English teachers will make extra money online…

Teaching English online is a growing field.  Every day more and more students are studying English through out the world.

The number of people who are getting online and studying English is great news for English teachers.

The Internet makes it easy for English teachers to start a cheap at home business.  And making money every month is quite possible.

Here’s what you’ll need in order to get started as an online English teacher:

*  Computer with Internet
*  Skype or some other instant messaging program
*  Microphone
*  Web camera
*  PayPal account
*  Free website (but you don’t need it right away)

Those are the basic tools you’ll need to get started (but you’ll need to know your marketing strategy).  It’s quite possible that your computer has a built in microphone and web camera so you won’t need to buy anything else.  As you can see, your start-up costs are practically free.

How much can online English teachers make?

There are basically two type of sessions you’ll want to offer: just conversations and lessons.

Just Conversations: $15.00 to $25.00 an hour

These conversations are the easiest to conduct.  No experience, no degrees and no certifications are required.  Students from other countries have learned English, and they know if they don’t use it, they will lose it.

That is why they will pay to just have conversations with you, a native English speaker.

Lessons: $20.00 to $50.00 an hour

Again you don’t need any experience, degrees, or certifications, but it sure helps.  You can offer grammar, pronunciation, vocabulary, comprehension (listening), slang or any other specific topic you want to offer.

If you know a lot about art, medicine, business, movies or whatever, offer your skills and knowledge as a specific lesson that a student can buy from you.

Teach what you know and what you’re comfortable with and you’ll be a more successful online English teacher.

Once you get 5 to 15 repeat customers/students who pay you $100.00 to $250.00 a month, you can do the math and see you’ll make a nice sum every month.

So the more paying students you find, the more money you will make as an online English teacher.

As an online English teacher, you need to find ESL students who pay. Finding these students can be difficult, but my e-book (and 4 FREE bonus packages) will show you how to easily locate these foreign students through out the online world.

You’ll also discover everything you need to know in order to start and maintain your very own online English school.

Make money online by teaching English online today:  get exclusive access here – guaranteed success.

Get the e-book and the FREE stuff today…

Impress your students…

Most students will be satisfied with you if you educate them as well as entertain them. This doesn’t mean you have to put on a neon colored clown suit, dance a jig, and sing the list of coordinating conjunctions with a tambourine in hand.

Lots of foreign students are yearning to improve their already learned English. They want to practice what they’ve read in textbooks, and they continue to want new vocab words, cool questions, and interesting expressions.

ESL students from different countries want to have fun with you and the English language.

If you can teach them and entertain them at the same time with engaging conversations, you will not only be a successful teacher, but also a thriving entrepreneur. So how can you do this?

Ask questions!

People love it when others ask them questions. They feel like the center of attention. They feel important. They feel respected. As a result, students will feel satisfied with you if you shower them with questions, famous quotes, unusual proverbs, and practical vocabulary words.

Students want and need compelling conversations!

If you can deliver on this, they will reward you with money. It’s win-win!

This is the key to your success and happiness.

So check this out, awhile back I met the faculty advisor for the University of Southern California Conversation Partners Program, Eric Roth. We met online, and he’s a nice guy who co-authored, “Compelling Conversations” with Toni Aberson (his mother by the way).

They came up with a unique e-book that offers teachers and ESL learners a quick resource of over 1,350 questions, over 500 quotations, over 200 proverbs, and over 450 practical vocab words. It provides enough material for an estimated 180 hours of class time!

Wow!

If you need some easy lesson materials at your command, this download is for you. Eric gave me a copy, and I was so surprised by its elegant layout, it’s thoughtful usage of quotes and proverbs that introduce the vast lists of questions upon questions to ask students.

You’ll never run out of stuff to talk about during your Skype lessons:

If you download my e-book, “How To Teach English Online and Get Money,” you will also receive a free download of 152 conversational questions and 158 vocab words that I put together. But that’s just a fraction when compared to Eric’s e-book, “Compelling Conversations.”

I firmly believe that if you’re armed with my list of questions and vocab words as well as Eric’s questions of over 1,350, you will keep your students paying for more and more package deals. Sounds good, right?

Students will be so satisfied with you that they’ll recommend you to their family and friends.

If you educate and entertain them and make them feel special, you will make money online with Skype. It works.

This part is huge…so pay attention!

Eric told me that if you get “Compelling Conversations” today, you can give away chapters or sections of the e-book to your students by email. Let me say this in a different way:

You can copy and paste sections or chapters of “Compelling Conversations” and send them to your students by email. You can use this benefit to attract more and more paying Skype students.

He also said you can printout or photocopy “Compelling Conversations” and physically give them to your students (by snail mail or in person).

He simply asks that you not give away the whole PDF file to the student (besides, if you do, they are apt to be overwhelmed by the 45 chapters, so they need you to give it to them in bit-sized chunks via email and Skype).

So you can use “Compelling Conversations” as a free bonus, and we all know, everyone loves free things!

For example, you might set up one part of your sales page like this:

Buy 5 Skype conversations (50 minutes each)
…then get 1 additional conversation for free (50 minutes)
…and also receive free email lessons taken from the e-book, “Compelling Conversations”

This bargain ends next Saturday! Hurry, hurry, hurry!

Click the PayPal “Buy Now” button, order this package, and let’s start having some compelling conversations together on Skype by using a microphone, your computer’s speakers, and I will also use my web camera.

You will see my smiling face on your computer as I talk to you. How fun :)

Teachers! Are you ready?

Okay, once you get it, let me know what you think, okay?

You’re a smart person, and I’m sure you see the benefits in grabbing “Compelling Conversations” right now. Your students (and your bank account) will thank you for it.

After you go to his website, make sure to check out the bottom of the page to get a quick sample of some of the e-book’s questions, vocabulary words, proverbs, and famous quotes.

It’s compelling…

So to recap, you will get over 1,350 questions, over 500 quotations, over 200 proverbs, and over 450 practical vocab words. It provides enough material for an estimated 180 hours of class time!

	Download it today – click the book cover to the left…

	Drum roll please!

In the article before last, I wrote about the importance of offering a free one-time trial lesson and how you should make it obvious on your website that you’re giving these away.

Check this out:

Here are the top 10 most important things you need to remember whenever you conduct your free trial lesson on Skype with a prospective ESL student:

1)  Be confident and use your web camera (they don’t need to use their web camera though).

2)  Smile non-stop.  Don’t ever let your facial expressions become too slack.

3)  Let the student do most of the talking (thus don’t you be too pushy or overly excited).

4)  Ask them questions in which you know the answers will be YES.  You’ll want them in a mindset of saying, “Yes!”

5)  Have a structured mini lesson ready.  You should have it on a Word or an Excel document so all you have to do is copy and paste the various things into the Skype chat box.

6)  Tell them the details about your great package deals and how they are better than the competition’s.  Practice what you’re going to say, and keep it as short as possible.

7)  Offer them a better deal if they say NO or just seem unsure.  For example, offer 2 free lessons when they buy 5 (normally it’s only 1 free lesson with this package of 5).

8)  Make sure to get their email address because you can send them personal lessons via email (you don’t want them to ever forget about you)

9)  Make them laugh and smile and feel relaxed.

10)  Sell them the benefits.  Talk about how they will feel more confident after practicing their English with you.  Talk about how their vocab and listening skills will increase which will help their job, their TV or movie watching experiences, or even help their personal life with native English speakers.

There you go!

These are the top 10 things you should remember every time you conduct a free trial lesson with a student on Skype.  Remember that you are also wearing the hat of a sales person, so stay positive that the student will buy a single lesson or a package deal.

You must be a salesperson more so than a teacher during your free trial lesson with a student.

If you would like to practice your free 15 minute trial lessons with me…no problem.  You can call me on Skype, and I can pretend to be a prospective student.  After your presentation, we’ll talk about the pros and cons.  You’ll get a nice critique about your free trial lesson.

Another reason you should practice with me is that it will make you more confident when you’re meeting a new prospective student.  You won’t want to be nervous with the students!

Enjoy your day!

On the spine of your online marketing strategy, you’ll find many vertebrae.

In regard to the body, the Atlas Vertebrae is the most important vertebrae.  According to ConnollyChiropractic.com, “The brain is the light and the atlas is the dimmer switch.  Do you know what happens when a dimmer switch is low, the brightness of the light decreases. When the atlas is out of position the messages from the brain are not transmitted properly to every cell in your body.”

For your online English school, your Atlas Vertebrae is the free trial lesson you should offer first-time students.  You need to give these lessons away if you want to shine the light on your message, your teaching ability.

I can’t stress it enough: you need to make it obvious that the student can meet you for a one-time trial lesson on Skype.  Make this offer known on every single page of your website or blog.

Here’s what you can say:

“Get your FREE one-time trial lesson with me on Skype for 15 minutes.”

“Do you want to talk with me for 15 minutes on Skype with your microphone?  You can do this one time…and it’s FREE.”

“FREE trial lesson!  Only 15 minutes!  FREE VIDEOCHAT with an English teacher!  One time only!”

Obviously since you’re students aren’t perfect at English, they might get confused and think your volunteering your time to teach for free…every time.

I try to make it obvious that I’m not a 100% free teacher (yet some still think I’m always free anytime).

So to help clarify what you’re about, put pictures of credit cards and PayPal logos on all of your pages.  Make statements like, “Get a free trial lesson and then decide to buy some of my cheap lessons.”

Giving away a free trial lesson is so important.  It’s the #1 reason why students will contact you!

If you’re making them pay you in order to meet you for the first time, they will be highly reluctant.  There are too many Internet scams out there, so by meeting them on Skype for free (with your web camera) will increase your sales exponentially.

Always use your web camera and smile a lot!  Smile non-stop!  Laugh and have fun too!

If you want to practice your free trial lesson with me on Skype by using a microphone and a web camera, let’s meet.

Practice makes perfect.  We’ll role play.  I’m be the student with intermediate skills, and you’ll be the teachers/sales person.  After 15 minutes, we’ll stop and discuss what’s working and what needs to be tweaked.

I’ll offer you a free 15 minute meeting so you can see I’m a real person too, and if you so desire, we can meet for longer to practice your free trial lesson/sales pitch (for a fee).

I’ll charge you about the same prices that you’ll charge your students.

Of course, like you, I’ll only give so much away for free since I need to eat and travel (my two favorite things besides my fiancée, Yuka).

Click here to check out the prices.  If you’re on a fixed income or have a strict budget, I’m happy to work out a fair deal.

I like to stay flexible.  And so remember, I’m always just an email or Skype chat away :)

Here are some links to pictures you can right click and then save to your computer.  I have no idea if the following are copyright protected or not.  If Google can have them on their site without prior permission, why not you too?  Check’em out:

Credit card pictures
PayPal pictures
Skype pictures

If you’re not familiar with this section of Google, make sure to play around with the different sizes.  You can adjust the sizes with the drop down menu at the top.

There you go!  I hope this article helps.  Have a great day!

	What a feeling to be an online English teacher!

1.  WORKING ANYPLACE YOU WANT IS SOOOO LIBERATING!

True freedom is when you can get up and travel without having to worry about your job.  Becoming a self-employed online English teacher will allow you to go, go, go anyplace you want and still have the ability to work.

We live in exciting times.  Internet is KING!

You can literally teach from a Starbucks.  Teach from a relative’s home if it has a decent connection.  Teach from the beach if you know how to use your cell phone to give your laptop an Internet connection.  Imagine the possible places you can teach English.

What freedom!

2.  MEETING INTERESTING PEOPLE FROM AROUND THE WORLD

Even before I started teaching English online, I loved to travel the world and meet new people.  It’s so amazing how people are so different yet so similar from one country to the next.  The world is huge, but it’s “small” at the same time.

Do you know what I mean?

Teaching online with Skype really allowed me to meet people from countries I’ve never stepped foot on.  I was able to form new, exciting relationships with people from Poland, Switzerland, Turkey, and Russia to name a few.

Thank you everyone!

3.  A GOOD CHALLENGE IS EXCITING AND ENHANCES PERSONAL GROWTH

I’ll be honest, it wasn’t easy for me to start my own online English school.  Check out how I felt when I first started out.  But this challenge only made me stronger.

What doesn’t kill us only makes us grow if we allow it to.

I thrive on solving problems.  Being creative is one of my defining characteristics.  I love applying logic, intuition, skill, luck, and optimism toward a mystery that needs a fixin’.

You will honestly feel like a bigger, stronger person once you make your fist sale…and that leads us to the next one:

4.  MAKING MONTHLY SALES AGAIN AND AGAIN FEELS SA-WEET

With any product or service, the first sale is always the hardest, but it’s the sweetest.  My first sale was to a student in Korea, and I will never forget her.

The feeling of her saying, yes and then getting that email from PayPal stating, “Payment received” was great.  I did it!

And soon thereafter more and more students starting saying…YES.

Getting over the initial hurdle took some time, but it got a lot easier after that.  Using momentum is a great thing…never forget that!

5.  HELPING FOLKS IMPROVE THEIR ALREADY LEARNED ENGLISH IS REWARDING

The reason I like teaching is because it’s like giving people little nuggets of gold.  They are always so excited to get something new and shiny.  It puts a smile on their face to learn, and in-turn it does the same for me.

One of the secrets to happiness that I’ve learned is to make others happy because it’s reciprocal.

I love this truth.

6.  DEVELOPING PERSONAL CONNECTIONS WITH STUDENTS IS NICE

Spending week after week with a student is interesting.  You’re bound to discover new bits of their history.  It’s nice to share similarities and differences.

Ask your students lots of questions, and you’ll not only discover things about them, but yourself as well.  A good conversation is a process of discovery that benefits both parties.

7.  LEARNING ABOUT DIFFERENT CULTURES OPENS THE MIND EVEN MORE

The only way the world will end prejudice and craziness is to know how others are different and accept it as normal.

“Normal” is relative though.  Nothing is really distinct.  Embrace people who are “other” than you.

I like being different…yet the same!

8.  SPENDING MORE TIME WITH LOVED ONES IS PERFECT

Being able to work at home gives me more time with loved ones.  Whether I’m working in the same room as my fiancée or in the next room, just being “near by” is enough to make me feel more comfortable.

And since I can travel and visit family and work at the same time, it’s a perfect situation to be with everyone and not lose out on making money.

Doing all of this at the same time is ideal!  Who wants to spend half of their waking life away from the ones who matter?

9.  NOT RELYING ON A CORPORATION TO FEED US IS ESSENTIAL

When I worked in Japan, I thought I had job security because I was working for the largest English conversation school in the country.  But in the end, the ship sank, and I didn’t get paid.  I missed out on around $5,000 worth of earned wages.

And in this new world economy, working for a corporation is no guarantee of lifelong job security.  CEO’s are only concerned with increasing profits for the next quarter, and if that means that have to outsource and lay people off, they will do it.

They will do whatever it takes to make the shareholders happy…NOT the employees who got them there (just look at Wal-Mart).

So it’s best to work for yourself.  If you can trust yourself to work hard and put you as #1 then you’ll do fine.  And if you can figure out other ways to diversify your income, you’ll be even more secure.

Teaching online can free you up to find other online gigs or other business opportunities to find in your community to make money.  Throw enough stuff up on the wall and eventually something will stick!

10.  FEELING SIGNIFICANT TO THE WORLD COMMUNITY ROCKS

Feeling wanted and important is essential  to our well-being.  When students come to you and ask for help feels great when we can give them what they want.

You have English as your mother-tongue.  This is a gift to the world.  We are lucky.  Let’s not waste it.  Share what you know.  Teach.  Get respect.  Help others grow and you will grow too.

You are significant.  We all are when we work together.

Thank you Internet!

Thank you Skype!

Thank you World!