The Start Teaching Guitar Podcast

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The Start Teaching Guitar Podcast

STG 066 : How To Increase Your Word of Mouth Referrals

Posted on May 16, 2013 by in Finding New Students, Podcasts

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 [...]

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STG 065 : How Your Confidence Level Can Make Or Break Your Teaching Business

Posted on May 9, 2013 by in Mindset For Success, Podcasts

Your confidence level has a big impact on how successful you are with teaching guitar lessons. A high level of confidence will help you keep moving forward when times are tough, and a low level of confidence will make you feel like giving up. If you can keep your confidence level high, you have a [...]

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STG 064: 15 Components of a Complete Guitar Player

Posted on May 2, 2013 by in Improving Your Teaching Skills, Podcasts

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What is a complete guitar player? There are a lot of different aspects to being a well-rounded musician. People debate this subject all the time. Is it all about how well you can play technical passages, or how well you understand theory or how many cool sounds you can wrangle out of your guitar? The [...]

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STG 063 : How Using A Budget Can Save Your Teaching Business From Total Destruction

Posted on April 25, 2013 by in Being A Business Owner, Podcasts

Hands down, the biggest reason why every kind of small business goes belly-up (including guitar teachers) is because of MONEY. Not staying on top of your income and expenses can get you into all kinds of trouble, including tax problems, not being able to pay your bills and not being able to keep your teaching [...]

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Guitar Teacher Interview 021 – Joshua C Liston

Posted on April 23, 2013 by in Guitar Teacher Interviews

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. This interview is with Joshua C Liston, a [...]

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Win a Free Copy of Guitar Pro 6 XL!

Posted on April 18, 2013 by in Uncategorized

April 2013 Giveaway Contest We’re giving away TWO copies of Guitar Pro 6 XL ($75.94 value) This contest is CLOSED! Congratulations to the winners: Kerry Holsinger Stephen Joseph Guitar Pro is a musical software program offering all of the functionalities that guitarists need. Create, edit, visualize, and share tabs and charts Learn to play or improve [...]

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STG 062: 5 Ways Your Students Can Sabotage Their Guitar Lessons

Posted on April 18, 2013 by in Improving Your Teaching Skills, Podcasts

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Guitar students can choose to quit taking lessons with you for several different reasons. Sometimes it’s because of something you did or didn’t do as a teacher, sometimes it’s just because life gets in the way, and sometimes it’s because they do it to themselves and mess things up. In this episode, I’ll get into [...]

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Guitar Teacher Interview 020 – Tim Woosley

Guitar Teacher Interview 020 – Tim Woosley

Posted on April 16, 2013 by in Guitar Teacher Interviews

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. This interview is with Tim Woosley, a guitar [...]

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STG 061 : How Your Personality Type Can Impact Your Guitar Lessons

Posted on April 11, 2013 by in Improving Your Teaching Skills, Podcasts

Do you ever wish you could understand why your students respond to your lessons the way they do? Maybe you’d love to know what strengths and weaknesses you bring to your guitar teaching business so you could get help with the things that could make you more successful? Understanding personality types and how they interact [...]

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STG 060: Time Management For Guitar Teachers – Interview With Kevin Toller

Posted on April 4, 2013 by in Guitar Teacher Interviews, Podcasts

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Are you so busy teaching guitar lessons that you don’t feel like you have time for the things that really matter? Or maybe you work a full-time day job and teach guitar on the side and it feels like you don’t have time for a real life. I’ve been there, too, and I learned that [...]

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