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 Daryl Tomas from Tamarac, Florida in […]
The Biggest Lesson I Learned In 2011
In episode 14 of the STG podcast (available to STG All-Access members), I talked about the process I used to review the previous year and set goals for the new year. One part of that was reviewing the top 5 things I learned in the last year. I thought I’d take a minute and share […]
Stuck In a Rut? How To Move Forward With Your Teaching Business!
The new year is HERE and there are tons of ideas swimming around in your head about how you can make your teaching business more successful in 2012. Most of the time you know exactly what to do next; knowing what to do isn’t really the problem. The problem is often just taking action…taking that […]
New Income Streams For Your Teaching Business – Part 2: Affiliate Links
There are more ways to make money as a guitar teacher than just collecting lesson tuition. Income from your guitar lessons will probably always be your primary source of revenue, but there are some other cool things you can do on the side that can bring in some passive income for you, increase awareness of […]
Guitar Teacher Interview 010 – Paul Andrews
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 Paul Andrews from Ashford, […]
Rocksmith – A Guitar Teacher’s Perspective
I’m sure you’ve heard about Rocksmith by now…it’s a new guitar-based video game similar to Guitar Hero and Rock Band, except for one important difference: you play it using a REAL GUITAR! Those other “guitar-based” games were all basically just “guitar karaoke”…they helped you develop rhythm and timing a little bit, but those toy guitars […]
New Income Streams For Your Teaching Business – Part 1: Selling Merchandise
There are more ways to make money as a guitar teacher than just collecting lesson tuition. Income from your guitar lessons will probably always be your primary source of revenue, but there are some other cool things you can do on the side that can bring in some passive income for you, increase awareness of […]
Replace Yourself and Grow Your Guitar Teaching Business
Did you ever wish you could CLONE yourself? Wouldn’t it be cool to be able to have more free time and less stress? There’s a little-known secret to off-loading many of the less-enjoyable aspects of teaching guitar for a living so that you can focus your TIME and ENERGY on the things that have the […]
How To Be A Guitar Teacher
There’s a lot of information on the web about how to play the guitar, but there’s not much good info out there about how to be a guitar teacher. This article will explain some of the basics about how to take your love of playing guitar and help you make some money from it through […]
Get More Students Using Local Search
Local search can be a huge boost to your marketing efforts as a guitar teacher. What is local search? I’ll explain it for you. Local search explained “Local search” is just like a regular Google or Yahoo search, except that the search results are “geographically restrained”. That simply means that if someone does a Google […]
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