Customer Story: TheGuitarLesson.com (Read & Watch Now)
Table of Contents
- Meet User: Tom Fontana
- TheGuitarLesson.com: A Membership Experience
- Why was a good fit to Tom
- Tom's favorite attributes
- The advantages of operating the site as a member
- Conclusion
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Learn the way this guitarist master found his passion, and then turned his passion into a lucrative online business using .
We all want to engage in our interests, no matter what they are. If your are interested in fields like the banking industry, or personal legal, injury, it's a bit easier to turn your passion into a steady source of revenue.
Meet User: Tom Fontana
Take for instance, Tom Fontana, a creator and the owner of TheGuitarLesson.com, a site which provides videos of guitar lessons to beginner guitar students.
Tom first started playing the guitar in high school. It was not until the high school years that he was able to start making some extra cash with these his sweet skills.
He taught guitar in college to a handful of students, expanding out to a wider variety of students.
After college, Tom spend 10 years in the banking. But he started to feel burnt out. The long hours and hard working were weighing on his body, and he was searching for a way to engage the passion he had.
"I wanted to make a change in my life. Just by chance I came across several guitar lesson sites and I decided, "I can do this. '"
Then, he began looking at his choices. An internet design friend assisted him in putting together the first guitar lessons online website.
Despite the difficulty of recording lessons in front of the camera Tom did not give up and soon realized that he was a natural.
TheGuitarLesson.com An Experience for Members
In 2009, Tom transferred the website to WordPress. He needed a reliable platform that was easy to operate and also easy to maintain with new material. In that light, he began looking for the right platform.
The successful transition is evident. In the moment of writing this blog entry, TheGuitarLesson.com has over 300 videos and counting.
The site has a couple of membership options.
His efforts resulted in a positive outcome, and Tom was capable of turn his back on financial institutions and move full speed ahead on his membership site.
Was Tom the right fit to Tom
Everywhere on the web, aids countless small and solopreneurs as well as businesses get off the ground.
When he started off with the site Tom declares, "I didn't know anything about the internet or online stuff."
The process is remarkably simple to get started with only an elementary understanding of WordPress.
After his move from WordPress, Tom still needed an account-based plugin. Tom was in search of a few essentials:
- Easy for non-tech heads to utilize
- Full creative control
- Fast uploads and quick Updates
- Options for multiple membership levels
- Cataloguing video
- NO hidden fees
With a bit of searching, he found that checked each of the boxes. Management of the sales and accounts for members is essential to the business, and Tom recognized that there was no point in only going halfway.
But he didn't come to this conclusion without an extended trial period: "I tested all of the plugins for membership available, and I found to be the best one with regard to the quality and price."
Tom's top features
It stops the possibility of a large portion of (potentially) lost sales.
Benefits of running an online membership website
To top off his top features, Tom loved the freedom from having a site for members:
"When I worked at the bank, I would work beginning at 8:30 am till ten at night on the other hand, with a website you are able to choose the timings."
Then, he could be free to spend more time with his children and on his own passions. "That's priceless, basically."
It's priceless, for sure. According to Tom it's quite a nice thing to be able to make "a regular, full-time source of income through helping others and to be able to make money out of my passion for what I do."
We should all be so lucky as Tom, right? Find our passion and make a living doing it.
Through that "luck" can become an acquired real.
Conclusion
If you're just beginning to learn the guitar or are seeking to get back to the groove, go at theguitarlesson.com. There's a massive collection of tutorials that will help get you going.
Be sure to watch our video interview with Tom over there!
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