By Tom Hess

Climbing Mt. Everest and achieving massive success as a guitar teacher are two very similar achievements… How is this so?

Read these three critical similarities:

1. Only a select few people ever successfully accomplish these goals.

2. Anyone who was ever able to make it to the top of Everest was extensively trained by someone who already had experience climbing to the summit of the mountain. Similarly, guitar teachers who worked closely with expert trainers were able to achieve massive success. Alternatively, ZERO climbers have ever made it to the summit of Everest with no training at all and zero guitar teachers have ever become highly successful without the training of an expert.

3. Getting to the summit of Everest is truly a live-changing experience that will leave you feeling a sense of accomplishment that few can even fathom. Similarly, developing the leading guitar teaching business in your community will give you a huge sense of satisfaction in terms of personal accomplishment and freedom that most people can’t relate to.

How Does This Relate To You As A Guitar Teacher?

Starting right now, I’d like you to imagine that reaching your goals as a guitar teacher as climbing to the top of Mt. Everest. On the summit of the mountain is a glowing chest. Once opened, this will give you the power to attain any goals you have for your guitar teaching business, like: earning $100,000+ per year, producing incredible musicians through your teaching and gaining tons of freedom to use your time for achieving great things in your music career.

Now, think of this: If all you had to do to get these things was simply get to the peak of the mountain and open the chest… would you climb the mountain? If you would, then you have to do anything you can to assure that you reach the top of the mountain as quickly as possible.

Of course, no one would attempt to climb to the top of Mt. Everest without the guidance of an experienced trainer and expect to succeed (or survive). Likewise, trying to develop a successful guitar teaching business with zero training will lead you down the exact same path of failure.

Why Do Guitar Teachers Fail When They Try To Figure Everything Out By Themselves?

Becoming the most successful guitar teacher around takes a lot more than just music teaching skills. All guitar teachers who have achieved massive success do so by working on becoming ‘excellent’ in these seven areas:

• Getting contacted by countless people every month of the year who are looking for guitar lessons
• Helping potential students understand why they MUST take lessons with you (and only you) if they want to become great players
• Getting ‘former’ students to start taking lessons again
• Gaining time for yourself and your students through effective execution of day to day guitar teaching tasks
• Getting much bigger and better RESULTS for your students than anyone else by expanding your guitar teaching effectiveness
• Retaining guitar students for years at a time because your teaching consistently gets big results for them
• Building your guitar teaching business using referrals and word of mouth marketing

All of these aspects of your guitar teaching business require acquiring a unique set of skills in order to become successful, much like climbing Everest requires many new skills to be developed before one can make it to the summit. That said, most guitar teachers try to build their businesses on their own and set themselves up to fail for these reasons:

1. They begin teaching guitar with zero awareness of the above 7 areas.

2. They don’t understand ‘what’ they must do to grow in these areas or ‘how’ to do it.

I’m not trying to discourage you, I’m merely letting you know ‘how it really is’. As someone who trains guitar teachers to become successful, I know all of the challenges that any guitar teacher could face.

The truth is, it’s fairly easy to learn the steps for becoming highly successful in the 7 areas mentioned above (anyone can do it). Additionally, all the challenges that guitar teachers come up against can be overcome with proper coaching, training and mentoring.

If you are unhappy with where you are at in your guitar teaching business, understand that it’s not because you lack the potential to succeed or have fallen victim to outside circumstances. You’re just at the bottom of Mt. Everest, looking for ways to climb to the top with no knowledge of what steps to take to get there. The only thing you need to do is locate an excellent trainer who will take your hand and guide you along on every step of the way until you have made it to the summit… where you can open the chest and collect the treasure that lies within it.

To begin your ascent of the mountain, learn the best approach for teaching guitar from an expert.

 

About The Author:
Tom Hess is a professional electric guitar teacher and composer. He also mentors guitar teachers from around the world in his guitar teacher training program. Visit tomhess.net to get free guitar teaching tipsand read more guitar teacher articles.

By Tom Hess

Climbing Mt. Everest and achieving massive success as a guitar teacher are two very similar achievements… How is this so?

Read these three critical similarities:

1. Only a select few people ever successfully accomplish these goals.

2. Anyone who was ever able to make it to the top of Everest was extensively trained by someone who already had experience climbing to the summit of the mountain. Similarly, guitar teachers who worked closely with expert trainers were able to achieve massive success. Alternatively, ZERO climbers have ever made it to the summit of Everest with no training at all and zero guitar teachers have ever become highly successful without the training of an expert.

3. Getting to the summit of Everest is truly a live-changing experience that will leave you feeling a sense of accomplishment that few can even fathom. Similarly, developing the leading guitar teaching business in your community will give you a huge sense of satisfaction in terms of personal accomplishment and freedom that most people can’t relate to.

How Does This Relate To You As A Guitar Teacher?

Starting right now, I’d like you to imagine that reaching your goals as a guitar teacher as climbing to the top of Mt. Everest. On the summit of the mountain is a glowing chest. Once opened, this will give you the power to attain any goals you have for your guitar teaching business, like: earning $100,000+ per year, producing incredible musicians through your teaching and gaining tons of freedom to use your time for achieving great things in your music career.

Now, think of this: If all you had to do to get these things was simply get to the peak of the mountain and open the chest… would you climb the mountain? If you would, then you have to do anything you can to assure that you reach the top of the mountain as quickly as possible.

Of course, no one would attempt to climb to the top of Mt. Everest without the guidance of an experienced trainer and expect to succeed (or survive). Likewise, trying to develop a successful guitar teaching business with zero training will lead you down the exact same path of failure.

Why Do Guitar Teachers Fail When They Try To Figure Everything Out By Themselves?

Becoming the most successful guitar teacher around takes a lot more than just music teaching skills. All guitar teachers who have achieved massive success do so by working on becoming ‘excellent’ in these seven areas:

• Getting contacted by countless people every month of the year who are looking for guitar lessons
• Helping potential students understand why they MUST take lessons with you (and only you) if they want to become great players
• Getting ‘former’ students to start taking lessons again
• Gaining time for yourself and your students through effective execution of day to day guitar teaching tasks
• Getting much bigger and better RESULTS for your students than anyone else by expanding your guitar teaching effectiveness
• Retaining guitar students for years at a time because your teaching consistently gets big results for them
• Building your guitar teaching business using referrals and word of mouth marketing

All of these aspects of your guitar teaching business require acquiring a unique set of skills in order to become successful, much like climbing Everest requires many new skills to be developed before one can make it to the summit. That said, most guitar teachers try to build their businesses on their own and set themselves up to fail for these reasons:

1. They begin teaching guitar with zero awareness of the above 7 areas.

2. They don’t understand ‘what’ they must do to grow in these areas or ‘how’ to do it.

I’m not trying to discourage you, I’m merely letting you know ‘how it really is’. As someone who trains guitar teachers to become successful, I know all of the challenges that any guitar teacher could face.

The truth is, it’s fairly easy to learn the steps for becoming highly successful in the 7 areas mentioned above (anyone can do it). Additionally, all the challenges that guitar teachers come up against can be overcome with proper coaching, training and mentoring.

If you are unhappy with where you are at in your guitar teaching business, understand that it’s not because you lack the potential to succeed or have fallen victim to outside circumstances. You’re just at the bottom of Mt. Everest, looking for ways to climb to the top with no knowledge of what steps to take to get there. The only thing you need to do is locate an excellent trainer who will take your hand and guide you along on every step of the way until you have made it to the summit… where you can open the chest and collect the treasure that lies within it.

To begin your ascent of the mountain, learn the best approach for teaching guitar from an expert.

 

About The Author:
Tom Hess is a professional electric guitar teacher and composer. He also mentors guitar teachers from around the world in his guitar teacher training program. Visit tomhess.net to get free guitar teaching tipsand read more guitar teacher articles.

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