Online Tools To Increase Your Music Teaching Business

In this modern age of technology and communications

, musicians resort to online tools for organizing their music studios. Many music teachers like me, have started using the internet for teaching lessons, reaching out to new students, engaging with new clients, and also to promote themselves and manage their reputation online.

If you are not aware of this already, the Music Teacher's Helper program happens to be the most popular online tool for managing private music studios. In addition to the Music Teacher's Helper, try using some of the tools from this blog and you might be well on your way to keeping yourself organized. Communicating with students across the globe will be a breeze and you will be able to build a solid reputation for yourself online.

Skype and Dim Dim Web Meeting:

Skype (www.skype.com) is no longer just an instant messaging application and a tool for making free internet calls. I use Skype for teaching music and it has made a huge difference in my music business. By using the features like webcam, voice and chat, that are integrated within the same application, I can get an accurate idea of my students' techniques and on the basis of that, I can suggest ways and means of improving their playing skills during a learning session. While some teachers tend to shy away from using Skype for long distance lessons because setting up the application might tend to be a bit challenging but I can assure you that once you do a few practice runs, you will realize that using Skype can be a very efficient way of teaching music lessons.

Dim Dim Web Meeting (www.dimdim.com) is another tool that is generally used for face-to-face meetings. By using the web browser feature, you can teach music to your students online. You can assist students with trouble shooting their applications, help them in their practices and also teach them to navigate through your own materials. You can save money, time and travel in the process.

Best of all both these programs are free when using the basic functions, and are very user-friendly.

Kompoz:

Kompoz (www.kompoz.com) is yet another tool for collaborating music online. You can conduct music sessions with a long-distance student online, and create music with others from around the world. You can conveniently conduct music sessions online as the lag time isn't bad at all provided you and your student have a stable connection. Being able to play music collaboratively is very important for musicians and having the capability of sharing such experiences with students can be very beneficial for them. Not only do they have to opportunity to listen to your music but you can also give them objective advice on their skills. You can take advantage of this free recording program, Audacity where you can record your voice notes over the tracks you work on with your student.

Stickam and Ustream:

Sites like Stickam (www.stickam.com) and Ustream (www.ustream.tv) will let you stream your own video or audio show and you can use them to promote your materials online to allure more students to your music school. Students who are genuinely interested in music will be drawn to these video/audio shows; this might just be the best possible way for you to promote your services on the internet.

It's a shame that many of us are either not aware of such online tools or are not making an effort to use these tools to draw new students. To be able to reach out to more students, and promote your services globally, video streaming is perhaps the most efficient ways of making your services available.

By utilizing some of these tools, you will not only increase your productivity with current students, but will also draw new students across the globe which otherwise may not have been possible. If drawing new students from different parts of the world had not been one of your goals previously, you can certainly work towards it. These tools, used alongside the Music Teacher's Helper features will certainly broaden your reputation as a teacher and last but not the least will increase revenues and efficiency of your music studio. I am always on the lookout for expanding my reach to students within the country as well as internationally.

by: Margaret James

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