Your business, your way! Teaching private music lessons is already an atypical job, but you can take it further and truly mold your business to fit your life best. If you haven’t already, check out this post about 7 Strategies for Building a Music Studio Business Model that sets you apart from the Competition to get started on developing your business model. But lets talk about how you can be more innovated!
1) Offer online private lessons. Online lessons are more common now, because of the recent events that have taken place in our wold. But many teachers have opted to only teach online because it worked for them. Check out the 5 tips I share here on How To Transition To Online Teaching to get you started.
2) Offer group lessons. This is perfect for guitar, piano and violin, but really there is no limit on which instrument you can do this with. Just to give an idea of how it would work, group lesson held weekly for a class of 5 at $100/month per student, is $500 for just one 30-60 minute lesson a week. If you can teach 3 days a week for a total of 6 hours a week (6 - 1 hour lessons), I’ll let you do the math. The goal would be to find enough students to fill each class slot. (🎶 homeschoolers)
3) Offer online studies. This is kind of taking group lessons online, but really, you record a lesson a week and create a website for people interested to subscribe to weekly lessons or tutorials. (🎶 like Patreon) Classes would be like: how to read treble clef, and another for how to read bass clef. Basic lessons but provided weekly to wide range of people.
4) Workshop/Masterclass Clinician/Group teacher. Reach out to the local schools and let the music teacher know that you are available to host a masterclass for your specific instrument to help their students. Or host a workshop at a senior center to help them learn a new instrument. You’ll have to work out details or your hourly rate with whomever you work with but this is a different approach.
Happy Teaching!
xo, Becky
