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The first great way that the internet can help a music teacher set up their own service is with online listing and directory sites. These basically function as a bulletin board does in any public space, but the right ones on the internet can expose you to a huge market of potential students. One of the most popular of these is Craigslist. On this particular site, you can make a temporary posting that will enable people browsing and searching the site to find your information and hopefully sign up for lessons with you.

The only problem with a high profile site like Craigslist is that it has a lot of competition and also a lot of spammers who will reply to your ads, but even considering this, it is the first place you should post your information. A more specialized site, like the music teacher directory, is also worth posting your information on, as they allow free postings and will keep your information up indefinitely.

Besides listing sites, the internet can also help you gain a name for yourself and give you some free promotion by blogging and writing about areas that you are interested in. As an example of this, guitar teachers may want to find places to write articles about guitar playing techniques and lessons. Ultimately, you may want to create your own site to fill with content and draw in visitors who will then find information about your lessons.

The internet is not just helpful to music teachers by offering them more effective promotional techniques, it can also provide teachers with a medium for long range private lessons. Music teachers are now sometimes providing lessons to people around the world through online services like Skype, which allow you to see and hear a person in a sort of visual phone call.

This is obviously opening whole new areas for private music teachers, and can be used to give teachers in more remote areas access to a greater number of students. It will be interesting to see where this development takes music lessons in the future.