The 21-Day Challenge will change the mindset of any ESL teacher who is thinking about having their own online tutoring business. There is a wealth of information, so prepare to have a notebook at hand, make new professional connections, and an open mindset about creating your new tutoring business.

Participating in a Teacher-Entrepreneur Challenge was an incredible experience for me. The main thing for me was a change of mindset when I realized my worth and discovered a clear vision of what I want to be and what I want to do with my life. The course was very easy to follow, it was just like building a LEGO castle out of bricks, you keep on stacking the bricks, and then all of a sudden you have a beautiful castle in front of you. From the practical side, I discovered LinkedIn from a new perspective, saw marketing for what it really is, and got a great sales training. I am sure that everything that I've learnt during this month will be of great help for me in the future.

I am very pleased and fortunate that I came across James's Teacher Enterpreneur Network on Facebook. I read his advertisements and posts with a lot of enthusiasm and do you know why? Because I had the feeling that he talked about me, he talked about my problems and offered solutions exactly the way I wished for. It seemed that he had known me for some time, and he wanted to help me, that is why he talked to me.

I have been an ESL, EFL etc... teacher for a long time and I believe I have been a successful teacher. My students have always been satisfied with me, they liked my teaching methods, my approaches and I managed to help them pass their tests, be successful at their job interviews and hereby find better jobs, but I never dared to charge too much for my lessons, because I was afraid of losing my potential students even if I heard before: "the more you charge the more you are appreciated".

After thinking for some time and seeing James' advertisements on Facebook time after time, I decided to take the Challenge as I believed that the course would help me overcome my own limitations.

I can tell that the Challenge was great!!

James helped me to see myself through different eyes. After the Challenge I managed to build self-confidence as a teacher and now I know what I really worth and will not be shy anymore when it comes to talking about my course fees.

The Challenge helped me get an insight into the most important marketing and sales procedures. James' explanations were crystal clear and very practical. I could hardly wait for the next days' videos as I wanted to learn more and more.

At the moment I do not have new students yet, mostly because of some technical issues on one of the social media platforms, but now I have the knowledge and confidence and I believe that if I follow all the steps James recommended I will have students who do not mind paying the real value for my lessons and programs.

This has been the greatest Challenge ever!
I feel the power!!!

Another benefit of the Challenge was that I met a lot of other teachers who had similar problems like mine. James encouraged us to help each other with comments, suggestions and in many other ways to start our teacher-entrepreneur journey. This way, I believe, the people in the Challenge became a team and this was a good feeling.

I also hope that James' last day video was not a final goodbye and his course will be continued. I would like to learn a lot more from him and I know that I am not alone with that.

Thank you James and I hope to see you again in another course soon.

Andrea Orosz
21.05.2020.

Hi - this is Jane White from the UK. I have just completed the April Teacher-Entrepreneur Challenge with James Liu. I joined as a Process Learner, i.e. someone wanting to learn the Process James teaches in the Teacher-Entrepreneur Challenge, as I did not come with a niche already defined as many did. Most of my working life has been in the commercial Business field, although a while ago I obtained a CELTA certificate. However, I entered the Challenge with very little actual teaching experience – knowing only that I wanted to teach adults, not children, but having found that that there was an abundance of opportunities to teach kids, but not that many to teach adults.
This course was indeed, for me, a Challenge! It requires you to watch a video from James, and also action certain tasks every day. No weekends off, I mean EVERY day! James pushes you to take on and absorb new information, and take yourself outside your comfort zone. However, once I got over the shock to my system I determined to keep up! The Challenge content is well-designed and laid out and James’ teaching is clear and precise. If you have questions – which you will have, James welcomes these – his mantra – “there is no such thing as a stupid question”! It is not a marketing or sales course, it is a course on how to build your business foundation i.e. a teaching business, and followed by guidance and precise instructions on how to use Linkedin and Facebook to test the market, and then market and sell to your chosen niche. If you do not start with a chosen niche, then James provides 2 clear examples to use, so that even as a Process Learner you can follow through the course, and gain experience as well as knowledge in the different processes James teaches.
I completed the April Challenge having learnt a lot of new stuff! It showed me how to define my niche, where my passion and skills actually lay, how I needed to change my mindset in order to make progress, and a blueprint from someone who had the business experience and my success at heart as to how go about building the online teaching business I knew I had wanted for a long time, but previously had no clue as to where to start or how to progress.
One word here – For me, anyway, it was good to know that the process of following the Challenge through, and then building my business on James’ instructions, is not a sprint, it is a Marathon! Yes, you need to keep up on the daily tasks and information required during the Challenge, and maintain the momentum after it is finished, but the actual process of setting up and building your business is not going to be achieved overnight, either during or after the Challenge. That is fine by me – now I know much more clearly where I am going, and have an understanding of the process I need to follow to get there, with James as a mentor, I now believe my goal is achievable!