Should You Build Your Own Curriculum or Programs? [7FMS Ep. #158]

by Daniel Patterson
Ever thought about creating your own curriculum? 

Do you have a program that you’ve created for your school that you’ve thought about selling or licensing to other schools?

Maybe you’re frustrated with what’s out there, or you have a idea for a method that could revolutionize music education.

Or… maybe you’ve already built something and have been successfully using it in your own school for a while now!

In this episode, we pull back the curtain on what it actually takes to develop a custom curriculum—and how to promote it to other teachers and schools.

If you’ve ever thought:

I should just make my own method 

Or…

I should take this method / curriculum we’ve made and sell it to other schools!

This episode will give you the roadmap to do it the right way.

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Here’s what we cover in the episode:

  • Why (and how) we built our own custom curriculum
  • Challenges you’ll face when designing custom tools
  • Selling your program to your families… and (potentially) other teachers and schools
  • How long it actually takes to build a curriculum that works
  • Communicating it to people who want to pay bargain bin prices for premium services
  • Are you the kind of owner who should build a custom curriculum?
  • Is a custom curriculum difficult to sell? How to prepare and what to be ready for…

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Show Notes

Episode 26 – Building a Side-Business in Your Music School (w. Dave Simon) | Would you like to start a side hustle separate from your teaching business? Do you have a great idea or a curriculum that you’ve developed in your music school… and would like to share it with other music schools? Join us in this episode as we talk to Dave Simon… He developed a curriculum for his own school… and then began licensing it to other schools.

Episode 93 – Building a Music School to 1000+ Students (w. Vera H.) | Our podcast guest in this episode built a school to over 1000+ students and wrote her own method… She shares lessons learned in today’s episode… don’t miss it!

Episode 97 – What It Takes to Build a “World Class” School (with Vera H.) | Last time we had Vera on the show, she gave a high-level overview of how she built her school to 1,000 students. In this episode, we had the time to dig deeper…  Vera describes how she attracts and keeps talented teachers, how they built a “world-class” recital hall that professionals use to make recordings, their detailed “positive-negative” system that describes families at their school, and the grueling teacher training she puts incoming staff through.

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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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Daniel Patterson is a private teacher, writer, and marketing consultant for music schools. He began teaching in 2004. He co-founded and led marketing operations for a summer music camp that sees over 200 children each summer.

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