Best Ways To Grow Your Teacher Business

Let’s make this year the year you finally grow your teacher business!

Teachers have so many unique gifts that easily translate out of the classroom. Turning those passions into a product-based business only makes sense. Today, let's discuss four ways you can turn your passion into a business.

Part of what I love helping teachers do inside of their tutoring business is finding ways to work less, while making more money.  Hear me out, I teach full time, you also know that I'm switching from first grade to fifth grade here pretty soon.  I have hit a point where I want to make a lot more money passively and not have to trade so much time for money.  I know that you probably are feeling that way too. It's so nice to recharge your batteries during the summer but thinking about having a full plate again, just makes me exhausted. So today, I'm going to teach you how to turn your unique teaching gifts into a product. I think one of the best things we can do as teachers is to help other teachers.  If you can find what's unique about the way you teach something and turn it into a TPT product, or a course that helps people just like you, you're going to not only make more money passively down the road and you're also going to be helping people.  That’s a  win-win my friend. 

What’s your favorite subject to teach in the classroom?

Take what you’re most confident teaching about in the classroom and turn into a product that helps other teachers

I want you to take the subject you're the most confident in teaching in the classroom, and brainstorm all the things that you're great at.  Grab a pen and paper and write them down.  Once you’ve brainstormed a list, narrow your list down to the top three things you’re good at teaching.  Let's say for example your list includes: classroom management, math stations, and classroom organization. Go through that list and narrow it down to the top one or two things that really just light your fire and make you want to help other people.  I usually recommend starting with one so you don’t overwhelm yourself.  There's got to be somebody in your school that has asked you a question about how you do something or told you they liked the way that you did something.  Those are the moments when you start to realize you can really help other teachers by selling your own teaching resources on Teachers Pay Teachers.

Determining your teaching niche is the first step to growing a profitable teacher business.

If you’re clear on what your teaching niche is, it’s easy to turn that into a profitable teacher business

Once you figure out your teaching niche, that's gonna give you so much clarity.  Your teaching niche means the thing that you are going to make your business center around and your TPT products.  Let's go back to that math example. I'm switching to fifth grade and I'm a little nervous about teaching fifth grade math, but let's say that you're really great at it.   Maybe you’ve developed a system for your students to do math stations effortlessly and you also have a great way to differentiate your lessons and keep track of all the data.  You could turn that ENTIRE system into a TPT product or many products that help other teachers that are teaching the same thing.  This same math center system could even turn into a mini course or a membership!  Dream big here because there's so many ideas inside of one thing you’re already doing well in your classroom.

Do you have a unique teaching process that would help other teachers?

If your favorite thing to teach is reading groups, write down your unique process and create a product that will help other teachers be successful

Take your favorite thing teaching and then turn it into a system and a process. Maybe you're like me and you love teaching reading groups.  There's something unique about how you teach reading that could turn into one product that could eventually turn into multiple products.   That’s called your own unique teaching method and it could help hundreds of teachers.  Eventually, that's how you sell a course is by just bottling up something that you're doing and helping people solve their problems.  

The hard part is starting but once you do, you can scale your products and make more money!

Once you create a product, you can scale and turn one product into a product line that’s easy to recreate and continually makes you money

Once you've created a product, turn it into a product line.  I want you to think about the big picture.  Let's say that you are creating a worksheet that solves one particular math standard.  Next, you could look at an entire math concept and turn those worksheets into a math unit.  Once that’s been created you can make an entire grade level of units for math! Yes, you could!  Start small and let it go somewhere big.  Once you create one template for something, I promise you that it gets easier and easier to recreate. Right now I'm working on some word sorts for my TPT store. Once the first one was made, they're really easy to keep making. I can bundle each set once I have a whole set complete.  That way, I can have different ways of making money for the person that wants to just buy one lesson at a time and for the person that wants to buy the whole unit. 

I wanted to get your wheels spinning about turning something that's uniquely you, either in your tutoring business or in the classroom, or both into products that sell on Teachers Pay Teachers. I always encourage my tutors to take their teaching gifts into their tutoring business.  

Ready to learn all the secrets of selling on Teachers Pay Teachers?

So there's so many ways to expand and make extra money as a tutor and a teacher.  I want to be there for you every step of the way. If you're thinking about starting a TPT store, or maybe you already have one, but you really need some help on putting the right steps in place, then you’ll love my FREE 4-day challenge where I’ll be teaching you the secrets of how to get started selling on TPT!  Click here to be a VIP on the list!