1. "The Complete Guide to Running A Private Music Studio"

Workshop Description: This session will teach you how to start a private music studio, conduct an initial student/parent interview & write a policy, bill your students monthly, organize an annual recital, schedule students, market the business, keep track of taxes and more.

2. "The Complete Guide to Making More Money in the Private Music Studio"

Workshop Description: Mimi Butler’s “The Complete Guide to Making More Money in the Private Music Studio” includes interviews with 30 private studio teachers all over the country. Learn about creative recitals, implementing activity and registration fees, hiring teachers, starting a summer music camp or musical organization, hosting master classes, turning the homeschool trend into a profit center, profiting from the busy lifestyles of parents and more.

3. "The Complete Guide to Raising Parent in the Private Music Studio"

Workshop Description: What is the role of the parent in the studio? How do you work with overprotective parents? Everything you need to know to work with parents in the private music studio and more.

Workshop Description: Fiddle techniques for teachers along with the most popular fiddle books. A hands on seminar, so please don't forget to bring a string instrument!

Workshop Description: Are you a private studio teacher? Would you like to make more money in your current business or learn how to open a new studio? Private music studio expert Mimi Butler will show you creative, money-making strategies.

Workshop Description: Ideas and tricks to creating a profitable private studio business. How to set up, organize and manage a successful private music studio and earn a good salary at the same time.

7. Starting and growing your Private Music Studio

Workshop Description: Are you a school teacher who would like to teach privately? Private music studio expert Mimi Butler will show you how to open a part-time or full-time studio, find a location or enlarge your current studio. Plus creative, money-making ideas to grow your new business.

Workshop Description: Discover how and when to teach chamber music. How to organize your chamber groups in your school or studio. Discover chamber music literature and performance venues for your chamber groups.

Workshop Description: This is a hands-on seminar for violin and viola teachers. Learn how to teach beginning bow techniques to your students with inexpensive items such as egg cartons, clothes pins, corn cushions, and straws.

Workshop Description: Students will learn from each other in a group setting and the peer pressure to excel is a good benefit.  Hot tips for teaching group lessons or classes.

Sample Seminar Questions

1. Can a studio teacher really earn more than $40,000.00 a year?
2. How do studio teachers accommodate more students if their schedule is full?
3. What’s the best way to bill for private lessons?
   • Monthly, by semester or by year?
   • And, how do studio teachers determine what to charge?
4. What’s the most difficult parent challenge?
5. What’s the best way to motivate students and parents?
6. Can private studio teachers work during the day when the kids are in school?
7. How does the studio teacher go about starting a summer music camp or musical organization?
8. Why are recitals so important in the studio business?
   • How can you be creative with recitals?
9. If you want to start a private music studio, how do you go about doing it?
   •  What are the best locations for a studio?
10. What if I want to travel to teach?

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