{"id":40899,"date":"2019-08-08T10:11:37","date_gmt":"2019-08-08T14:11:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mymusicstaff.com\/?p=40899"},"modified":"2019-08-08T10:11:37","modified_gmt":"2019-08-08T14:11:37","slug":"cmt-supplier-spotlight-my-music-staff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mymusicstaff.com\/fr\/cmt-supplier-spotlight-my-music-staff\/","title":{"rendered":"CMT Supplier Spotlight: My Music Staff"},"content":{"rendered":"

Canadian Music Trades<\/strong>
\nSupplier Spotlight: My Music Staff<\/strong><\/h1>\n

By: Andrew King<\/strong><\/p>\n

The main goal driving the team at My Music Staff is a relatively simple one: \u201cWe\u2019re only successful if our members are successful, so our number one goal is to help our members thrive,\u201d states Dasa Kajganic, marketing manager for the Burlington, ON-based software developer.<\/p>\n

My Music Staff offers a subscription-based management solution for private music teachers and music schools. Its comprehensive feature set allows users to centrally manage their web presence, student information, scheduling, invoicing, payments, and more. Their slogan? \u201cWhatever your goal, we can help,\u201d and that\u2019s a statement they take seriously.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhether it\u2019s to grow your business, reduce costs, get paid on time, teach more, or stress less, My Music Staff can help achieve it,\u201d says Kajganic. \u201cIt helps you build a better lesson program and improve the service you offer your customers. If you\u2019re the type of business that\u2019s still scheduling in Excel, a Google Calendar, or on paper, there\u2019s a huge opportunity here to serve your customers better.\u201d<\/p>\n

My Music Staff was founded back in 2013, and the story behind its launch is as unique as its core product. \u201cWe always say that My Music Staff is a love story between our founder, a software developer, and his wife, a music teacher,\u201d Kajganic explains. \u201cShe finally convinced him to build a system to help her manage her private music studio, and My Music Staff was born!\u201d<\/p>\n

Of course, the solution has grown to be far more expansive and robust in the years since. While the first iteration was catered specifically to its founder\u2019s wife and the way she ran her business, the team soon discovered that the ways people ran their lesson programs were as diverse as their respective teaching styles.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo, from that point forward, My Music Staff has been community driven,\u201d Kajganic offers. \u201cThe amazing feedback we receive is the reason we can now offer a comprehensive system to accommodate a variety of lesson models.\u201d<\/p>\n

The company releases up to four new updates per month, with usability always at the forefront of their efforts. \u201cWe strongly believe that a robust, feature-rich software solution can still be easy and intuitive to use,\u201d Kajganic tacks on.<\/p>\n

The company currently boasts over a dozen employees and serves thousands of clients around the world, helping them to build a better business.<\/p>\n

Kajganic says that accommodating the significant growth they\u2019ve experienced in recent years has been an \u201cexciting challenge.\u201d As an example, they\u2019ve gone from helping teachers and managers to send a few hundred emails per month to now sending millions. \u201cWe\u2019ve been continuously upgrading our infrastructure in the background to handle these increasing demands and ensure we\u2019re delivering a smooth, uninterrupted service,\u201d she notes \u2013 again, highlighting the focus on functionality and ease-of-use.<\/p>\n

\u201cAdditionally, we\u2019ve had to expand our support staff and improve our processes so that we\u2019re still delivering the timely, accurate, and personalized technical support our customers experienced when we had just a handful of members.\u201d<\/p>\n

To promote their services, the company has found trade events like The NAMM Show to be particularly effective and rewarding as they offer an opportunity to showcase the platform\u2019s various tools in a live demo to a targeted audience. \u201cOur system has a broad feature set, so it\u2019s difficult to explain everything it can do in a single advertisement,\u201d says Kajganic. \u201cAt shows like NAMM, we can tailor the demo to the retail owner or manager\u2019s needs and show them specific features that would work for them and the way they run their business.\u201d<\/p>\n

The company takes pride in being future-focused and constantly working on new developments. Currently, the My Music Staff team is focused on helping potential users migrate towards the cloud. \u201cWith customers expecting more, the shift online allows us to automate and streamline the scheduling, invoicing, and payment processes,\u201d Kajganic notes. \u201cBy freeing up more of their time, it allows them to focus on other aspects of their business and to deliver additional value to their clients.\u201d<\/p>\n

Other key projects that are currently underway include the development of an app and a partnership with point-of-sale system developer Rain Retail.<\/p>\n

\u201cAn app has been one of our most requested features,\u201d Kajganic says about the former, \u201cbut it requires a lot of work under the hood to make it possible. Once we have it completed, though, it will allow us to introduce some bigger and better features that weren\u2019t previously possible.\u201d<\/p>\n

As for the collaboration with Rain Retail, that\u2019s about \u201cproviding all of the tools necessary to address the challenges of modern retail \u2013 e-commerce, point-of-sale, and lesson management.\u201d<\/p>\n

All are examples of the team at My Music Staff diligently working towards their goal of helping their members thrive, and between direct customer feedback, online reviews, and most significantly, their impressive year-over-year growth, it seems like they\u2019re doing a very good job of it.<\/p>\n

\"\" \"\"<\/p>\n

Andrew King is the Editor-in-Chief of Canadian Music Trade.<\/em><\/p>\n

King, A. (2019, June). Supplier Spotlight: My Music Staff. Canadian Music Trades Magazine<\/em>, 17. Retrieved from http:\/\/www.canadianmusictrade.com\/online\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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