135 - Tony Parlapiano on popMATICS and a New Format for Online Teaching (Part 2)

Music Studio Startup: Helping music teachers thrive as entrepreneurs

Today I’m sharing part two of a two-part episode with my guest, Tony Parlapiano.

Teaching piano has taken many forms over the years for Tony. From being a travel piano teacher and teaching students homes, to teaching online during the pandemic and then sticking with it afterward, to the studio we’re going to hear about today, that more closely resembles a college program than your standard 1:1 or group lessons.

Over the summer, Tony was featured in our studio snapshot series. In that episode he alluded to his new online instruction model and I was very curious, but I knew it needed more time than we had then to really understand it, so that’s what we’re talking about in these episodes.

In Part 1, we talked more about the pedagogical and practical structure of Tony’s program and today we’re getting into the marketing and business side of things.

A full transcript and resources from this episode can be found at MusicStudioStartup.com/episode135.

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