by Elena Mutonono | Feb 16, 2017 | Small business story, Teacher Training, Teacherpreneur, Teacherpreneurship
Monetizing your blog can challenge us, online teachers. This is where our scarcity mindset kicks in: I can’t monetize, it may turn off my readers. I want to monetize, but I don’t know how. I want to launch a product, but would people buy it? Not too...
by Elena Mutonono | Feb 9, 2017 | Teacher Training, Teacherpreneur
A little over a year ago I received an email from Leandra King telling me she had been following my blog and had just bought my “Opted Out” book. I have to say that it felt surreal after almost a year of blogging with sparse comments to have received an...
by Elena Mutonono | Jan 5, 2017 | Teacher Training, Teacherpreneur, Teacherpreneurship
It’s a new year, folks! Which means a lot of people are ready to get on with their resolutions. Many online teachers dream of a full schedule, being completely booked or having to squeeze juuuuust one more student. Is that you? I wonder why this is such...
by Elena Mutonono | Dec 15, 2016 | Teacher Training, Teacherpreneur, Teacherpreneurship
At the end of 2014 when my first successful online tutoring business fell apart due to economic and political troubles in Russia and Ukraine (2 main countries I worked with), I had to start from scratch. That was when I first heard that one can work less and make...
by Elena Mutonono | Dec 8, 2016 | Teacher Training, Teacherpreneur, Teacherpreneurship
One of my favorite shops in New Orleans where I live is called Scriptura – it’s a 20-year-old business that sells unique products: hand-made cards, leather journals, notepads, fountain pens (!), hot-wax seals and other writer’s joys. What I...
by Elena Mutonono | Oct 20, 2016 | Teacher Training, Teacherpreneur
Why create a product? Do you remember the first time you asked yourself, “What if I created a product and sold it?” Perhaps you were tired of all the 1:1 skype lessons you were teaching. Maybe you wanted to toy with the idea of the so-called passive income. Or...