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In this episode of the Start Teaching Guitar podcast, I’ll talk about the “job qualifications” for a successful guitar teacher and how to make sure you’re doing everything you need to do to get your students the best results. I go into MUCH greater detail about each item in the podcast, but here’s a rough [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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In this episode of the Start Teaching Guitar podcast, I’ll answer some frequently asked questions about teaching guitar. I’ll get into how to find health insurance when you’re a self-employed guitar teacher, how to structure your group lessons when you have a mix of acoustic and electric students, how to teach songwriting in your lessons, [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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In this episode of the Start Teaching Guitar podcast, I’ll be sharing the results of an informal poll I did with some guitar students on an online forum. I asked them one simple question: “If you’ve ever taken guitar lessons before, what do you wish you could have told your guitar teacher if you would [...]
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In this episode of the Start Teaching Guitar podcast, I’ll be talking about how starting or joining a mastermind group with other music teachers in your area can help you grow your guitar teaching business to a whole new level. The concept of a Mastermind group comes from the book “Think and Grow Rich” by [...]
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In this episode of the Start Teaching Guitar podcast, I’ll be talking about 10 traits of a successful guitar teacher. I covered the first 5 in the previous episode, and this time we’ll be talking about the last 5. If you can UNDERSTAND some of the things that make other teachers successful and APPLY those [...]
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In this episode of the Start Teaching Guitar podcast, I’ll be talking about 10 traits of a successful guitar teacher (well…the first 5 of them, anyway). A great way to be more successful as a guitar teacher is to take a look at what OTHER successful people are doing and learn from them. If you [...]
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In this episode of the Start Teaching Guitar podcast, we’ll be discussing how teaching group guitar lessons can take your business to a whole new level. Teaching your students in GROUPS offers HUGE advantages for both YOU and THEM over doing traditional private lessons. I go into MUCH greater detail about each item in the [...]
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In this episode of the Start Teaching Guitar podcast, we’ll be talking about how awesome an opt-in email list is, and how it can SUPERCHARGE your guitar teaching business! There’s no EASIER or BETTER way to attract new guitar students (other than the traditional “word-of-mouth” marketing that works automatically over time). Most of the guitar [...]
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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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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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