We have been holding on to this release for quite some time, trying out the new E-Workbook in seminars throughout the country. Tweaking, building and refining what we think is an excellent add-on to Velvet Singer.
After automatically downloading the newest update, v2.9.2, you can open up the Workbook add-on from the Main Menu.
This is an entirely separate file (the first add-on that we have released) and it is a very feature rich application of its own. We may even begin to sell it as a separate product. For our current customers? Free!
From the E-Workbook menu, you can open up the workbook for either of our Seminars:
- Seminar A: Organization / Goal Setting
- Seminar B: Business Plan
There is tons of information and TLC poured into both, but we think the Business Plan workbook functions really well as a stand-alone application.
The Bottom Line: Persuasion and Communication
The Workbooks walk you through everything you need to know, helping you generate rich and persuasive prose. For example, rather than trying to describe your values from scratch, you can first pick from a list of 39 common values.
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E-mail Reports
From the Business Plan menu you can generate two types of reports, opening them in your web browser to print or preparing an HTML email to your family, friends, teachers and supporters. You can also Resume your workbook from the last page you edited, Backup your data, Submit your data to our compilation project or Clear all of your previous responses.
The E-Mail report allows you to send a beautiful and colorful HTML report directly from the system with no setup required.
Customize your message to request feedback and direction, or make an appeal for direct financial report. The more you involve your stakeholders, the more they will support you.
Business Plans
Your business plan will arrive with professional and colorful styling. It will contain copious amounts of valuable information, yet it will also be well organized and readable.
Velvet Singer business plans contain the following information:
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Trends Module
Rebuilt and optimized to show you only the best information without any setup required on your part, the trends module is completely prefabricated and ready-made. Simply navigate to the Trends module from the main menu, and the system will compile your data. Click around, learn and share.
From each Trend record, you can see composite information describing your progress. For example, this singer has been doing about coachings per month.
View your profitability over the years or show the same data broken out into months. You can also drill down into income or expenses.
Trend reports gather high level data so you can analyze them together or share them with your professional contacts.
This report show a singers has researched 273 auditions, sent out 134 applicat
I am delighted that Boston Conservatory was able to find the perfect fit for our seminar as part of our fall east coast swing! The fall can be a busy time of the year with auditions and operas to learn, but the students truly benefit from the receiving the right information at the right time.
The seminar was comprised of a wide range of singers from undergraduate freshman to master’s students with professional performing experience. This was clear from the moment that singers began sharing their scores from our first exercise: the 
It was the visualization exercise that seemed to resonate profoundly with undergraduates and master’s students alike. Stephen Covey’s foundational book 
More important than the size of the session was the buzz that attendees felt going in. The atmosphere determines so much of what singers get out of the seminar, and Velvet Singer presenters only have so much control. When the singers arrive early to find school photographers snapping pictures and a flawless multimedia setup, the singers put on their thinking caps and get ready to be challenged.
With Velvet Singer Courseware, we were able to create a homework assignment including submission of these five reports:
