Membership Expired Kat Hunter
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Becki, that’s a great way of doing things! Very clever. Do people keep paying for lessons via paypal after that first booking, or do you get them to pay cash once that deposit is down? I always shy away from using paypal in an ongoing way for fear they take too much of a cut from my incomings…
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Great idea! Do you introduce this right at the start? Are people nervous about paying for two classes at once when they’ve just joined up?
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Wow, so there’s quite a few of you who don’t do this full time but might like to. Perhaps it’s time to open a new forum topic…!
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Haha, I know the feels. I’ve been teaching full time for more than four years now and I still occasionally get the question “so do you do this full time?”, which is funny. It happens less though now that I charge more. I used to get it all the time and I think that was partly a sign that I was undercharging.
Also maybe a sign that my decor at the time wasn’t as cool as it is now. I think for whatever reason the decor of the room you teach in seems to make a difference!? -
I know it might sound incredibly simple, but most students (but not all) will nearly always hit the right note if they listen to the note, take a slow breath and then sing – I find most students seem to make a wild stab in the dark with notes, just trying to fire one out to get the exercise over and done with rather than actually using their ears!
(This of course doesn’t work all the time, but gets students actually listening, which I think is a very common problem with a lot of people ‘new’ to singing)
