Topic: Ok, Making Money Lesson 1

[Duckbill]

The ESL Crowd comes in three varieties

1)the young guy or gal looking for adventure and decide to teach because it's the only job they can get out of their homeland.

2) The guy or gal escaping from something back home

3) The guy or gal who's got family in another country and it's the only job they can get supporting their family.

Yeah there's some do-gooder bleeding hearts out there tryin' to change the world, but they fit in one of the three groups, they just ain't willing to admit it.

I'm tired of reading stories on this site about people getting fcuked over by their job. I could say change careers if you don't like it, but for those in group 2 or 3, you don't have much choice but grin and suck up to your boss. You don't have to anymore. I'm providing a free course here and I'm gonna show you how to do something different and break free. This is lesson 1 on How to Make Money.

 

First off, how do you make money? Well, we're gonna start from the ground floor and I'm gonna consider that you're broke as a street beggar on an empty soi. I'm gonna show you how to make money on the net. All you need is a computer, or access to one(maybe your school computer) and access to the net.

Ok, let's get started. In lesson 1, you need to first think of a product or offer you could make a website for. It's probably best to make it something you know about or have a passion about. Dating, mobile phones, computers, chocolate chip cookies, you name it, you can monetize it.

I like the Google Keyword Tool at :
https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal

Use it to look up the value of keywords and what kind of search volume they have. It may not mean much, but in a few lessons, you'll understand why.

Now I want you to get a website. There's tons of free sites out there, wordpress.com,  blogspot.com and googlepages are just three places to get free websites.  All three can serve our purposes, but I'd err towards Blogspot as a good place to start.

Sign up for a blogspot.com account and in less than 5 minutes you'll have a website ready to use. Now start making some damn post on your blog. Keep them related to your site and make about a dozen of them, make no more than 1 or 2 a day. Once you got at least 10 posts up, then you're ready for lesson 2.

[los_teacher]

Highly offensive opening if you don't mind my saying so.

As for the rest - quack, quack, quack....

[Duckbill]

You said it's offensive, but ya didn't say if it was the truth?

Take lesson 1 and do what you will with it. I'm giving at least 3 lessons, to the point where you teachers can make enough money to teach for the love of teaching.

 

[los_teacher]

Not true.

If you are sincerely trying to offer advice then the offensive comments aren't necessary.

[anyonefortennis]

When's lesson two?

[Duckbill]

Lesson 2 is on the weekend, It should take a week to complete lesson 1 the right way.

[RobRoy]

When is the next lesson?

[smilingnow]

You have my attention.  I always like to hear how to make money.

I'm waiting for lesson number 2.


(The poster formerly known as Freedom Fighter)

[bomha]

Down at pub, I and Canuck  and Yank  were moaning into our draught beer and Yank asked, "How do we escape burnout? How do we get the feck out of teaching 44 kids who do not want to learn English, and four kids in the front row who are drowned out by the phony cacophony?"  Yank waxes lyric at times when he's pissed.  After ordering and quaffing another round of draught, we tried to think of who we knew in the TEFL business that was reasonably happy.  We thought of the Kiwi who only tutors Japanese in math.  We thought of the Welshman who only tutors Koreans in social studies and history.  And the lady from South Africa who only tutors expatriate's children from the fancy international schools.

Tutors, every last tooting one of them.  We do not think one of them is legal, but they are happy and they have escaped burnout.  And they are no better qualified than the lot of us.  And sometimes they make 800 baht per hour to be teaching one fairly attentive, bright, motivated student who speaks English well.  And, we all staggered home, jealous as hell.