Elena Mutonono's Blog for Smart Online Teaching
Strategies and Case Studies for Online Language Teachers Moving Away from 1:1 Hustle
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How to Treat Money when You’re an Online Entrepreneur
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,...
How to charge what you’re worth and not feel greedy or guilty
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...
How to stop charging by the hour and begin working smarter
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...
How to get unstuck in your online business: Silvia Perrone on waking her creative genius
I had an epiphany the other day when I was thinking about conducting interviews for my blog. Many people advise to interview "the stars," but what I found with the "stars" and "gurus" is a) they're busy; b) their advice may be over people's heads. So instead of...
How to make your online course small, sexy and sellable.
Let me walk you through the typical, speedy course creation process. "I'm so sick and tired of my clients making the same mistakes." "I'm so exhausted coaching folks 1:1. Wow, these mistakes would make great content for a wonderful course!" "I'm just going to...
5 Lies about Course Creation that can Ruin your Next Online Course
I can’t believe it. One more Facebook ad about a magic tip on how to create a course. One more email with a request to focus less on the “core message and marketing,” but more on the “real meat,” like, what mic to use or what camera has a better angle or...
Why online courses fail to help you succeed and how to fix it.
Getting course-ready Remember the feeling when you decided to buy that one specific course because you believed, with your whole heart, that it was going to solve your problems? You felt like your time was running out, and that course would help you beat it....
How to Engage with Your Audience After the Launch: 5 Tips
And they lived happily ever after… Two silhouettes holding hands, moving away to the horizon, slowly melting in the sunset. We love happy endings, don’t we? Yet despite Hollywood jolly pictures we know from experience that “the happily ever after”...
How smart online work moves you from apathy to joy.
Elfin Waters (a cuppa-ccino-and-Italy-loving soul) was one of my first readers back in 2015 when I was (literally) writing weekly for the void behind my computer screen (more on "the void" in my book "Music in the Silence.") At the time I had no idea who was...
How to Spark Connection and Engagement on Instagram
Someone asked an interesting question in our Smart Teacher’s Library forum the other day: “What is a connection with your followers on Instagram and how do you know when you have it?” To help explore this topic today I’ve invited Elfin Waters, who is an online...
How to Create Friendly and Memorable Images on Instagram
Now that you’ve updated your Instagram bio so it’s clear and compelling, let’s look at another important aspect of building your community on Instagram — visual storytelling. I’ve noticed that it’s one of the things that’s hard to understand because there’s usually an...
How to Write a Stellar Instagram Bio
Does your Instagram bio look like an itemized emoji list that consists of unconnected words and phrases? Do you run out of space trying to explain to the newcomers what exactly you do, for whom and why? Do you wonder how to communicate your business vision in a couple...