Studio Management

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Email and Text Ending Lessons

Text & email…the easy way out of personal/uncomfortable conversations? First off I love email, texting & all the benefits and ease it has given me. What are your thoughts on parents that send a text or email withdrawal? I have a policy sheet, which I…

Summer Schedule- Weekly Lessons

I’m a newly licensed Simply Music teacher in CO and am working through how best to launch my studio. I’ve been reading the forum conversation entitled “Summer Dropouts” and am now feeling perplexed as to how to start teaching when it seems that there’s so…

Summer Lessons

What do most of you do in the summer regarding lessons? For my first two Summers, I pretty much just let my general policies hold. Originally, I had a policy of letting people get tuition credit for any absences they told me about in advance,…

Territory and Teaching Experience

I had an interesting conversation with a student today and I wonder if anyone has any thoughts… It started because I had a comment on an evaluation form that Simply Music lessons are overpriced. I realized that the student hadn’t attended an FIS and thus…

Summer Lessons and Retention

What do you do in summer for your students? Any thoughts? I ponder this question every summer and although I usually have a full enough schedule in the summer I always wonder if I could do something differently or better. I’m with you Carrie. I’ve…

Summer Dropouts

I feel like it’s that dreaded time of year when students either take the summer off or stop entirely! It happens at the start of almost every summer, when it seems like I lose at least a quarter of my business! How do other teachers…

Waiting List Dilemma

I have been teaching SM for three and a half years now, and have reached the point where my studio is as full as I can handle. (I’ve been full for about a year, but had some that I knew would drop, and was able…

Studio Growth and Wait List

First part, some reason to give encouragement to others looking to grow their studios. For most of the nearly two years I’ve taught SM, my student body has fluctuated between 15 -20 students. At the beginning of October, I started seven students in two groups,…

Teachers Running Small Groups

I run small groups in my studio. A few private lessons, but mostly groups of two to threes. They mostly start at three, and over time someone may often drop out, leaving two. This is in part because I still teach out of my home…

When Parents Want to Try Lessons

I had a request this week from a mom who would like to trial three weeks before fully committing. Have you ever had these requests? Any thoughts on how to handle? In my opinion, no one can make a real decision about taking lessons in…