Hina Javed Malik
In this 21st century our skills, thinking, communication, collaboration, and even technology understanding have changed. People are now better equipped with proper knowledge and know how to reach their goals by meeting the challenges of this era. Teachers are more prepared for their careers today and they exactly know how to make students learn by taking them beyond the mastery of core subjects. These teachers transform the inner abilities of students and help them to become a future successes.
Some of the successful entrepreneurs of today believe that their inner skills were actually refined by the magic of great teaching. According to research, the single most important factor in a student’s achievements is early school teaching because teachers don’t just teach, they make the pupils believe that they can do it. This is what people from all fields can do, they can teach in their respective fields in order to land more business on their plate.
This digital era is loaded with more freelancers than ever before. People are freelancing as photographers, chefs, designers, etc., and are making a good living for themselves. But freelancing sometimes can be a dry spell because, in this fierce competition, it is not easy to get steady flows of referrals mainly because freelancers’ content is clear and sharable like teaching.
So why not combine the two together in order to get the best out of freelancing? Teaching can be helpful and the following steps should be taken in this regard.
Where to Teach:
First and foremost, you need to understand where you stand as a freelancer. In order to build up your brand, you need to share your knowledge through teaching. You can teach to the audience through written, visual, and video content. If we take the case of a freelance copywriter, exploring the industry depends upon the type of projects undertaken. One way is to publish your content through Medium, which is a platform for readers and writers to share their ideas. This will help reach the targeted audience. But in order to grab the attention on a larger scale, you need to place your video content on YouTube. You can turn your informative content into a video course and sell it afterward for a profitable purpose. You can even use your social media accounts to promote your content. Another classy platform is Udemy, here you can create your course, and put videos and whenever someone buys your course, you earn money.
Tutorvista lets you connect with anyone from anywhere and pays well for creating your course. BuddySchool is quickly getting popular for its increasing user base.
Developing strong relationships on the internet:
Once you set foot in the actual web world, you will become more prominent to the audience. They will bombard you with emails, questions, and even phone calls sometimes. It is very important to respond to each query responsibly because you can have your potential clients among this audience as well. If you answer the questions properly, many of these people will definitely follow you for their consulting work. Your writings on Medium or your videos on YouTube can be very much helpful to people and you may be surprisingly contacted by someone years after you have posted your work.
You can make money with your Teaching:
Teaching will not only land you a new business but will also be helpful in earning cash. You can easily make cash with your content in two ways; you can sell ads and sell your content at a fixed rate.
If you hold your own blog, you can even sell ads different from your content. If you produce videos on YouTube, the platform facilitates all the content producers with revenue sharing. These two ways can help you earn money immediately but you just need to have a larger group of audience in order to sell your content at a set price.
Video production has a simple guide to kickstart your career and it is very effective.
Figure out what actually works for you:
Every rule is not suitable for everyone, so test the waters before getting your feet wet. Every freelancer and every business is not the same, different strategies fit best for different people. So always have a complete understanding before you start teaching. Ask yourself three basic questions: what you are interested to teach, what the preferences of your students are, and about your aims in this respect.
Clarity of mind is essential before you start with the process of teaching. Clear goals and aims will help you rule out all the unnecessary stuff and your efforts will bear a more productive outcome.
