In today's meeting, we've had the pleasure of exchanging a plethora of ideas and strategies aimed at refining our teaching methods, bolstering our marketing endeavors, and broadening our business horizons.
Lilitha France, your emphasis on fostering cultural exchange among teachers resonates deeply with the value we place on diversity and inclusivity in our learning community. Evie Clayton, your advocacy for online teaching as a means to enhance efficiency and student engagement is a refreshing reminder of the adaptability inherent in modern education.
Mikhail Adriaanse, your personal journey from informal teaching during the pandemic to joining Oxinity is truly inspiring, reflecting the resilience and resourcefulness that characterize our profession.
Shifting gears to marketing strategies, Sonia Mendes, your targeted approach to reaching Portuguese immigrants through social media and blogging demonstrates a keen understanding of audience segmentation. Mari Carmen Martinez, your emphasis on direct sales and networking underscores the importance of building genuine connections in business development. Myrna Akkers, your savvy use of personalized messaging on social media platforms exemplifies the power of tailored communication in client engagement.
In terms of business expansion and development, Gergo, your proposal to collaborate with teachers globally opens up exciting avenues for cross-cultural exchange and mutual growth. Jonatan Buxeda i Núñez, the forthcoming feature for partnering with agents heralds a new chapter in our quest for scalable business solutions.
Josie Salmon, your initiatives to offer classes locally and expand Spanish classes in the UK respectively reflect our commitment to meeting the needs of diverse student demographics. Jas Anand, your suggestion to diversify language offerings and conduct focus groups showcases our proactive approach to staying ahead of evolving trends in education.
Lastly, Mari Carmen Martinez, your proposal to integrate Minecraft sessions with language classes injects a creative spark into our teaching methodology, promising an engaging and immersive learning experience for our students.
In summary, today's meeting has been a delightful exchange of ideas that will undoubtedly propel us forward on our journey of professional growth and excellence.
Teacher | Title of the Idea | Description of the Idea |
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Lilitha France | Cultural Exchange | Highlighting the diverse backgrounds of the participants and promoting cultural exchange and understanding among teachers. |
Evie Clayton | Online Teaching Advantages | Expressing preference for online teaching due to increased efficiency and student focus compared to in-person classes. |
Mikhail Adriaanse | Teaching Journey | Sharing personal teaching journey, starting from informal teaching during COVID to joining Oxenity, inspired by recommendations from a friend. |
Teacher | Title of the Idea | Description of the Idea |
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Sonia Mendes | Targeting Portuguese Immigrants | Shared her strategy of targeting Portuguese immigrants through Facebook groups and consistent blogging. |
Mari Carmen Martinez | Direct Sales and Networking | Shared her strategy of reaching out to personal contacts and older individuals through direct sales and networking. |
Myrna Akkers | Personalized Messaging on Facebook and LinkedIn | Shared her strategy of promoting Oxinity on Facebook and LinkedIn through personalized messages. |
Charlene Mungaroo | Alternative Methods for Finding Students | Asked about alternative methods for finding students beyond social media promotion. |
Sharon | Personalized Messaging | Employed a strategy of sending personalized messages to her contacts. |
Catherine | Personalized Messaging | Employed a strategy of sending personalized messages to her contacts. |
Teacher | Title of the Idea | Description of the Idea |
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Gergo | Partnering with Other Teachers | Discussed the benefits of partnering with other teachers in different countries to exchange students. |
Jonatan Buxeda i Núñez | Partnering with Agents for Growth Management | Announced the upcoming feature of partnering with agents for growth management. |
Josie Salmon | Offering Classes Locally | Started a strategy of offering classes to students in her surrounding area or region. |
Josie Salmon | Expanding Spanish Classes in the UK | Josie suggests offering Spanish classes for various demographics in the UK, such as university students, immigrants, and GCSE students. She emphasizes the importance of targeting different markets and providing value to potential clients. |
Jas Anand | Diversifying Language Offerings | Jas mentions focusing on teaching English and Spanish, leveraging the presence of Spanish-speaking communities in England. He also suggests forming a focus group to explore opportunities further. |
Gergo | Collaborative Teaching and Business Opportunities | Gergo emphasizes the benefits of collaborative teaching and leveraging the expertise within the community. He discusses the potential for offering languages beyond personal expertise and promoting summer camps like Minecraft to increase hourly rates. |
Mari Carmen Martinez | Promoting Minecraft Sessions | Mari Carmen highlights the opportunity to promote Minecraft sessions alongside language classes, emphasizing the potential for increased earnings and attracting more students. |
FRIDAY TALK on Education-20240524_100201-Meeting Recording
May 24th, 2024 10:54a.m.
1 h 7 min 22 s
Transcription:
Myrna Akkers 4:53
Hello everyone.
Lilitha France 4:58
No.
Evie Clayton 4:59
Hi there.
Myrna Akkers 5:01
Oh, we're to get silence.
Evie Clayton 5:04
I think so. It seems like it.
Myrna Akkers 5:07
Anyway, I'm gonna nice to meet you, Evie and Liza.
Lilitha France 5:13
Lily Tay is the the yes.
Myrna Akkers 5:14
Eliza.
Perfect. Lovely to meet you.
Evie Clayton 5:17
Nice. Nice to meet you guys.
Lilitha France 5:18
Nicely to meet you too.
Myrna Akkers 5:21
Where are you from? Both of you? I'm from South Africa, I should say.
Lilitha France 5:25
Oh, I'm also from South Africa.
Evie Clayton 5:25
Oh wow. I'm from Brittany.
Lilitha France 5:28
Yes.
Myrna Akkers 5:29
And.
Evie Clayton 5:29
I'm from Manchester in England.
Myrna Akkers 5:31
I can hear the accent.
Lilitha France 5:31
Oh, OK.
Myrna Akkers 5:34
It's English also.
Evie Clayton 5:37
Yeah.
Myrna Akkers 5:38
I just had a friend moved to that area.
Evie Clayton 5:41
Oh wow.
Myrna Akkers 5:42
Yeah, alright, ladies later.
Lilitha France 5:48
Hello.
Sharlene Mungaroo Mungaroo 5:48
Hello.
How are you guys?
Myrna Akkers 5:57
Do you know what? Anybody else? I'm good. Hello, Maria Garcia.
Maria García Fernández 6:03
It's funny that many of you call me Maria Garcia. It's so funny.
Myrna Akkers 6:07
Well, we get this like Maria's. Fernand. No. This Maria Carmen.
Maria García Fernández 6:12
No, no. We have in Spain, in Spain we have two surnames, your dad's and your mom's. Oh, ****. The balloons. You always get the England. So.
Myrna Akkers 6:20
That's that.
Maria García Fernández 6:25
When you know your kids, always keep your the dads and the moms. Now you can switch them. And so Garcia is my dad's surname. Fernandez is my mom's surname and Maria is just my name. I just have one name.
Myrna Akkers 6:39
And do you have a sick another name like Maria?
Maria García Fernández 6:39
That's it.
No, I'm just, Maria. Many people tell me. Ann. Maria. What? Maria. Nothing.
Myrna Akkers 6:49
Well, thank you for telling us that. It's awesome.
Maria García Fernández 6:51
Yeah. Yeah, because many new teachers call me Maria Garcia. I mean, it's fine. I don't mind. But this is weird. You know, it's more like format.
Myrna Akkers 6:59
Yeah, brilliant. Nice to know. Thank you.
Maria García Fernández 6:59
Yeah.
Gergo 7:03
And it's like your your good, good morning and it's your mom's and your father's. Garcia and Fernandez. No.
Maria García Fernández 7:03
That's it, yes.
Yeah, yeah, they are the most typical ones and my mind is the other way around. My mind is Hernandez Garcia.
They are so boring in my family.
Yeah, I mean you can call me Maria at the it's not a problem, but just to know something about how things work here in Spain that with your students, you will have the same. Sometimes you will see the the name on the first surname.
Gergo 7:20
OK.
Myrna Akkers 7:34
And then with like somebody like Juan Carlos, what do you say you just say?
Maria García Fernández 7:38
That is omaric army maricar me Maria del Carmen is a full name, so yeah, you can have Marian felis. We have a couple of but. And yes, Maria is true. That is Maria Angeles. Maria Carmen Maria Marie Maria's. But I just Maria.
Myrna Akkers 7:44
Oh.
Gergo 7:44
My Angel is.
Myrna Akkers 7:50
OK.
Gergo 7:56
Is it the most common naming in in Spain Maria?
Maria García Fernández 8:00
I don't know about my surnames, yes.
Gergo 8:03
Ha ha.
Maria García Fernández 8:04
If you try to find me on Google, good luck.
Gergo 8:07
Oh yeah. Oh yeah.
Maria García Fernández 8:09
There are thousands when I call somewhere, I need to get my ID because if not, it's impossible that they can't find me.
And so basic.
Gergo 8:19
OK.
Maria García Fernández 8:22
With my parents beside something for me, I didn't do anything.
Gergo 8:31
Well, it's we are, we are getting getting more and more teachers.
Well, joining us so so.
Thanks. Thanks for the little little introduction to the Spanish and Spanish names, the.
Popular names of popular Names Of of Spain.
Hmm so.
We are going to still wait a little bit to to get other people online.
Briefly today, we are going to or briefly a little agenda about today, so.
We we are going to start with the that we have two. Two new teachers are already here, maybe a third one will join us as well. So a little introduction from them and after that we'll do a short reminder about about.
Rules or or or or good habits of oxenity classes. Really just a few minutes.
After which.
Maria will share a few.
Important things and and positive sides of the of the of of Fox entity as.
Positive sides of being a business partner of Oxenity, which is which is often overlooked, especially by by.
Teachers who work with oxxinity for a longer time, because perhaps we don't hear them so often, right because new teachers join the webinars of of Maria or or they also go to the promotions webinars.
More often.
And after that we are going to talk about about teaching and the teaching approach of voxinity and and little little tricks of the trade to help to help the new newcomers and the new faces understand better what we what we do and why we do it the way we we chose to, we chose to do these, these things. So this will be the, this will be the.
Structure the agenda of the of of today's of today's meeting or today's talk, let's call it a talk.
Good. OK. So let's, let's jump to it and.
Today we have two new teachers joining US11 is.
EV or eve? I'm not sure if which which pronunciation to use and the other one is. Is is Mikhail.
So, good morning, Evie. I don't know if you can hear us or if you can can join the conversation.
Evie Clayton 11:18
Hi yes I can. I'm sure you can. I think you can see me now. Hi. Nice. Nice to see all you guys. It's somebody to join.
Gergo 11:20
Hi.
Yeah.
Nice to have you here.
Evie Clayton 11:27
I'm. Yes. I'm. I'm Evie. I'm originally from Manchester, but I'm actually living up in Durham near Newcastle in England. At the moment I'm studying and I'll be teaching English here.
I study Spanish and Italian at university and yeah, I'm looking just jumpstart my career, start my careers as an English teacher.
I'm yeah, I'm really excited to to start.
Gergo 11:55
If, if, if we may ask her, are you planning to teach Spanish and Italian as well in the future?
Evie Clayton 12:03
And my Spanish is C1. My Italian is not.
It's more like a 2B1.
But I could consider teaching Spanish. I already teach some tutoring for GCSE Spanish here in England, but I don't think I'm quite at C2 level enough to, you know, teach it at a high level, let's say, but yes.
Gergo 12:26
Mm hmm. OK, well, that's that was that was really straightforward.
So to say, OK and and.
You're teaching your teaching experience, is it? Is it?
Mainly. Or is it? Is it in person classes or online classes or both?
Evie Clayton 12:45
Both. So I was also an English teacher and an oppa in Spain for three months. I lived in Catalonia and I did English classes with with children in Catalonia and that that was in person. And then I've got the Spanish teaching experience online. So I've got a bit of a combination. I've I've worked both in person on online as well.
Gergo 13:06
And which one did you or which one do you enjoy the most so far?
Evie Clayton 13:12
I really enjoy online. I feel as though you can get more done. You have more at your fingertips as opposed to in person. I think some people think it would be a bit more informal. It's more, say, conversational practise, whereas online you sort of capture the the focus of the student. I think a bit more, but yeah.
Gergo 13:33
OK, that's a that's a. That's an interesting.
Experience or or or thought about the difference between online and and in person classes because in my experience most teacher would say that it's vice versa, that it's easier to to.
To keep the attention of the students when when you are in a in a in the in the same same room but.
Evie Clayton 13:53
Yeah, it.
Yeah, I suppose if there's more students, I suppose then in that sense, yes. But I think yes.
Gergo 14:01
Very big difference. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, very big difference. I don't agree with that notion, by the way, myself, but this is this is. This is something that we often hear from from teachers. OK, Evie. Thank you very much for your introduction. And welcome to oxnet. And welcome to the Friday talks.
Evie Clayton 14:14
Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
Gergo 14:18
And Mikhail, if you could come to to talk to us a little bit as well, if you can at the moment.
No. Maybe. Maybe a little later. Maybe he he he doesn't have his his microphone open or he can't speak at where he is, OK.
Good.
Now, good morning for the for the people who joined us. Meanwhile, Evie, Mikhail. Good morning.
Mikhail Adriaanse 14:49
Oops, I did.
Alright, I'm sorry. Go. My mic was muted on me. Application. Apologise. Hi. Good day. Nice to meet all of you at toxinity. I am Mikael adrianza. I am born and raised in the capital city of South Africa called Cape Town. One of the mother cities. I completed my first yearful course. MY125TF4 course the last year in, I believe April or so.
Gergo 14:56
No worries.
Mikhail Adriaanse 15:20
Yeah, I'm currently working till marketing. I do have a little bit of.
A not much of a background in teaching. This is my first actual job. I've done it formally for a few friends, family, friends, and a few random individuals helping with exams and things of that sort for about a year. That was during COVID, when I had enough free time when I was stuck at home.
I know it's good to meet you. I just had island about Oxenti through a mutual friend that makes up my new job. That actually should teach for you guys for about 2 years, I believe.
Umm, Juliet Solomon's she doesn't work for you guys anymore at the moment, as unfortunately a laptop broke. But she's trying to get back into what she says. She wants to come and join you guys again at your taxonomic. She told me it's a very amazing community that you guys have both. You guys all very friendly, always looking to help one another. It's a good a good community to be a part of. So she made sure to push me in this direction and I'm glad I did.
Gergo 16:20
OK. And and if if I understood well then the teaching.
Teaching came to your life like.
Incidentally, so as to say I mean like because of COVID. So you just you just you just had an opportunity to to teach for a few people and then you you, you you like it and then you you would like to you.
Mikhail Adriaanse 16:37
Yes.
Yeah, I it.
Yeah, it was in the back of my head before that, but luckily it got presented to me during COVID and I was able to take it further than actually do something with it. I wanted to do it and then the opportunity to present it itself. So I was lacking that sense.
Gergo 17:00
OK, haenstance. Yeah. OK. All right, cool for it's it's it's very different circumstances longer time ago. But in my in like in, in my case it was really the same. It just popped up in my life teaching and I tried it and and ever since I'm working with Oximity actually.
Mikhail Adriaanse 17:14
Hmm.
Yeah.
Gergo 17:24
Little advertisement so.
So good. Thanks Mikhail.
Mikhail Adriaanse 17:30
Of course. Thank you.
Gergo 17:31
Welcome to Oxinity, and I hope you're going to enjoy this this Friday. Talk as well in which in which we are going to, we are going to talk about basic aspects of of of the organisational structure, how to how to make the most out of being part of a community and being a part of voxinity and and.
Mikhail Adriaanse 17:36
Sure.
Gergo 17:55
How to how to?
What standards we have and how to how to follow those standards when teaching the aux in the classes? So this is the basic scaffolding of of today's of today's Friday talk. So without further ado, a few things I would like to.
Remind ourselves about.
Our are things related to to.
How to start an oximity class?
Regardless, regardless of teaching so.
Because because of some some some complaints.
From clients.
It's important that we have punctual.
Try to try to be in try to be in the try to open the digital classroom one.
One minute before the class starts right, say 30 seconds, but not because sometimes there is a, sometimes there is a problem with the connection. Sometimes there is a little little, a glitch, delay or whatever, and then you are late from class, so it's it's better as a teacher to be in the classroom before the students.
For the and and actually the the second. The second point which I would like to to mention is is that is the connection making sure that your connection is good enough to to to come to conduct, to conduct the class and and and should you have any problems, it's better to better to to notice these problems before the class starts. Worst case scenario if you can't do the class then then the Zendesk can help you and the Zendesk can start helping you before the actual class.
Starts. It's very important because.
Because we have, we have clients and we we provide the service to these clients.
What we mentioned, I think last week and the week before as well, but unfortunately we need to mention again is that is that we need to use headphones at least at least earphones headset is the best. But but if you if you if you don't have it with you or or you or you can't afford to buy one.
Earphones, earphones are the are the bare minimum to to conduct our classes. Our students need to have a good quality audio from the teacher's side and also it will it will improve the.
Your ability to understand what what the students say as well. Of course, there are students who do not use head headphones headsets, but they are the clients. So obviously we can ask them to do so.
And we do ask them. But but but.
But we teach us we we need to. So it's it's like it's like a must. It's it's not. It's not like it's not like what to say.
We are not in we we are not in the same position in this in this context.
As for as a little tip, if your student is at a place which is noisy or or they have they they do have, they do have disturbing or distracting.
Background noise. You can ask them to turn their microphones off and we teachers we are also able to turn their audio line off. So in the in the little little box which shows their picture if you hover with your mouse over the picture you will see you will see two icons.
Like a recycle icon and microphone icon. And if you click on the microphone it will turn there audio off. So this way you can overcome the problem of of of having these noises constantly from a person from a student who has problems with problems with the audio. It unfortunately happens quite often. These are the solutions.
But we cannot ask the students to do so with the teachers, OK?
And last but not least.
So starting the Class A little bit earlier is one thing. I mean like going into the classroom a little bit earlier is one thing, but the starting starting of the class, starting of of the class begins way before that and that's the preparation.
Because lately we also received a few comments from students who had the feeling that the teachers were not prepared for the class. So.
Like it might happen with an additional class, right? We do have this system, but the the the consistent messages from, from, from, from students tell us that there are some people who might not, might not.
Use enough time to prepare for the classes and.
Hey, like, OK, maybe you don't know everything. Order, order, order, order. You don't. You don't need to literally know all the text in the attachments, but you need to know what they are about. What's the sequence of the attachments and and and. And you should be. You should have a a kind of of of strategy how you are going to or how you would like to use these these.
These attachments and and the sequence of activities. Naturally it might happen and does happen very often that this is disrupted because of the class, because of the students, because of the cast questions of the students. On the other hand.
If you have this, if you have this this strategy build for yourself, you will. You will, you will feel and you will seem much more confident in conducting the class. And that's very important for the learning experience of the of the learning experience and the actual results of the of the students with learning. So these are these are some key points which we should should.
Remember.
When when we are teachers or when we choose to be teachers at oxenity, that we are punctual, we have the right setting, meaning the background, the connection, the headphones are there for us. And last but not least, again we are well prepared for the class. Also the preparation will help you to keep the pace of the class.
Right. Same as same same now with me. I can I can keep. Like I try to use as little time as possible with what I say and I could speak for many long, many more minutes. But I had these points written down here. I look down. I know what to say. And then it boom and we can go further.
Because.
The bottom line is that don't forget that all these things and all these aspects of classes you do not only for the clients.
Those people who have those clients and those are your partners at oxneting.
In many cases, or in most cases, we are teaching each other's clients and we would like to have our clients treated the best way possible. Therefore, we would also like to provide this quality service to the clients of the other teachers. Now how to get those clients and what to do to to.
To make the most out of this organisational structure, this is something that is.
Maria's Maria's had to say field. This is this is. This is what Maria knows the best. So I would like to give the opportunity to Maria to talk to you a little bit about how to how to grow as a partner of foxconnity.
Maria García Fernández 26:09
Five year ago. So yeah, I think that is very important that we know from where those classes that we assigned every week to you guys come from, OK, because some of them come just from nowhere and that is not true. OK. So the hours that you are teaching come from your own partners, your partners who are also teachers, OK franchises. We think about an Academy, for example, commercial partners. OK. So I think that what Gergo said is very important that.
You need to think about who you are teaching. They are your clients, the clients of your colleagues and is.
Important to be well prepared, be punctual. All the things that Virgo say to keep them and have a good experience. OK. I think that that is very important. So at toxicity I always say that we have two different legs. OK. One is teaching that we will cover that after what I I will mention now and another one is about the growth. So as you know every week one of my main jobs here is to distribute classes. We take the the full amount and we distribute them between teachers. OK.
But to this view then I need to know first what is your availability. OK, that is very important. If not, I can't do anything. So I have the availability of many of you, but please send it again to me an updated one. For example, yesterday I was talking to a teacher who got more availability. So just send me a message on teams with your new updated availability and from there we will start working together. OK, so the main goal here is to start helping with Joe with growth.
And the only way that I can help you with growth is if I know your availability and we start working, OK. So we have to think that every morning. I hope that you feel the same, OK. But every morning what I feel when wake up is OK, my job here is going to help teachers to get increasing the rate per hour. OK, that is something that it has to be very important that has to be every morning's goal. OK. And we're rate per hour can be go up, up, up.
Believe me, there is no any limit, OK?
So when you start you will get one rate per hour, but that is the first day. Then we need to start working together. So now I will start sharing with you guys. You will see a screenshot of some teachers rate per hour and let me know if you see the difference. I hope so. OK, if not I will give you the tips.
Do you see my screen?
Gergo 28:48
Yes, yes we do.
Maria García Fernández 28:48
And do you see any difference? Let me see. I will. Do you see any difference or I don't see your faces now. So do you see any difference here in the red to square?
Gergo 28:58
Yes, we can.
Sonia Mendes 28:59
Sure, sure we can.
Mikhail Adriaanse 29:01
Indeed, indeed.
Maria García Fernández 29:02
OK, so I think that is very easy. OK, so the first thing is if you go to to the generated app, the one that says generated 2024, OK, you will see the rate per hour that you are making. OK. And then how do we calculate that number? OK. So we take all the money that you make in one month for example, in May, all the money that you make this month and you divide by the hours that you make you work.
And then it's when you get the rate per hour, OK, so you will see that here we have different cases. OK. So I think that we can mention two different cases. One is the 3rd and the 4th case. OK, that for example here you see 147814.49. OK.
That for me is someone who is not using oximity with all the tools that oximity gives. OK, that is someone who sees oximity as a market places and I'm sorry, but we are very far away from other market places, OK.
And then the second case you see for example the 1st and the second case here is like look €40. Do you see any difference between getting €40 and 14 euros? Is a big difference. OK, those teachers are the ones who are using all the oximity tools. And when you get at that point is when you see that everything makes sense. We always think that there are two main problems that teachers have to face. One is money. OK.
Prices are getting down and down and another problem is time you have a concrete number of hours that you can teach. OK, but if you are able to make those €40 and you can make even more, OK, believe me, that is when all those problems solve and is when you will really want to be a teacher and say, OK, I can't leave. Thanks to teaching. OK. So for example, look, I like that example that is in January 4 things when you start a little by little.
You will get there 34. OK, so that is when you really see the big, the big difference between those who see as a marketplace and those who see that opportunity has many things to take advantage of and getting increasing your rate per hour, OK, and that is you get there with clicks and clients and it's a process that we need to start. OK. So my advice here is send me a message with your availability and we will.
And start working with some of you. Of course, with those guys, I'm already working, OK? Or sometimes they do things by themselves because they have experience. So it's the same, but those who are checking your rate per hour now that hopefully you are checking right now your rate per hour and you see those numbers now is the moment to start working OK because now it's summer and then September. So we have to be ready to to rock in September, OK. So that's it. That is what I was saying.
Trying to to make you see.
That the rate per hour goes up, up, up is when things make sense.
Is that clear?
Anything that you would like to add?
Mikhail Adriaanse 32:23
Indeed, indeed, Maria.
Maria García Fernández 32:26
Anything that is not clear, no.
Nezha Essouaf 32:28
Yeah, it's come here.
Maria García Fernández 32:31
Well, now we need to start work together to make it that real. OK, so just go to the generated tab, check the rate per hour, send me your availability on Monday, we will start.
OK, with many of you, I already work every day, but I would like to work with. I mean, my dream is that you get that rate per hour for all of you because I know that is possible and it's not hard. Believe me, it's not. I don't know if some of those who have that rate per hour want to say something, but believe me, that is not is easy, but you need to to to start. If not, nothing happens.
Mikhail Adriaanse 32:44
OK.
Maria García Fernández 33:11
Yeah.
Gergo 33:15
Yeah. Well, Maria, thank you. I think it was, it was really straightforward, right, seeing, seeing those, seeing those, not seeing those not, but yeah. But the the, the the screenshot with the numbers, it was I think, a really good idea because because because it's because those are numbers with dates and and it the progress. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. And. And what, what what it means is that is that that.
Maria García Fernández 33:18
No, thank you.
Yeah, I like that.
How you can improve and go up? Yeah, that's it.
Gergo 33:46
On a on a, on a volatile volatile market.
Like like like teaching English or any other language nowadays.
The system of opportunity provides us with a with a solution, a possibility.
To increase our.
Our rates, the amount of money, what we make.
In a period of.
Within a month or in a period of time without working more hours, of course we are going to work more hours, but then that would mean that with those extra work hours we be exponentially increase our income and that's what that's that. Well, I I, I'd I'd like.
Maria García Fernández 34:27
Yeah, it's very easy. You see, you're generated that. No, I mean, it's very easy to calculate it. Like you take the full amount that you will get. You divide by the hours that you have been working and you will get it. And it's just a combination of everything. Of course, it's not just, but like, if everything you like, you know, if you work, you get results. So but it's easier because some teachers, I have the feeling that when you tell them about promotion, marketing clicks, rate per hour, I don't know they get but no.
It's very easy.
Gergo 34:58
The the concept. The concept is easy to the concept is easy to understand. It doesn't mean that it. It doesn't mean that oh man, I mean like it does entail a lot of hard work. That's that's that's, that's for sure, that's for sure. But but. But yeah, yeah. And and it's it's good. It's good to see that there there is a there is an there is an achievable goal ahead.
Maria García Fernández 35:11
That's it.
So don't panic.
Gergo 35:26
With small steps or well, yeah, small steps every day you can achieve you can achieve.
How to say like an income that might provide you with, with, with the feeling of security, financial security at least, which is important for all of us, I think.
Maria García Fernández 35:48
I'll see it. That is what we try. Yeah, that is the main reasons, man.
Gergo 35:54
OK, Maria. Thanks, Jonathan. You want to add something to this perhaps?
Maria García Fernández 35:54
So.
Jonatan Buxeda i Núñez 35:58
Yeah, I'd like to add something. Maria can. Can you do me a favour and ensures the screen again?
Yeah. OK. So if you take a look to this screen, what do you see? Yeah, there's some. The rates are increasing as you go up, right. But just take a look to the the column that it's asked cause of the classes. Right. So that will tell you that the lowest rates are people that are don't have clients by themselves because these are the costs of your personal clients that not only it half the cost but it will help you increase your rate per hour so.
As you see and you take a look to this column of cause of classes, you will see down below it's a 0 cause means that you don't have any students for yourself. OK, so the rate per hour here it's yeah, it could be like 1415 years per hour. OK, when you start here in Xfinity, the first thing that you will see one hour. OK you will see 12.60 I think something like that which is the €14.00 per hour here in Europe deducting the 10% of xinity xinity it's xinity fee plus bat right.
So in this case you will be around 1260 for his hours and then you will start doing complimentary work and blah blah blah and then you will start increasing your rate per hour. Now when you start having your clients, it's when your rate per hour goes up. OK, so the more clients you have, the more chances you have to have a really good rate per hour. That's what I wanted to show.
Thanks Maria.
You're you're muted. Gotta go. Sorry.
Maria García Fernández 37:42
Here I go.
Gergo 37:44
Yeah. Thanks. Sorry. So, so these from from 3 three different people mainly from Garcia, Jonathan and myself as well. It was I think.
The the.
Benefits. I think now it's it's clearly it's clearly there and well explained before we go further to the second part of the of the of of the meeting.
Does does anyone have questions here about this?
And please don't be afraid to ask, because this is when this is when everyone's here and and it would be super if someone had a question and another teacher or another partner could answer that question.
No questions, no answers. OK, very. Ah, alright.
Maria García Fernández 38:34
In the rate per hour now.
Gergo 38:36
Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's a good one. Yeah, perhaps. Sharon sharling. Good morning.
Sharlene Mungaroo Mungaroo 38:41
Hello. Hi there. I just wanted to know if the method of getting these new students only by doing the promo posts or is there other avenues that we could use? I'm not sure I'm not entirely the sales aspects.
Gergo 39:00
I would like to. I would like to thanks. Thanks for the question, Charlene, because this is something which we often often.
Perhaps.
The the social media frenzy.
Makes us forget about really valuable sources of of leads and clients. And to answer this question, I hope you don't mind Sonia if I if I ask you that well that well. So just hear me out.
What was your? What was your source of of, of, of students? You. You have a very long go in teaching practise, right? So before before you went on social media. What what was your primary source of students? How did you, how did you?
Start building that that base of students.
Sonia Mendes 39:57
Hello, everyone. Good morning.
Gergo 39:58
Good morning, Sonia.
Sonia Mendes 40:01
Well, honest, I think that gergo I started with. I've started with social media. I don't remember before that I don't know exactly what you want to ask me. I'm sorry, but I recall four years ago when I first joined, it was more or less this, this time of the year and the first thing I think that I have met, I met with Maria or something I assisted. I attended one of the webinars and the first thing that I did was to go to Facebook. By then I I started with Facebook and.
Gergo 40:07
Bum.
Sonia Mendes 40:30
I sent a bunch of.
I search a lot of groups of immigrants as I am Portuguese. Some of you already knows how I search a lot of immigrants in England and I've started to join all the groups of immigrants, and I got a lot of interested people to at least to to know what was going on. And it was Facebook, so.
Gergo 40:51
OK, this is this is this is this is already a little more than just going going out on on social media platforms and just firing away, right, very important what Sonia said. She had a strategy.
She clearly knew what kind of people she wants to use as a target group and and and she tried to focus on those. And if I remember well.
Her. Her. She used. She used our platform, the blog on our platform.
Very well to, to to harness the the possibilities of of becoming becoming visible.
And expected on social media with her, with her posts and her in the beginning, at least her posts were in Portuguese.
Directly, yeah.
Sonia Mendes 41:43
Yes.
Yes, I've written some post in Portuguese, then at a certain point we have decided just to change the strategy to capture the attention of Spanish students. But yes, the blogs have been, let's say the the, the, my first tool, definitely the the number of clicks that I have, all of them not all, but I would say like 90% or 85% come from the blogs and that's what I've started to do right away. When I when I joined the the.
Gergo 42:14
Yeah, I really do remember that. Yeah. Yeah. That you really, really became.
Sonia Mendes 42:14
Fox entity.
Gergo 42:19
Like.
Coming up with a blog at least once a week, every every week consecutively and and it's it's it's also something that for example I lack when I when it comes to social media, I haven't touched anything for a long time at the moment, but she was consistent.
And this is how you actually this is how you actually achieve.
Good, good results because because because after some after sometime, regardless the algorithms, people will start to expect read your posts, still people will start to expect see your name and if they don't see your name in their in their feed they will search for it because they want to read what you have to what what you say. So these are these are these are things to to keep in mind.
And when going on when going on social media is that you you you try to to you try to narrow down the the the the target group and then and then and then just keep on trying keep on trying keep on trying Maria I know you raised your hand but before before before that I would like to ask another person because I know that she's not using social media that much. Marie Carmen So what what what was your.
And is your primary source of of, of, of, of students. When you started observing. I do remember that you had a really different approach compared to Sonia. For example, you didn't go on social media, but you did something else when you, when you recruited new students.
Mari Carmen Martinez 44:00
Yeah. What up? Hi, everyone. Yeah, the way I started, I think was even or probably the most basic way which was.
Gergo 44:03
Good morning.
Mari Carmen Martinez 44:12
Putting in different categories all my contacts from, you know, going back the past because you often realise that you know more people than than you think and more contacts of contacts. So I sort of did a spreadsheet with contacts back God knows how many years and I sort of said, OK, people that have got kids.
People that are working in companies, friends that have a that are very active on social media could give me a hand as well, and then asked once all the categories were done, I asked them all to give me a hand as well and that was a good start. I have to say also to for example, I'm just remembering it right now. I got lots of clicks from older people that go to the to the how do you call it? The agent aminto the.
The town, the town hall.
Georgina Malagarriga 45:00
The town hall.
Mari Carmen Martinez 45:02
The town hall and I know that they were doing their English classes and stuff, you know, so I thought, OK, these people are also bound to.
Know you know their kids plus their grandchild and stuff like that. And I got a big shift of of pigs simply by categorising sort of, you know, sending the right, the right landing page at the time because we didn't have so many promotion. But we did have all the landing pages for adults, schools as well.
And yeah, that's that. That was like the basic start.
Gergo 45:37
Super. Thank. Thank you. Marie, Carmen and Sonia as well because we with with this, with this we could we we could see really two very different approaches to to increasing your increasing the number of your clients and leads. Maria please sorry.
Maria García Fernández 45:57
Yeah, I would like to hear from you now because he has just started, but he's using a good strategy that I think that can be useful as well for shuffling Myrna, can you?
Myrna Akkers 46:10
Thank you for that.
Maria García Fernández 46:11
Can you share something or or not? I'm sorry.
Myrna Akkers 46:16
Alright.
Well, basically I've been meeting with Maria every morning or every afternoon, I should say, and I've been.
Doing the at the promos that they've got on my my landing screen, I am oximetly and I put it on Facebook, but then I also decided to and we got a lot of hits from that was isolate people in my LinkedIn in my Facebook send them messages.
So I've asked them. I've said, hey, friend.
I've personalised it. I've spoken to each of them.
Tell them what xenity is. What I'm trying to achieve, and if they would please pass it on to.
Their contacts. That's it.
It's working.
Maria García Fernández 47:13
Thank you. miRNA. Yeah, and Catherine is doing the same, taking all of her contacts and sending like personalised messages. But they think that is much better that if you send a general one, I think that people will pay more attention. So that is one strategy, Charlene, that I will help you.
Gergo 47:33
That's that's. That's really important. What you what you said? The personalised messages people. People appreciate that. That's that they.
They, they they are, they are more than just just a number on your on your emailing lists but something and it does not need to be a completely different different e-mail. If you have a body of an e-mail and you you you tweak it and tune it here and there, it's it's going, it's going to be enough to to make them feel not special but just.
Little more than just just an average person from from social media.
Jonathan, please.
Jonatan Buxeda i Núñez 48:14
Sorry for the sound 'cause. There's some construction here, so I don't know if it's gonna be annoying, but uh, let me know so.
To answer this question, if we can do something else, people were talking about social media on one hand, and Dan probably direct sales on another, like having your personal contacts and going directly to to companies and stuff, right? We know that that's a lot of effort and it it's a very time consuming.
Or or something that you have to do right. So it takes a lot of time.
But what we've tried to do here in insanity, it's it's a method or system that everybody can benefit from, from from all the work that we do together. Now, let me introduce, it's not ready yet, but it's it's going to be probably in one week and it's us, us is it Charlene or Charlene? How do you pronounce that name? Sorry.
Charlene. OK. So so as you mentioned this, there is a demand because the Community it's, it's formless and Mario was saying with partners teachers and then we call it like.
Commercial or sales franchises, which is schools, academies, or people that want to grow right, and these people were asking if they could have an agent, a sales force agent, so they can help them grow, right. And we're preparing this, but we are not only preparing this for these people that are demanding this, this, this role. But again for you guys that maybe you want to partner with someone that will help you out in, in, in growth managing, right, so.
People that will go in and search and chase for your clients or your students as well. Well, in this case your clients. OK, so we'll probably will present this the next weeks, hopefully next week or maybe in two weeks time. So that's going to be someone that will team up with you and will help you go and and and look for this clients meaning that you have to go and teach and yes you can use the system of promotion which is kind of like easy so.
It's only copying and paste and and that will will do but.
Investing a lot of time trying to get new clients and companies. It's it's for you if you have a lot of hours in teaching. It's complicated, right? So maybe you can team up with someone else and that that will help you grow. We will present this. So it was so. It was trying to answer this question of what can we do.
Above or or added to to promotion and and stuff. So there's going to be new features coming on next next.
Coming soon actually.
Thank you.
Gergo 51:14
Alright, thanks. Thanks, Jonathan. So Charlene did it, did it at the ayah, OK, we see the thumbs up. So I suppose that you received the you received the the answers what you what you needed.
OK, now anyone else any questions about our our system of promoting?
Our system of of collaborating.
To to what? What Jonathan just mentioned?
Here briefly like partnering, partnering up might also work if if you are you, you you partner up with a with a with another teacher who lives in another country, right. And then you try to you try to a person, for example Josie living in England, she might want to have.
She's more likely to find people who would like to learn Spanish. For example, right now a person who lives in Spain.
More likely to find people who would like to learn English so such people can partner up in order to help out each other and and and actually.
Gets gets get leads for each other, right? Or find find students for each other and then share those or like?
Exchange those those those students or the hours what they teach with those students. So this is also an opportunity.
Jonatan Buxeda i Núñez 52:46
Actually, they're good. Let let me. Yeah. 'cause, this is so important. 'cause. Yeah, yeah, sure. 'cause. Sometimes we think about, like, getting for us English students. Right. Or English clients while we are living in, in, in an area or in a country that it's an English speaking country. Right. So it's it's clever. It's it's to go and try to find what you're surrounding people.
Or people that you know might need, which is in this case, if you're in a living in an English speaking language.
OK, it's much easier to go and find Spanish clients that will increase your rate per hour because those clients will help you.
Get your income. OK, so maybe it's easier to go and meet or find English us speak Spanish.
Students. OK. And then you can exchange that or you will end up teaching English because that's your language that you want to teach. OK, so it's something to bear in mind.
It's it's clients can be any language and you're teaching. Of course the language that you want to teach. In this case, if you're English teacher, you'll go for English students.
Did it make sense 'cause? I was a little confused or I was.
Gergo 54:10
I think it did, but for me it's my luck for me to. I don't know anyone. If they did. Do you understand what Jonathan has just mentioned?
This, this this strategy of of, of offering, offering class. Josie, you are you are you did start some you did some start something like this. So could you please share your experiences.
Josie Salmon 54:34
Yeah, and I'm still, I'm still doing it. I'm writing blogs for like Spanish schools in the UK, which is off the back of Radmila's really successful series, but she's written like I counted up to 90. So I don't know how many she's done. So yeah. Anyone who wants to get involved on that as well, there's plenty of places in the UK. I've made a whole list. You know, there's not only England, but there's Scotland and Wales and Ireland as well. But I would say like for the people living in English speaking country.
It's like try the Spanish market as well, but maybe don't deter like think about what opportunities there might be there, because there's different types of markets. There's like university students. We have a lot of foreign students in the UK.
Immigration as well. If you get a lot of people moving, you know you need to think about what the sort of culture of your country is and then think about the markets that are there that you can help kids as well, like those kids doing GCSEs Spanish in England. So yeah, there's lots of different areas, but I think.
With time, it's just about trying to be smart with it, so you know, don't spend an hour on the phone talking to someone that's not going to be a good opportunity. Like, just think about how you're managing your time with everything. You know, we're trying our best here to make it as easy as possible, but I do think just posting links without anything, it doesn't show. You're not giving any value there. You really want to give people value to get them interested in what you're you're providing. Yeah.
Jas Anand 56:03
Mm hmm.
Gergo 56:07
Yeah. OK, Josie, thanks. Because she's she's really. She's really one of the one of those teachers who who started this.
The earliest really providing and she's not by, by the way, just just to be clear, Josie is not teaching Spanish.
So she's she's not a Spanish teacher. She's providing or she's sorry. She's offering Spanish classes for those who are interested in learning Spanish.
That's that's I. I hope it's just just to make it just to make it make it clear for for especially for the new teachers and.
We also happen to to teach French.
By by the, by the way, I don't know how it is with the German nowadays, but French classes we do we do OK, so it's it's it's like that. But so the gates it's it's it's it stays there for for now but but OK so it's a it's a it's a.
It's a business opportunity.
Offering offering other languages to teach. Then what you yourself can teach. And by the way, it's a Spanish company. That's that's quite quite OK to say that. Hey, I I have. I have. I work for the Spanish company. We teach English and Spanish, by the way, with native Spanish speakers. What would you like to learn? Mexican. Spanish. Would you like to learn Venezuelan Spanish? Would you like to learn Castilian Spanish?
So there are there are quite a few things to to to.
Play with.
Yes, please go ahead.
Jas Anand 57:58
Oh, yeah. Hi. Morning. I'm using exactly the same strategy which Josie mentioned. Totally agree. Because again, in England, there's so many people having apartments and housings. I know they buy properties in Spain or there still are or they still visit and there's a huge market where they want to brush up their Spanish. So that's the angle I'm following and.
Gergo 58:00
Good morning.
Jas Anand 58:23
If I say if I can't teach Spanish, we've got a wide variety, you know, using Oxinity as a Spanish company.
That's my main sort of focus. Obviously, I'm still focusing on clients who want to learn English, but I think with students and GCSE and A levels and O levels, you know, so we were talking with Josie some time ago, whether we could have a little mini group for the teachers based in the UK, like a little focus group and target all these opportunities. I think Josie was suggesting that, but we never sort of got around to doing it.
Josie Salmon 58:57
Created the chat but I do need to pick that up. Sorry I've been so busy this year already, but yeah, that's good. Thanks for reminding me, jazz.
Jas Anand 59:00
Yeah.
So we're looking at that, yeah.
Gergo 59:05
The.
Jas Anand 59:07
So that's work in progress really to capture, you know, especially in the summer months, some of the families are saying, oh, my kids are free and you know, they want to learn, brush up their Spanish for their forthcoming exams. But. And also I've always used WhatsApp to get clients and personalised messages which work better for me.
So that's that's my strategy anyway.
Gergo 59:33
Yes, thanks.
Again, Super 2222 teachers speaking from experience. So it's it's it's it's very important I think so for all of us to see that these things work.
If you if you put effort into into and you are in and you are persistent as well, of course, which is, which is a key factor here, as with everything.
Right. But but yeah.
Marie Marie Carmen. You raised.
Mari Carmen Martinez 1:00:08
Yeah. Just on the same line, a short reminder of of Minecraft as well. So there are many teachers that are not doing Minecraft session, but the summary is coming. So that is also the same way we're talking about languages, Spanish or English here and there worldwide as well. Let's not forget about Minecraft promotion, which we have there as well. And it's a very good timing for it too for everyone to be able to increase their rate per hour by.
Gergo 1:00:09
Yeah.
Mari Carmen Martinez 1:00:38
Sending all those links and getting those.
Sleep's coming.
Just to add that part.
Gergo 1:00:44
Very important, yeah. Again, very important today. Today everyone has something, something really important to to add and share. So it's it's a really nice Friday so far, yeah.
If you if you need more details about this, this Minecraft project for the for the summer, please approach Maria who can who can help you with with the with the business details of this summer camp, which will be 10 months.
10 weeks long.
Not that long. So 1010, week 10 weeks long, five day, five days a week, four days a week. I don't know anything about you. Go ask go ask Maria so.
Maria García Fernández 1:01:28
And you teach Minecraft. There you go.
Gergo 1:01:29
So.
Don't have that now. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. But OK, so.
Maria García Fernández 1:01:34
No, but we teach Spanish and and English in Minecraft. I think that that is important.
Gergo 1:01:39
Yeah, yes. And for 10-10 weeks long, four day, four days a week, at least four or five different classes each day, four days a week. So there is a there is a variety of of of hours for all the kids and teens who would like to join. And yeah, it's summertime. So even if they join only for one week, it's going to increase your rate per hour. And who knows, maybe later those kids would like to join us at toxinity, or maybe their parents, or maybe their cousins and so on and so on.
And always sounds all sales sales but but but but but in the but in the end we are we are teachers.
A group of teachers collaborating in a community, we can call it but but in. But in the end, if you go out and be a teacher alone, you will be also.
Facing these these, these these problems of of retaining and getting new clients.
So why not? Why not do it together and and use the use the the opportunity and the and the expertise and the knowledge of of of others and the experience of course.
So.
Yeah. It's anyone, anything, any questions, any questions, let's focus now on promotions because because we are going to start to talk about how to teach oxenative classes at 12:00 o'clock we finish today at 1:00, right?
No. OK, OK, good. Good, good. So so, so guys and ladies and gents, anyone, any, any further questions, Maria, go ahead.
Maria García Fernández 1:03:27
If you want to write a blog, just approach me OK, because I think that what Sonya said is true, that many clicks come from blogs. So we have a lot for grammar and we can write other things. But now let's focus on grammar. So if you want to write anything, yes, let me know.
Gergo 1:03:45
Thank you to thank. Thank you. Because I wanted to, I wanted to to to have something to I had something to say about this, but I forgot that that yes, if you want to, if you want to have a a topic or a subject to write about, then go approach Maria and after that don't forget to join on Wednesdays. The workshop in in which mostly Georgina will help you with how to put that block together.
What aspects to to pay attention to and how to how to make it stand out, which is important because there are a lot of writings out there on the on the, on the, on the net and you would like to, we would like to or you we would like.
Those those blogs and writings and posts bring in in good, good numbers, digs, leads and in other aspects as well.
Regarding this.
When you when you are.
When you are sending the e-mail after the after the class, which I'm pretty sure all of you do. If not then try to pick up the habits now that you send, send a little memo to the students what happened in a class. What do you focus on? Perhaps some mistakes they keep on doing. You can remind them.
Of those, and you can also also add links from the blogs.
It's it's good to. It's good to know what's what's on the on the blog. So it's it worth to check on our blog?
Frequently to to see what's new, what new posts are there because the the the number of grammar related related blogs.
I've been constantly increasing and they are they are they are in progress at the moment as well, so.
Very. It's very likely that you can provide them with with useful relevant information directly from our blog, and you don't need to direct them to read on other websites from other academies and from other providers. Of course it it doesn't mean that you can't, but how nice that is that you can actually actually direct them to to to another teacher from the, from the from this community which will eventually help them.
Improve.
And accelerate the learning which is which is our promotional.
Slogan.
I said let's let's let's let's say that.
OK.
Really good. Any anyone? Anything else you would like to share? Ask.
Balloons. Jonathan, can you make the balloons?
No, there you go. Balloons. OK. Very good. Very good. OK, thanks. So, thank you everyone for being here. It was a really nice Friday talk with all the with all the shared experiences and all the all the questions. And if you have any further questions.
You I think you know who. To who to ask. Of course you can ask any of any of us in the Community and rest well have a Good Friday. Have a good weekend Friday and see you next time.
Bye everybody.
Josie Salmon 1:07:12
Bye. Have a nice weekend. Bye bye.
Nezha Essouaf 1:07:13
Bye. Thank you. Good weekend.
Sonia Mendes 1:07:14
Bye bye. See you. Bye.
Thelma Elliott 1:07:14
Goodbye. Thank you. Bye bye.
Mikhail Adriaanse 1:07:17
Cheerio.
Nezha Essouaf 1:07:17
Bye cereal.
Lilitha France 1:07:19
You so much.