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You’ll need to be careful about setting your price point - if it’s too high, it could put people off even enquiring.
If you are starting out though it’s going to be a bit different, look up other tutors in the area and charge in line with them. Once you get the numbers up then you can consider raising it a bit. That’s what I did.
In finally settled on a teacher that I have been seeing once a month for the past year. All of the teachers have been great guitar players but my current one is also a great teacher. He explains stuff clearly, creates a relaxed learning environment, encourages me to try new stuff and basically when I leave the lesson I cant wait to get home and play my guitar again.
I pay £35 an hour in London
Good links for free web sites? And any advice on creating one?
What is a good way to build a separate 'business' account on facebook, twitter etc? What are the best ways of getting those social media pages circulated, connected to networks locally etc?
What do people tend to do in terms of resources? Do you offer tailor-made paper print-outs? Hand-written notes? Reference to online freebies?
Do you charge supplementary for visiting students at their homes?
Do you run separate business bank, email etc accounts?
I have a Fb page for my tuition, separate from my personal page. I use Instagram and Twitter also as they're great ways to show potential clients your work. All social media accounts are linked to my website.
I always do tailor made print outs, depending on what they're learning, obviously you can re-use if say 3 students are doing the same sorta thing. Can't stand scruffy hand-written notes from tutors! All song charts and tabs are done by myself.
I charge a good amount to travel to people as there's not just fuel costs you're covering, its sitting in traffic and travel time, set up time either side of the lesson (I travel with all my own equipment). So its not just 1 hour they're paying for it can be 2 hours if you include travel time, that could have gone to someone else.
Haven't got a business bank account yet, and still use gmail for my email contact, but looking at getting my own domain website info@<mysitename> as it looks more professional.
Build up a library of tabs that help teach different skills. Again, i spent a long time with my teacher doing lots of riffs and licks but could barely play any songs! Practical stuff that sounds good is much more encouraging for newbies i reckon
If your way of doing things works cool, just saying you'd be lucky to be that way up here. You really should try the £60 per hour rate.....your clearly selling yourself short!
You once a month'ers are no good to us!
I wonder how many of his other students are having just monthly lessons? (not that you'd really know that).
HTH
Seriously: If you value it, take/fetch it yourself
Domain names are really cheap and for email you can either redirect it to another or use a provider's services to keep a mailbox for that domain. Hosting can be a little bit more expensive but it's so much more professional as @Lestratcaster
said.
EDIT: Just because I learned my shit by putting in 5 hours a day doesn't mean other people can.
Seriously: If you value it, take/fetch it yourself
You stand more chance of progressing by doing weekly lessons and getting little practice in rather than fortnightly/monthly and practicing often (albeit incorrectly). The fact I can't see what they're doing at home is a big factor. At least if they haven't practiced and come weekly they're spending an hour with me actually working on stuff I can give them feedback on. Funnily enough they make a bit more progress as they are doing "focused" practice more often.
Now pretty much all my learners are weekly and its all going well. I try to discourage people from fortnightly as the gap is too long for me.
The parent of the child I did the visit for earlier tried to insist I shouldn't bring so much equipment, but I don't expect many people I do visits for to have good sounding speakers, a music stand and a drum machine. I don't mind taking it with me as I know what I'm working with works.