Piano Camp 2011 Video
Have you been wondering what we did at our Music Menagerie Piano Camp this year? Well, wonder no more… Wanna come next year? 🙂
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Piano Teaching
The Paradoxical Musical Life
I just came back from our KMTA conference where one of the college faculty on a panel answered the question, “How do you prepare a student who wants to study music?” with a “Well, I honestly don’t know if I
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Networking for Piano Teachers: Why not put yourself out there?
This article is written by Stephen Hughes, a teacher in Texas whom I met on Facebook. He moved to a new community and grew his studio from 3 to 23 students in 5 months in very creative ways and I
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An Eternal Appetite for Infancy
At a recent conference, Betty Todd Smith, a wonderful conference presenter said, “Children never tire of repetition. It is we adults who hate the monotony of repetition.” That sentence really struck a chord with me as a piano teacher. I
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Marketing Piano Lessons 102: Moving to a New Community
Trying to increase the number of students in your studio by 5 or 10 is one thing, but if you find yourself needing to move to a community, filling 30-40 spots is much more difficult! If you find yourself in
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Marketing Piano Lessons 101
One frequent question among new and seasoned piano teachers is, “What is the best way to market piano lessons?” Of course, there are many ways of marketing piano lessons, but some are clearly better ways of finding and keeping committed
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Piano Teacher Business School
In the past few months, you’ve seen some articles about the piano teaching business by Kristin Yost in the Dollars and Sense category of this blog. If you haven’t had the opportunity to see her workshop, “How I Made $100,000
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How Google Docs is Working for this Reluctant User
A comment was left on the Keeping Track of Student Progress – Part 3 article from someone who “reluctantly” tried Google docs. I am not selling anything here, and I really don’t care what people use to track their students’
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Keeping Progressions, Inversions, and Arpeggios Straight
A few weekends ago, my students participated in the Kansas MTA musicianship exams called Music Progressions. One of my piano teacher friends and I were in the office commenting on how difficult it is for some students to remember the
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Got Money? It’s all about the Business Plan!
by Kristin Yost Studies of business success over time have shown that companies that emphasizegoals in addition to making money succeed better and survive longer than companieswhose sole motivation is monetary. Rhonda Abrams, The Successful Business Plan; Secrets & Strategies
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