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Building an AT Corporation

Now I am beginning to think about a talk to offer at the next 2008 Congress: Building An Alexander Teaching Corporation - what is meant by "corporate'?: working with colleagues within a financially unified legal entity that carries the "identity" of the group and is run corporate style - history of corporate AT: Ashley Place, ACAT, ATA London, SATA, Bloomsbury Centre, Walter's CTC, other examples - Alexander family tree useuful here. - consumer and non-consumer/Professional market: historically, AT mostly sold to non-consumer, professional market; very little thought to consumer market. - use of brand names: e.g. 1. Art of Swimming  2. EyeBody 3. BodyChance - 1. & 2. above are brands based on tangents of AT; 3. example of one centered on AT, but marketing a distinctive style of teaching - pedagogical and marketing issues: style of teaching matches lesson/group; matching teaching method to the market you are aiming - demographic of audience: using market resea