How To Be The Best Guitar Teacher In Your Area
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If you have even the teeniest amount of interest in teaching guitar...
Making money as a guitar teacher...
And helping guitar players in your area play better…
You clicked on the right page.
Because in this article...
I show you how to become the best guitar teacher in your area, even if:
- you're still new to teaching guitar (and don't have much guitar teaching experience)
- you have a lot of guitar teaching competition in your local area
- (it seems like) guitar players in your area don't have a lot of money.
Best part?
It's not as difficult as you probably imagine.
Simply follow the steps I lay out below consistently and you'll be on track to reach a level of guitar teaching success most teachers only dream about.
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Here are 5 specific areas of your guitar teaching business to focus on that will make you stand out among other guitar teachers in your area:
Now, let's go deeper into each one:
Tip #1 For Becoming The Best Guitar Teacher In Your Area: Get Training On How To Teach Guitar.
Most guitar teachers get zero training on how to teach guitar. Their process of "learning how to teach" starts and ends by watching what other guitar teachers do and copying them.
But you can hardly expect this process to make you the best guitar teacher in your area, can you?
Guitar teacher training means learning how to teach guitar from someone whose entire job is to give you the guitar teaching skills you need to turn students into great players.
Here is what guitar teacher training looks like:
When you’re one of the few teachers who invests in guitar teacher training, your students will improve faster and make you look like a rock star guitar teacher.
Tip #2 For Becoming The Best Guitar Teacher In Your Area: Get More Guitar Students.
The more students you have, the more practice you get with helping different types of people and solving different types of musical problems. This experience correlates with your teaching skill much more than the number of years you’ve been teaching.
How do you get more guitar students?
The simple answer is: advertise nonstop… especially during the (slow) summer months and economic downturns.
Why?
Because many guitar teachers go out of business during recessions (and take breaks from teaching guitar or marketing during the summer months).
This is a golden opportunity for you.
Because there are still guitar students looking for lessons in any economy (as well as during the summer months).
So, advertising when other guitar teachers aren't is a great opportunity to grab guitar teaching market share, "lock up" your area and make it harder for anyone else to compete with you.
Pro tip: as you create your flyers and guitar teaching ads, avoid these 4 common mistakes guitar teachers often make.
Tip #3 For Becoming The Best Guitar Teacher In Your Area: Teach Guitar In Groups.
Teaching in groups enables you to teach (and help) more guitar players. Plus, group guitar teaching gives your students unique benefits that 1-1 guitar lessons do not.
Oh, sure, group classes give students less individual attention than 1-1 lessons do. But my response to that is: guitar students aren't paying you for 1-1 attention.
Your guitar students are paying you to help them get a result (of becoming a better guitar player). And a big part of that result is developing self-reliance that allows them to practice correctly on their own (when you're not teaching guitar to them).
After you teach your students something, they need the space to practice it, struggle with it and even make some mistakes before you give them back on track.
They don't develop this self-reliance in 1-1 lessons. But in groups – where you rotate your attention between your other guitar students – they do.
Tip #4 For Becoming The Best Guitar Teacher In Your Area: Train Your Guitar Students More Than You Teach
Training your guitar students (watching them practice during their lesson and correcting their practice habits in real time) makes them improve much faster than they would if they only practiced on their own.
This grows your reputation as the go-to guitar teacher in your area.
Incidentally, training is one of the things that group lessons make very easy to do.
1-1 guitar teaching, on the other hand, makes it very easy to feel like they're falling behind from all the content you're giving them to practice.
When this happens, your guitar students will often want to stop ("pause") lessons to "catch up".
This hurts their progress (since very few continue to seriously practice after they stop lessons)… and makes it harder for you to earn money teaching guitar, much less - be seen as the best guitar teacher in your area.
Tip #5 For Becoming The Best Guitar Teacher In Your Area: Keep Your Students Longer.
The longer your guitar students study with you, the more goals you can help them reach. This turns them into much better players than the students of guitar teachers who struggle with student retention.
Teaching guitar to students in groups and getting good at training (as I described above) will go a long way towards keeping your students longer.
Beyond that, ask yourself this question:
"What would my guitar students have to think, believe and feel in order to keep taking lessons from me for years?"
Get a pen and paper and make a list of those things. Then implement them one by one as you teach guitar.
Your guitar students (and your bank account) will thank you.
Now that you know what it takes to become the best guitar teacher in your area, I want to show you how to get guitar students to start lessons right away, instead of going home to "think about it". I show you how in my free eGuide This Will Get You A Lot More Guitar Students. Download it today and discover the guitar teaching secrets most guitar teachers will never know.
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