Extra Income Ideas: Teaching and Tutoring   

Teach Guitar Lessons – There is a huge group of people (mostly men) from the ages of 40 to 60 that have raised their children and now have the time and money learn to play guitar. These guitarist wanna-bees often make excellent students because they have the discipline, motivation and maturity to stick with it until it becomes fun. 

Are you concerned that you might not be a good enough guitar player to teach? As it turns out many great naturally gifted guitar players have difficulty passing on their knowledge to beginner students. Often the average player that has had to work hard and deliberately to conquer each and every chord or technique is the one that can relate best to students. In other words they make better guitar teachers. 

One great benefit to teaching guitar in this day and age is that there are some video guitar courses on DVD that make excellent teaching tools. The curriculum is all laid out and taught by some of the best instructors in the world. With a video program your job is to get them started, correct any misunderstandings, answer questions, give clarification, offer encouragement and make sure the student is having fun.  

The most impressive part is that the top video guitar lessons offer the student structured practice sessions. This is absolutely essential because most students are never taught how to practice and yet most of the learning takes place at home when a live teacher is not around. For a feature by feature comparison chart and reviews of the top guitar courses click here: Compare Video Guitar Lessons. 

Also Bill Lurie, a 27 year veteran of teaching guitar in Canada and author of “How to Make Money Teaching Guitar” claims that he can teach a prospective instructor how to get started making up to $120 per hour in their home. He also coached home guitar teachers how to make the transition to their own successful, full-blown, music school. If you would like more information about Bill’s eBook click here: Teach Guitar. 

Teach Conversational English Worldwide (Online) – The English language is considered to be the international language of business. Non-native English speaking students worldwide recognize that learning to speak it fluently in conversation can be their ticket to getting into a great school or to entering a high-paying career. This has created a very significant demand for native English speaking tutors. In many cases it does not appear that you even need to be an English teacher but, you just need to be available to have conversations for students to improve their fluency. 

The advent of Skype, a free way to talk and view someone over the internet, has allowed tutors of English as a second language (ESL) to work with people literally all over the world. 

To succeed at this, it is important to learn the secrets of conducting effective tutoring sessions as well as learning how to attract good paying customers on a consistent basis. John Buchanan has helped to pioneer this industry and has written a detailed step-by-step guide to help anyone interested in getting off to a fast and successful start. He writes that he charges as much as $70 USD for a forty minute session. If you wish to learn more just click this link: How To Teach English Online For Money.

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