Regardless whether you own a piano studio, give guitar lessons, teach voice or any other musical instrument, as your business grows, you will find yourself in need of a website.
Why does my Music Studio need a website?
To state your presence
Make the existence of your studio known to the search engine, and online maps.
Introduce yourself to Parents and Student
Before anyone signs up for the lessons they would like to know who you are, what your credentials are, what repertoire and levels you teach, and how your studio looks like. Your potential students need to know your location, availability, and contact information. They might also want to hear you or your students play.
Serve your Students
Provide a way for your students to schedule lessons, make payments, check the recital schedules, access documents, sheet music and other resources.
What Information And Features are commonly found on a Music Teacher’s website?
Studio Location
Lesson Scheduling Instructions
Teacher Credentials
Testimonials
Teaching Philosophy
Payment Portal
Music Studio Policy
Studio and Recital Schedule
Teacher and Student Recordings
Teaching Resources
Instruments and Levels
FAQ
Music Lesson Scheduling Feature
WP Help 360 offers a flexible, integrated lesson scheduling system. Your students are able to see the available slots and request a lesson time. Unlike most other online scheduling tools, here the students can secure a lesson slot for the entire school year. You can see your lesson calendar, set studio hours, days off, create invoices and much more from the comfort of your site. Watch the video below for a quick demo.
Building your Music Teacher’s Website with WP Help 360
The development of a new website can be a joyful and exciting experience. It has been broken down into simple steps that make the process smooth and easy to follow. Completing the steps will provide your music studio with a clean, functional, simple, and healthy starter website. You will be able to continue adding content and features to it as time goes by. A website as a project is never finished. There is always a need for updates, changes, refreshes. Rest assured, you will have my support for these as well.
- The Studio purchases a domain name and WordPress hosting plan. There are many great providers with affordable rates available like Bluehost.com or GoDaddy.com. If you already have a domain name and reliable hosting you can move to step 2.
- The Studio sets up a merchant payment account to collect lesson payments from students. We support Stripe, PayPal, Authorize, Braintree and many others.
- The Studio completes the Music Studio Information Questionnaire. This information will be used to create the content for your website.
- Once the questionnaire is complete, WP Help 360 schedules a 30 min call to discuss the design details and expectations for the website.
- Give us about 2 weeks to complete the building of the website.
- WP Help 360 schedules another 1.5h meeting to review the final draft of the site and show you how to manage the lesson scheduling system.
- The Music Studio website goes Live!
How much does a website cost?
The hosting and the domain registration cost about $150 per year, depending on the provider. The plugin license cost for this site is about $100 a year. WP Help 360 estimates the website development time at about 7h which is $455. Any time spent above the 7h mark is billed separately.
What happens after the launch?
WP Help 360 will perform regular updates, maintenance, and SEO review on the site. We can also make content, features and styling updates for you at any time. You always have full access to the site, if you wish to make any changes to it yourself.
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