Are you familiar with toad venom? 🐸 Here's how it can help you grow your business. The freelance teaching space lacks innovation. There are many, many talented, creative people in it, but so many are simply doing the same thing that exists inside a language school. We need to be different. Not: ❌ increase your confidence ❌ improve your grammar ❌ learn more vocabulary Better:Toad venom. 🐸 @Leonardo Gomes, @Michael Landry and I talked about it on our recent Teacher Talking Time podcast episode. Watch the excerpt below and let me know what you think 😎 My main takeaways are: → the more specific the niche, the more demand there is → don't create solutions to problems people don't care about → stop creating and listen to what people need, not necessarily what they want 👉 The full episode is out on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/0AFuUuSMRA9SGVhWqvUDsL?si=a25dad370c4a4227 The video version will be released on our YouTube channel in early September. How can you use the concept of toad venom to carve out your own little corner of the internet?

Hello, I am Lydi from the Czech Republic. I've been working as an ELT freelancer since January this year. I only got my TEFL qualification last year, so I am still a newbie. This is one reason why I joined this community, for advice and development. My plan for the next 30 days is to get more clients, establish my niche and also gain more confidence and knowledge about marketing.

We have a question for you this week: how do you find students online? This is one of the biggest challenges teacherpreneurs face. And if we're being honest, having this sorted out is the only way for a business to survive. So why don't we help each other out. Drop your tips and strategies below and let's learn together. Drop questions you have about the process as well and let's use this as a learning opportunity.

Hi, guys! I've been part of this community since the last December, but I just started to see the videos in the classroom area, as well as reading the messages here this week. I've been teaching English since 2011 in regular schools and since last year I'm trying to run my own business. It's not easy, but I've been trying to learn more about teacherpreneur while I'm doing this. Nowadays, I'm offering private classes to adults, focusing on general English. By the way, I'm from Brazil, and I've jsut finished my PhD last Frebruary, which was focused on collocations and corpus linguistics. I hope to learn a lot with all of you!

#Core task 1 I'm thinking about what I could sell and to whom… and right now, the answer doesn't seem to be students, but teachers or languages schools. Recently a school I'm working with has told me that I had a significantly better feedback than their other teachers when it came to using digital tools in online classes. They asked me to have a meeting with the other teachers in order to show them briefly what I'm using. I'm thinking about designing a short presentation during these meetings explaining the benefits of using different tools, and then sell a group training in which I could go through an extensive tutorial and provide some ready made documents such as padlet templates, online resources, handouts ... Action plan : writing an email to the language schools I'm working with to see if they or their teachers would be ready to buy my course. See you in 7 days!