STG 112: Growing Your Teaching Studio $5 At A Time

There are a lot of cool websites out there, but the coolest site for small business owners has got to be fiverr.com. There’s no place else on earth where you can get almost anything done that you could imagine and only have to pay $5 for it. There are LOTS of valuable services on fiverr that can help you grow and build your guitar teaching studio if you know what to look for and if you know how to engage fiverr sellers in the most effective way.

In this episode, I’ll give you some specific examples of the kinds of services you can buy on fiverr.com that can benefit your teaching studio and you as a guitar teacher. I’ll also give you some tips and best practices you can follow to make sure you get MORE than your $5 worth and don’t get burned by a bad seller. I’ll even share a cool strategy with you that can help you seriously skyrocket your studio’s growth, once you get to the right level to implement it. If you’re ready to start expanding your teaching studio on a shoestring, this episode – and fiverr.com – can help you do it.

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Items Mentioned In This Episode

Link – Fiverr.com
Link – Fiverr’s Music & Audio Category

Podcast Transcript

Fiverr.com is one of the coolest sites on the web for a small business owner. You could go check it out by typing into your web browser, www.Fiverr.com. And on this website, Fiverr.com, you could pay someone to do almost anything for only five dollars. Yes, you heard me correctly. Everything on the site has a five-dollar price tag on it.

On this site, they call these five-dollar services gigs, so for five bucks, you can pay someone to actually do something, to perform a service for you in a number of different categories, many of which are useful for growing your teaching studio. There are actually over one million gigs posted on Fiverr.com at any one time. Everything from website design to article writing to video editing, and a whole bunch more. I’m going to get into a lot of specific examples of how this will benefit you as a guitar teacher.

And I know a lot of you listening to this have used Fiverr.com before for various things. Some of you probably use it quite a bit, like I do, but some of you may have never heard of this site or, if you did, you never realized how useful it could be to you as a guitar teacher. So, in this episode, I’m going to tell you all about Fiverr and, in particular, how to use it to grow your teaching studio one five-dollar gig at a time. So, purchasing small services for five dollars can help you get your teaching business up and running more quickly, and it can enable you to do things that you couldn’t do on your own.

Why You Should Care

Okay. So, before we dive in, let’s talk about why you should even care about Fiverr.com. Why you should even care about paying other people to do things for you in your business. Well, here’s why. The first reason is it increases your capabilities. Nobody is an expert at everything. Not you. Not me. Not anyone. And you shouldn’t try to be an expert at everything. If you’re trying to do everything, then you end up not doing anything well. You just, you know, are jack-of-all-trades, master of none. So, instead of wasting your time whenever you could be doing things more valuable to your business and instead of trying to learn how to do everything yourself, it’s a much better strategy to pay someone who already knows how to do it.

And you don’t have to pay them a lot. It doesn’t have to be as expensive as you might think it does. But if you pay someone else to do something a