To take your guitar teaching business to the highest level, you have to know:
* The best methods to use for developing your teaching business and helping your students become great musicians.
*How to follow these methods in the easiest and most efficient way possible.
*The right order you need to do things in, so you can grow your business quickly.
A lot of guitar teachers complete steps in the wrong order (or take steps they shouldn't be taking in the first place) out of fear, insecurity or because they put things off. Fear often causes people to make mistakes when trying to execute strategies and make it difficult to teach guitar students properly. These mistakes also make it difficult to earn good money with a guitar teaching business.
Mistake #1. Waiting Too Long To Begin Teaching Guitar
Most beginner guitar teachers don't think they are good enough to teach. They work a regular day job and put off achieving their musical goals for years until finally their dreams simply fade away.
Reality: You don't need incredible musical talent to get started teaching guitar. You only need these three things:
1. You have to be able to play guitar better than those who you are trying to instruct. This means you can still teach beginning guitarist or intermediate guitarists if you haven't become advanced yet.
2. You get joy from teaching others and helping them become better musicians.
3. A passion for building a successful guitar teaching business.
Mistake #2: Having Fear When It Comes To Self-Promotion
A lot of new guitar teachers are afraid that they aren't good enough teachers to promote themselves. They think, "As soon as I become a better teacher, I'll start promoting myself a lot more".
This is a totally wrong way of thinking. Here is why:
Think about it. Will you get more teaching experience by teaching only a handful of students or by teaching one hundred students? The answer here may be apparent, but the reasons behind it are less obvious. You get more experience working with more students, but not just because you work with more people.
Here are the real reasons:
1. All guitar students are unique. They have a variety of musical goals, frustrations, motivations, personalities and lifestyles. The quicker you can work with all the different types of students, the quicker you will improve as a guitar teacher. If you only work with a few students, you'll eventually develop blind spots in your teaching approach. These blind spots take away from the results you could be giving to your students.
2. When you have more students, you are forced to improve in other business aspects of your guitar teaching. These elements help you to scale your business, so you can get more students and teach them more efficiently.
Mistake #3. Not Teaching Group Classes
Teaching group classes rather than one on one private lessons helps your students become better players fast. You also make a lot more money using this format.
What you should do now: Place your students into group classes now and find out how to teach them in this format in order to give them the best results.
Mistake #4: Not Charging What You Are Worth
The majority of guitar teachers think this: "I'll begin by teaching lessons for free/cheap. Once I gain experience, I'll charge more."
This is a very bad approach. Here is why:
Cheap rates often go hand in hand with justifying poor guitar teaching. Your students expect mediocrity from you (because lessons are so cheap). This takes away the urgency you have to become a better guitar teacher. The result: Your guitar students don't get the value you could be giving to them. You don't earn as much money as you should be earning.
Mistake #5. Putting Off Guitar Teacher Training
Many guitar teachers never seek out training because:
1. They aren't even aware that you can get trained to become a better guitar teacher.
2. They are not passionate about improving their teaching skills to begin with.
Getting trained to become a better guitar teacher is an excellent investment for your guitar teaching business (it's not just an random expense). Being trained will help you earn much more money than you would on your own.
This is how:
*You get trained on how to use effective promotional strategies so you can attract a lot of students.
*You get a valuable credential that no one else teaching in your local area has. This helps you convert potential students into paying students.
*You learn how to help students become great guitarists in no time. This helps you get even more students through referrals because of your positive local reputation.
Note: You may be aware that I train guitar teachers around the world. So this may lead you to believe that this article is written only for the purpose of attracting you to join my guitar teacher training program. If this is what you think, you only have 50% of it right. Yes, I want to help guitar teachers such as yourself become excellent teachers and build successful businesses. However, the benefits of guitar teacher training are the same whether you work with me or not.
Mistake #6. Not Thinking in the Long Term
A lot of guitar teachers do not think of long term growth when it comes to their teaching businesses. Their main focus is trying to get new students for the next couple of months.
This kind of thinking is satisfactory if you only want to earn a little money, teach a handful of students and work a lot more than necessary. Building a very successful business (teaching over 200 students, working less than full time hours) cannot be achieved in this manner.
Focus on building your guitar teaching business by keeping the end in mind. Determine how you want your business to look in five years' time.
Next, break down your long term goals into smaller actionable steps. Work backwards from the place you want to be to where you are at this moment. This is the best way to determine what you must do next while staying congruent with your ultimate goals. This removes all the trial-by-error from your business. It also keeps you from becoming burned out.
Mistake #7. Fixing Your Guitar Students' Issues In The Wrong Order
To help your students accomplish their goals, you need to guide them past many challenges. It is very important to focus on the order in which you do this. They will lose confidence and motivation if you try to solve their biggest problem right away. They will start to feel overwhelmed by everything they haven't learned yet. As a result, many will stop taking lessons.
Solve the easier problems in the beginning. This not only improves your students' confidence, but it makes guitar lessons more fun and build their trust in you.
* The best methods to use for developing your teaching business and helping your students become great musicians.
*How to follow these methods in the easiest and most efficient way possible.
*The right order you need to do things in, so you can grow your business quickly.
A lot of guitar teachers complete steps in the wrong order (or take steps they shouldn't be taking in the first place) out of fear, insecurity or because they put things off. Fear often causes people to make mistakes when trying to execute strategies and make it difficult to teach guitar students properly. These mistakes also make it difficult to earn good money with a guitar teaching business.
Mistake #1. Waiting Too Long To Begin Teaching Guitar
Most beginner guitar teachers don't think they are good enough to teach. They work a regular day job and put off achieving their musical goals for years until finally their dreams simply fade away.
Reality: You don't need incredible musical talent to get started teaching guitar. You only need these three things:
1. You have to be able to play guitar better than those who you are trying to instruct. This means you can still teach beginning guitarist or intermediate guitarists if you haven't become advanced yet.
2. You get joy from teaching others and helping them become better musicians.
3. A passion for building a successful guitar teaching business.
Mistake #2: Having Fear When It Comes To Self-Promotion
A lot of new guitar teachers are afraid that they aren't good enough teachers to promote themselves. They think, "As soon as I become a better teacher, I'll start promoting myself a lot more".
This is a totally wrong way of thinking. Here is why:
Think about it. Will you get more teaching experience by teaching only a handful of students or by teaching one hundred students? The answer here may be apparent, but the reasons behind it are less obvious. You get more experience working with more students, but not just because you work with more people.
Here are the real reasons:
1. All guitar students are unique. They have a variety of musical goals, frustrations, motivations, personalities and lifestyles. The quicker you can work with all the different types of students, the quicker you will improve as a guitar teacher. If you only work with a few students, you'll eventually develop blind spots in your teaching approach. These blind spots take away from the results you could be giving to your students.
2. When you have more students, you are forced to improve in other business aspects of your guitar teaching. These elements help you to scale your business, so you can get more students and teach them more efficiently.
Mistake #3. Not Teaching Group Classes
Teaching group classes rather than one on one private lessons helps your students become better players fast. You also make a lot more money using this format.
What you should do now: Place your students into group classes now and find out how to teach them in this format in order to give them the best results.
Mistake #4: Not Charging What You Are Worth
The majority of guitar teachers think this: "I'll begin by teaching lessons for free/cheap. Once I gain experience, I'll charge more."
This is a very bad approach. Here is why:
Cheap rates often go hand in hand with justifying poor guitar teaching. Your students expect mediocrity from you (because lessons are so cheap). This takes away the urgency you have to become a better guitar teacher. The result: Your guitar students don't get the value you could be giving to them. You don't earn as much money as you should be earning.
Mistake #5. Putting Off Guitar Teacher Training
Many guitar teachers never seek out training because:
1. They aren't even aware that you can get trained to become a better guitar teacher.
2. They are not passionate about improving their teaching skills to begin with.
Getting trained to become a better guitar teacher is an excellent investment for your guitar teaching business (it's not just an random expense). Being trained will help you earn much more money than you would on your own.
This is how:
*You get trained on how to use effective promotional strategies so you can attract a lot of students.
*You get a valuable credential that no one else teaching in your local area has. This helps you convert potential students into paying students.
*You learn how to help students become great guitarists in no time. This helps you get even more students through referrals because of your positive local reputation.
Note: You may be aware that I train guitar teachers around the world. So this may lead you to believe that this article is written only for the purpose of attracting you to join my guitar teacher training program. If this is what you think, you only have 50% of it right. Yes, I want to help guitar teachers such as yourself become excellent teachers and build successful businesses. However, the benefits of guitar teacher training are the same whether you work with me or not.
Mistake #6. Not Thinking in the Long Term
A lot of guitar teachers do not think of long term growth when it comes to their teaching businesses. Their main focus is trying to get new students for the next couple of months.
This kind of thinking is satisfactory if you only want to earn a little money, teach a handful of students and work a lot more than necessary. Building a very successful business (teaching over 200 students, working less than full time hours) cannot be achieved in this manner.
Focus on building your guitar teaching business by keeping the end in mind. Determine how you want your business to look in five years' time.
Next, break down your long term goals into smaller actionable steps. Work backwards from the place you want to be to where you are at this moment. This is the best way to determine what you must do next while staying congruent with your ultimate goals. This removes all the trial-by-error from your business. It also keeps you from becoming burned out.
Mistake #7. Fixing Your Guitar Students' Issues In The Wrong Order
To help your students accomplish their goals, you need to guide them past many challenges. It is very important to focus on the order in which you do this. They will lose confidence and motivation if you try to solve their biggest problem right away. They will start to feel overwhelmed by everything they haven't learned yet. As a result, many will stop taking lessons.
Solve the easier problems in the beginning. This not only improves your students' confidence, but it makes guitar lessons more fun and build their trust in you.
About The Author:
Tom Hess is a successful professional guitar teacher, composer and guitarist. He also trains guitar teachers how to improve their guitar teaching methods. Visit his website, tomhess.net to read more articles about guitar teaching, get free guitar teacher skill assessments and guitar teaching tips.
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