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Marketing Online- Get Lessons Now
If anyone has used the service, Get Lessons Now, have you acquired students through it? I get one or two a year from it so it is well worth it to me. I use it and got one student last year. It paid for itself…
Australian Music Teachers Register
For Australian Teachers… Are any of you members to the Australian Music Teachers Register? If so why? What are the benefits that are promised and what benefits have your noticed? What reason would one want to be registered with them? Have you had any kind…
Homeschool Workshops
Teaching Simply Music and have shared with a local home school activities group, so that they might consider Simply Music piano as one of their activities next term. The mother of one of my students has recommended me and the Simply Music program. One of…
Advertising to Homeschoolers
I am a new teacher just starting out, and I would really love to be able to advertise to the home school network in my area, but not sure where to start. Has anyone had any experience or ideas with this? I’m a homeschool mom…
Marketing With Groupon-Wording
I am wondering if the way we are ‘marketing’ ourselves might be impacting peoples perception. Has anyone seen a difference when they go to Groupon marketing specifically “Workshop” vs. “Piano lessons”? That’s an interesting question. I hadn’t thought about it until a few weeks ago…
Handling Phone Inquiries
What do you say when you’re talking to people on the phone about Simply Music? I typically just give them the price and that’s it… they are looking for something cheaper, which I didn’t know even existed. Also what do you say when someone says…
Inquiries That Come Trickling In
I have a question on how to best handle those inquiries that come trickling in. I don’t have a lot of open time slots, so I am not advertising other than one ad which recently ran in the homeschool email newsletter. Everything else is referrals.…
Simply Music Information Packets- Discussing Rates
I am still slowly building up my piano business but have had several speculative calls or emails from people asking how much I charge? How often, etc. I find myself having a lengthy conversation with these people either via email or on the phone and…
Responding to Inquiries
A handful of times already, including just a few minutes ago, this has happened to me: Someone hears about me teaching Simply Music, hears at least a little bit I’ve said in promo materials about how great it is, and they express some interest, but…
Talking to Strangers- Students From Unexpected Sources
Just a quick story about how I got a recent student. At Halloween, I was passing out candy to kids and happened to mention to one of the moms that I was a piano teacher. She took interest and within a week her son started…