by Elena Mutonono | Jun 1, 2017 | Business creativity, Teacherpreneur
Have you ever tried a bland dish? No spices, no substance, no particular color? Just a water-like looking soup with some food scraps swimming in there? Years ago I tried a soup like that for the first time – my brief initiation into blandness. In this post I...
by Elena Mutonono | May 25, 2017 | Small business story, Teacherpreneur
I met Veronika Palovska at the end of 2014… in the Udemy comment section to my first online course. A few months later she signed up for my newsletter, read all of my early-days blog posts on a wordpress template that would hurt your eyes even if you...
by Elena Mutonono | May 18, 2017 | Price setting, Teacherpreneur
Remember when you were a kid and your mom told you to eat something you hated? How did you do it? I’ve done it with my son to get him to eat green beans. I watch him reluctantly put a piece of a previously-chewed green back into his mouth, close his eyes,...
by Elena Mutonono | May 11, 2017 | Price setting, Teacherpreneur
That great piece of advice you’ve heard at conferences before? “Charge what you’re worth!” Useless. How do you know your worth? There’s no worth appreciation agent who could appraise your worth. What I found is people can’t estimate their worth...
by Elena Mutonono | May 4, 2017 | Client search, Price setting, Small business story
I started my business by charging $15 per hour for language lessons. It was a welcome upgrade from the stressful College teaching job I’d had prior. Within 6 months I discovered that exchanging my time for money impacted my physical well-being and my productivity. It...