The CEO Teacher Podcast

Let's Break Through The Online Coaching Business Puzzle With Actionable Steps… It's your turn to create a community that respects your life outside of the classroom, while still allowing you to give everything you want to a career you love. That's where an online coaching business comes in.  Teachers are uniquely positioned to support other teachers doing what they know and love— why? The U.S. coa...

Online Coaches: Clarify Priorities, Values, And Missions For Teacher Business Owners You became a teacher because you wanted to help students, teachers, and families. Instead of selling your soul 8-5, M-F, just to climb the district payscale (an unfortunate side effect of a career you were born for), why don't we flip the script and nurture your soul using the same skill set you already possess?  ...

Have You Been Searching For A Way to Leverage Your Teaching Talents and Heart of Service?  In today's episode we are breaking down all the secrets to get started with your own online coaching program for educators. The online coaching industry is estimated to grow to $20 billion this year, suggesting an annual growth rate of 6.7%. And you can get in on the ground floor of creating a life many only...

NonTraditional Revenue Streams for Passionate Educators Ready to create a life where  you can still teach in a nontraditional way?  These revenue streams are education based, and education is what we do here at the CEO Teacher®  but this way you get to TEACH on your own terms! Saying yes to your goals and dreams this year is the new face of education. The most common multiple income streams for te...

5 Teacher Inspired Tips For Achieving your Life Goals With Whatever You Decide In Life! If just thinking of giving your passion project your full focus gets you excited, you've come to the right place. 92% of people give up before realizing their life goals. I can't wait for you to be one of the 8% who continue to create dreams and then follow a proven system to achieve those goals!  This episode...

The 4 R's For Staying Mentally Tough When Building Your Teacher Business Mental toughness for teachers is a way to embrace new challenges, and focus on your individual strengths. And when you are ready to build your teacher business you need to find ways to increase your definiteness of purpose. Come listen as we chat about how to develop grit and use your passion to achieve your long term goals. ...

Growing Your Business As A Classroom Teacher, One Step At A Time What do you do as a classroom teacher trying to keep the needle moving forward in your business when school resumes? And you feel the crunch of adding more to your plate with grading, lesson planning, after school activities that need carpooling, and dinner that needs to be cooked? There are many ways to use your teaching experience...

SEO Keywords are the secret to your growth and reach online It's time to establish YOUR credibility and sets YOU up as the authority on a specific subject, your niche! Google dominates other search engines with more than 8.5 billion searches each DAY. SEO optimization is going to get you seen, increase your reach, and help you become the thought leader in your specialty area. Are you ready for it…...

Your SEO Strategy for increasing your hierarchy on Google In this 3rd rendition of our SEO secrets series, we are breaking down SEO (search engine optimization) and showing you how to make it work in your teacher business. Search engine optimization across all of your content will actually lead to a higher domain authority on Google. And since 91% of pages haven't been optimized yours will pop up...

SEO Tips You Cannot Live Without if You Are Ready to Increase Your Revenue In our second episode of SEO secrets – we are breaking down the behind the scenes details how you can (and should) revise posts, products, and other content to be SEO friendly. 15% of all queries are unique to Google, this means every day brings up new keyword searches that haven't yet been explored. Why wouldn't you want t...

SEO Tips for Teachers Wanting to Uplevel Their Reach This Summer What are SEO secrets, or more importantly what is SEO? It stands for "search engine optimization." In simple terms, you'll use SEO to improve your online presence and increase visibility across search engines (like Pinterest, Etsy, TPT, etc). You'll optimize your content to show up first whenever people search for the specific produc...

Ready To Learn The Ins And Outs Of How To Create A Landing Page That Will Turn Your Audience Into Repeat Buyers? High converting landing pages have a sole purpose, to convert more traffic and increase conversions. Conversions include clicks, downloads, purchases, bookings, basically anything you offer that leads to value. A landing page can be  part of  a website, but you  don't need  a website to...

Copywriting For Education, Is A Broad Topic: Who are you serving? Teachers, Admin, Families… Copywriting for education is a skill that cannot be passed off to some new forms of artificial intelligence. Teachers can sniff out inauthenticity faster than most. So we need to find ways to create compelling copy. Something that brings them in and keeps them coming back for more.  Did you know that copyw...

Back To School Marketing Promotions Don't Have To Begin On A Particular Date With school start times varying throughout the US, sales can begin anywhere from mid- to late July. Continue through August, and end in mid-September. As we head even deeper into 2023, I want to remind you that consumers trust their friends and family. Just remember that word-of-mouth is even more effective than paid ads,...

Ready to Use Connection and Value to Market to Teachers – Here is Your Lesson Plan… Marketing to teachers through email, social media and word of mouth are the top 3 ways to reach your audience. The word 'marketing' could bring up all kinds of feelings when we chat about reaching teachers. The thing you need to remember is that as long as you are connecting in an authentic way when you market to t...

Thinking Of Starting A Teacher Podcast? Stop Right Now And Give This One A Listen… Podcasting is a relatively untapped market, with so many shows fizzling out after the first few months. You could potentially get in the ground floor and create the newest viral content – just by showing up today! Learning to make an education podcast doesn't have to take more time than studying for the SATs. All yo...

So What Is A Marketing Funnel And How Can It Impact Your Teacher Business? Marketing funnel- also called a pipeline, conversion funnel, sales funnel, or even simply part of the customer journey depending on the nature of your businesses. A marketing funnel is a clear path for your customer from your idea to your freebie and then to your paid product, making the journey streamlined, and purchasing...

How To Get Out Of A Sales Slump With Innovative Teacher Summer Sales Ideas For a full time teacher summer can be a time to grow your business even if it seems as if the whole world is on vacation. Use it as a time to get systems in place for the fall, create new products, resources, ideas, etc. Many businesses may go on break, and although you are probably ready to just rest with the majority of t...

Life after Teaching Can Be A Scary Discussion, a Paralyzing Thought, or the Freedom You Never Knew You Needed When you Leave the Classroom! I see you! You have spent your entire life working toward becoming an educator. Or maybe you are one of the 30% of new teachers who are leaving their jobs within the first 5 years. Whichever side of the coin you fall- something is calling you to MORE. More imp...

Ai For Business Is A Fast Growing Concept- 1 Million Users In The First 5 Days Fast! Do I believe that AI and programs like Chat GPT should replace the personal touches you bring to your business? NOPE- You shouldn't rely solely on AI for marketing. Does it mean you cannot effectively incorporate AI in your business? Alos NOPE! Stick around and in today's episode Ill share my top tips and strategi...

Ways To Improve Physical and Teacher Health To Increase Your Business Productivity Being physically active and improving your teacher health doesn't mean going into more debt with that gym membership you bought and forgot about, or even participating in those crazy mudder runs, triathlons or weight lifting competitions.  All that is recommended is 150 minutes of moderate-intensity physical activit...

Teacher Work Life Balance, Is It Real? Your innate skill to do it all and then some, sometimes makes you forget that while you are a superhero, you still need to be able to protect yourself from burnout. So in today's episode I want to chat about some of the things you can do to prevent burn out and find your version of work life balance as a teacher.  Tips For Work Life Balance I know that you ha...

How To Deal With Anxiety And Depression As A Teacher Entrepreneur Teachers are 40% more likely to report symptoms of anxiety than other professionals.. And we know technology can be a culprit adding to the stress of nearly burntout teachers. There is an "always on" mentality that admin and parents have come to expect from classroom rockstars. But let me explain… This is not just another rant about...

The Question Of The Hour: What's Trending on Social Media Right Now The short answer is whatever is working for you, keep doing it. In reality, what's trending on social media that might be coming our way are all the things we have been talking about in the last few years. So let's lean into our magic and make those viral concepts do their job! You're already doing the job of a micro-influencer (t...

Hiring Employees For Small Business: Tips And Strategies For Expanding Your Team When thinking of growing your teacher business and potentially hiring others to help you grow, I am always going to encourage you to find current or former educators. Not only are they able to develop their own schedules and work independently and creatively, they typically don't need a ton of micromanaging or handhol...