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, [...]
Guitar Teacher Interview 008 – Liam Cain
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 Liam Cain, a full-time [...]
The Secret To Teaching Fearless Guitar Lessons
Is fear keeping you from taking the plunge and starting your guitar teaching business, or from doing something BOLD to take it to the next level? This is a subject I happen to know a lot about. If I had to pick one overriding emotion that tries to dominate my life on a daily basis, [...]
How To Be A Guitar Teacher
There’s a lot of information on the web about how to play the guitar, but there’s not much good info out there about how to be a guitar teacher. This article will explain some of the basics about how to take your love of playing guitar and help you make some money from it through [...]
STG 005 : Using An Email List To Grow Your Teaching Business While You Sleep
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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 [...]
Free eBook: Teaching Guitar The SMART Way
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STG 004 : Designing Lesson Policies That Work
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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 [...]
STG 003 : 7 Easy Steps To Creating A Website That Attracts New Students
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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 [...]
New Guest Post Published on GuitarNoize.com
Hey everybody! I just wanted to let you know that I wrote an article for GuitarNoize.com called “Teaching Guitar – Your Ticket To Doing Music Full-Time” and it was just published today. I want to encourage all of you to head over to GuitarNoize.com and check the article out, and maybe even leave some comments…here’s [...]
STG 002 : How To Attract New Guitar Students
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In this episode of the Start Teaching Guitar podcast, we’ll be covering how to attract more guitar students. Marketing is one of the most important parts of having a successful business of any kind, so we’ll cover some of the basics and talk about several ideas you can use today to start finding more students. [...]
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