Instant Piano Workshop Leaders

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If you are not afraid to stand in front of a classroom and speak passionately about the piano for a three hour session, you could be well on your way to an incredible career.

We have been teaching one day piano workshops since 1982, and have been training piano teachers to give these workshops since 1990.

Many of our workshop leaders have become insanely successful at it, earning very comfortable yearly incomes in this exciting field.

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New School of American Music
309 Wall St.
Chico, CA 95928

Call us:
(530) 342-7401

Email us:
info@pianofun.com

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How successful is this business opportunity program for the Workshop Leader?
I would like to be able to say that everybody who signed up to be a workshop leader succeeded. But of course that didn’t happen. In fact some people signed up, and then we never heard from them again. I wish I knew the reason for that.

But I will say that the last time I checked the stats, about 50% of those who got certified made a successful go of it, as determined by the fact that they reordered inventory after their initial inventory was depleted. That’s a 50% success rate. I challenge anyone in the business opportunity industry to claim a better one. However, because we are going to be a lot more discriminatory about who we select for this program, we’re planning on the success rate to be much higher. We’re shooting for 100%.

In that earlier program you never had interviews or auditions or in person training. Why now?
Simply because we want to have the best possible people working with us. We are looking at this as a partnership. We think we know how to identify the kind of piano player/teacher who will do well in this business, and those are the ones we will select. The interview and audition process will help us find those people. And the training program will help guarantee their success.

What are the steps involved in becoming selected as a Workshop Leader?
If your resume meets with our approval, you will be asked to submit a short application. The application will be evaluated, and if favorable, we will set up a phone interview. We’d like to do the interview in person, but we are headquartered in rural Northern California, and realize travel may be difficult. So we can do the interview by phone, or by video conferencing.

The interview will be evaluated and may lead to a playing audition. This can be done by phone or video conferencing too. Don’t worry, you won’t have to demonstrate complete piano virtuosity in the audition. In fact, over virtuosity can work against you. Instead we’ll be looking for basic competence in playing pop piano from a lead sheet. We’ll also evaluate your knowledge of chords and general music theory.

What is the training process?
Training will focus on three general areas: the mechanics of setting up a workshop business, the actual teaching of the workshop, and marketing techniques. Our future as a business as well as yours depends on how effective you are in class at selling our fine materials. THIS IS NOT--REPEAT NOT--TO BE A HIGH PRESSURE COUNTY FAIR TYPE OF SALES HYPE. Rather it’s a very low key three minute presentation in the class designed to inspire rather than annoy. Learn to do this presentation right, and it will mean hundreds of extra dollars per day (thousands per month) in your pocket. A good sales attitude is a must in this business, and we will be looking for it in the evaluation process.

How long will it take to get trained?
Upon acceptance to the program, you will receive a training kit consisting of audio and video media as well as pre printed forms, letters, documents, scripts. There are six CD’s that take you through all the steps. The tasks are simple and easy to accomplish. You will start making calls and writing letters right away. Filling up your calendar is pretty simple to do. Once you have a schedule you can start learning how to teach the workshop itself. Once again, it’s a pretty simple process.

You will have access to Robert Laughlin on a regular basis. With teleconferences you will learn right along with other Workshop Leader trainees how to master the program.

What about ongoing training?
Like playing an instrument, the learning process for our Workshop Leaders is ongoing. Once you’ve completed the required basic training, you will be invited to continue with optional training. We schedule regular times each month that you are invited to call in with questions. You’ll get to speak directly with Robert Laughlin, the creator of this teaching and marketing system. Pick his brain without getting charged consulting fees.

You will receive regular newsletters. You’ll be invited to attend Robert’s piano workshops any time you want. And he schedules timely teleconferences when there is a need.

We have also had National Weekend Conferences you can attend to learn all the latest news and techniques about the business.

In short you will have ample opportunity for optional on-going training and education, and it will either be free or else minimal cost.

What is the investment?
When we started making our program available to music teachers back in 1990, the cost to come on board was $5000. Today, almost 20 years later it’s still $5000. Yes, it’s a substantial amount. However, compared to similar business opportunities, it’s a relative steal. Your investment will include not only all the training and certification that goes into become a Workshop Leader, but we will also provide you with enough inventory for 30 students, including a head start on your back of the room inventory. When you sell the inventory, you will generate over $2000 right back into your pocket. So it will start paying off very soon.

What else do I get?
Once you are on board you will be invited to become a Super Affiliate on the www.pianofun.com web site, which entitles you to a 35% commission on any sales you refer to our web site. You may have access to hundreds, or even thousands of new students a year. So sales can be lucrative without your having to do much effort at all.

You will also get the password to our Workshop Leader Only portion of the web site. Here you will find dozens of teaching tools and sales tools to make your business run smoothly and lucratively.

You will also get your own page on our web site to advertise your workshops. Your workshops will get exposure at no additional cost to you, on an ongoing basis.

So what do you think? Is it time to give this a try?

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Section I. Setting Up and Planning

Overview - Part 1

Overview - Part 2

First Steps

Preliminary Research and Goal Setting

Delivery Options

First Venues

Section II. Finding Sponsors

College Search Evaluation

Proposal Packet

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For the past two years we have closed our training program to new workshop leaders. But now we have opened the program back up. As student demand for this program grows, we have long-time workshop leaders who are retiring. For the time being we are actively seeking new people to become seminar leaders to fill the demand all across the United States.

If you have what it takes to be a Workshop Leader in the Instant Piano Seminar Program, you could be on your way to a truly dream career.

Here is who we are looking for:

Someone who enjoys teaching to groups of adults

Someone who really believes in our system of teaching and can pass that enthusiasm on to others

Someone with a sales background (or willingness to learn plus charisma)

Someone with a strong sense of ethics

Someone we can work with comfortably

Job Description:
You will be trained to teach the three and a half hour workshop called Instant Piano for Hopelessly Busy People. This is the same short course that was featured in Time Magazine a few years ago and is the model for Scott Houston's Piano In a Flash program on Public Television. In fact, Scott learned how to teach our workshops in our training program before he brought his classes to television. Scott still uses our materials when he teaches his live workhops.

We will teach you how to find places to teach, advertise for students, and take care of registration all at zero cost to you. We give you a formula for teaching the workshop and for all the behind the scenes details that go into it.

The seminar business in general is very lucrative. Frankly, it's one of the easiest ways I know of for making a large sum of money in a very short time. It's a huge business over all, whether the topic is real estate, business opportunities, Internet marketing, or whatever. We were the first to put a piano course into this format, and we're still the biggest and the best.

As one of our Workshop Leaders you will decided when to teach, where to teach, how often to teach, and you will never ever have a boss to answer to.

Any music teacher can do this at any age.

Requirements:
You will need to possess the following basic skills:

* basic chord piano skills
* ability to do a fairly simple demonstration on the piano in class
* good communication skills
* classroom charisma

Formal piano training or college degree not necessary. You will be required to make one five-minute very low key sales presentation during your classroom presentation. As you will be handling cash, checks, and credit card transactions, you will need to have basic organizational skills (light bookkeeping). We will train you in all aspects.

Compensation
The way it usually works is you will be paid according to the number of students in your workshop plus your extra in class sales of our products. You are NOT responsible for filling seats. You will partner with others who advertise, provide the location and piano, and fill the seats. In exchange for their services, you split the proceeds from the workshop registration fees. Typically you would earn $20 to $25 per student just from registration fees.

Plus they buy required materials from you, another $12.50 or so per student into your pocket.

Plus students will buy optional "home study" materials, available on a display table at the back of the room.

Even with no extra sales you could easily make $750 in a single evening from a class of just 20 students. Our best veteran Workshop Leaders have earned as much as $4500 in a single day, most of it in cash that they can deposit in their bank accounts the very next day.

Step One: Complete Application
This is fairly straightforward. We want to know a little about you, your education, your experiences, your job history, your musical history, and about you as a person. It’s like a job app, but we try to make it a little friendlier and easier to use. Click here for an on-line application in pdf form.

Step Two: Audition and Interview
If your application looks good, we’ll want to hear how you sound at a piano. We can do this a couple of ways. We can set up a live audition at our Northern California offices or do the Remote Audition. The remote audition consists of a telephone interview with you at a piano followed by an audition recording that you submit to us. What we’re looking for is basic keyboard knowledge from a chord point of view. We’d like to hear you play a song for us and we’ll ask you a few questions concerning chords, arpeggios, etc.

During the interview we will ask probing questions to make sure you’ll do well as a presenter. The next steps will involve some investment of time and money on both our parts, and we want to make certain you are a good fit for us and vice versa before we take the next step.

Step Three: Training
Once you pass the Interview phase, you will be invited to join our organization and train with us. You will receive training materials that consist of audio and video media. There will also be teleconferences with plenty of opportunity for Q and A. You will also have the option of attending workshops from Robert Laughlin to see first hand how it’s done.

Step Four: Certification
Once you’ve passed the training portion, you’ll be certified and ready to teach. By this time you will have decided how often you want to teach and how far you want to travel and will have started booking your classes.

How to Proceed:
1. If you have not already done so, sign up for our newsletter.

2. Still have questions? Call us at 800-726-7654.

3. Download and email, fax, or mail an application.