by Elena Mutonono | Mar 23, 2017 | Course creation, Small Product, Teacherpreneur
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”...
by Elena Mutonono | Mar 16, 2017 | Online teaching formats, Teacherpreneur
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...
by Elena Mutonono | Feb 23, 2017 | Teacherpreneur, Teacherpreneurship
Do you remember the saying “always a bridesmaid but never a bride?” It first appeared in the US in 1925, thanks to the Listerine mouthwash commercial (implying that women who used it had better chances of getting married). It is widely used these days to speak...
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 | Feb 2, 2017 | Teacherpreneur, Teacherpreneurship
I have a confession to make. It’s my secret obsession and my other big passion, almost as big as online teacherpreneurship. It’s the Ukrainian version of the Voice show. Does it sound pathetic? Once a year as the next season is starting, I’m there, every Sunday...