My Journey to 99$ per day with ESL

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So.

My name is Philip and I am 25 years old. I am from Balkans (ex Yugoslavia).
Average salary in my country is 450 euros. Director of the bank makes 1000-2000 euros.
I live with my parents (cell phone paid, car provided, meals provided, no rent)
Obviously making 3k per month would allow me to save 96% and still live like God.
I am street smart with MBA and I always make some money doing things left and right, so once I start to generate more and save more there will be even more adventures. But, lets wait for that.

I can't do SEO, I don't code or design, I cant have PayPal, local social media management is stupid cheap so I won't get into that. I hate idea of maintaining 1000 Instagram pushing offers, its annoying. I am interested in buying big page down the road and try to make money of it.

Dropshiping seems nice, and is one of the plans down the road once I make more money.

So after 6 months seriously involved in this forum and whole making money online idea i found what I can do: Teach English!

English is my native (one of the parents is native) and I was educated on English university (both bachelors and masters) with american high school diploma.

I don't have native country passport and I cant receive money on PayPal. So amount of companies that I can work for is vary limited. After searching, applying, sending Photoshoped UK and US passports, rejection after rejection I found a company that accepted me for who I am - Palfish.

Today was my first day: I made 3.88 euros, hehe.

Plan is:
Keep my paying rate as low as possible for as long as possible. Right now I make 1 yuan per minute (that is 13 European cents or 16 American cents) which comes down to about 9 dollars per hour. Maximum you can go is 5 yuan per minute which comes down to 45 dollars per hour.

Ideally:

Raise my price to 2 yuan per minute: This means I would make 15 euros per hour.
15 euro x 6 hours per day = 90 euros. As close you can get.

Again I assume I would best case scenario end up on 50 euros per day (by then I would be recognized on platform, make more live shows, etc.)

(by then I hope to find another platform which will allow me to work same thing and this would let me maximize my time, when I am not booking slots on one platform I can do it on another platform.)


Plan:
1. I have 18 followers right now - Get over 1k by standard method I learned on Blackhat and that's - follow and like :D :D :D Nobody can see how many people do you follow, but students see how many followers you have. So I just follow EVERYONE and like EVERYTHING (I literally mean everything, there is no limit) and comment on students moments (something like Facebook statuses)

2. Do free live show EVERYDAY. Create interesting content and make a big fan base. I've seen people schedule live streams and they have 250 students enrolled and all of them pay 2 yuan to see what are you talking about. Thats 65 euros right there for one 30 minutes work if you are popular on platform. I need to get there or anywhere close. Right now lets do them for free, helps with the following.

3. I'm gonna go get professional pictures taken (since I advertise like Business graduate (Business English for older folks) and some pics with kids (everyone likes kids)


5. Get all possible ESL certifications I can that are not stupid expensive. Have them listed next to my bachelors diploma on profile. Everyone likes certificates, Chinese tends to adore that I see.

6. Post pictures of cats.

ALL OF THIS would allow me to have more students, thus have more teaching hours, thus having good rate, and eventually allowing me to raise my rate and STILL maintain students coming to me.


P.S

Why did I do all this - MADE FIRST INCOME ONLINE. I AM ONE OF YOU NOW !!!! SELF FIVE !!

P.P.S
Absolutely not interested in making money with referrals. I won't even post regular link. I hope that's okay.
 

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Thank you everyone!

DAY 2

- Today I had my first live show. I had 8 people enrolled which was unusually good since i only started yesterday and had only one class so far. I decided to do it in peek time (to sacrifice my peek time and not to be online for potential clients) which turned out to be amazing. I am white guy who fairly decent looks and vary charismatic person and it worked in my favor. lice show got momentum and by the end I had 61 people watching me. I had a lot of fun, kids asking questions about me, and i went overtime 10 minutes. For going overtime (i had no idea there is this opption) chinese were so gratefull because i was respectfull and nice and answered every question that they started giving me donations (its called lucky money its something that you do for good luck to give a little bit) and everyone gave little bit less than one yuan and i had like 3-4 yuans at the end of the video. Platform DOUBLES this. so cool. Its not about money, all of that together makes like a dollar or somethinng stupid but i was so honored.

- after live i got 30-40 followers. Right now i have 50+ followers.

- phone started ringing. by the end of the chinese day i had 3 more students call me and talk to me. all gave me perfect score and all of them talked to me untill their credit run out.

- on day two i sit at exactly 18.25$. Not bad for tehnically working 3 hours (3 hours of talk time)

So today was 100% improvment. I hope i can do this couple more days.

p.S.
my rates are killing me because they are calculated like this:
First 10 minutes is trial rate (0.8 yuan) and after that each minute is 1 yuan. at the end of the call whatever is calculated platform deducts 20% for their profit which is okay i guess. so what is left in my wallet (18bucks) is all mine.

if i was charging 2.4 for this work i would have now 57$ . But we are gonna get there.

I’ve seen guy today teach 25 classes each 25 minutes long and he made 270 dollars. In one sitting. Gotta get close to that!
 

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Day 3 I didn't work
Day 4 I did work
Day 5 I just logged in and I am online.


Stat's as they sit right now:
5.7 teaching hours done so far
Rating 10/10 (perfect score)
Followers: 76

In my wallet all together: 191yuan = 30$ = 24.77euro

I mean, not bad. Considering I started on Saturday (21st) and today is 25th, I wanna see how much money I can make by the end of the month. Payday should be between 1st and 7th.
 
Day 3 I didn't work
Day 4 I did work
Day 5 I just logged in and I am online.


Stat's as they sit right now:
5.7 teaching hours done so far
Rating 10/10 (perfect score)
Followers: 76

In my wallet all together: 191yuan = 30$ = 24.77euro

I mean, not bad. Considering I started on Saturday (21st) and today is 25th, I wanna see how much money I can make by the end of the month. Payday should be between 1st and 7th.

what is the url of this site? are there only chinese?
 
Whats the website?

Also good luck with your journey, Hope you get your goals!
 
Good luck with this, I hope you reach your goals.

I removed number 4 from your list of objectives, it needs to be posted as Hire A Freelancer I'm afraid.
 
Dude, I'm from Balkan, too (Serbia)..
Also interested in teaching English online.. Cons: Have no certificates nor degree, so my grammar isn't the best..
Pros: Everything I research, read or think (learned English that way) is in English, studied it for 10 years in school (public) and couple of years in a private language school..
I'm charismatic, I can talk for hours, blah blah.. One of my biggest problems is that I want it to sound perfect, but that's impossible, cause I don't have an opportunity to use it enough.. I listen to it all day long on the YT, but I can't talk to anyone, cause no one wants to talk in English..
Can you give me some advice how to get accepted??
My plan is to rent an apartment and make one room look like a classroom, that will be big pluss in future (when I start making more than €500 per month), also, I have couple of friends who would like to do this, so we will divide the expenses and it won't be much (apartment €100, internet €40, other bills €20 per month)..
Good luck on your journey, we can get in touch and meet once we start making some solid incomes..
 
Hey man, I stumbled across something you mentioned just over a year ago.
I doubt you'll remember it, but it is worth a shot.
"I emailed this guy. Offered few amazing usernames worth more than 1000 each for price of 2 dollars. He also offered to sell me @Audi and @vouge. Sure bro.
if anyone needs a website where enthusiasts of this sort get together and sell and exchange i can post the link here. Not my website. I'm not sure is it allowed to advertise other forums."
If anything you can just delete my comment and message me. But I would love to know. My email is [email protected]

I wanted to post on your profile, or pm you but I couldnt see the option for that.
 
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