Teacher Jade's Writing Academy

How I Went From Part-Time Tutor To Making $120K/Year Selling Online Courses

May 27th, 2022
Jade Weatherington
$12K
revenue/mo
1
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Teacher Jade's Wr...
from Atlanta, GA, USA
started January 2020
$12,000
revenue/mo
1
Founders
0
Employees
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Hello! Who are you and what business did you start?

My name is Jade, but my students call me Teacher Jade. I have two businesses that were founded from “ah-ha” moments. My primary business is an online academy that offers courses to youth ages 8-18. From the success of that business, I started my second business which teaches anyone how to teach classes online.

While working on my Masters and completing my teaching license, I started tutoring online as a side job. I was working part-time as a paraprofessional and had a one-year-old child. If you ever considered becoming an educator, you know they don’t rack in the dough. However, what started as a side job, the online tutoring, eventually became my career path and led me on my entrepreneurial path as a “teacherpreneur”.

I started off working for a few different companies that offered online classes. This was in 2008. From there I acquired private students. Again, this was in 2008, so I was using Skype to meet with my students. As the years passed, I was off-and-on teaching online. By the time I completed my license and received my teaching license, I realized I did NOT want to teach in a traditional school setting. It would have been great to...

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