Freelance Teachers

How to start up your freelance teaching business and find students successfully

A website to help teachers start up their freelance business, get more business and find students successfully!

Purpose

WHO does Freelance Teachers – Training help?

Freelance teaching can cover a gazillion niches. Being a professional English trainer (as I am) is just one such niche. The articles you find here will help unfog how you can turn your freelance teaching market into a successful business. FTT job is to show you how to start up, run, market and manage your freelance business.

It doesn’t matter whether you are a freelancer teaching English, or teaching belly dancing; or you are a teacher of martial sport arts, or you’re a music teacher such as a drummer or guitarist, or you work as a  computer trainer or life coach…

We all need to know the hows-and-whats of what must be put into place to successfully work and earn our living as freelancers. Only the teaching business changes.

FTT is designed to help all teachers, trainers and coaches who have become freelancers by chance (or by fate) as well as those who have become freelancers by choice.

FTT focuses on giving freelance teachers a structure on how to effectively become successful professional freelancers .

HOW does Freelance Teachers – Training help?

FTT focuses on how teachers can market themselves.

Marketing! Yes, I’m aware of the love/hate relationship teachers have to marketing...

Yes, I know that most teachers think marketing is either personal selling or advertising – something that is pushy and where you are imposing yourself on others.

However, FTT’s approach to marketing your services focuses on building relationships and friendships and on helping other people – your students and customers. When you focus your freelance teaching business to serving them… when you use your teaching skills to help them meet their needs… you are not selling your services! Instead, you are offering a valuable service to your students and customers; one that will help them meet their personal needs.

If your services are valuable to others, then you are doing a disservice by not letting them know about you.

There is nothing dishonest or pushy about learning the tools so your students know you even exist. Neither is it dishonest or pushy to show them your passion and your skills as a freelance teacher. Nor is there a need to be apologetic about marketing yourself as a freelance teacher.  Instead, it’s FTT’s aim to show an honest approach to Marketing by presenting methods that will reflect your personality, your integrity and your ability as a professional in your chosen teaching field.

So… go to the top of this page and subscribe to the FTT Ezine to ensure you are kept up todate with the latest articles, templates, and workshops because:

FTT is going to help turn your freelancing business into a professional, viable and thriving business rather than a stressful, unreliable and insecure sideline.

WHAT are the problems most freelance teachers have to cope with?

• Not getting enough customers or students
• Not retaining customers or students
• Not getting the type of customer or student you prefer or want
• Not being paid commensurate to your abilities and qualifications
• Not being visible on the market
• Lack of job security
• Coping with too much versus not enough work
• Loneliness

WHERE does Freelance Teachers – Training help?

FTT reaches out to all freelance teachers, trainers and coaches with ideas, tips, and instructions on running your freelancer teaching business:

• Specialisation:
  How to find the teaching area and type of customers you want, etc
• Professional Image:
  How to present yourself  in front of your customers or students
• Individualising:
  How to individualise the teaching materials for your customers and students
• Pricing:
  How to charge the real value of your services
• Positioning:
  How to establish yourself on the market
• Brand:
  How to create your uniqueness factor to establish your own individual brand
• Online presence:
  How to set up your online presence and instantly get (and keep) the attention of the customer
• Contact:
  FTT’s NEST (teacher’s forum) combats loneliness. It’s a safe zone. Ask your questions or give advice, or just keep in contact…

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