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STG 140: G4 Guitar Network – Interview With David Hart

 

  https://media.blubrry.com/startteachingguitar/content.blubrry.com/startteachingguitar/STG140.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download | EmbedSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | RSS David Hart has become a friend of mine in recent months, and we meet together via Skype on a regular basis. David has been teaching guitar in Australia since the early 1990’s and he grew a large music school with multiple […]

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STG 134: Busting Some Common Myths About Teaching Guitar – Part 3

 

  There are lots of myths floating around out there about teaching guitar lessons. They sound logical, so most people who’ve never experienced anything different just accept them at face value and operate their teaching studios accordingly. The problem is that when you operate based on wrong information, the results you produce are usually messed […]

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STG 119: How To Open Your Own Music Store

 

  There are several ways to add additional income streams to your teaching studio, but one of the most interesting ways is to open your own music store on a small scale and resell musical instruments, teaching materials and guitar accessories to your students. If your business is well-enough established, your guitar students can be […]

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STG 111 : Why Prospects Don’t Become Guitar Students (And What To Do About It)

 

  Have you ever had potential students get really close to signing up for guitar lessons, and then have them back out? There’s a business concept called “friction” that can make it harder for people to choose to do business with you, and if you don’t understand what’s going on, it can be baffling as […]

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STG 107 : 2014 Guitar Teacher Survey Results

 

  Are you wondering how much other guitar teachers are charging for their lessons? Wondering how many students other teachers are actually teaching? How about how much money real teachers are making from their teaching studios? The results of the 2014 Guitar Teacher Survey are in, and this episode will have all the details. I’ll go […]

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STG 031 : How Competition Can HELP Your Teaching Business

In this episode of the STG podcast, I’ll be talking about how COMPETITION can actually HELP your teaching business. Most people have the WRONG IDEA about competition! They think every other guitar teacher in town is a THREAT, and that the only way to succeed is to DOMINATE everybody else. This is based on LIMITED, […]

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