Building Your Online Teaching Business

Creating an independent online ESL tutoring business is a great alternative for ESL teachers. Often times creating the content material to deliver a well-structured program becomes a challenge. The good news is that we are taking care of that, and we are doing all the heavy lifting, making this extraordinary interactive content available to you and your students free of charge. So, you can check that off your list. But you are not done yet, there are a couple more things you need to think of, in order to put together your ESL Online Teaching business. 

Basics of the online tutoring business

In a nutshell, the main idea behind an online teaching business is to give your students the possibility to discover, review and practice learning concepts with asynchronous content material and online tools, as well as to deliver an online live class experience that allows them to use your expertise to direct them through the program, answer any questions they may have and more importantly; allow them to practice the concepts reviewed in the asynchronous content by having one on one conversations with you, or with other students in the online virtual classroom; which bring us now to the core of our topic for this post on how to solve for that. 

Communicating with students remotely.

In order to deliver live classes online, a tool that can deliver clear video and audio is essential. The good news is that there is an array of free and paid video conferencing tools that can be used to satisfy this requirement and to get your online ESL teaching business running right away. 

We can literally supply you with a list of tenths of video conferencing providers but, we just want to make this simple for you and narrow it down to the Google Hangouts solution. In our opinion “hangouts” is an excellent choice to begin your online ESL teaching business. Reason number one; this tool is extremely powerful, and second, you and your students can use it for free. 

Google Hangouts It is possibly the most popular free video conferencing tool. Google Hangouts is a Google product that offers free video conferencing services. All you need in order to get google hangouts is to open a Gmail email account if you do not have one already. There is no need to install anything on your computer simply access the software at https://hangouts.google.com/

Collecting money for your online ESL teaching services. 

Well... looks like we have solved for two very important pieces of your online ESL teaching business. Being online means that your student universe just got bigger and even though you may get some local students, there is also a big possibility that your students are in a geographic area remote from where you are. We have now the means to provide asynchronous content and an online live class for these students but, How do you get paid?

You have got to love technology and the era we live in. As with video conferencing tools, there are tons of tools available to process payments on the internet. Paypal, is possibly the largest payment provider and it is available in most countries, which makes it a great choice. There are also a number of telephone apps that you can now use for this purpose, such as cash.app and Zelle. These are just a few we decided to mention here because we know of their popularity and their simplicity to use but, there is a lot of information available on the internet that will allow you to compare the many available these and the many other products available in order for you to make the choice that best fits your needs. 

We hope the information provided within this post has given you the additional information you need in order to get your online ESL teaching business running. There is a very important topic that we still need to cover in relation to promoting your business, and we will get to that in a future post. Right now, it is important for you to put your video conferencing tool together, run a couple test with a friend to fully familiarize with the product and make sure you have at least one online available payment method.