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, […]
STG 096: 7 Secrets of Student Retention
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STG 093 : Protecting Your Students From Hand Injury
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 […]
STG 091 : How To Resolve Conflicts With Your Guitar Students
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 […]
STG 090 : Dealing With Overcommitted Guitar Students
Overcommitted students are common in almost every teaching studio, but you don’t have to let that become a problem for you. If you can understand what life is like for the families of these students and adapt the way you do business to make things EASIER for them, you can take good care of […]
STG 089 : Teaching Is Really Managing
Teaching your guitar students and managing employees have some pretty striking similarities. By taking a closer look at some of the skills you need to be a good manager, you can improve the way you teach guitar lessons, have better student retention and help your guitar students get better results on the instrument. In […]
STG 079 : How To Stop Losing Students In The Summer
Many guitar teachers have trouble with losing students during the summer months, but that doesn’t have to be a problem for YOU. Re-thinking the way you offer your guitar lessons and educating your students and their parents about the value of summer lessons can actually help you be MORE PROFITABLE during this traditionally slow […]
Guest Article – 5 Things Every Guitar Teacher Should Know
5 Things Every Guitar Teacher Should Know, Guitar Coach Magazine If you have aspirations to become a guitar teacher, but are not quite clear as to how to approach the subject, then you are not alone. There are many points to consider and it isn’t as easy as some may be led to believe. […]
STG 070 : 3 Simple Sales Techniques To Improve Your Teaching Profits
Wouldn’t it be cool to improve the profitability of your teaching studio and make more money without having to attract a single new student or do any additional advertising? Using these 3 simple, easy-to-implement sales techniques you can earn more income from the students you ALREADY TEACH by providing extra services that can add […]
STG 069 : Are Your Communication Skills Hurting Your Student Retention?
According to George Bernard Shaw, the single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place. Just because you’re TALKING, that doesn’t necessarily mean your students are LEARNING. If you spend a little bit of time working on your communication skills, it can pay you back with better student retention and […]
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