This is the final article in a 3-part series on new income streams for your teaching business. Like I’ve written about before, there are many more ways to make money as a guitar teacher than just by collecting lesson tuition. It’s always a good idea to diversify your income streams as much as possible, just [...]
STG 016 : 2012 Winter NAMM Show Highlights For Guitar Teachers
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In this episode of the Start Teaching Guitar podcast, I’ll tell you about my recent trip to the 2012 Winter NAMM Show and all the ways attending the show yourself will help your teaching business. I go into MUCH greater detail about each item in the podcast, but here’s a rough outline for you: Take [...]
STG 015 : Time Management Tips for Busy Guitar Teachers
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In this episode of the Start Teaching Guitar podcast, I’ll share some good tips on how to plan, prioritize and manage your to-do list so you can spend more time growing your teaching business. I go into MUCH greater detail about each item in the podcast, but here’s a rough outline for you: Take [...]
The Biggest Lesson I Learned In 2011
In episode 14 of the STG podcast, I talked about the process I used to review the previous year and set goals for the new year. One part of that was reviewing the top 5 things I learned in the last year. I thought I’d take a minute and share the #1 item on that [...]
STG 014 : How To Plan For the New Year In Your Teaching Business
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In this episode of the Start Teaching Guitar podcast, I’ll explain how to plan for success in your teaching business for the New Year. It starts with setting aside some time to plan, then reviewing the previous year, and finally setting some goals for the coming year. I go into MUCH greater detail about each [...]
Stuck In a Rut? How To Move Forward With Your Teaching Business!
The new year is HERE and there are tons of ideas swimming around in your head about how you can make your teaching business more successful in 2012. Most of the time you know exactly what to do next; knowing what to do isn’t really the problem. The problem is often just taking action…taking that [...]
New Income Streams For Your Teaching Business – Part 2: Affiliate Links
There are more ways to make money as a guitar teacher than just collecting lesson tuition. Income from your guitar lessons will probably always be your primary source of revenue, but there are some other cool things you can do on the side that can bring in some passive income for you, increase awareness of [...]
STG 012 : The Secret to Getting Results and Staying Motivated (Part 2)
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In this episode of the Start Teaching Guitar podcast, I’ll get into more about my “secret formula” for being successful in your guitar teaching business and tell you how to apply it to your guitar students so they can be more motivated and get better results. This episode (part 2) is all about how to [...]
STG 011 : The Secret to Getting Results and Staying Motivated (Part 1)
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In this episode of the Start Teaching Guitar podcast, I’ll tell you my “secret formula” for being successful in your guitar teaching business and how using it will help you stay motivated and avoid getting burned out. This episode (part 1) is all about how to apply these principles to your teaching business. In part [...]
New Income Streams For Your Teaching Business – Part 1: Selling Merchandise
There are more ways to make money as a guitar teacher than just collecting lesson tuition. Income from your guitar lessons will probably always be your primary source of revenue, but there are some other cool things you can do on the side that can bring in some passive income for you, increase awareness of [...]





