Ask any Independent Music Teacher what they love most about their job and you will get a wide variety of responses, but ask those same teachers what they dislike the most about their job and, almost without exception, you’ll get the same reply: Bookkeeping! Wouldn’t it be great to have a way to organize all […]
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Free Business Cards!
Check out this amazing offer from Vista Print! (Just click on the Free Business Cards link in the left hand column once you get to the VistaPrint site.) Choose from 42 designs and receive 250 free personalized business cards. I just placed my order and the only expense is $5.25 for shipping. Of course, there […]
Top Ten Tips for New Piano Teachers
The following is part of a presentation shared recently by Janna Williamson, a music teacher in Illinois, with a group of pedagogy students. I was able to read her notes from the meeting and thought what she had to share was excellent. She has given me permission to post from her notes here, so I […]
CD Recording Made Easy
If you have a Yamaha Clavinova in your studio, you can practically set up your own recording studio! (If you don’t have a Clavinova, check out this post for instructions on how to set up recording with your acoustic instrument.) I just recently found out how to connect the Clavinova into my computer so that […]
List Your Studio For Free!
Through another teacher I just became aware that Yahoo! offers free business listings! Their basic listing even includes a free 5-page website that looks like it would work great for a teacher who just wants to make basic information about their studio available on-line. Their web-based wizard makes creation of the site easy for even […]
Are You Registered Yet?
It’s less than a week until the early registration deadline for the













