Hands up who’d like to be the boss! 10 reasons why running a language school sucks Banks and investors won’t give you money until the moment when you don’t need it anymore A long day means 12-13 hours. Weekends and holidays are great for catching up on your work backlog. No matter who you hire, [...]
Archive for December 2010
10 reasons why running a language school sucks
Posted 31 December 2010 by danielTagged As: | Categories: For EFL / ESL teachers, For school mangers / owners | Leave a Comment
Earn €1000 in 3 blogposts! Part 3
Posted 30 December 2010 by danielTagged As: | Categories: For EFL / ESL teachers | Leave a Comment
How to price your private lessons so you earn more money and waste less time! – part 3 Welcome to post 3 in a 3 part series: “Earn €1000 in 3 blogposts!”. If you haven’t read posts 1 and 2 yet, it would be a good idea to do that now: Part 1 is here: http://blog.imparareinglese.co.uk/2010/earn-e1000-from-3-blogposts-part-1/ [...]
10 reasons why running your own business rocks!
Posted 29 December 2010 by danielTagged As: | Categories: For school mangers / owners | Leave a Comment
Ever thought of running your own business? Here’s 10 reasons why it really rocks! You get to learn lots of new stuff on company time Nobody says: “You can’t do that. It’s not your job!” Chatting to people IS work You control what you do, and when and where you do it Take holidays whenever [...]
Earn €1000 in 3 blogposts! Part 2
Posted 29 December 2010 by danielTagged As: | Categories: For EFL / ESL teachers | Leave a Comment
How to price your private lessons so you earn more money and waste less time! Welcome to post 2 in a 3 part series: “Earn €1000 in 3 blogposts!”. If you haven’t read post 1 yet, it would be a good idea to do that now: http://blog.imparareinglese.co.uk/2010/earn-e1000-from-3-blogposts-part-1/ In the previous post we covered the demand and [...]
Earn €1000 from 3 blogposts: Part 1
Posted 28 December 2010 by danielTagged As: | Categories: For EFL / ESL teachers | 2 Comments
Earn €1000 in 3 blogposts! This post is for EFL / ESL teachers, who are by and large badly-paid and reliant on earning a little extra cash here and there! How to price your private lessons so you earn more money and waste less time! The first step to being AT LEAST €1000 richer as [...]
All about Christmas..
Posted 23 December 2010 by danielTagged As: | Categories: For EFL / ESL teachers, For school mangers / owners | Leave a Comment
I’ve been experimenting with making training videos. Helped by Hannah. Click the link to see our first attempt! Pros and cons of Christmas
Killing time..
Posted 20 December 2010 by danielTagged As: | Categories: For school mangers / owners | 1 Comment
Got four minutes before giving a training session on “Blogging with WordPress” for teachers in our Italian language school. So, just to use the time productively, here’s a summary: “Blogging with WordPress is easy and fun, when you get the hang of it.” Did the same thing with the teachers of the English school last [...]
How to connect your blog to Facebook..
Posted 7 December 2010 by danielTagged As: | Categories: For school mangers / owners | 1 Comment
I’m using WordPress, said to be very easy. And guess what? It IS very easy! Just navigate to the plug-in menu, select “add new” search for “Facebook”, and browse the available plug-ins. Choose “install”, then “activate”. Finally, go to “Settings”, find the name of your plug-in, and personalise your settings. Easier than I thought it [...]