Welcome to Throwback Thursday slash Where Are They Now?

We'll take an in-depth look at someone who's story has evolved considerably since we first featured them.

I'm excited about today's episode. It's got some very practical advice, as well as some very personal advice that I'm going to comment on as well at the end.

Now first here at the top of the show I want to give a shout out to a friend of mine, Ramit Saiti.

Ramit is somebody I've known for about a decade now. He writes the blog, I will teach you to be rich.

And well I guess it used to be a blog, now it's a big company. He's got a number of information products and courses that he sells.

And I know that he does really good work. So he's got a new course out called Earnable.

I'm not an affiliate for this course, I don't benefits in any way. I'm just giving him a shout out because he does good work.

The Earnable course is open this week. If you want to check it out go to iwt.com slash earn. That is iwt.com slash earn.

And if you look at it later there will probably be a wait list or something. So anyway shout out to Ramit, keep up the good work.

And for our program today, in our latest feature Throwback Thursday, we'll hear from a university administrator who creates a sustainable full-time income from teaching guitar.

I remember when I first heard about Jake's story, I was a little skeptical because so many people play guitar.

Like let's be real, there's a lot of guitar teachers out there in the world. And in some ways guitar lessons or music lessons in general are kind of a commodity.

However, he approached it systematically by applying some basic marketing principles, including good copywriting, messaging and just being reliable and solid, and ended up far surpassing the vast majority of other teachers.

So as I said some practical lessons here, naturally it's been a while. He's got some updates including a personal one about the stress and anxiety of starting a small business that I really appreciated hearing about.

So as I said, I'm going to say a couple things about that at the end as well. But first let's hear directly from Jake.

My name is Jake Pascow. I'm from a NAPA-LIS Maryland and I own Seven River Music and Seven River Guitar.com. I was in episode 23.

After failing at a lot of other side hustle ideas, things like e-books or online services, I kind of fell into guitar lessons.

I wasn't really that great of a guitar player to begin with, but I've been playing guitar since I was maybe 14 or 15 years old.

And I just needed to be good enough to teach beginners how to play. So if I had a seven year old student with no experience, I could handle teaching them.

I was a good teacher, just not a great guitar player. So I put an ad on Craig's list and maybe a few Google ads and after a few weeks I got my first student and just kept growing since then.

Since I was last featured on the show, I've tried to remove myself from the actual teaching of lessons as much as possible.

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