Amplify Your Happiness Before You Even Get Started!
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Don't make the same mistake I did: Ask yourself this question, RIGHT NOW. (5:53)
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You're In! Here's how to get the most from The Badass Guitar Teacher (5:13)
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The Badass Guitar Teacher workbooks, spreadsheets, and bonus materials (4:41)
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Envision what being a full-time guitar teacher looks like by getting your priorities straight up. (5:28)
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Don't quit your job yet, even if your boss is a total jackass. (3:15)
The Two Main Elements of a Stupendous, Unique, Valuable Guitar Teacher
Systems Part I: How To Leverage Technology So You Can Charge More Per Lesson
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What the hell are systems, and why the hell should YOU care about them? (7:31)
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How to find good systems, and when to take a poop on bad systems because they suck (7:09)
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Systems that attract new students automatically (3:33)
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Systems that turn new students into established students (6:07)
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Systems that do the boring (but neccesary) administrative tasks for you (8:16)
Systems Part II: Good Systems = Good Money
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How to set up the most incredible space for students to learn in (hint: pick up your trash and clean a little) (12:07)
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The optimal lesson workflow that keeps students engaged for an hour lesson, no dross (10:03)
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Making your website mindblowingly awesome to a prospective student (15:24)
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Destroying the scheduling bottleneck with online scheduling systems (20:54)
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Turning new students into established students using Evernote (and a little bit of cleverness) (7:53)
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Forcing Dropbox to do your own brand of voodoo for you (4:37)
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How to absolutely kill it with Yelp, (3:30)
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How to absolutely kill it with Thumbtack.com and Lessons.com (3:08)
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Using social networks for both good and evil (5:01)
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Using text expansion to save at least an hour of writing each week (5:35)
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Keeping track of yo money fo da biggest tax deductionz possible (9:56)
Curriculum Part I: How A Solid Curriculum Could Net You Guaranteed Money Each Year
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Oh crap, this section is really hard and brainy. Bear with me... (6:39)
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Your students want to experience mastery, and your curriculum should provide it (3:55)
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Distilling the major skills of your niche and making them fun to learn (5:59)
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Skills build songs, and songs make your student laughing-gas happy (2:32)
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How to distill skills down to their most basic essence, and keep students coming back for more (1:18)
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Example of how to distill skills: Power Chords (3:53)
Curriculum Part II: How To Teach The Most Lucrative, Underserved, and Affluent Market of Guitar Students
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Overview: Learn how to teach the most lucrative (and underserved) market of guitar learners (2:13)
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Don't wanna teach spoiled 7 year old brats? This video shows the road less travelled... (9:50)
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Basic Chords I: Keep it simple, yo. (7:47)
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Basic Chords: The nitty gritty on how to teach them to complete beginners (15:01)
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How to teach combining basic chords, aka chord systems, so your students can crush a ton of songs all at once (6:00)
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Get your students to master this skill and they'll be back for much more, no doubt! (9:34)
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How to teach chord switches in a quick and painless way (8:28)
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The one question you always need to ask yourself when you're about to teach any song to anyone (4:15)
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The teaching process in action: How to teach songs! (5:35)
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Teaching barre chords: Be very, very, very, very careful. (8:22)
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Teaching fingerpicking: Teach them the basic techniques fast, and jump into the easiest songs available (7:25)
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How to teach anything to anybody on guitar (especially the stuff you know super well) (6:41)
Marketing, Advertising, and Pricing To Find A Roster Of Paying Students
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Know who your favorite student is before you start building your roster (6:21)
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Price your lessons to catch tons of your favorite students (12:51)
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Hacking your waitlist to create more demand and perceived value (6:17)
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How to compell current students to pay you even more dough; How to raise your prices in a remarkable way (5:41)
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Finding your students from advertising and engaging the world like a mad fool (4:54)
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The city you live in determines how you advertise and find your favorite students (13:26)
Occupational Hazards And How To Solve Them Without Too Much Loss of Money or Energy
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The top two resources for crushing problems you'll face as a guitar teacher (5:02)
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Common thorns in your side from getting started with your business (6:45)
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Money Troublez; Gin And Juice (5:02)
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Where the F*** are all the students and why aren't they signing up? (7:58)
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Bad students + horrible parents = the burnt-to-a-crisp guitar teacher (11:11)
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Take heart: I'm here and so are tons of potential mentors (1:04)
It's time to hit it! Please don't be a drama queen yet...
