Big surprise, everyone – we love Glee.
Okay, maybe not that big a surprise. Considering all of the top notch musical talent on this show (hooray for Spring Awakening vet Lea Michele!), it’s a pretty natural fit for us to love. But the success of Glee has gotten us asking some bigger questions – what does all this attention mean for music teachers?
There’s absolutely no better form of marketing than providing your music students with high quality service. And these days that means more than teaching your students the fundamentals and basic techniques – it means keeping them interested.
When it comes to kids, you’re competing with a lot for their attention. Keeping their focus on the lesson can be achieved by thinking a little outside the box and bringing in some new tools and ideas to keep them interested. That’s why we love the idea of using an interactive white board during lessons.
» Read more: It’s All About Keeping Your Music Students Interested
It’s no secret that the recession has hit us all this past year, including music teachers. It’s influenced the programs we teach for as well as our ability to find music students. Moreover, it’s affected family’s abilities to pay for instruments for their kids to learn on.
One public school in Las Vegas is taking an interesting approach to the problem of budget cuts in the music department by getting the community involved. Cool story…it’s nice to see a school taking action instead of letting the music program fall by the wayside.
It’s time for our first lesson in teaching you how to find music students using the proven methods we’ve used to find hundreds of music students and build a multi-million dollar music school. We’ll call these posts ”Music Teacher Advertising 101″ since this is really your starter in course in learning how to find music students and build your music lesson studio.
It is impossible to overstate what an enormous impact the internet has made in how we look for goods and services. Whereas a few years ago it was still possible to find music students solely through word of mouth and local classified ads, things have changed dramatically. Nowadays a search engine is the first place most people go when they’re investigating a purchase, including finding a music teacher.
Even if you don’t have a website yet, creating a Google profile is an important step in raising your visibility online so that potential music students can find you in their local searches.
» Read more: Music Teacher Advertising 101 – Use Google to Find Music Students
Setting a smart, informed price for your music lessons is one of the most crucial parts of building your music lesson business. It’s easy to be way off the mark with respect to what you charge – both too much and too little – and either way can have a very harmful impact to finding new music students. Thankfully, there are a few simple steps you can take to set the perfect price. And we’ve perfected the method!
While there are a number of factors that influence your perfect lesson price point, when we boil it down, it all comes down to supply and demand. (We told you this would be a quick lesson in music teacher economics!) The most serious factor to evaluate in setting a price is the nature of your competition.
» Read more: How to Set The Perfect Price – A Quick Lesson in Music Teacher Economics
Hey everyone!
We’re just getting things rolling here at Music Teacher Job Solutions, and we wanted to say hello. We’ve got a lot of cool stuff to share with our fellow music teachers and we’re excited to get going. Here’s a little by way of an introduction.
The purpose of this website is simple – to provide music teachers with the information, tips and strategies necessary to find their own music students and build their own private music lesson studios.
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