Attracting students (reprise).

Networking via participation in local music events like musical theatre and little theatre, music festivals, free concerts (the sort small towns like to do in municipal parks), art festivals, tourism promotion, busking, show-and-tell sessions in elementary schools, church gigs, self-promoted gigs, and the all important hanging out in the music store thing. Having one's picture in the local paper doesn't hurt, neither does online socializing via FaceBook, Twitter, various forums, etc.

I haven't needed to and won't unless the economy really tanks, but moving into elementary schools to get easy access to a revolving door of young students has helped a lot of instructors, particularly those without a studio of their own.

Peace, Mooh.