5 Important Steps For Building A Highly Successful Guitar Teaching Business

If you think that making a lot of money ($100,000+ per year) by teaching guitar without holding a day job is an unrealistic goal, then you are clearly not living up to your full potential as a guitar teacher. If you want to grow your guitar teaching businesses to a high level, you must take these 5 important steps:

Implementation Step #1. Become a Warrior. 

Don’t teach guitar for the sole purpose of making money. Become a warrior in the battle to set your students free from poor playing and years of disappointment. You possess the power to transform your students and their entire lives in many aspects. Regardless of your current experience level, having a lot of motivation to help your students will drive you to do what must be done to grow your business (such as getting training to  improve your guitar teaching skills ).
When you adopt the mindset above, you won’t rest until you help every struggling guitarist in your area get better. When you have this intense need to help countless people, you can’t understand why anyone would settle for accepting only 5 or 7 new students in thirty days rather than acquiring 30, 50, or 90 students in the same period of time. Once you take on this mindset, here is what will happen:

1. You won’t rest until you discover the best ways to attract lots of new guitar students for your teaching business.  A WIN/WIN for you and your students.
2. You will be motivated to learn the best guitar teaching methods so you can deliver the best results for your students.. Massive win for those who study with you.
3. You will be rewarded generously for providing lots of value for your students, making your teaching business extremely successful. Huge win for you.

Implementation Step #2. Stop Hindering Your Progress(And The Progress Of Your Students)

A few astonishing realities for guitar teachers:
A lot of guitar teachers are very pleased (and many actually feel blessed) to earn a modest living every year with their guitar teaching business. Many of them don’t even worry about having poor students who rarely become good players. They usually feel overjoyed to get just 20 more guitar students throughout the year and rejoice when their income climbs up by micro levels.
Using that kind of mindset, it’s very clear why the majority of guitar teachers can’t earn a large amount of money teaching guitar. And it isn’t uncommon that guitar teachers like that rarely have students who become great guitarists. The teacher’s low ambition influences their students’ personalities and causes slow progress.

I mentor guitar teachers who get dozens of students each month and earn a very high monthly income. In fact, one of the teachers inside my Elite Guitar Teachers Inner Circle program has obtained 100 students in just thirty days (there is no typo – an additional hundred students in 30 days). Coincidence, fortune or luck does NOT help you achieve outcomes like that. Furthermore, it’s not difficult to teach one hundred students without working yourself to death. Watch this video about building a successful guitar teaching business to learn how.  

I’m not trying to brag here, I’m just showing you what you can really accomplish when you commit yourself to become more successful than you are now.

Regardless of where you are or what your current guitar teaching level is, you CAN achieve great success. Your success begins in your mind, so it’s important that you become extremely ambitious with the goals you set for yourself. Arrange your goals based on what your greatest DESIRES are, NOT merely on what you think is possible.

Implementation Step #3. Fully Do Your Job

If you believe that “teaching” is your primary duty as a guitar teacher - you are performing only 25% of your actual job. (This is why most guitar teachers make 25% or less than those who truly understand how to teach guitar successfully.)
Average guitar teachers attempt to teach their students as much musical information as possible during every lesson (with the expectation that they will take it all in and spit out good results). The problem is, guitar students aren’t machines who merely consume information and give back results. To really get massive results for your students, you should learn how to teach music and ALSO how to teach people. What that means is doing a lot more than just teaching your students to play guitar. You also must train, inspire and mentor them throughout the whole development process.
To learn how to do the above, see these articles about  correcting your guitar student’s problems and  teaching guitar students how to practice .

Implementation Step 4. Don’t Be Scared To Become A Successful Guitar Teacher

People tend to believe that to make a lot of money by teaching guitar, you must be greedy or selfish, or make good marketing campaigns, or have “money” as your primary goal. This is untrue. The reason why some guitar teachers make large amounts of money can be summarized in JUST two points:

1. These teachers are very effective at what they do (they are the best among their competition)
2. They help a huge number of people become excellent guitar players.

No amount of sales tactics would help teachers to become successful if either of the 2 points above were missing.
On the other hand, unsuccessful teachers who do NOT earn a lot of money teaching guitar are unable to do so because: a) they are NOT helping “enough”  students to reach their goals  or b) they are ineffective at teaching guitar.
The key here is to understand that the amount of income you receive is in direct proportion to the amount of value you provide to your students. Actually, by charging very little for your guitar lessons, you are hurting your guitar students - I have explained this in depth in a previous article about becoming a thriving guitar instructor.
When you really understand what was discussed above, earning huge amounts of money is NOT something to feel guilty about. Actually, you should feel guilty about NOT making a lot of money  teaching guitar, because that means that you aren’t providing high value to your students.
If you don’t feel worthy of the rates your charge -  train to increase your guitar teaching skills and learn how to offer greater results to  your students.

Implementation Step #5.  Weed Your Garden

Many students don’t have the goal of becoming virtuosos, so you don’t have to push all of them to reach such a goal. However, you must have high expectations for your students to reach whatever goals they DO have and not allow them to accept poor results in their playing. If your students don’t practice at home, don’t make consistent progress or don’t feel inspired to play guitar, it’s up to you to figure out WHY this is occurring and do whatever it takes to stop it.

Note: Some of your students  will appreciate what you are doing for them and will do their part to become fantastic guitar players. But some of them will resent you for putting pressure on them, even if it is for their benefit. What I will say next will shock you: you must fire any student who is not willing to do what it takes to grow as a guitar player (such as refusing to do what you are telling them to do). Your reputation will suffer if you don’t do this (because it reflects poorly on you when your students don’t become successful guitarists). It’s also not fair for those students who really want to study with you, but can’t do so, because your time is being burdened with lazy, unmotivated students.

As soon as you apply the 5 steps above, you will be surprised at how much EASIER it will become to build a profitable guitar teaching business. If you  want to speed up the process of applying the ideas described in this article, get guitar teacher coaching to make your business more successful.