Ebook excerpt from Chapter 6: Always Act Professional

Prospective clients want to do business with a successful teacher, not a teacher desperate for students. Even if you are a new teacher and have zero students, do not act desperate. Although you may not have any students yet, you are more than likely busy with your business in some manner and this is what needs to come across when speaking to your prospective clients.

Examples of professional behavior:
– Give specific times for lesson availability. (Don't say, anytime)
– Don't stay on the phone for a long time. (5 minutes or less)
– Don't be pushy, if you force them into lessons, it cannot end well.
– Don't keep calling people back, let them get back to you.
– Don't offer any discounts that you don't alread normally offer.
– If you are busy doing a musical activity, let them know.
   (i.e. I took a year break from teaching to go on a concert tour)