Musicians are a lot of things: creative, disciplined, passionate, focused, expressive. But “good with spreadsheets” and “familiar with small business legalities” are rarely on that same list. Sometimes being a music teacher can feel like doing two different jobs: inspiring the next generation of music makers and being an accountant. Not many people are that talented.
Duet takes on the management so you can focus on the music. We have built software systems to simplify and automate many of the management tasks that are required to schedule students, get paid, report activities and grow your business. Our teachers say that before Duet, they spent 20% of their time on administrative tasks running their studio. That is about 8 hours a week that you could be teaching more ($$$), listening to your favorite new albums, or playing your own music.
Not at all! Duet works for any teacher who needs help organizing schedules, communicating with clients, and tracking costs and payments. Private music teachers often need more help in these areas than those associated with a school. But even if you teach through a university or other school setting, Duet has tools that can help you be more productive and spend more time teaching, and less time hassling with administrative tasks.
Currently, Duet is only set up to have single teacher access. We cannot currently distinguish between different teachers with different rosters and different billing needs. But this is changing so stay tuned!
We've found that parents and students aren't crazy about remembering yet another login and password. So Duet doesn't have separate portals for studio families. But don't worry! Duet still allows you to stay in close touch with your studio families through text-based communication that provides dynamic links to the information they need: schedules, event reminders, self-scheduling tools, invoices and payment options are all available via text so parents and students can handle everything right from their phones.