Music Teacher Startup

Step-by-step guide to designing, building, marketing and launching a great online product or service

In Music Teacher Startup Course, we’ll walk you step-by-step through the entire process of designing, building, marketing and launching a great online product or service, whether you already have something to sell or not. This course follows our 9-step “Online Launch System”. This is our unique step-by-step system for bringing your product to market from before you even have a product to offer!

Course outline

  1. Housekeeping and First Steps
  2. Module 1: Audience & Idea Extraction
  3. Module 2: Choosing Your Business Idea
  4. Module 3: Branding and Design
  5. Module 4: Minimum Viable Product (MVP)
  6. Module 5: Website & Tech
  7. Module 6: Offer & Pricing
  8. Module 7: Content Marketing
  9. Module 8: All About Funnels
  10. Module 9: Sales Page
  11. Module 10: Launch
  12. Bonuses
  13. Extra Freebies and Next Steps

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Music Teacher Startup was created by

Tim Topham

Founder of TopMusic and Host of Integrated Music Teaching Podcast

Tim Topham is the founder and director of TopMusic. Tim hosts the popular Integrated Music Teaching Podcast, blogs regularly at topmusic.co and speaks at local and international conferences on topics such as integrated teaching, creativity, business, marketing and entrepreneurship. Tim has been featured in American Music Teacher, The Piano Teacher Magazine, California Music Teacher and EPTA Piano Professional. Tim holds an MBA in Educational Leadership, BMus, DipEd and AMusA.

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Welcome to Music Teacher Startup

Ever thought of creating something to sell online? :)

If you're like many teachers, you already have some awesome arrangements, compositions, videos and lesson/teaching resources that you use with your students. What if you could share these with other teachers AND bring in some extra money on the side? Teachers are uniquely skilled at creating amazing lessons and learning resources, but we're not very good at marketing! In Music Teacher Startup, we'll walk you step-by-step through the entire process of designing, building, marketing and launching a great online product or service, whether you already have something to sell or not. This course follows our 9-step "Online Launch System". This is our unique step-by-step system for bringing your product to market from before you even have a product to offer! Here's how it looks: We recommend you download your own PDF copy and check of the stages as you complete them. Click here for PDF version. It's designed for music teachers by a music teacher and we can't wait to help you get started (video transcript below):

That's it from me! I wish you every success in your MTS endeavours.

Tim.

PS: Two other articles you may like to read before you get started:

  • This blog just came out about running a new business "on the side" - thought you might like it
  • And this is a great article about selling digital products from Shopify

Welcome Video Transcript

Welcome to your Music Teacher Startup course - I’m so excited to be going on this journey with you and can’t wait to help you get started. The process I'm going to teach you has been life changing for me AND for the teachers around who have been impacted, inspired and supported by the business I’ve created. This business has allowed me to start fulfilling my mission of keeping more children in music lessons around the world, by supporting the most important people in the equation: the teachers. I could not have had this impact had I just taught my own students - I would always have been limited to the children I could personally teach. Now, thanks to the power and scalability of my online business, I’m able to impact thousands of teachers around the world, with the flow-on effect this is having with their own students. And, I’ve been able to create an income stream for my family that allows me to pick and choose how much I teach, doesn’t rely on trading time for money and has an impact that’s far greater than the four walls of my studio. So, what will you be able to achieve with Music Teacher Startup? Well, that’s totally up to you. Now remember what I said in the course sales page video: this is NOT going to be an easy journey and it’s not a get-rich-quick-scheme. If it’s anything like mine, the entrepreneurial journey you’re about to start may become an all-consuming passion. You’ll be reading, researching, listening to podcasts, thinking and creating all the time. Make sure you give yourself time to switch off, enjoy life and roll with the punches. Did I say, that there will be punches!? There will be a lot of punches when things don’t work, technology breaks and friends don’t believe in what you’re doing. But that’s part of every entrepreneur’s journey. So, it’s time to get started. You’ve now got access to all the modules, notes, bonuses and resources to get you started. Make sure you follow along with each video, making notes as you go. Try out the brainstorming, designing and check-listing activities as they come up, and read as many of the the articles that I recommend as you can. You’ve got full access to the print-outs of my course slide shows and space to make notes on those as well. And don’t forget to unpack the many bonuses that I’ve thrown-in to support your learning. I really haven’t left anything on the table! Also, if you signed up for my bi-monthly mastermind sessions, then I’ll be sending you details by email about how to get access to those. Now, when you’re on social media and talking about what you’re creating as part of your Music Teacher Startup, please use the #musicteacherstartup and remember to tag me so that I can share your wins. Thanks again for being a part of this program - I can't wait to see what you create and how it changes your life too.  

HOW TO BEGIN

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