Show Notes and Links

Thanks for listening to the podcast episode featuring Tim Topham!

Tim Topham is on a mission to inspire and empower the instrumental music teachers of the world to create the most innovative, uplifting and motivating lessons possible. Tim helps teachers maximise student engagement through creativity, technology and innovation whilst providing the training and resources they need to run streamlined studio businesses. He hosts the popular TopCast Podcast, blogs regularly at topmusic.co and speaks at local and international conferences on topics including pedagogy, business, marketing and entrepreneurship. Tim has been featured in American Music Teacher, The Piano Teacher Magazine, Californian Music Teacher and EPTA Piano Professional. Tim holds an MBA in Educational Leadership, BMus, DipEd and AMusA.

Learn more about the automation tools and resources discussed at these links:

MyMusicStaff.com: a one-stop platform that helps you generate lesson schedules, invoices, online payments and much more.

Tonara: an app that helps you deliver assignments, track practice and stay in touch with students between lessons.

Upworks: go here to find someone to help you with the stuff you don’t want to do.

Zapier: an integration tool that automates information between websites.

Free to Focus: book about eliminating busy work and a system for quality productivity written by Michael Hyatt. Here’s a past post about my reactions and ideas from the book.

Business Wars: Tim’s favorite podcast and one of mine, too!