How “safe” is your new student and customer? What dangers do you willingly take on by accepting students and customers into your private home?
Category: FreeLevel
As a freelance teacher, there are times when you have pressing reasons to say “no” and yet you don’t for all the wrong reasons. For example, when you want (or need) to earn the money.
Formula 1 drivers have at least one formula for success. Freelance teachers can learn from them. Yet is the Formula 1 success formel ethical? Is it right or wrong? Likewise, do teachers become freelance teachers for all the right reasons? Or all the wrong ones?
The chains that hold you (and many Freelance Teachers, too).
Freelance teachers do not earn well. The cause is invariably focused in the wrong place ? on its symptoms — rather than focusing on the cause itself.
Most teachers believe marketing is advertising or selling yourself ? something that is pushy and where you are imposing yourself on others. This is because marketing is often understood to only mean “advertising” and “selling yourself”. You struggle with the ethical idea of combining teaching and running a business ? especially when that word “marketing” rears its head. But are you doing your students and customers a disservice by not marketing simply because you feel an ethical problem with marketing?
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