Having been in business now for over 5 years, Music Teacher’s Helper has grown significantly both in number of customers and in quality and quantity of services we provide. Just a glance at our Twitter account or the Announcements category of our blog will show that we’ve added a lot of new features and an increasing amount of value over the years – yet we’ve kept our prices the same.
Taking all of this extra value into account, and after a good, hard look at the imbalance between how many teachers are signed up for the different plans, we think it’s time to offer some new pricing plans for Music Teacher’s Helper.
What’s Changing?
The major differences in these new plans are:
- We’ve simplified from 5 plans down to 4 and changed their names.
- We’ve increased the number of students on each plan (to 5, 20, 40, and unlimited)
- We’ve included more storage space for the file/photo area (now from 100mb to 10GB), which is something that’s been requested several times over the years.
The prices are also different, obviously, corresponding to what’s offered in the plan. All plans still include a Free studio website (a huge value in itself), Unlimited students on your Waiting List and Former Students list, secure SSL encryption (except for the Free plan), and full access to all the other features of Music Teacher’s Helper. All plans (except Free, of course) also include a 30-day free trial. We think you’ll find the prices a great value for Read more…
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We are pleased to announce that we have launched the mobile app for Music Teacher’s Helper! This app will allow you to quickly access important information on your Music Teacher’s Helper account through your mobile phone. The app will work on the iPhone, Android, Blackberry, and other smart phones with web-kit enabled browsers.
To access the mobile app, open up your cell phone browser and go to: http://www.musicteachershelper.com/mobile
We’ve kept the mobile app clean and simple. It’s not meant to be a fully-fledged version of Music Teacher’s Helper, or a replacement for it, but it should give you the information about your studio you’ll need to access while on the road. (Actually, don’t use it while driving, okay?)
On the Music Teacher’s Helper mobile app, you can review your student lists and their contact information, see a list of your upcoming (and past) lessons, reconcile your lessons, view a summary of each student’s billing status, and see your studio’s financial transactions, payments, and invoices. Currently, the mobile app only supports teacher logins – students and parents cannot login. We’ll be adding more functionality to it as time goes on.
We hope you enjoy this new way to access your studio. It’s been our number one request for quite a while, so we’re happy to finally be able to give it to you. Check out the mobile app today and let us know what you think!
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Last week, Music Teacher’s Helper reached a significant milestone: there are now over 1,000 music teachers worldwide who have paying subscriptions to Music Teacher’s Helper! This is in addition to the thousands more who are using the Free Forever plan, enjoying their own studio website, and even more who visit our Music Teachers Blog each month. Our brand new Music Teacher Forum looks like it will be quite popular as well.
As the creator and president of Music Teacher’s Helper, I’d like to thank each of you for your help in making Music Teacher’s Helper the powerful, time-saving tool that it is. It would not be what it is today without your feedback, both in useful suggestions and in expressing how much you love it with your words and your wallets. Thank you!
You may not know that I originally wrote Music Teacher’s Helper back in 2005 to manage Read more…
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It’s been an exciting month at Music Teacher’s Helper, with the launch of our new Music Teachers Forum, and a number of other features (see below).
We’re also pleased to announce that we’re working on a mobile version of Music Teacher’s Helper, which will work on the iPhone, Android, and other web-kit enabled smartphones. We plan to make the initial version available within the next few weeks. It won’t do everything that the main site can do, but in this first version, you’ll be able to do basic things like list students, transactions, and events. We’ll also be releasing a public API, which will allow web developers to more easily integrate Music Teacher’s into other programs and websites. Stay tuned for more details.
Latest Updates
Here is a list of the latest additions to Music Teacher’s Helper.
- Music Teacher Community Forum – Join with other teachers worldwide to share ideas and collaborate on topics ranging from method books and dealing with students, to music theory and songwriting, to running and marketing your studio. It’s free! (Read original forum announcement.)
- System E-mail History! See what lesson notes, birthday reminders, daily summaries, and other system e-mails were sent by the Read more…
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Today, Music Teacher’s Helper is unveiling our new public Music Teacher Forum, where teachers can share ideas, ask questions and collaborate about topics related to teaching, music, lesson ideas, dealing with students, songwriting and composition, running your business, and more! We also have a place for the community to discuss using Music Teacher’s Helper, as well as make feature requests.
Please visit the forum today and join in the fun at:
http://www.MusicTeachersHelper.com/forum
Note: Anyone can browse through the forum topics, but in order to post on the forum, you will need a forum account, which you can get here. This is separate from your Music Teacher’s Helper login. Read more…
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This month we have launched a new feature on Music Teacher’s Helper to make it easier to remind students to pay for invoices. If you’ve ever sent your students an invoice from Music Teacher’s Helper’s, or used our options to receive on-line payments from your students, you’ve probably noticed that students pay a lot more regularly and on time. But occasionally, you might run across a student that needs a bit more prodding. That’s why we’ve added Automatic Overdue Invoice Notifications. If you enable this option under Settings -> E-mail Notifications, then your students will get a reminder if they don’t make a payment after a certain number of days past the due date. (You can set how long after the due date you want the reminder sent.)
Keep in mind that since Music Teacher’s Helper doesn’t apply payments directly to invoices, but to the student’s account, the system assumes that it’s the last invoice that’s due. So a reminder Read more…
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Here is a list of the latest new features, enhancements, and bug fixes we’ve added to Music Teacher’s Helper. Thank you for your feedback and support.
New Features
- Reconcile All Events for one Day. You can now reconcile all events for a specific day. To do this, click the down down arrow on any day of the calendar and choose “Reconcile All”.
- Repertoire Columns Split. In the Repertoire Tracker, the title and composer fields are now showing in separate columns.
- Day of Week. Added the name of the day of the week at the top of the calendar in Day View.
Recent Bug Fixes
- When e-mailing all students on a day, it now e-mails the parents as well.
- Manage Student Logins page was not always resetting the logins properly or showing all the parents. This is fixed.
- Current day highlighted on the calendar is now taking time zone into account.
- Added warning message before recurring events are deleted. Also disabled Google Calendar->MTH sync temporarily. MTH->Google is fine.
- European date format now saving properly on the Reconcile Events page.
- Photos page now shows the correct amount of space left for uploading photos.
- When parents login, if they have a credit, the “Amount Due” now shows zero, rather than a negative amount due.
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Here are the latest features and updates for Music Teacher’s Helper. Enjoy!
New Features
- Calendar Printing. You can now print the calendar in month, week, or day view to a nicely formatted PDF file.
- Improved Library Search. You can now search your Lending Library by title, composer, type, and quantity!
- Calendar sidebar now “sticky”. If you hide it, it will stay hidden until you unhide it.
- Create Event From Time Slot. You can now create an event on the calendar in week or day view by clicking the cell for the time you want the event to begin.
Recent Bug Fixes
Most of these were issues caused by our new site launch last month:
- Automatic Birthday E-mails will now send to the parent if the student does not have an e-mail address in their profile. Read more…
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We are very excited to announce that the new website that we’ve been working on for the past several months will be launched on Thursday, March 18, 2010 at 6:00AM MDT. Music Teacher’s Helper may be unavailable for up to an hour while we perform the update. Thank you for your patience during this time.
Here are just some of the improvements you’ll notice with the new site:
- Beautiful new design. A much cleaner and more modern look, both on our main website and after you login to your account.
- Simplified menus. Most notably, the “Website” menu is now on the main menu. And you can now control all site settings from a single “Settings” page found in the upper-right hand corner.
- Improved Calendar. We’ve made huge improvements to the calendar. The day/week view now make it easy to see event duration, to help you spot openings and conflicting events. We’ve also added more location icons, and Read more…
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Thank you to all who participated in the Testimonial Contest this week. I was overwhelmed with the great number of responses and fabulous testimonials we received. I’m glad you love Music Teacher’s Helper so much!
I read testimonial after testimonial that stated how MTH is helping you run a more organized and professional studio, saving you time, money, and even helping you be a better teacher. Many of you also commented on our fantastic support team. They really do a great job, don’t they?
Because of the number of responses and the high quality of all of the testimonials, in both text and video, I decided that a random drawing would be the most fair way to pick a winner. So after running a random query in our database, the winner came back as… Read more…
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