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Blog Roundup: Best Business Articles from Around the Web

by Sean Wales

Continuous Learning There’s only so much we can cover in one month when it comes to any given topic. In the case of this month, we have been looking at Piano Studio Business and Marketing. Make sure you check out the opening post of the month which has links to all of the content we have ... Blog Roundup: Best Business Articles from Around the Web

06/28/2017 Read more

7 Piano Experts Share Their Business Growing Tips

by Sean Wales

Business Growing Tips Welcome to June's expert roundup focusing on business growing tips. As you know, this month we are exploring everything to do with Studio Business and Marketing.  So, I gathered some music business experts and asked them what is the ​one critical skill they focused on to grow their music business.  There's a range of hints, ... 7 Piano Experts Share Their Business Growing Tips

06/21/2017 Read more

Music Mentor Group: How to Build a Successful Music Business

by Sean Wales

Today ​we have a really exciting guest post from four music entrepreneurs. They created the Music Mentor Group (MMG), showing how every teacher can create a truly successful music business. These teachers now own businesses with hundreds of students and multiple teachers. Many piano teachers don’t study business at university, so these marketing gurus are here to ... Music Mentor Group: How to Build a Successful Music Business

06/14/2017 Read more

From First Contact to First Lesson: How to Sell Your Creative Piano Teaching

by Andrew Bishko, Musical U

I’ve never been one to give much thought to ringtones, but when I sat down to write this post on the business of teaching piano, I said to myself, “I’m going to change my ringtone to cha-ching.” Even in our online world, nothing brings students in like a real-time phone conversation. And nothing keeps them in ... From First Contact to First Lesson: How to Sell Your Creative Piano Teaching

06/11/2017 Read more

How to Change to Monthly Billing for Piano Lessons

by Tim Topham

Earlier this year, I decided to shift to monthly billing, charging my students a monthly, recurring flat-rate for their piano lessons. Previously, like many teachers, I’d been charging on a lesson-by-lesson basis so, if a student had four lessons in a month at $50 per lesson, they’d be charged $200, etc. But if they missed one or ... How to Change to Monthly Billing for Piano Lessons

06/07/2017 Read more

Piano Studio Business and Marketing

by Tim Topham

I’m very pleased that this month we will be focussing on the business side of running your piano teaching studio. We last studied this topic in May 2016 with articles about building early childhood music programs, running a travelling piano school, how to hire piano teachers and exploring marketing case studies from a number of my ... Piano Studio Business and Marketing

06/04/2017 Read more