How to Start A Successful Online Teaching Business
Starting Your Online Teaching Business
Today you’ll learn 5 beginner steps for How to Start a Successful Online Teaching Business. Don’t worry, I’m going to break everything down really simple to get you off on the right track👌🏽.
Now when I say online business, I’m talking about a freedom based business which essentially is a business that you can do from home or anywhere of your choice. Think coffee shops, libraries, hotels, your dining room table, or the beach. 🏖
Oh, incase you didn’t know. I have been teaching for over 10 years and I have been in your shoes, well actually I’m still in your shoes, so I totally get how you may be overwhelmed, confused and intimidated but rest assured, you got this and you owe it to yourself to want more out of life than what teaching can and will give you.
Oh, and I created a free resource for you to keep. 5-Step Starter Teacher Business Checklist, so make sure you grab it below.
Now lets go 👇
Craft Your Vision for Your Online Teaching Business
The first step in starting a successful online teaching business is to craft your vision 💭.
When I say vision I don’t want you to be vague but to actually be very specific. The reason for you crafting a vision first is because you need something that will drive you past the pain and frustration. Something that you can turn to when you want to give up and decide that the little progress and discomfort you are feeling is not worth it.
Contrary to what you may believe, your vision should include more personal things than business. When you tie your vision into your personal goals, wants, needs and desires this will encourage you to keep going and DON’T STOP. Your vision should be at least 1 page long and include all the details for the next 3-5 years. Be sure to include all the important points below:
Be specific, write it down, and post it somewhere that you can see it daily.
Finding Your Online Teaching Business Niche
Ok, just the word “Niche” makes me feel stressed out when I hear it 😧.
First off, some of you might be asking what is a “Nche”. When trying to find your teacher business niche think about what you will be doing and for whom you will be doing it for while also being as specific as possible.
I name who I’m serving and what I am doing for them. But I make sure to include what my special attraction would be. I could have easily just said “helping kindergarten-3rd graders read short reading passages” but I mentioned 10-minute daily passages which will entice any parent who is short on time to think, ok I have 10 minutes a day that I could do this with my child.
Don’t stress about picking a niche. You can always fine-tune it later. Done is better than perfect. Write a couple of different sentences with a few niche ideas down on some paper and see which one you resonate with more.
When thinking about your mission think about what is the impact you want to have or the change that you want to see. It doesn’t have to be long, a couple of sentences will suffice.
If were going along with the previous example of helping children read, and example of a mission statement could be “I want to empower younger children to learn how to read fluently on their own so that they can have a love of reading to be successful in school and read on grade level”.
It’s simple and to the point while still explaining what change you want to see with children.
Your values are the personality behind your business/brand. One quick way to come up with some adjectives is to google examples of adjectives or use chatgpt.
Remember were starting a business, so you need to write down your mission and vision statement or keep a running Google doc with all this important info.
Low Tech for Your Online Teaching Business
Tech for starting any business can seem scary, and while it will sometimes want to make you pull your hair out, just remember there is always a youtube video for everything. I mean its not called YouTube University for nothing. Below I have listed some of the tech that you will most likely need and some of the resources that were helpful for me when just getting started.
2. website-Tyler from youtube has a 2-hour-long video walking you through how to create a website from scratch.
3. gmail-you need to be organized and have a place to access blank doc sheets to write ideas/blog posts and anything else. I use Google Docs because its free and simple and I use their calendar to help with planning.
4. canva- all things beautiful can be created in Canva from e-books to logos. You literally can create anything in Canva. You can create a free account or create a pro account for only $15 a month.
5. email marketing provider- your going to have to collect email addresses from your audience so your going to need email marketing provider. There a ton of different companies you could use so you may want to do your research but I currently use convertkit. They have a free plan for starter businesses and they have templates for landing pages and forms that you could put on your website.
Email List Building
One of the most stressful things for me when I started my business was trying to understand and wrap my head around “email list building”. So I’m going to try and break it down as quickly and simple as possible.
First, what is the point of an email list? Let’s be real, social media is great, but we don’t own any of those platforms.
⚠️Did you hear about what could happen to Tiktok??? A BAN???? So with that being said you need to have something that you own and that no one could ever take away.
Step 1:Create your freebie. You can create a….
Step 2:Create a landing page in Convertkit or any other email marketing provider and then link your freebie in your landing page.
Step 3:Publish your Landing Page and post it in your bio on your social pages and on your website if you have one.
Remember the goal is to just get started with your online teaching business. No one said it has to be done in a day.
Take it one day at a time remember this is all a learning curve, even for me.
But if your anything like me and need some help with deciding what your teacher path should be, take my Free Teacher Path Quiz. You can get your results in as little as 2 minutes.
