CPTP093: How to Nurture and Retain Piano Students on Autopilot with Chantelle Duffield

retain piano students

retain piano students

If you can retain piano students in your studio over the long term, your business will be more efficient. You won’t need to keep scrambling for new students if your existing ones stick around.

The key to great student retention rates is nurturing your relationships with the students and their parents. Chantelle Duffield is a master at this and has some wonderful marketing strategies to share with us today.

From email autoresponders that save you time, to little parent check-in ideas, this episode is full of studio marketing gold. Tune in to find out how to retain piano students better and more easily over the long term.

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In this episode, you’ll learn

  • What’s changed in effective studio marketing
  • How get results when you follow up with lesson enquiries
  • How to save yourself some headaches with automation
  • Where to get started with a studio website
  • What you shouldn’t put on your website
  • How to avoid having dead ends on your site
  • The value of hiring out the jobs you shouldn’t be doing
  • How to increase student retention
  • How Chantelle recovered from burnout and redesigned her business

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Do you struggle with student retention?

Did anything hit home in this episode that’s causing your bucket to leak? What do you think you could try to keep students in lessons longer?

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