LessonFace

LessonFace Review:

If you’re looking for an opportunity to make some money with music or acting, you may be able to teach these skills through Lessonface. The site provides an online interface where students can find people teaching everything from how to sing to how to play the violin.

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Registration is free, but teachers must have teaching experience or extraordinary skill to pass the site’s rigorous vetting system. Specifically, the site requires a minimum of 2 years of teaching experience, 5 years of professional experience or that the teacher be an “extraordinary exception.” We’re thinking that means Mozart, Beethoven or, say, LeeAnn Rimes.

Lessonface interviews those who meet the criteria to see if they would be a good fit for the platform.

How it works

Teachers who are accepted to the platform set their own rates and schedules. When you book a student, you pay a commission to the site for collection and using the platform.

The fee depends on where the student came from. If this was your student, who you are simply billing through LessonFace, they charge just 4%. If the student found you through LessonFace, the site charges a higher — 15% — fee.

These fees are among the lowest in the industry, beating broad tutoring platforms, such as Wyzant, as well as other music and art-centric tutoring platforms, such as TakeLessons.

Teacher pay

Teachers are generally paid by direct deposit within 3 days of telling the platform that a lesson is complete, which should be done promptly. (If you fail to acknowledge completed lessons within four weeks, you give-up your payment. Don’t do that.) Lessonface also requires teachers to respond to requests for lessons within 48 hours to prevent an account lockout.

Recommendations

LessonFace is our top recommendation for music, dance and art teachers. If you tutor in any other subjects, we recommend Wyzant, which is one of the nation’s most popular tutoring platforms.

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What their teachers say (from an email interview with SideHusl)

I’ve been teaching with Lessonface since 2015, and I continue to teach there.  My specialties are flamenco and classical guitar, and I teach beginning and intermediate students in almost all genres (fingerstyle, acoustic guitar, etc).

Lessonface has been especially useful in building a studio of flamenco guitar students.  Flamenco guitar is a very specialized genre that evolved in Andalucia, Spain.  Flamenco scenes and instructors just don’t exist in many parts of the USA (and the rest of the world).  I’m based in Seville, Spain, so Lessonface helps me reach interested students in all corners of the world.

I have found lots of students through Lessonface.  However, the idea is not to set up a profile and sit back and wait for students to sign up. There are lots of teachers for many instruments. Teachers need to be proactive about recruiting their own students. And, if they want their profile to be well-placed, they need to get good reviews from their students, invite students to Lessons, and otherwise participate in the site. — Leah Kruszewski @ www.leahguitar.com