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How NOT to Start Teaching ESL English Online
hey guys my name is Chris americo's and
in this video I'm going to tell you all
about how to start your est Jean career
or your English teaching career and the
reason I decided to make this video is
because there's so much misinformation
out there people who were telling you
that you need to get a certificate or a
piece of paper a diploma and there's so
many people out there who have these
pieces of paper and they don't know
anything all of that is complete crap so
let me clear that up for you right now a
piece of paper is not going to make
money for you some people think that you
have to have years and years of
experience in order to be successful at
this I've been doing this for 10 years I
became successful after a year and a
half and most of the people who I know
in this industry who have become hugely
successful did so in under five years so
let me tell you what you need to know if
you're just getting started in the ESL
industry or the teaching English as a
foreign language industry and I'll try
to make this video really quick because
I do respect your time and respect the
fact that you're watching this video so
here's the information that you need to
know when you're getting into this first
of all you need to know that you're
making two investments by starting down
this path the first is an investment of
money if you decide to get a certificate
or do a certificate program if you
decide to work for a school if you
decide to do anything in this industry
you're going to make a money investment
now your financial investment might not
be as large depending on what you choose
but for a lot of people the financial
investment starts very high when they
get into this career path the time
investment is something that most people
don't consider and they really need to
consider this the time you invest in
looking for a job or getting a
certificate and then looking for a job
is also time that you could have
invested into yourself and building
something that would have brought you
profit or income for the rest of your
life so that's really something to keep
in mind because there's a lot of
companies out there that are trying to
get you to buy things and spend your
time on things and you really don't need
that crap so this is our recurring theme
throughout this video your investment of
time and your investment of money
because a lot of people don't consider
that when they start down this career
path and the first thing we need to talk
about in terms of investing your time
and your money is those horrendous TEFL
certificate programs you can see them
everywhere they're always trying to get
your money you can see their ads on
every website every Google search that
you do looking for how to start a
teaching career or
how to get into ESL or how to find a
teaching job one of the first things
that's guaranteed to pop up is do your a
TEFL certification course with us now
sure those programs are going to teach
you the basics of what you need to know
as a teacher but most of those programs
aren't really going to help you get a
job at all and if it was a job that you
were looking for you would have been
better off spending that time looking
for your own students now I understand
you're new to this you don't really know
where to find students and you don't
really know what to say to them so that
they'll study with you but here's what
you need to know that piece of paper
that TEFL or CELTA or tkt whatever you
decide to get that is not going to get
you clients that is not going to get you
the job you want to know the most
important thing when you're looking for
a teaching job with a company the number
one thing is charisma if you can charm
them if you can show them that you're
charismatic if you can be outgoing these
characteristics are much stronger than
anything that's written on your resume
or any kind of certificate that you
might have and if you're being
interviewed for a worthwhile company
then they're going to ask you questions
about your English language knowledge so
it doesn't really matter if you have
that piece of paper or not just do a
google search right now learn the basics
of the English language learn the parts
of speech learn the verb tenses learn
what accountable and an uncountable noun
is learn the difference between an
infinitive in a gerund learn those
basics most temple courses aren't even
going to teach you that stuff they're
gonna feed you a bunch of bull about the
teaching environment and creating an
atmosphere that's conducive to learning
and yes that stuff is important but
you're not gonna be able to get students
with that and you're not going to get
your students results from creating a
learning atmosphere you're going to get
students results by actually delivering
information and changing what they know
about the language and how they use it
so whether your goal is to get a job and
make money or to really make a
difference in students lives having a
piece of paper is not going to do that
for you now let's go to another argument
maybe you believe that having this piece
of paper is going to make you a more
confident teacher in that case go ahead
and get your piece of paper spend your
time spend your money doing a test
learning some crap that you really don't
need to know and you probably won't ever
use I mean from my training program I
use about five 10% of
what I learned and I've been able to
open up multiple teaching businesses
I've hired lots of teachers trained
teachers have recruited teachers I mean
I've done it all in this industry and
now I help teacher set up their own
teaching businesses so really I can tell
you that you don't need that crap
instead invest your time and your money
into yourself now this is what most
companies in the ESL industry don't want
you to know they don't want you to know
that at the same time in the same money
that you invest in to these stupid TEFL
CELTA tkt programs that you could invest
into yourself and get a much better
longer-lasting result you see when you
invest your time and money into those
programs you're investing into their
company and of course they want you to
invest into their company not into yours
but what the market really needs right
now now that more students are turning
to the internet and more students are
looking for independent teachers is we
need more teacher entrepreneurs we need
more independent teachers teaching
online with their own platforms their
own websites their own products and
getting a piece of paper that says TEFL
at the top is not going to help you do
that let's face it most of the teaching
methodologies and most of the business
structures in the ESL industry have
existed for over a hundred years and
have just been regurgitated generation
after generation and right now you have
the opportunity to do something really
revolutionary invest in yourself stop
investing in other people's companies
okay maybe you're new to this industry
and you're not really looking to get a
certificate or a diploma but you just
really want to get a job right now so
you go online and Google and you're like
okay English teaching jobs online teach
online and you come up with a bunch of
results about some companies called like
VIP kid or I tutor group or ABC tutor or
lots of those kinds of companies they're
everywhere so why not try it out right
well what you don't know is you're gonna
spend weeks applying and then if they
actually hire you they're going to hire
you at a low rate they're not gonna hire
you at the rate in the advertisement
after that they're only going to give
you a few hours every week and you're
going to have to really really really
work extremely hard to get more out
and then after that you're not going to
be able to secure those hours and
probably you're going to have different
students every time you teach now if you
don't believe me because you know I'm
just another guy on the internet then go
ahead and try it yourself go spend your
time invest your time into their
companies and see what you get out of it
come back to this video in about a year
and beat yourself up and say you know
what I could have invested in myself I'm
not saying that you can't find a great
job teaching English for somebody else
online what I am saying is that when you
spend that time working for someone else
and investing in their company investing
your time in their company right it
doesn't matter that you're not spending
money it doesn't matter that you're
making a little bit of money from their
company and they have the clients they
have the students and they're you know
just giving you the work hours and
they're paying you for it you're just
selling your time for money when you
could be creating something for yourself
that reduces the amount of time that you
spend and increases the amount of money
that you make instead what you're doing
is becoming a cog in their machine and
generating more money for them well
they're spending no time why not invest
in yourself okay so now you've done your
Google search you've found lots of
different options one of them was a TEFL
certification program and you understand
right now why that's not worth it that
piece of paper really means nothing then
you moved on then you said okay let me
just find a job let me just get paid a
little bit of money right now right
because you thought it was gonna be fast
but no surprise you're gonna spend a
long time applying to their program
applying to their company and then once
you actually start working for them only
a little bit of the time that you spend
is actually going to get paid so you
move on to the next option you say well
there's lots of platforms or I can just
sign up and I can list myself as a
teacher there and I can decide how much
money I take and that's great because I
control how much I make I control how
much students pay when they study with
me right some of these platforms that
teachers get trapped in our wiz IQ pal
fish-eye talky yeah there's all kinds of
them out there because what is it it's
just another trap it's an online
platform where you're going to say that
you're going to teach someone and the
student can find you you can sit there
and you can get lessons but you and the
student have to spend your time and the
platform doesn't have to spend any time
the platform still takes a percent
of what you make so whatever price you
list they're going to charge higher or
they're going to charge more or you know
they're gonna tell you ahead of time
that they take a percentage so again
you're investing your time into somebody
else's company you're building their
platform you're helping them make money
when you could be making it yourself and
investing in yourself and keeping this
for your entire future why not build
your career instead of building somebody
else's business and the main thing you
need to know about this is that at any
moment they can change the terms of how
they work with you on their platform and
the end they own that platform and you
need to build your own platform
that's why you need to invest in
yourself now what does it mean to invest
in yourself why do I keep saying this
over and over again right invest in
yourself invest in yourself you want to
just teach English or teach ESL and
maybe you want to do it online maybe you
want to go abroad and teach but
everywhere you go everywhere you look
all of these people are trying to take
advantage they're all trying to make you
invest your time and get very little in
return they're trying to make you invest
your money and you know you're just
going to be helping them build their
business and you're not really getting
anything for yourself so how can you
really do that well let's take a look at
other players in this market there are
people out there who are independent
teachers who are teaching on skype they
find students online I mean you can find
them everywhere you can find them on
Facebook you can find them on WeChat you
can find them on VK you can find them
anywhere I even get students off of
Instagram and that's where another
category of players in this industry
comes into play there are people out
there who claim that they can help you
get started as an ESL teacher they can
make you an independent teacher they can
help you set up a teaching business and
hey to be honest I'm one of those guys
too I have a free program and a paid
program that shows teachers how to set
up their own teaching business how to
make money how to get clients all of
that and maybe I'm a little biased but I
think that investing in yourself and
building something of your own is much
better than wasting time getting a piece
of paper or getting a job or if you've
already got a job it's a great idea to
start investing in yourself but here's
the question you need to ask before you
join any kind of program that's going to
show you how to set up your own teaching
business you need to do your research
I mean don't believe a guy on the
Internet just go do your research to go
do your homework
go look me up
go look at what else I've done and what
other people have done and you can
compare and you can see whose program
you like more you need to ask questions
like have they actually set up a
successful teaching business themselves
you would be surprised the type of
people who are out there who haven't set
up their own teaching business you can
go to my company's website and you can
see that there are other teachers
working for me right now you can go to
my personal website and you can see the
courses that I offer you can go to my
different groups and pages on social
media sites and you can see all of the
people who are subscribed and following
and yada yada yada you can also see some
of the teachers that I've helped get
results and help them set up their own
teaching businesses so that's what you
want to be looking for when you do your
research now sure you don't have to join
one of those programs you can find a lot
of that information for free on your own
on the Internet so why do people even
join these programs at all well because
it's usually a lot faster and a lot
easier when somebody who's already done
it shows you exactly how it works but if
you've got a couple years to spare then
go ahead and start googling away in fact
I can help you right now if they're
gonna teach on skype if you're gonna get
your own students from wherever maybe
you know some students offline maybe you
you know some students on Facebook maybe
you know you just have access to a bunch
of people who want to learn English then
you can become an online teacher right
now if you start using Skype and if
you're gonna start using Skype and
teaching English like that then you need
to know about a few things you need to
have great internet quality internet
quality is going to make or break your
business now of course there are ways
around internet quality and there's
other ways to do this because you don't
only have to use Skype you can use
something that doesn't require so much
of your time and you can get out of that
traditional way of teaching which is
something that we go into detail about
in my program but let's not talk about
that too much right now
you'll also need great video quality so
you need to have a good high quality web
camera or you know you could use a DSLR
camera or something like that you also
need to have great audio quality so you
might want to think about investing in a
microphone another thing that people
sometimes forget about is lighting
quality if you have terrible lighting
then it's going to look terrible
it doesn't matter how good your video
quality is if the lighting sucks your
video is going to suck too and the last
thing they see so many people forget
about I mean just go on YouTube go on
Google go anywhere and check out other
teachers videos and what they're trying
to sell to you and what they're telling
you
about and ask yourself that question do
they look professional and the last
thing that you need to think about and a
lot of people forget this and I mean
just go on YouTube go on Google look at
all the different people who are trying
to sell you stuff and trying to tell you
what's good and what's bad and look at
their background you know I mean like
look what's behind them on their videos
this isn't the most professional
background definitely not but you'll see
that when people film outside when
people film inside doesn't matter where
they film you always need to be thinking
about the background because that
influence is what people see on the
video and when you're teaching on skype
you don't want people to see your
bedroom you don't want people to see
your dirty laundry or your underwear
hanging up so consider those factors
when you decide to teach on skype or
wherever you decide to teach your
one-on-one lessons and I know that I've
given you a lot of information in this
video about what you shouldn't do you
shouldn't go out and get a piece of
paper if what you really want is a job
you shouldn't go out and get a piece of
paper if what you really want to do is
get results for students and change
their lives that piece of paper means
nothing in fact yeah I had one of those
ones I spent part of my life getting
this piece of paper and that's part of
my life that I'll never get back I keep
it in my bathroom for that one day when
I run out of toilet paper I've also told
you about different online companies and
jobs that they provide you with you're
going to invest so much time there that
it's not worth the money you get paid
you could invest that time in yourself
I've also told you about online
platforms that claim that you can set
your own price and set your own hours
and that you'll be in charge of
everything remember that on a whim they
can wreck your whole business do not
build your business on those platforms
I've also told you about guys on the
internet and not to believe everything
that they tell you hey I'm one of them
don't believe what I'm saying go check
it out go do your research and the last
thing that I told you about here is
doing it on your own I know it sounds
scary I know it seems like you're just
getting started so how could you do this
on your own but you would not believe
how easy this can be I mean it's so easy
that I put together a step-by-step
process that shows people how to do it
and people who have absolutely no
experience have been able to do this set
up their own business and start making
thousands of dollars every month from
teaching English online and they don't
have any pieces of paper or you know
years of working in a company or
anything like that so coming to the end
of this
video just like every other guy out
there on the Internet I have a special
offer to present you with and my offer
is a free training program on my website
language teaching business comm that's
language teaching business comm did my
voice sound corny enough you can go
there it's 100% free just go through the
free course and it'll show you exactly
how to set up the foundations of your
online teaching business you'll also get
more of a back story about me and my
company that I set up you know my first
one that I set up which was an offline
business and then how I moved online and
how I started doing teacher recruiting
and all that other great stuff and I try
to be as open and honest with everybody
as possible so right now before you even
sign up for my free program I want to
tell you that at the end of my free
program I'm going to offer you a paid
program the whole goal of my paid
program is to get teachers to become
independent to take control of their
teaching careers and to start making
between 5,000 and 10,000 dollars a month
teaching online I've been able to do
that and other people have been able to
do that and you can do that too so if
that's something that interests you then
you can do that but you know join the
free course first find out what this is
all about and then make a decision if
you want to join the paid course and
after you go through the free course you
can join the paid one for as low as 125
bucks and you know when you get your
first client you're gonna make way more
than that most people are able to make
$1,000 or more from their first client
alone using the method that I show them
in this training program so again you
don't have to buy anything and you don't
have to commit to anything but there is
a free program that's going to show you
exactly how to set up the foundations of
your teaching business and you can join
that language teaching business com good
luck getting your ESL career started and
avoid those pitfalls that I told you
about really and don't believe every guy
on the Internet go do your research and
make a decision for yourself thanks for
watching and I'll see you guys very soon
