Customer Story: TheGuitarLesson.com (Read & Watch Now)

Aug 4, 2022

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    Learn how this guitar master found his passion, and then turned it into a successful online company using .  

Everyone wants to be involved with our passions, whatever they might be. For those of us who's passions lie in industries like banking or personal injury law, it's just a more straightforward process to transform your passion into a steady source of revenue.

Meet User: Tom Fontana

As an example, you can meet Tom Fontana, a creator and owner of TheGuitarLesson.com, a site that offers video guitar lessons for beginner students.

Tom started playing guitar in high school. However, it wasn't until after high school that he started earning extra money through his sweet talents.

He taught guitar in college to some of his friends. expanding out to a wider variety of students.

After college, Tom spend 10 years working in banking. But he started to feel burnt out. He was exhausted from the long hours and exhausting work was affecting himand he began seeking a different approach to pursuing his passion.

    "I had always wanted to change the direction of my life. Just by chance I came across several guitar lesson sites and I realized, "I could try that. '"

So, he started looking at choices. An internet design friend was able to help him create his first-ever online guitar instruction site.

Despite the difficulty of recording the lessons on front of the camera Tom was determined and discovered the natural he was.

TheGuitarLesson.com A Member Experience

In 2009, Tom migrated the site over to WordPress. He needed a reliable platform that was simple to use and easy to update with content. With that in mind, he went on a search for the perfect platform.

The transition has been successful as is apparent. In the moment of writing this blog post, TheGuitarLesson.com includes more than 300 lessons in video and growing.

The site has a couple of membership options.

His efforts was rewarded as Tom was in a position to quit banking and go full steam forward with his membership website.

What made Tom a great match for Tom

The internet assists countless solopreneurs and small businesses get off the ground.

In the beginning of his website, Tom says, "I didn't know anything about the internet or online things."

It's surprisingly easy to start with an elementary understanding of WordPress.

After his move to WordPress, Tom still needed the ability to join a community, and Tom was in search of a handful of the essentials

  • It is simple for people who are not tech-savvy to use
  • Full creative control
  • Quick uploads and updates
  • Options for multiple membership levels
  • Cataloguing video
  • NO hidden fees

Through a bit of research to find the right answer, he realized that it ticked every one of these boxes. Management of membership sales and accounts is a vital part of the business as well, and Tom recognized that there was no reason of settling for a half-hearted approach.

However, he wasn't able to make the conclusion without having a long trial: "I tested all of the plugins for membership available, and I found to be the best one with regard to high-end and value."

Tom's favorite includes

It stops a significant portion of (potentially) lost sales.

Benefits of running an online membership website

To top off his top features, Tom loved the freedom that a membership website offered:

 "When I was working at the bank I was working beginning at 8:30 am 'til ten at night, on the other hand, with a website you are able to choose the hours."

He was able to spend more time with his family , and in pursuit of his interests. "That's priceless, basically."

It's unbeatable absolutely. And according to Tom it's quite a sweet deal to have "a regular, full-time source of income through helping others and to be able to earn money doing what I love doing."

We should all be so lucky as Tom does, surely? To find our passion, and earn a decent income from it.

If you are lucky "luck" may turn into an acquired real.

Conclusion

If you're just beginning to learn the guitar or are trying to get back into the groove, go over the website theguitarlesson.com. The site has a vast collection of awesome tutorials to get you up and running.

Be sure to take a look at our interview with Tom in the upper right hand corner!

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