How To Get Your Former Guitar Students To Resume Lessons
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In this guitar teaching article...
I show you 5 easy ways to get your former guitar students to resume lessons with you.
Because, believe it or not...
Just because guitar students have stopped lessons with you does NOT mean:
- they stopped playing guitar
- they are angry about (or dislike) something you did
- they’d never be open to resuming guitar lessons with you again
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In fact, when you get your former guitar students to resume lessons...
Their renewed enthusiasm makes them more likely to continue taking lessons for a long time...
... upgrade to your higher lesson packages...
... and even refer students to you.
That’s why, if you’re serious about making money teaching guitar...
It’s vitally important to know how to get your former guitar students to resume lessons with you.
Here are 5 ways to do that:
Now, let’s go deeper into each of these guitar teaching strategies:
How To Get Your Former Guitar Students To Resume Lessons Tip #1: Keep An Email List Of Students Who Quit.
It’ll be very hard to get your former guitar students to resume lessons (and grow your guitar teaching business) without such a list.
So, whenever a guitar student stops lessons with you, make sure to write down:
- How long those guitar students have stayed with you.
- Their goals while they were a student.
- Stated reason(s) for why they quit.
- Unstated reason(s) that you suspect may have motivated them to quit. Yes, sometimes guitar students either flat out lie to your face about why they’re quitting... or they may not fully realize themselves what’s making them quit.
But you – the guitar teacher – should have more awareness of what your students are thinking and feeling (that is a skill you will develop the more you teach guitar).
How To Get Your Former Guitar Students To Resume Lessons Tip #2. Make It Clear To Students Who Are Quitting That They Are Welcome To Come Back At Any Time.
I once had a guitar student who went missing in action for 6 weeks. (He stopped logging into his account, practicing his guitar lessons or sending me recordings of his playing for feedback.)
When he finally resurfaced, he told me he was caring for his wife who was in the hospital for some time.
But the crazy thing was...
He finished his email by apologizing to me (his guitar teacher) for ‘letting me down’ as a student.
And right or not, rational or not, many guitar students feel just as ashamed when they quit guitar lessons.
So, if you want become more successful teaching guitar (and make it easy for yourself to get your former guitar students to resume lessons)...
... tell the students who are quitting that you enjoy teaching them and the door is always open for them to return in the future.
This helps those former students not to feel awkward about resuming lessons when the time is right.
How To Get Your Former Guitar Students To Resume Lessons Tip #3. Stay In Contact With Your Former Students.
One of the benefits of keeping a separate email list of guitar students who quit lessons with you...
... is that it makes it much easier to send them follow-up email campaigns to keep you, your guitar teaching business and the idea of taking guitar lessons with you on their mind.
Don’t be pushy about it, of course.
Just keep reminding them how much fun your other students are having...
Tell them you miss having them in you lessons...
And tell them you look forward to working with them again when they are ready.
Following up with your past students in this way is one of the best investments you can make into your guitar teaching business. And it helps you tremendously to get your former guitar students to resume lessons.
How To Get Your Former Guitar Students To Resume Lessons Tip #4. Come up With Irresistible Offers.
When your offers are good, they entice many of your former students to come back.
A few examples of good offers (that can help get your former guitar students to resume lessons) might include:
- a temporary discount on lesson tuition (with a deadline attached). This is great for getting many students who were thinking about restarting lessons ‘at some point’ to do so ‘now’.
- announce new improvements you’ve made to your guitar lessons (and the way you teach guitar). This gives a new reason for your guitar students to continue studying with you. If you want ideas for doing that, I can help with that in the Elite Guitar Teachers Inner Circle.
How To Get Your Former Guitar Students To Resume Lessons Tip #5. Consistently Improve Your Guitar Teaching Business And Level Up How You Teach Guitar.
Part of leveling up how you teach guitar is about improving your guitar teaching skills.
This is what guitar teacher training can help you with (in a huge way).
Here is a sample of what guitar teacher training looks like (this is an excerpt from a guitar teacher training event I run for guitar teachers from all over the world who want to improve how they teach guitar):
The key guitar teaching skill you have to get better at is: ‘training’.
Training is about guiding your guitar students through the process of practicing guitar in front of you.
The better you can do that, the faster your guitar students will improve and the less likely they’ll be to quit lessons due to feeling ‘behind’ and ‘overwhelmed’.
Here is what ‘training’ guitar students to practice looks like:
The more you train your guitar students, the less work you have to put into get your former guitar students to resume lessons.
Now that you know how to get your former guitar students to resume lessons, I want to show you more strategies (and tactics) for keeping your students a lot longer, so you can make more money teaching guitar. I show you how in my free eGuide: How To Keep Your Guitar Students Taking Lessons With You For Years Grab it today and discover the guitar teaching secrets most guitar teachers will never know.
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