Anyone got any great ideas on websites where they can advertise instrumental teaching?
Cheers!

which instrument do you teach?

www.musicteachers.co.uk (is this URL right, someoneintheknow?)

Local Library teachers list

word of mouth

^ all free!

or paid ads: local newspaper/admag
business card in library/local shops (in windows)

may be free may not: notice boards in schools, community centres

ISM website if you are a member - don't know if you still have to pay/how much to be a member though

Other places where I've had the most success from are:-

1) Teacher lists in local music shops
2) Get a business card done and hand them to your most enthusiastic parents
to give to their friends.
3) A bog-standard entry in Yellow Pages is FREE. (Unfortunately they will only put your home phone number in and not your mobile unless you pay for an add).
4) Get on the local council web site, which should be free. Not only does it seem to pop up near the top of the list when someone does a search for, say, trumpet teacher Hertfordshire - the local libraries will look on the council website first when anyone comes in enquiring about teachers. Well, the ones in Herts do anyway!
Chris

Indeed, it's www.musicteachers.co.uk

Indeed, it's www.musicteachers.co.uk

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3) A bog-standard entry in Yellow Pages is FREE. (Unfortunately they will only put your home phone number in and not your mobile unless you pay for an add).

Thomson's directory is similar - IF you can get them to put your entry in at all!

My promised ad never appeared - so perhaps not to be recommended.

Maggie

If you are a piano teacher, I have found that the UK Piano Page is the most productive place to advertise for free: www.uk-piano.org

But the best way I found to get new pupils is to advertise in your local newspaper. It will cost something to advertise but it is worth it if you get a couple of responses. It's also best to advertise a few weeks in a row so that people have time to think about it.

I've got several pupils through musicteachers.co.uk, and uk piano page, also worth trying local music shops -I've got a few through there. I do find enquiries I've had through the internet tend to trickle through extremely slowly-which is fine if you just want to replace occasional leavers. Worth trying an ad in the local paper over a few weeks to fill vacancies quicker. I've tried my local library, who hold a database of teachers for the whole county-sounds good but I've had absolutely no enquiries from that-it varies so much from area to area I think. I'd say Yellow Pages too-it's the first place many people look for anything.

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I've tried my local library, who hold a database of teachers for the whole county-sounds good but I've had absolutely no enquiries from that-it varies so much from area to area I think.

I think you're right, because my local library does something similar, and I've had quite a lot of enquiries from that over the past 5 years or so. On the other hand I get almost nothing from internet sites.

Maggie

i advertise on 3 websites, local paper, yellow pages and ads in shops is good idea too!

Advertise? Surely a good teacher shouldn't need to advertise. Word of mouth and personal recommendation from parents of existing students who do extremely well in exams and festivals are better than any advertisement.

One does need some pupils to start with and to get experience to become that good teacher, though.

As an adult learner, I'm glad some teachers do advertise, otherwise I'd never hear of them. The internet is brilliant - before that I had to look for the occasional small ad in the local newspaper. It also helps if they say whether they are willing to teach adults!