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Janine Bray-Mueller

Life is Working as a Freelance Teacher

Most of us start our teaching based on an idea that life would be better on the other side. It’s going to be fulfilling and we’ll make much more money. Right?

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Posted in Ezine List, Freelance Business Tagged freelance teacher, Freelancing, marketing 6 Comments
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Why Discipline Isn’t The Reason Smokers Fail To Stop Smoking

What Really Stops Smokers (or Freelance Teachers) From Succeeding? In the book SWITCH, Chip and Dan Heath demonstrate how changes in life are difficult. They describe making changes as difficult as persuading a full-grown elephant to stop its steady pace and change direction from its…

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Lesson Preparation Time

To Charge or Not To Charge? Once upon a time, there lived a Chinese Emperor who dearly wanted a beautiful black lacquered box adorned with a graceful picture of a heron —a symbol for strength, purity, patience and long life. A local artist was found…

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We Need Three Quotes!

How Not To Die Slowly (But Surely) Tom is a young student who takes pride in wearing tailor-made shirts, suits and coats especially as the price was affordable for a student’s pocket. Like any person pleased with a new service, Tom recommended the tailor to…

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The Difference Between Marketing And Selling

Marketing Is Not Selling— It’s Different ‘Fresh bananas! I’ve got 2 kilos of bananas. Only for 2 euros! Fresh bananas! Who wants a bunch of bananas for only 2 euros?’ I believe the confusion between marketing and sales came with its close relationship to market…

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Why Don’t They Answer My Email?

Laura has a problem. She’s a freelance teacher and teaches English as a foreign language in universities and to private business companies. She often receives enquiries for her lessons but when she replies to them, she never hears from them again. Nada. Nix. Not a…

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2013 GLOBAL TEACHER STATUS INDEX

(Download a copy the report by right-clicking on the report title.) Are Cultural And Financial Changes Possible? The 2013 Global Teacher Status Index study highlights where teachers are, what they’re doing, and where they’re going. Yes, it isn’t showcasing ‘freelance’ teachers (the report refers to…

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What Do Referrals and 3 Little Pigs Have In Common?

The Story of The Big Bad Wolf And The Three Little Referrals Everyone knows the story of the three little pigs. The three pigs each built a different type of house and the big bad wolf was out in search of dinner. The straw and…

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How Underearning Affects The Quality Of Your Retirement

The money you make now affects you 30 years later — so imagine yourself in 30 years and look after yourself. Underearning during a working lifetime inevitably results in poverty in retirement age. How much accumulated money could you lose over ca. 30 years by…

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Why Is It So Hard To Achieve A Decent Fee or Lesson Rate?

Mirror, Mirror On The Wall… ‘Money is what money does’ An old quote my husband?s mother used to repeat during and after the WWII. She was one of the thousands of widowed ?Trummerfrau? in living in Berlin. There isn?t an exact translation I?m aware of…

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