One Big Reason Why Your Guitar Teaching Business Isn’t Growing

by Tom Hess

Nothing is more frustrating than working full-time in your guitar teaching business while never seeming to make more money or grow. 

This common problem causes many teachers to quit teaching guitar and return to working normal jobs... 

Learning the solution to this guitar teaching problem not only keeps you from suffering the same fate, but it makes you more likely to become the TOP earning guitar teacher around.

Here is what to do:

Begin focusing more time working ON your guitar teaching business rather than only working IN it. This means don't get lost in only working on everyday guitar teaching tasks like creating lesson materials, writing out tab, etc. 

These are important, but only about dealing with the immediate future. Successful guitar teaching businesses also focus on the long-term future.

Sit down and think about the different aspects of your guitar teaching business that you can grow to expand and help more students. 

For example: advertising/marketing, retaining students longer, increasing word-of-mouth, teaching more effectively, using a variety of formats when you teach guitar, upgrading the equipment you use to teach guitar, etc. 

Write down specific guitar teaching goals for what you want to achieve in each area by a certain date. 

Then, work on all areas at once by improving them a little at a time as you are teaching guitar. 

By improving all aspects of your teaching business at once, you make MASSIVE growth (compared to just improving one area a lot and neglecting the others). 

This quickly takes your teaching business to a new level, helping you get more students, earn more money and transform the musical lives of the people you teach guitar to.

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Another key aspect of becoming successful teaching guitar is...

Working on your teaching skills.

This means getting better at solving your guitar students’ problems, helping them develop better skills as players and helping them have fun learning guitar.

This last part (“have fun”) is crucial for your success teaching guitar. The more your guitar students have fun in their lessons with you...

The more likely they are to do what you tell them to do and the more likely they are to keep taking lessons.

Which means: they become more likely to reach their goals and become good players.

And when that happens, they are more likely to tell all their friends about you and send you refers. (Plus: when other people see your students playing well, it reflects exceptionally well on you and helps you succeed teaching guitar.)

On the flipside, if your guitar lessons are boring, your students won't stay with you for long... and all the benefits I just listed won't happen.

Want to learn more ways to become the #1 guitar teacher around in no time? Read this guitar teaching advice to find out what you need to do right now to become a more successful teacher and how to avoid the mistakes that cause other teachers to fail.


Tom Hess
About Tom Hess: Tom Hess is a guitar teacher, music career mentor and guitar teacher trainer. He trains guitar teachers from all over the world how to earn 6-figures per year teaching guitar, while working less than 40 hours per week.

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