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5 Ideas for Fun Summer Voice Lessons
It’s April - but summer is just a few months away. If you haven’t started planning your amazing summer teaching schedule – you may find yourself with a Swiss cheese schedule (holes everywhere – get it?)With some creative planning, your summer schedule can be full of new opportunities (and new students!)
Private Music Teachers: How To Get Paid ON TIME!
Do Families forget to pay for their lessons? How can you make it easy for your families to pay you on time without the awkward conversation? There is a simple solution.
The ONE Word That Will Make Your Students Sing Better
When instructing our students to make corrections when singing/playing we need to be mindful of the language and wording we are using. More importantly, we need to be watching our students carefully to see if our instruction is actually being understood and implemented. Often an instruction is given and yet nothing changes. Did they hear…
Write a Better Bio (Because the Rules Have Changed)
If you are a private music teacher you need to have an updated and well written teaching bio. Whether it is for your website, blog or social media outlets, how you tell the world about you and your business is extremely important. Here are the NEW rules for one of your most important marketing tools!
The Beauty of Pen on Paper (How it Helps Students)
I received a beautiful ball point pen from a graduating student this year. I was so excited – I LOVE pens and I haven’t stopped using it! It writes beautifully. It makes a lovely sound on the paper. (Yes! – the sound of pen on paper is more appealing than the sound of my keyboard…
Making Sure Your Students Return in the Fall
WILL THEY BE RETURNING IN THE FALL?It is not wise to assume that because a student did really well in their lessons that they will automatically continue in the fall. Kids change. Schedules change. Family finances change. Music Teachers compete with other music teachers – and every other after school program and activity too! Families have so…
Helping Students “Make Peace” With Their Voice
Vocal teachers hear it all the time. "I hate the sound of my voice". Lately, I answer with "Welcome to the club". (And then I sigh heavily because it is difficult to work with singers who can't stand the sound their voices.) Usually, the student has a truly beautiful voice - a joy to listen to, and yet they hold…
Private Voice Teachers: Finding Your “Niche” Market
What is Niche Marketing? Concentrating all marketing efforts on a small but specific and well defined segment of the population. Niches do not 'exist' but are 'created' by identifying needs, wants, and requirements that are being addressed poorly or not at all by other firms, and developing and delivering goods or services to satisfy them. As a strategy, niche marketing is aimed at being a big fish in a small pond instead…
