The Victoria Clark Show for Music Teachers

Send me a message! Do you even need a website, or is word of mouth enough? In this episode I answer that honestly, for teachers with no website, an outdated one, or one that has never quite earned its place. I talk about what most music teacher websites get wrong, why trying to appeal to everyone appeals to no one, and what changed when I stopped writing generic copy and started writing the truth...

Send me a message! If you feel like your teaching week runs you more than you run it, this episode is a realistic look at what really changes things. Not a productivity system or a colour-coded calendar, but an honest conversation about what time management means when you're self-employed, why so much of the generic advice misses the point, and what has truly made a difference in running a fu...

Send me a message!  A 50-person waiting list doesn't happen by accident. But it also isn't the result of having the most qualifications in the area, or spending money on advertising, or doing anything particularly complicated. In this episode, I walk through the four things that actually built mine: defining who I wanted to teach, becoming visible to the right families, communicating a c...

Send me a message! If you've ever reached July wondering how you're going to get through the summer before the next term's invoices come in, this episode is for you. I'm walking you through how monthly billing actually works, why I made the switch, and what life looks like on the other side: income on the first of every month, no chasing, and about an hour of admin per month in...

Send me a message! If the idea of raising your fees makes you feel slightly sick, you're not alone. Most teachers I speak to have either avoided it for years, or they've done it once and vowed never to go through that stress again. But here's what I've discovered after doing this every year for the past 4 years: raising your fees and updating your studio policy for September, d...

Send me a message! If you work for yourself, you're supposed to be in charge of your own time. So why does it feel like your teaching week is something that happens to you , rather than something you've actually chosen ?   In this episode, I'm talking about the gap between being self-employed and actually feeling like you have any say in when and how you teach. I share the story of...

Send me a message! You probably already know you need a cancellation policy. Most teachers do. The problem isn't the knowing; it's the doing: the awkward reply, the stomach-drop when the text comes in, the path of least resistance that ends with you letting it go again. In this first episode of The Victoria Clark Show, I'm talking about cancellation policies in practice: what a clea...

Send me a message! You know you shouldn't refund it. You've told yourself that. And then the text comes in, and you feel the familiar pull, the guilt, the worry about how they'll react, and somehow you end up saying yes again. This episode isn't about what your cancellation policy should say. It's about why so many of us can't bring ourselves to enforce it, even when...

Send me a message! Something happened on social media recently that I haven't been able to stop thinking about. I posted about why music teachers undercharge, and the comments that came back stopped me in my tracks: teachers who hadn't raised their rates in years, defensiveness, and one comment in particular that I keep returning to: "I think you live in a very different socioeconom...