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Success Lives On The Other Side Of Frustration

Have you ever felt frustrated with the progress you’re making in your teaching business, or with any other area of your life? I feel frustrated in more areas of my life than I would care to admit, but I learned a few things about frustration that have really changed my perspective. Have you ever thought […]

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STG News Desk – 06-12-2012

Interesting News and Articles for Guitar Teachers From Across the Web…   Here’s a great article on practicing from The Bullet Proof Musician blog – http://www.bulletproofmusician.com/how-many-hours-a-day-should-you-practice/ Here’s a little HUMOR for you…if you’ve never checked out Guitar Fail, you don’t know what you’re missing! Once in a while a post is somewhat inappropriate, but they […]

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Guitar Teacher Interview 016 – Justin Horenstein

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 Justin Horenstein, from the […]

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The Cheap Guitar Teacher’s Guide To Online Teaching Directories

Advertising your teaching business to attract more students can be an expensive and sometimes overwhelming proposition, but it doesn’t HAVE to be. Thanks to the ever-growing Internet, there are tons of low-cost and even NO COST ways to “hang up your shingle” as a guitar teacher and let people know about the services you have […]

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STG News Desk – 05-29-2012

Interesting News and Articles for Guitar Teachers From Across the Web…   Here’s a cool new “fretlight”-style guitar that connects to your iPhone and teaches you how to play – http://techcrunch.com/2012/05/21/incident-gtar-iphone-teaching-guitar/ Check it out…Paul Gilbert just opened his own online guitar school – http://www.premierguitar.com/Magazine/Issue/Daily/News/Paul_Gilbert_Launches_Online_Guitar_School.aspx From Music Teacher’s Helper: Five Tips For Teaching Rhythm – http://www.musicteachershelper.com/blog/five-tips-for-teaching-rhythm/ […]

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STG News Desk – 05-01-2012

Interesting News and Articles for Guitar Teachers From Across the Web…   From MusicTeachersHelper.com: Cool idea about how to get 10 new students in two hours – http://www.musicteachershelper.com/blog/working-together-to-grow-our-music-business/ How to have an UNSUCCESSFUL career teaching guitar – http://thelaughingbard.com/how-to-have-an-unsuccessful-career-teaching-guitar/ From GuitarNoise.com: Ten Ways for Beginner Guitar Players to Improve In a Hurry – http://www.guitarnoise.com/lesson/ten-ways-for-beginner-guitar-players-to-improve/ Five Ways […]

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Guitar Teacher Interview 015 – Kyle Ohlenkamp

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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5 Things You MUST Do After You Get a New Student

Student retention is something not enough guitar teachers pay attention to. It’s easy to get so focused on getting new students to come in through the FRONT DOOR (through marketing and advertising) that you forget to make it harder for them to leave through the BACK DOOR. If you don’t focus on BOTH the front […]

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STG News Desk – 04-17-2012

Interesting News and Articles for Guitar Teachers From Across the Web…   From UltimateGuitar.com: “What Skills Will Improve Your Guitar Playing Faster” – http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/columns/general_music/what_skills_will_improve_your_guitar_playing_faster.html Are you “stopping at the green lights” in your teaching business? This is a good article to help motivate you to action – http://www.jmlalonde.com/stop-stopping-at-green-lights/ From MusicTeachersHelper.com: “Personality Tests and Teaching” – […]

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10 Online Resources To Help You Grow Your Teaching Business

The Internet is an amazing tool to help you start and grow your own teaching business…being “online” gives you access to resources that guitar teachers 20 years ago could have only dreamed about. Everything from tools to help you schedule your lesson appointments easier to tools that allow you to get paid more efficiently (and […]

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