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 [...]
STG 060: Time Management For Guitar Teachers – Interview With Kevin Toller
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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 [...]
STG 059 : The 80/20 Principle of Teaching Guitar
The 80/20 principle applies to many aspects of teaching guitar lessons, and it can really help you be more successful as a teacher, as a musician and in your life. By focusing on the 20% of your efforts that bring you 80% of your results, you can maximize the level of success you see in [...]
STG 056: Teaching Guitar To Kids
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Have you ever pulled your hair out trying to teach an 8-year-old how to play an open C chord? Some guitar teachers think teaching younger kids is the least desirable way to make a living, but that’s only true if you don’t understand the special way you have to approach teaching this unique group of [...]
STG 054: Guitar Pedagogy Basics
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In this episode, I’m going to be talking about guitar pedagogy…what it is, what it can do for your teaching business and why you should care. Pedagogy is one of those areas that most guitar teachers aren’t really familiar with and don’t think about much, but understanding it is a big key to being successful [...]
STG 050: 7 Things You Might Be Doing To Drive Your Guitar Students Away
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Are you losing guitar students on a regular basis, but you don’t really know why? There’s a good chance you might be doing something to drive your students away! In this episode, I’ll get into 7 different ways guitar teachers can unknowingly make their students want to leave, and what you can do to keep [...]
STG 046: 7 Ways You Can Succeed as a Guitar Teacher In the New Year
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The new year is already here, and it’s the PERFECT time to re-evaluate your teaching business and focus on a few areas that can bring you some strategic growth. In this episode I’ll give you 7 specific areas you can focus on to grow your teaching business and be more successful in the coming new [...]
STG 045 : How To Write A One-Page Business Plan That Will Grow Your Teaching Business
Failing to PLAN is really planning to FAIL! Instead of letting your students and the economy take your business where you DON’T want it to go, a simple one-page business plan can change your future and put things in your favor. In this episode, I’ll give you a FAST, EASY and SIMPLE technique for creating [...]
STG 044: 7 Tips To Help Your Students Practice More Effectively
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Practicing effectively is the SECRET to becoming a better guitar player. If your students don’t practice, they won’t IMPROVE…and they probably won’t STAY with you for very long. If you want to succeed as a guitar teacher, you have to teach your students how to practice effectively. In this episode, I’ll give you 7 tips [...]
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 [...]
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