We invited Kaitlyn Davidson back on the podcast to share about her outgrowing her school’s space… and what it felt like to move to a new one!

In this episode, we interview Kaitlyn about the entire process…

• How she looked for a space
• How she selected her space
• Fears and challenges she experienced
• How she told her team
• How it impacted her students and families
• Moving and setup experience
• Lessons learned during the process

There’s a lot to learn here and we are so thankful that Kaitlyn took time out from her busy schedule to share this wisdom with you!

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Check out our free trainings and resources on school marketing, group lessons, and using AI in your music school:

growyourmusicstudio.com/free

Get updates and FREE workshop invites from Nate and Daniel:

growyourmusicstudio.com/7fms

If the podcast has been helpful to you, leave a review here:

growyourmusicstudio.com/7fmsReview

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Now’s the time of year to consider what programs you are going to be offering in your music studio this fall…

And if you are looking for a program that will:

• Increase student retention…
• Increase the number of your beginners that become intermediate students…
• Help students go through their books faster (Proven! We did a study on this!)...
• Increase home practice time (Proven! We have years of data showing that this happens)
• And increase the profit in your studio (not just revenue)…

… Then you need to head over to GroupLessons.com, sign up for a free demo, and we’ll show you how hundreds of studios have easily started a new group program (sometimes in just a few weeks)... with little to no difficulty.

You can even begin our owner training for free (download our shopping list, and look through our teacher guides and method).

Click here for more information

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Big Music Games provides fun with a clear purpose. Ear training and music theory for students ages 4-14.

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In my work with school owners, not a week goes by that I’m not doing “owner therapy” with at least one of my clients… and it’s almost always around a troublesome team member.

These situations are never pretty:

• A team member that has gone rogue
• Toxicity between team members or a team member and the owner
• Teachers stealing students
• Teachers or staff members not following company policies
• Unreasonable requests or demands by team members

The “fixes” for these situations are usually difficult and time consuming.

Better to come up with a pre-emptive solution, so…

In this episode, Nate and Daniel make the case for creating an employee handbook at your school… and give specific examples of what to include from Brooklyn Music Factory’s handbook.

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Check out our free trainings and resources on school marketing, group lessons, and using AI in your music school:

growyourmusicstudio.com/free

Get updates and FREE workshop invites from Nate and Daniel:

growyourmusicstudio.com/7fms

If the podcast has been helpful to you, leave a review here:

growyourmusicstudio.com/7fmsReview

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SPONSOR - Piano Express from GroupLessons.com

Now’s the time of year to consider what programs you are going to be offering in your music studio this fall…

And if you are looking for a program that will:

• Increase student retention…
• Increase the number of your beginners that become intermediate students…
• Help students go through their books faster (Proven! We did a study on this!)...
• Increase home practice time (Proven! We have years of data showing that this happens)
• And increase the profit in your studio (not just revenue)…

… Then you need to head over to GroupLessons.com, sign up for a free demo, and we’ll show you how hundreds of studios have easily started a new group program (sometimes in just a few weeks)... with little to no difficulty.

You can even begin our owner training for free (download our shopping list, and look through our teacher guides and method).

Click here for more information

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SPONSOR - Big Music Games

Big Music Games provides fun with a clear purpose. Ear training and music theory for students ages 4-14.

Level up your student's ears & ignite their passion and motivation to practice with 15 levels of rhythm, melody, harmony and songwriting games.

Join the tribe of teachers dedicated to improving the way the world educates the next generation of musicians. BigMusicGames.com/7FMS

Over the past few years, we have received this question over and over:

“What is the right order to hire people for my school? Who should I hire first?”

Don’t know why we waited so long… but we finally did it!

And - the discussion between Nate and Daniel about this will help you to not only understand the WHAT of the hiring order… but also the WHY…

So that you can make a good decision about the correct hiring order for your studio or school!

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Check out our free trainings and resources on school marketing, group lessons, and using AI in your music school:

growyourmusicstudio.com/free

Get updates and FREE workshop invites from Nate and Daniel:

growyourmusicstudio.com/7fms

If the podcast has been helpful to you, leave a review here:

growyourmusicstudio.com/7fmsReview

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SPONSOR - Piano Express from GroupLessons.com

Now’s the time of year to consider what programs you are going to be offering in your music studio this fall…

And if you are looking for a program that will:

• Increase student retention…
• Increase the number of your beginners that become intermediate students…
• Help students go through their books faster (Proven! We did a study on this!)...
• Increase home practice time (Proven! We have years of data showing that this happens)
• And increase the profit in your studio (not just revenue)…

… Then you need to head over to GroupLessons.com, sign up for a free demo, and we’ll show you how hundreds of studios have easily started a new group program (sometimes in just a few weeks)... with little to no difficulty.

You can even begin our owner training for free (download our shopping list, and look through our teacher guides and method).

Click here for more information

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SPONSOR - Big Music Games

Big Music Games provides fun with a clear purpose. Ear training and music theory for students ages 4-14.

Level up your student's ears & ignite their passion and motivation to practice with 15 levels of rhythm, melody, harmony and songwriting games.

Join the tribe of teachers dedicated to improving the way the world educates the next generation of musicians. BigMusicGames.com/7FMS

Is it possible to build a process into your hiring and onboarding system to prevent getting stuck with a bad hire?

The answer is YES.

In today’s episode, Daniel details a system that he has been using for hiring since 2017.

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Check out our free trainings and resources on school marketing, group lessons, and using AI in your music school:

growyourmusicstudio.com/free

Get updates and FREE workshop invites from Nate and Daniel:

growyourmusicstudio.com/7fms

If the podcast has been helpful to you, leave a review here:

growyourmusicstudio.com/7fmsReview

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SPONSOR - Piano Express from GroupLessons.com

Now’s the time of year to consider what programs you are going to be offering in your music studio this fall…

And if you are looking for a program that will:

• Increase student retention…
• Increase the number of your beginners that become intermediate students…
• Help students go through their books faster (Proven! We did a study on this!)...
• Increase home practice time (Proven! We have years of data showing that this happens)
• And increase the profit in your studio (not just revenue)…

… Then you need to head over to GroupLessons.com, sign up for a free demo, and we’ll show you how hundreds of studios have easily started a new group program (sometimes in just a few weeks)... with little to no difficulty.

You can even begin our owner training for free (download our shopping list, and look through our teacher guides and method).

Click here for more information

*******

SPONSOR - Big Music Games

Big Music Games provides fun with a clear purpose. Ear training and music theory for students ages 4-14.

Level up your student's ears & ignite their passion and motivation to practice with 15 levels of rhythm, melody, harmony and songwriting games.

Join the tribe of teachers dedicated to improving the way the world educates the next generation of musicians. BigMusicGames.com/7FMS

Throughout the year this year, we have been answering the questions that you have submitted!

This is from one of the last live Q&A episodes that we did, and in that episode we discussed the following topics:

• Pricing for music lessons + programs (tactical advice)
• Teaching multiple students at different levels & questions about RCM
• Mitigating parent responses to changes in your school & group programs
• Power of personal stories in building brand and connecting with families

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Check out our free trainings and resources on school marketing, group lessons, and using AI in your music school:

growyourmusicstudio.com/free

Get updates and FREE workshop invites from Nate and Daniel:

growyourmusicstudio.com/7fms

If the podcast has been helpful to you, leave a review here:

growyourmusicstudio.com/7fmsReview

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SPONSOR - Piano Express from GroupLessons.com

Now’s the time of year to consider what programs you are going to be offering in your music studio this fall…

And if you are looking for a program that will:

• Increase student retention…
• Increase the number of your beginners that become intermediate students…
• Help students go through their books faster (Proven! We did a study on this!)...
• Increase home practice time (Proven! We have years of data showing that this happens)
• And increase the profit in your studio (not just revenue)…

… Then you need to head over to GroupLessons.com, sign up for a free demo, and we’ll show you how hundreds of studios have easily started a new group program (sometimes in just a few weeks)... with little to no difficulty.

You can even begin our owner training for free (download our shopping list, and look through our teacher guides and method).

Click here for more information

*******

SPONSOR - Big Music Games

Big Music Games provides fun with a clear purpose. Ear training and music theory for students ages 4-14.

Level up your student's ears & ignite their passion and motivation to practice with 15 levels of rhythm, melody, harmony and songwriting games.

Join the tribe of teachers dedicated to improving the way the world educates the next generation of musicians. BigMusicGames.com/7FMS

In this episode, we talk about branding, logos, working with designers, creating programs in your school, the power of naming your products…. And much more.

This is a unique episode and one that will get you thinking about your school’s strategy in a different way.

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Check out our free trainings and resources on school marketing, group lessons, and using AI in your music school:

growyourmusicstudio.com/free

Get updates and FREE workshop invites from Nate and Daniel:

growyourmusicstudio.com/7fms

If the podcast has been helpful to you, leave a review here:

growyourmusicstudio.com/7fmsReview

*******

SPONSOR - Piano Express from GroupLessons.com

Now’s the time of year to consider what programs you are going to be offering in your music studio this fall…

And if you are looking for a program that will:

• Increase student retention…
• Increase the number of your beginners that become intermediate students…
• Help students go through their books faster (Proven! We did a study on this!)...
• Increase home practice time (Proven! We have years of data showing that this happens)
• And increase the profit in your studio (not just revenue)…

… Then you need to head over to GroupLessons.com, sign up for a free demo, and we’ll show you how hundreds of studios have easily started a new group program (sometimes in just a few weeks)... with little to no difficulty.

You can even begin our owner training for free (download our shopping list, and look through our teacher guides and method).

Click here for more information

*******

SPONSOR - Big Music Games

Big Music Games provides fun with a clear purpose. Ear training and music theory for students ages 4-14.

Level up your student's ears & ignite their passion and motivation to practice with 15 levels of rhythm, melody, harmony and songwriting games.

Join the tribe of teachers dedicated to improving the way the world educates the next generation of musicians. BigMusicGames.com/7FMS

Last week, we aired the first part of a 2-part interview with Peira Moinester, the co-founder of Brooklyn Music Factory.

She shared quite a bit about BMF’s overall hiring strategy.

In today’s episode, Peira reveals the specific details of BMF’s hiring strategy.

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Check out our free trainings and resources on school marketing, group lessons, and using AI in your music school:

growyourmusicstudio.com/free

Get updates and FREE workshop invites from Nate and Daniel:

growyourmusicstudio.com/7fms

If the podcast has been helpful to you, leave a review here:

growyourmusicstudio.com/7fmsReview

*******

SPONSOR - Piano Express from GroupLessons.com

Now’s the time of year to consider what programs you are going to be offering in your music studio this fall…

And if you are looking for a program that will:

• Increase student retention…
• Increase the number of your beginners that become intermediate students…
• Help students go through their books faster (Proven! We did a study on this!)...
• Increase home practice time (Proven! We have years of data showing that this happens)
• And increase the profit in your studio (not just revenue)…

… Then you need to head over to GroupLessons.com, sign up for a free demo, and we’ll show you how hundreds of studios have easily started a new group program (sometimes in just a few weeks)... with little to no difficulty.

You can even begin our owner training for free (download our shopping list, and look through our teacher guides and method).

Click here for more information

*******

SPONSOR - Big Music Games

Big Music Games provides fun with a clear purpose. Ear training and music theory for students ages 4-14.

Level up your student's ears & ignite their passion and motivation to practice with 15 levels of rhythm, melody, harmony and songwriting games.

Join the tribe of teachers dedicated to improving the way the world educates the next generation of musicians. BigMusicGames.com/7FMS

In March of this year, I took part of the Grow team to Brooklyn New York to do some in person planning for the podcast.

I spent a considerable amount of time at Brooklyn Music Factory’s gorgeous studio space.

While there, I had a “stop and chat” with Peira (BMF’s co-owner).

In the course of that conversation, she made some interesting comments about her hiring strategy for Brooklyn Music Factory.

I asked her so many questions and spent a good 15 minutes just picking her brain about how they find great talent to staff their seasonal programs (as well as their year-round programs).

During the conversation, I said: “Man! I wish we had a camera crew here… this whole conversation should just be an episode of the podcast!”

We didn’t record that conversation, but we did the next best thing… We set up a time to talk about it again and elaborate even further on the topic.

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Check out our free trainings and resources on school marketing, group lessons, and using AI in your music school:

growyourmusicstudio.com/free

Get updates and FREE workshop invites from Nate and Daniel:

growyourmusicstudio.com/7fms

If the podcast has been helpful to you, leave a review here:

growyourmusicstudio.com/7fmsReview

*******

SPONSOR - Piano Express from GroupLessons.com

Now’s the time of year to consider what programs you are going to be offering in your music studio this fall…

And if you are looking for a program that will:

• Increase student retention…
• Increase the number of your beginners that become intermediate students…
• Help students go through their books faster (Proven! We did a study on this!)...
• Increase home practice time (Proven! We have years of data showing that this happens)
• And increase the profit in your studio (not just revenue)…

… Then you need to head over to GroupLessons.com, sign up for a free demo, and we’ll show you how hundreds of studios have easily started a new group program (sometimes in just a few weeks)... with little to no difficulty.

You can even begin our owner training for free (download our shopping list, and look through our teacher guides and method).

Click here for more information

*******

SPONSOR - Big Music Games

Big Music Games provides fun with a clear purpose. Ear training and music theory for students ages 4-14.

Level up your student's ears & ignite their passion and motivation to practice with 15 levels of rhythm, melody, harmony and songwriting games.

Join the tribe of teachers dedicated to improving the way the world educates the next generation of musicians. BigMusicGames.com/7FMS