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STG 100: Milestones – 100 Episodes of Start Teaching Guitar

Posted on January 16, 2014 by in Being A Business Owner, Podcasts

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https://media.blubrry.com/startteachingguitar/content.blubrry.com/startteachingguitar/STG100.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download | EmbedSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | RSS This week is the 100th episode of the Start Teaching Guitar Podcast! In this “centennial” episode, I’m going to talk about the milestones we’ve hit together with STG and tell the story of how it all came together almost 3 years ago. […]

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STG 099 : 5 Marketing Mistakes That Drive Students Away

Posted on January 9, 2014 by in Finding New Students, Podcasts

A lot of guitar teachers work really hard on marketing themselves to attract new students, but they don’t see the results they hoped for. The phone doesn’t ring and their email inboxes are empty, so they start to think that marketing is just a waste of time and their businesses never become as successful as […]

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STG 098 : How To Be a One Stop Shop For Your Guitar Students

Posted on January 2, 2014 by in Being A Business Owner, Podcasts

When I was a kid we had a different shop to visit for everything we needed: we bought our groceries at one store, our clothing at another store, our light bulbs the local hardware store and our vehicle tires at the local tire store. Then I remember when Wal-Mart opened a store in our little town […]

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STG 097 : How To Use An Amazing Guarantee To Grow Your Teaching Studio

Posted on December 26, 2013 by in Finding New Students, Podcasts

Did you know that one of the best ways to grow your teaching studio is to offer a guarantee? Guarantees take away the risk of trying guitar lessons with you and provide a higher level of comfort for your potential students, but they can also be a tool to dramatically increase your student acquisition, your […]

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STG 096: 7 Secrets of Student Retention

Posted on December 19, 2013 by in Being A Business Owner, Podcasts

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https://media.blubrry.com/startteachingguitar/content.blubrry.com/startteachingguitar/STG096.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download | EmbedSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | RSS A lot of guitar teachers struggle to grow their businesses because they lose students as fast as they come in…it’s like trying to bail water out of a sinking ship, and they never seem to be able to get ahead. The solution […]

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STG 095 : Overview of the 4 Main Music Instruction Methods – Part 2

Posted on December 12, 2013 by in Improving Your Teaching Skills, Podcasts

Most guitar teachers just teach “freestyle” and don’t use any kind of formal method with their students, but there’s a lot we can learn by looking at formal music education methods and adapting some of their more effective principles to what we already do as guitar teachers. There are 4 primary formal music education methods […]

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STG 094 : Overview of the 4 Main Music Instruction Methods – Part 1

Posted on November 28, 2013 by in Improving Your Teaching Skills, Podcasts

Most guitar teachers just teach “freestyle” and don’t use any kind of formal method with their students, but there’s a lot we can learn by looking at formal music education methods and adapting some of their more effective principles to what we already do as guitar teachers. There are 4 primary formal music education methods […]

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STG 093 : Protecting Your Students From Hand Injury

Posted on November 21, 2013 by in Improving Your Teaching Skills, Podcasts

One of the lesser talked-about aspects of playing the guitar is protecting yourself from repetitive strain injuries in your hands and wrists. There’s nothing more disheartening than spending years of your life mastering an instrument like the guitar and then finding out you may have to give it up completely because you never took care […]

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STG 092: 12 Online Productivity Tools For Guitar Teachers

Posted on November 14, 2013 by in Being A Business Owner, Podcasts

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https://media.blubrry.com/startteachingguitar/content.blubrry.com/startteachingguitar/STG092.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download | EmbedSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | RSS Today’s high-tech world has it’s ups and downs, but it’s a great time to be alive and teaching guitar lessons. There are more inexpensive tools available today to help you run a successful teaching studio than there have ever been in the history […]

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STG 091 : How To Resolve Conflicts With Your Guitar Students

Posted on November 7, 2013 by in Being A Business Owner, Podcasts

Experiencing conflict with one of your students is pretty rare, but it definitely happens. When it comes to resolving conflict with difficult guitar students, an ounce or prevention is worth a pound of cure: it’s a LOT easier to use good student retention practices to prevent problems from ever happening than to try and do […]

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