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Hey thanks but I enjoy editing them myself for now.

Hey big thank you! Appreciate that. Will have more videos coming out soon. Let me know if there are any specific topics you'd like to cover?

@@J.Hammond a walk through of actually sourcing the groups from different social media channels would be crazy helpful I believe. No one so far has done something even remotely close to that

@@akiljackson8119 Hey I actually had that included in the first version of this video, but that video was over 40 min and I needed to severely cut it down and prioritize the most important parts for UA-cam. I do, however, have a walkthrough and recording in the Private Teacher Kickstart program. I made it based on sourcing groups if I were teaching Albanian as I was helping a student with that anyways, but happy to make another and more detailed recording too. Did you have a chance to check out the program?

@@J.Hammond don't worry I already checked out your website and I plan purchasing that along with any additional content you offer. I really want to go private

@@akiljackson8119 Hey sounds great. Feel free to reach out if you have any questions at all. My email is justin@privateteacherblueprint.com

Hey Lynne, in my case almost all my students were Russian-speakers living in Russia, Ukraine, or neighbouring countries because I speak Russian as well (leaned language), although I never used it in my lessons. Students often don't reside in my timezone and I usually prefer that they don't. I much prefer working during the day, 9-5 like most regular people so I strongly preferred working with students who were several hours ahead of me as they were often only available for lessons during the evenings after school/work, which would be daytime for me. That's the beauty of going private and teaching online. Somewhere in the world there are students wanting to take lessons at a time that lines up with when you prefer working. Happy to answer any other questions you might have

Hey Cristoff, great question. Totally understand not wanting to 'sell your soul to social media'. It's definitely not the ONLY way, but under the limitations of a strategy that is both "free" and "fast" without relying on your inner-circle for referrals or dishonestly poaching students from teaching platforms, then it is how I recommend getting started. There are a couple of things to consider here: 1) You won't have to do this forever. It's not a long-term strategy but it is great for building your initial student base. 2) It's not a huge time commitment, 15-20 min./day max is more than enough. 3) Once you're making money, it's super simple to outsource social media work and have an assistant create and post content for you. I recommend it because it's free and that's super important to most teachers, especially new ones starting out without the budget to do things like run paid ads or advertise their lessons in groups. At the end of the day though, teaching is an extremely personal thing. Students don't only just want a teacher, but also someone they vibe well with in the lessons. So unlike a an impersonal brand like a tech company, your face/identity is your brand and it's going to be extremely difficult to avoid putting your image/presence into social media in some capacity. If I may ask, what is specifically about posting to social media that makes you feel like you're selling your soul? Is it the time commitment? Or putting your image online? Or something else? Perhaps with knowing that I can better answer this question for you :) Thank you for watching and commenting!

Thanks for the reply I guess it's the fact that I'm quite a reserved person who values his anonymity. I dunno why to be totally honest, it's just how i feel about it... I have toyed with the idea of creating an instagram account with daily posts but more so about english vocab etc, without my image, a kind of faceless account. Though, like you say, I can imagine it would be far less effective.... So I feel stuck. I understand the potential social media has....but I'm just not comfortable with plastering cringey vids of myself out there... Any feedback or suggestions are much welcome! Thank you

@@cristoff3 Hey thanks for elaborating on that. You're right that a faceless brand would be "less" effective, but certainly not "ineffective". In fact, neither of the two things I'm suggesting you do in the social media groups involve showing your face beyond your profile picture. You're answering questions/comments that people are asking in the groups. This is just a text-based response and all the person will see is your Facebook profile picture. If you're answering comments in Reddit, you could even keep it totally anyonmous. Same thing with the value-based posts. Only your name and profile pic would be seen. If you were still concerned about your name/face being shows on posts, I might encourage you to consider going by a nickname on your Facebook account and using a profile picture that doesn't show your face (for example a pic of you from behind standing on a hill). That way you still look like a real human while staying totally anonymous up until the point of students actually booking you for trial lessons. Would that work for you?