Matthew Rusk
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@hawi-gondwe, thanks for the message & I can provide an update on Skype Lessons:
Firstly, in regard to Ultimate-Guitar.com. I have had lots of meetings with them since autumn 2017, with the aim of hopefully looking to generate enquiries via the UG platform, passed over to our network of guitar teachers to teach on Skype. We made a lot of progress last year in regard to it, then in early 2018 UG updated their website design and lots of other resources got pulled from other projects (like our Skype Guitar Enquiry project).
January & February passed without any progress at all. March we had some progress with a meeting taking place on the 12th March, with the result being from UG that “I’m still discussing to try to run a cheap experiment that you suggested, just need to convince the guys that one experiment won’t really hurt if we make it fast and cheap and see what happens:) Will keep you posted.”
This was followed by an update yesterday from UG that was “There are a lot of tasks right now that should be solved, and the team doesn’t really see when they’re ready to launch the experiment, always suggesting me to discuss that later. I’m afraid we should move this to some time in future.” Which suggests it has been kicked into the long grass for the time being. I will keep trying to push for the experiment to take place as I think it will be a real success. So on that front it seems that there is no specific time-frame and 2018 as a year will determine whether it will take place or not. It might be that by the summer they are ready to explore the project again, or it might be shelved indefinitely.
At the turn of the year I began to focus on creating a possible enquiry stream for Skype Guitar Lessons of our own, via the https://musicteacher.kinsta.cloud/skype-guitar-lessons/ page of this website. I am starting to get some good early ranking signs, with the page moving up Google from 12th page for the search “Skype Guitar Lessons” in February to 7th page as of today. I am hopeful to see this rise into the top 3 pages over the next few months, then the real challenge begins in terms of trying to break it onto the first page & then high enough to start generating enquiries. So this is a defined business plan that by the end of 2018 I hope to be able to position a page of this website high enough to generate enquiries for Skype Guitar Lessons – if so that opens up new possibilities for teachers.
Hope this provides a detailed update:)
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Leigh Fuge sounds awesome – can you Skype anytime this Thursday / Sunday?:)
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Owen Evans can you help out Leigh with your experience in regard to teaching online – you are the most experienced of all musicteacher.kinsta.cloud teachers I think in regard to Skype lessons. Leigh Fuge I have had some really interesting conversations recently about Skype lessons with Ultimate-Guitar.com – we might have a big development at musicteacher.kinsta.cloud in regard to providing Skype lessons for UG users. Could we arrange a Skype meeting next week to talk more about it?
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Owen Evans this might be a great one for you to jump in on, especially with your plans to teach the majority of your lessons via Skype in the next few months:)
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Latest Xmas voucher enquiry came in today (24th January):) via the Guitar Lessons Reading website
