Archive | August, 2011

Guitar Teacher Interview 003 – Anthony Pell

One of the driving principles behind Start Teaching Guitar is that we can all learn from each other. This “Guitar Teacher Interview” series is a chance for us to hear from other guitar teachers around the world and hopefully get some ideas for our own teaching businesses. Today we have an interview with Anthony Pell, [...]

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Get More Students Using Local Search

Local search can be a huge boost to your marketing efforts as a guitar teacher. What is local search? I’ll explain it for you. Local search explained “Local search” is just like a regular Google or Yahoo search, except that the search results are “geographically restrained”. That simply means that if someone does a Google [...]

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Free eBook: Teaching Guitar The SMART Way

I just wrote a new eBook called “Teaching Guitar the SMART Way”, and I’d like to give you a free copy. Take The Next Step! Enter your name and email address below to get your FREE copy of my eBook “Teaching Guitar the SMART Way”, and join the Start Teaching Guitar community:

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STG 004 : Designing Lesson Policies That Work

STG 004 : Designing Lesson Policies That Work

In this episode of the Start Teaching Guitar podcast, I’ll be explaining how to design effective lesson policies for your teaching business. There’s no “one-size-fits-all” approach to creating your lesson policies…you need to ask yourself some important questions about how you want your business to look, and then create your lesson policies based on the [...]

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Cool Video: Studying With Segovia

I stumbled across this video on YouTube a while back and thought I would share it with you. It’s a rare video containing clips of a Master Class with Andres Segovia, one of the greatest classical guitarists who ever lived. It’s interesting to watch his approach to teaching…check it out and let me know what [...]

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Guitar Teacher Interview 002 – Don Parkhurst

One of the driving principles behind Start Teaching Guitar is that we can all learn from each other. This “Guitar Teacher Interview” series is a chance for us to hear from other guitar teachers around the world and hopefully get some ideas for our own teaching businesses. Today we have an interview with Don Parkhurst, [...]

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STG 003 : 7 Easy Steps To Creating A Website That Attracts New Students

STG 003 : 7 Easy Steps To Creating A Website That Attracts New Students

In this episode of the Start Teaching Guitar podcast, I’ll be teaching you how to build and optimize a website for your guitar teaching business. This is the first thing you should do to set your business up because all of your marketing efforts will use your website as a foundation. Nothing else you do [...]

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New Guest Post Published on GuitarNoize.com

Hey everybody! I just wanted to let you know that I wrote an article for GuitarNoize.com called “Teaching Guitar – Your Ticket To Doing Music Full-Time” and it was just published today. I want to encourage all of you to head over to GuitarNoize.com and check the article out, and maybe even leave some comments…here’s [...]

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