Someone searching “piano lessons for kids” with the name of the suburb, “guitar teacher near me” or “singing lessons for adults Dublin” has a short list of questions and very little patience for a page that does not answer them. Do you teach this instrument to this age? A five year old, a teenager who wants to play what is on their phone, and an adult beginner who gave up at twelve are three different students. Where are lessons, how long are they, what do they cost, do you prepare students for grade exams, and can we hear you play? Websites for music teachers in Dublin earn the enquiry by answering those, and then by making the first lesson easy to book.
The trial lesson does the selling
Nobody commits to a term of lessons from a web page. They commit after one lesson in your front room when the child comes out smiling. So the page’s whole job is to get that first lesson booked: a short description of what happens in it, the price if you charge for it, and a button that puts it in your calendar with a confirmation to the parent and a reminder the day before. The lesson sells the term. The page sells the lesson.
Say exactly who you teach
List the instruments, the ages you take, and what you teach on each: classical, trad, pop, jazz, theory. Say whether you prepare students for the Royal Irish Academy of Music grades, ABRSM or Rockschool, and the Leaving Cert practical if you do it. Say whether you take complete beginners and whether you take adults, because adults assume they are not wanted unless told otherwise.
Where matters too. Your house with the parent waiting in the car, their house with a travel charge, or online, which works for guitar and theory better than it does for a seven year old on a violin. A group class for ukulele or a beginners’ choir gets its own line with its own price.
Fees by the term, and the missed week
Most teachers charge by the term in advance, and most spend the first fortnight of each term chasing transfers. On the site, the parent books the weekly slot, pays the term fee by card or Apple Pay, and the money lands in your account with the child’s name against it. Lesson lengths, thirty, forty five or sixty minutes, each carry their own price. Your policy on missed lessons, whether you offer a make-up and how much notice you want, is written once on the page and linked in the confirmation, which ends the conversation about the Tuesday somebody forgot. The rules on taking fees and deposits up front are set out in how to take deposits online in Ireland.
The year has a shape you know: September when the diary fills, January when a few New Year adults arrive, exam season when everything is tense, the Christmas and summer recitals, and a summer where you either run a camp or take the break. The page carries the term dates and the recital, and you change them yourself.
Let them hear you
A music teacher’s page needs sound. A short video of you playing, filmed on a phone in the room where you teach, does more than any paragraph. A second clip of a student at a recital, with the parent’s written permission, does more again. Photographs of the room, the instrument and you at it, in daylight. If you post on Instagram or YouTube already, the site links to them and they keep doing their job; what the site adds is the price, the ages and the booking, which a Reel cannot carry. We have written more on that in do you need a website if you have Instagram.
What we need from you
Your instruments and the ages you take, your prices by lesson length and by term, the days and hours you teach, where, your term dates and recital dates, your missed lesson policy, the exam boards you prepare for, a short biography covering where you trained and where you have played, photographs, and one video. Ten minutes on the phone or at your kitchen table and the site is usually live within the week.
Plan and price
A weekly appointment paid by the term is what Complete is built for: the trial lesson booked, the term fee paid, the reminders sent, for €1,499 to set up and €100 a month. A teacher whose book has been full for years and who wants only to be found for next September does fine on Essentials at €499 and €50 a month. Both are set out on the pricing page. Dance schools run on the same terms and recitals, and their page is at websites for dance schools.