I think that it is wonderful that you want to teach what you know!! I myself am trying to round up some students to teach. I do recommend trying to compete and maybe do some performing. Just to get the feel of it. But other than that, if you feel confident in it, do what you can. Good luck to you!

Anyone who has trouble with "selling" will never be a good teacher of anything. Teaching is selling as simple as that. If your teachers in school didn't "sell" you the material then you probably sat there bored and learned nothing. Second, businesses are about selling, look at any private school or college. Once you understand this it is not as ominous as it seems. I have been teaching High School, College and Dance for 15 years and I am really good at my job, because I understand this one fact. Selling is simply creating excitement. Isn't that what we all want?

Well said in reference to the dreaded "s" word that selling is simply creating excitement. In everyday life we are selling all the time without even thinking about it. You buy a new car that you love. Don't you tell everyone about it's wonderful features and how great it rides? If someone you told went out and bought the same car you would be pleased with yourself that they trusted you and now they are happy too. If you sell what you believe in and not to simply make a dollar, then it is a good thing. A very successful studio owner said to me " We teach people dancing so they can live there dreams and all we get in return is there lousy money". Of course we get much more than that in return but he does make a good point.

Of course "selling" may depend on creating excitement and positve emotions, but I think the negative image of it, by meaning hiding the bad facts and selling the good only, also appear in the world of dance studios. For example as a employed dance teacher I was told by my chief: "We don't need students dancing very good, we just need their money." That results in situations like that: When a stundent asks "Do I have the ability to visit the class of the next level", you always answer yes, because you know, he won't pay for repeating the same level. Now as a self-employed teacher with an own little studio [I'm talking all about social dancing here (in Germany we have social classes up to very high levels where people dance for many years without competing)] - I don't sell classes (as a single course) anymore but memberships (payed monthly), where people may visit all lessons of any level they like. This I call "disentangling commerce and content".
So there ARE studios just SELLING and others TEACHING well.