Word of mouth referrals are the easiest, most effective and most productive way to attract new guitar students, and they usually bring in the highest quality students, too. If you haven’t started mobilizing your existing students and using them to do your advertising and recruiting for you through word-of-mouth referrals, you’re not making as much [...]
STG 057 : How To Track Leads And Convert Them Into Guitar Students
Have you ever been so busy with teaching guitar lessons and keeping your business running that you forgot to call back someone who was interested in becoming your student? It’s a common problem once your teaching business starts to get some traction, but you don’t have to lose new students just because you can’t keep [...]
STG 055 : How To Use Online Classified Ads To Attract More Guitar Students
In this episode, I’ll be covering how to use online classified ads to advertise your teaching business more effectively and attract new guitar students. Classified ads may not be the biggest avenue for new students, but it’s an advantageous one to check into because they are easy to set up and don’t cost you any [...]
STG 051 : How To Optimize Your Sales Funnel To Attract More Guitar Students
Is the process of attracting new guitar students and generating referrals baffling to you? Maybe it’s because you don’t have a high-level understanding of how marketing works in your teaching business. This episode will explain exactly how! I’ll get into the 6 stages your STUDENTS go through as they become customers in your teaching business, [...]
STG 047 : How To Attract The RIGHT Guitar Students
When it comes to attracting new guitar students, QUALITY is more important than QUANTITY. It’s pretty easy to get a bunch of new students through advertising, but many times the students you GET are not the students you WANT. In this episode, I’ll explain why you need to focus on teaching the RIGHT students, and [...]
STG 040: 10 Characteristics of a Perfect Guitar Student
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In this episode we’re going to turn things around and focus on what makes a guitar STUDENT good and successful. This is valuable information you can use to ATTRACT the perfect students for your teaching business, TRAIN the students you already have to make them more ideal and APPRECIATE the students you have that really [...]
STG 039 : How To Improve Your Search Engine Ranking With Google Plus
The website you use for teaching guitar only helps you if prospective students can actually FIND it…and ranking highly in the search engines is the way to make that happen. In this episode, I’ll tell you all about how using a Google Plus social media account can help you improve the search engine rankings for [...]
STG 027 : How To Use Niche Marketing To Succeed As a Guitar Teacher
In this episode, I’ll tell you all about niche marketing and how it can benefit you as a guitar teacher. Niche marketing (as opposed to MASS marketing) is a great way to differentiate yourself in a crowded area with lots of other guitar teachers, and it can actually help you attract MORE students and be [...]
The Cheap Guitar Teacher’s Guide To Online Teaching Directories
Advertising your teaching business to attract more students can be an expensive and sometimes overwhelming proposition, but it doesn’t HAVE to be. Thanks to the ever-growing Internet, there are tons of low-cost and even NO COST ways to “hang up your shingle” as a guitar teacher and let people know about the services you have [...]
Rocksmith – A Guitar Teacher’s Perspective
I’m sure you’ve heard about Rocksmith by now…it’s a new guitar-based video game similar to Guitar Hero and Rock Band, except for one important difference: you play it using a REAL GUITAR! Those other “guitar-based” games were all basically just “guitar karaoke”…they helped you develop rhythm and timing a little bit, but those toy guitars [...]
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Rocksmith – A Guitar Teacher’s Perspective
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STG 066 : How To Increase Your Word of Mouth Referrals
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STG 065 : How Your Confidence Level Can Make Or Break Your Teaching Business
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STG 064: 15 Components of a Complete Guitar Player
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STG 063 : How Using A Budget Can Save Your Teaching Business From Total Destruction
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