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In this episode, I’ll talk about some emerging trends in the world around us and how some of them can affect you as a guitar teacher. We’re no longer in the Industrial Age, but lots of hold-overs from the old way of doing things can still hang around in the way we teach and run [...]
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 Kyle Ohlenkamp, from Minnetonka, [...]
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In this episode of the Start Teaching Guitar podcast, I’ll talk about some of the common excuses we tend to make for not taking action in our teaching businesses. The biggest reason guitar teachers FAIL is because they don’t take the bold, positive actions that can bring the success they’re looking for. I’m going to [...]
You may not be a big fan of Taylor Swift, but my daughter first introduced me to her music 3 or 4 years ago. She’s a really gifted songwriter, and I have to confess that this middle-aged “rocker dude” can occasionally be found with a Taylor Swift song or two playing on his iPod. She’s [...]
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In this episode of the Start Teaching Guitar podcast, I’ll talk about some of the common excuses we tend to make for not taking action in our teaching businesses. The biggest reason guitar teachers FAIL is because they don’t take the bold, positive actions that can bring the success they’re looking for. I’m going to [...]
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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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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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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Donnie Schexnayder: Thanks, Kyle...yep, it\'s definitely possible!...
Kyle: Donnie,
After listening to this podcast and hav...
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I teach full time 75 st...
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