use Choir Snacks.

• Upskill: your current roster going through the material will experience a massive skill boost. Also, several choirs have gone back and re-taken the course two or three times in a year!
• Recruit: many of the biggest hang ups for volunteer recruits revolve around feeling out of place, not talented enough, and imposter syndrome. Point a recruit to Choir Snacks: "Not only do you get all of the leadership and instruction in our rehearsals, we also have this incredible resource you can use to learn about your voice in the privacy of your own home, at your convenience."
• Onboard: a number of our customers have seen great success with making Choir Snacks a part of their onboarding process. New folder, new music, and take a Choir Snacks bundle in your first month in the choir. It helps get your singers up to speed far faster than the old school "figure it out" method!
• Solve long standing, thorny problems: see the next section!

Request new snack bundles for your specific needs.

The tenors are flat. The altos are strident. The basses don't tune. The sopranos wobble. Trust me. We've been there!

Whatever specific issue you are facing (and the more specific the better), we are here to help you.

Please submit a ticket here, and ask for a new snack bundle to be created.

Renew your subscription.

Annual renewals are fun! Wait: what? Nobody's ever said that.... We're here to make it as easy as possible for you and your singers.

Your singers will need an updated code for their accounts, after the first year.

So when it's around annual renewal time, please feel free to send us a message with a list of your choir members (just their email addresses would suffice), and we'll process all of their accounts.

That way, they don't have to do the busy work.

You're already a beloved director. This just takes it up another notch.