How to Get Students on Lessonface

Why Bring Students to Lessonface?

1. Focus on teaching

Teaching all your students on Lessonface relieves you from the burdens of scheduling and payment collection so you can focus on teaching.

2. Minimal lesson fees

Lessonface charges teachers only 5% for lessons with students you bring to the site, and only 15% when students find you through Lessonface. View more about Lessonface's fee structure.

3. Jumpstart your Lessonface teaching studio

Recruiting students boosts your profile credibility and visibility to students seeking teachers through Lessonface. Teachers often ask us how to boost their profile visibility. Learn more about how to recruit students to Lessonface.

• Offer a Free Trial. Students like the opportunity to meet their teacher before committing to paid lessons. You may use the trial to teach a short lesson, or you may prefer to treat it as an introduction. Explain your teaching approach, ask the student about their goals, and propose a lesson plan for them to consider. You can include notes, attachments, and a recorded video to give the student a thorough introduction to your teaching style. The majority of trial takers go on to book paid lessons with the teacher.
• Respond to inquiries. Many prospective students post an inquiry stating their preferences, level, goals, dreams, etc. You can view open inquiries by clicking “Inquiries” in the left hand menu of your dashboard. Here's some advice from staff and teachers on how best to reply to these prospective students.
• Answer messages in a timely manner. If a student reaches out to ask about lessons, try to respond the same day or better yet, within a few hours. If you wait too long, the student may give up and move on.
• Follow up with new students. If you had a great first lesson and haven’t heard anything from the student in a few days, send them a message and ask them how their practice is going. You can also send them an invite to their next lesson.
• Respond to our promotional campaign invitations. We regularly set up promotional campaigns such as “Buy One Lesson Get One Free” during the back-to-school and holiday seasons. If you opt to be included in the promotion, we’ll feature you along with other participating teachers in a newsletter to prospective students. Occasionally we call for teacher participation in projects such as collaborative videos, original arrangements, social media content, and articles. Any time you participate in one of these projects we’ll list your name when we share it and, if appropriate, link to your teaching profile.
• Consider your pricing. New teachers often start pricing themselves a little lower and raise their prices after they gain some site stats. If you decide to raise your rates later and prefer to keep your first students at the original rate, you can add them to a discount list.
• Keep your reviews current and select the best to feature. New students get an email request to review after the first lesson, but you may want to wait until the third or fourth lesson to ask them yourself. If the lessons are going great and the vibe feels right, ask them to write a review. Select your favorite reviews to feature by expanding the “Profile” heading in the left hand menu bar and choosing “My Reviews”.
• Offer group classes, self-paced courses, and downloadables. While most of the daily activity on Lessonface is one-on-one lessons, teachers are increasingly making new student connections, and earning money, through offering group classes, and creating self-paced courses and downloadables. Students who sign up for any of these activities will become your student contacts, meaning you can reach out to them, and vice versa. You can create referral links to these formats, ensuring you retain even more of the earnings from your recruitment efforts.