Recently I started offering private lessons by email through Guitar Tricks. On the first 4 days I got literally hundreds of replies. I too the time (14 hours) to try and answer every single one of em. I unfortunately had to resort to a slightly boilerplate response because it was just too much work. Since then a whole ton of those initial people haven't contacted me after I sent out a first lesson.

My main suspicion is that the people who initially responded had no idea that this was going to be a PAY service.
In other words, rather than just give private lessons at home for $50 an hour, we're charging $49 for a month's worth of email lessons. (Basically constant email contact from me on a daily basis if necessary and about 2 hours of my own time put into each lesson)

After I sent out the initial replies to people... as soon as the $49 per month was mentioned, the replies I got dropped off dramatically.

If there's any of those original inquiry people who weren't aware there was a charge involved...I'd love to hear from you again. Mainly cause I'm wondering if all those initial emails were cause people thought I was gonna do this service for free and didn't read the online info.

If you did realize it was free... I'd be interested in knowing why you opted out of continuing lessons... mainly cause we're trying to make a go at this and make it worth the money and an improvement over spending just 1/2 hour a week with a private teacher.

Anyway... that's it...I'm just blabbing on, but I noticed since we put up a huge sticker saying Lessons only $49./99 per month... my initial inquiries have dropped off significantly.
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Any opinions or comments are welcome cause we're really trying to make this a worthwhile.

That's it..