What is Music Teacher's Helper? A Quick Feature Rundown

It's no secret that one of the online services for musicians that I get most excited about is Music Teacher's Helper. I both use and promote this product and have found that it makes a world of difference in the management of both my performing and teaching activities.

But with a service that offers such depth of management tools, the most common questions I get about MTH are what it is and what it does.

To put it simply, Music Teacher's Helper is a web-based computer service that integrates studio scheduling, communications, marketing, invoicing, and income/expense tracking under one roof. Here are some of the features that are available through MTH:

• the ability to build and customize your own website with both public and login-only areas (using SSL encryption to protect your student's data)
  
• integration with your email client so you can easily communicate with individual students/parents, groups, and the studio as a whole
• online registration (still the holy grail of registration features that most schools of music and studios lack)
• online scheduling with the ability to sync with Google Calendar
• student invoicing, both manual and automated (with multiple payment options including credit cards via PayPal)
  
• income/expense tracking
• student progress tools, including lesson notes, download capability, a practice log, and lending library

You can find a complete feature list here. But what I find creates the most value in my studio with MTH is not just the depth of tools, but the fact that they are all integrated with one another, can all be easily accessed once you've logged in to the site, and can be customized to fit your agenda as a teacher.

These two videos give an excellent introduction to the service:





If you have any more questions about Music Teachers's Helper or wish to share your experiences using it, feel free to leave a comment below.