How we set up online
We were approached recently by a fellow teacher looking to venture online, asking for advice and what our biggest challenges have been in the set up of our online business. It´s very nice to meet fellow teachers and to be able to give each other advice. It´s a great job. Delivering classes online and the convenience of working from home is wonderful, especially when it´s cold outside; the kettle is never far away, remember it´s just as convenient for your students, there are many more pros than cons that have come of our student survey.
In answer to our fellow teacher, our biggest challenge has been the SEOs of our webpage, we tried to do it all ourselves, which was fun but quite challenging at times, we created the webpages ourselves through GoDaddy, we have one in English and the other in Spanish, our links are below, please take a look. They were very simple to do, however our SEOs overcame our capabilities, so we were unsearchable! if you happened to have been looking on google for an English teacher online, you would not have found us, so this has to be our biggest drawback, but definitely not one to stop us, as there is a solution to almost every problem, we just needed to find it! This is however an ongoing battle today. Although there is no shortage of students as English is very much in demand, it´s possible to create a client base through other means.
We have found students through local advert webpages, (in Spain: milanuncios has been our most successful) the best and most guaranteed method is word of mouth from previous face to face and online students; friends and family recommendations; business cards and flyers. As far as social network goes we have a Facebook page, a Google+ account; Twitter; YouTube; two blogs, Tumbler and Blogger, a Pinterest account will follow shortly and we are always open to new avenues that pop-up constantly in this fast-paced online world.
Finding our classroom platform was quite something too! we had a huge list of possible platforms that were being crossed off for various reasons (be it: connection; screen share options; online blackboard; video and audio share, there were many things to look into that some had and others didn’t), we finally chose Zoom.us and highly recommend them.
We are very pleased to hear that other teachers are looking into the online business, and would recommend that they go ahead. There are many blogs out there which have really good information, that have helped us many a time, where you will see that it really is possible. If there is anything we can do for you, please get in touch; we would be more than happy to help out.
All the best,
Virtual English Teacher Online.
All the best,
Virtual English Teacher Online.
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