Sometimes when you add MORE, you actually end up with LESS. Many times the best way to grow your guitar teaching business is through SUBTRACTION and not ADDITION. Adding more of the wrong features, products and services can actually decrease your effectiveness and hurt your student retention, and often the best way to reach […]
STG 065 : How Your Confidence Level Can Make Or Break Your Teaching Business
Your confidence level has a big impact on how successful you are with teaching guitar lessons. A high level of confidence will help you keep moving forward when times are tough, and a low level of confidence will make you feel like giving up. If you can keep your confidence level high, you have […]
STG 064: 15 Components of a Complete Guitar Player
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https://media.blubrry.com/startteachingguitar/content.blubrry.com/startteachingguitar/STG064.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download | EmbedSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | RSS What is a complete guitar player? There are a lot of different aspects to being a well-rounded musician. People debate this subject all the time. Is it all about how well you can play technical passages, or how well you understand […]
STG 062: 5 Ways Your Students Can Sabotage Their Guitar Lessons
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https://media.blubrry.com/startteachingguitar/content.blubrry.com/startteachingguitar/STG062.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download | EmbedSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | RSS Guitar students can choose to quit taking lessons with you for several different reasons. Sometimes it’s because of something you did or didn’t do as a teacher, sometimes it’s just because life gets in the way, and sometimes it’s because they do […]
STG 058: Riff Master Pro – Interview With Heath Nicholson
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STG 056: Teaching Guitar To Kids
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STG 054: Guitar Pedagogy Basics
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STG 050: 7 Things You Might Be Doing To Drive Your Guitar Students Away
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STG 049 : How To Have “More Than Enough” In Your Teaching Business
There are two different ways you can choose to view your guitar teaching business…and the world. You can look at things from a mindset of SCARCITY (where there’s never enough of ANYTHING) or from a mindset of ABUNDANCE (where you always have MORE THAN ENOUGH). The choice is up to you, and the mindset you […]
STG 038: Teaching Music Theory -vs- Teaching Songs
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