February Invoice, March Lessons, Welcome New Students, ZELLE IS COMING SOON, Venmo changes coming next month

 Wow, what a crazy week with the weather!!!!  I hope this finds everyone warm and safe.

Once again, life conspired against us to delay our invoice for this month.  We were working on it going into last weekend, but then the weather was getting crazy, and the forecast looked bad, so we held off so we could account for all of the missed lessons due to the school closings, blackouts, and spotty internet, which we had all-of-the-above here at the Hudson house.  I know some of you faired better or worse, but I hope everything has returned to normal for everyone.  Thankfully we didn't have any damage, and all of our utilities are back up and running at this point.

I will be out of town and unavailable for lessons on March 11th through the 14th.  Depending upon your school's spring break dates, you may choose to miss that week.  I will be available for lessons throughout, except the dates I just mentioned, however, if you want to have lessons during your spring break.  I will work that out with each one of you as I set up schedules for March.

I have had yet another wave of new students sign up over the last several weeks.  For those of you who are new, please see the following blog posts about lessons and payments:

• https://www.hudsonmusicstudio.com/2020/10/welcome-new-flute-students.html
• https://www.hudsonmusicstudio.com/2020/04/how-to-pay-for-lessons-in-remote.html

With these additions to my schedule, I'm pretty much 100% full, and will likely be starting a waiting list for any new students.  This also means that, while I do my best to maintain some flexibility in my schedule for missed lessons, there are now very few spots I can move students if they just forget or miss lessons with little or no notice.  As always, the key is to communicate.  Let me know as far in advance as possible if you will miss a lesson.  That will give me the best chance on finding an alternate time.

As I mentioned last month, we are adding Zelle to our payment options.  We opened an account at a local bank that accepts Zelle just yesterday, and will be setting it up to accept Zelle in the next few days.  We will send the Zelle payment information out to everyone as soon as we have it set up and working.

For those of you who use Venmo, I will be changing my username when we send out the March invoice.  I have had a few students at this point who inadvertently sent the payment to the wrong person.  I have realized that the uncommon spelling of my first name, and the similarity to another username is causing the issue.  Please continue to use the current username until then.  I'm not certain how changing the Venmo username will affect those of you who are already sending those payments to me, so I will be sending out notices before that actually heppens.