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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 […]
Are you tired of spinning your wheels trying to grow your teaching studio, feeling like you’re going nowhere? Trying to grow a business on your own can be one of the loneliest and most frustrating experiences ever. The good news is that you don’t have to try to build your studio on your own; […]
Have you ever made a decision and then lived to regret it later? Decision making is one of those few business tasks you can’t really delegate to anybody else. As an entrepreneur guitar teacher, the buck stops with YOU! Your business will succeed or fail based on the decisions you make, so it makes […]
Reading guitar blogs is a great way to keep a “growing edge” on your skills as a guitar teacher. Good blogs will keep you updated on the latest guitar-related developments, give you excellent articles and information you can forward on to your students and provide you with a steady source of new (and FREE) […]
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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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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STG 140: G4 Guitar Network – Interview With David Hart
STG 139: How To Start Teaching Guitar On A Shoestring Budget
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STG 136: Beginning Guitar Teacher Questions Answered
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