Building a Music Academy

Learn how to hire more teachers, improve productivity, use outsourcing and create effective marketing, with Joyce Ong

As a piano teacher, knowing the next steps to grow your academy can often be a bit of a roadblock. Growing is important, so we want to make it easier for you. In this 9-module course, the wonderful Joyce Ong has put together a fantastic set of videos and handouts covering topics such as planning, hiring teachers, improving productivity, outsourcing, marketing and selling.

Course outline

  1. Module 1: Planning Your Academy
  2. Module 2: Building Your Team
  3. Module 3: Marketing Your Academy
  4. Module 4: Productivity
  5. Module 5: Using the Google Suite
  6. Module 6: Growing and Scaling Your Business
  7. Module 7: Outsourcing
  8. Module 8: Buying/Selling Your Business
  9. Module 9: Common Questions Answered

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Building a Music Academy was created by

Joyce Ong

Professional Speaker on Music Education and Founder of New Heights Media

Joyce is an event photographer for Australia’s leading business groups and a professional speaker on music education. When she’s not photographing events or professional speakers, Joyce will be travelling and photographing the world’s diverse wildlife, or photographing musicians like Dami Im and Jessica Mauboy as they tour Australia.

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Course Overview

Welcome to Building a Music Academy! As a piano teacher, knowing the next steps to grow your academy can often be a bit of a roadblock. Growing is important, so we want to make it easier for you. In this course, the wonderful Joyce Ong has put together a fantastic set of videos and handouts. She covers it all including planning, hiring teachers, improving productivity, outsourcing, marketing and selling. You may download the full set of handouts for the course below (modules 1-8) or individual handouts for specific modules as you work through them. Well..... let's begin! Click on module 1 below or in the right sidebar to kick things off!

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All Course Handouts in a Single PDF Click here to download Joyce's teacher contract templates.   

HOW TO BEGIN

Are you ready to get started? Just click the Enrol in course button below to activate your course. Then click Start Course to begin learning. If you’re on our app, click the Start Course button to enrol in the course and then Start Course again to begin the first lesson.

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