BONUS Ep. 1245 How a Music Teacher Cracked the Online Code
The Tom Woods Show
Tom Woods
4.8 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 23 September 2018
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
Ross Trottier, a music and guitar teacher (and a Tom Woods Show listener), who now has a thriving online and offline business, went through a period of homelessness and had to start from nothing. How did he crack the online code, sell thousands and thousands of copies of his book, get over a million views of his videos, and enjoy a far more comfortable life than probably any music teacher you know?
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| 0:00.0 | The Tom Woods Show, episode 1245, bonus episode. |
| 0:04.3 | Prepare to set fire to the index card of allowable opinion. |
| 0:08.9 | Your daily dose of Liberty Education starts here, the Tom Woods Show. |
| 0:15.4 | All right, man, you know that for a smooth and comfortable shave, I recommend what? |
| 0:19.3 | Harry's Razors, of course, and Harris is offering you a $13 |
| 0:22.8 | value trial set. Listeners can redeem this offer over at harries.com slash Woods. Hi, everybody, Tom Woods |
| 0:30.1 | here. I've been meaning to talk to this guy for a while. This is Ross Trottier. That is actually how he |
| 0:35.2 | pronounces his last name. I'm not just mispronouncing it. That's how he says it. Ross Trottier. That is actually how he pronounces his last name. I'm not just mispronouncing it. |
| 0:37.9 | That's how he says it. Ross Trottier is a music teacher who's been very successful taking that |
| 0:45.2 | skill and talent and making an online living out of it and or using his online outlet as a source of |
| 0:53.1 | leads for his local business. |
| 0:55.4 | And he's written to me a couple of times to tell me about his success and keep me posting on what's going on. |
| 1:01.9 | And he keeps thanking me for, you know, helping steer him in the right direction as to what to do or what strategy to follow. |
| 1:08.0 | And I'm grateful for that, of course. |
| 1:09.9 | But I want to know exactly how it is he does that, because we don't think of music teachers as being probably the most entrepreneurial people in society, let's say. |
| 1:18.8 | So what is the secret? |
| 1:20.9 | How did he do it? |
| 1:22.2 | And I want to know, of course, also, if there are any lessons in his experience that we can draw out and apply to people, |
| 1:28.5 | of course, who are in other fields, because most of you probably are not music teachers, but |
| 1:32.3 | you may have been thinking, well, it'd be nice to have some kind of a, something going on online |
| 1:36.8 | that I could have on the side in case anything should happen, or just what the heck. It's nice to |
| 1:41.8 | have, you know, an income source on the side. |
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