The Teacher Biz Podcast

Oct 28 2024 74 ep. 26 mins 12
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Hey there! Welcome to The Teacher Biz Podcast with Heather O’Donnell. 

Each week, Heather shares strategies she’s used in her own online business to replace her teacher income (several times over) while working just 25 hours a week. Learn how a profitable teacher biz actually works (psst… we’re not throwing up resources on TPT) and how to get started without falling into the most common pitfalls and time wasters in the online business world. 

Through a mix of interviews and solo episodes, you’ll learn about building an email list, creating and selling digital products, time management, a must-have mindset for success, how to run a profitable business on your own schedule, and much more.

Hit subscribe and get ready to learn how to build a profitable home business with a lot less effort than it takes to run a classroom!

Connect With Heather:

https://teacherbiz.com/about/

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73: Teacher Biz Blueprint Insights from a Student's Perspective with Maria Golden

Oct 28 2024 25 mins  
Maria Golden is an educator, reading specialist, and mother of three young children. After years of teaching young readers and writers, she noticed a strong need for developing early literacy skills during the early childhood years. After becoming a stay-at-home mom, she still felt a strong pull towards working with young learners. While shuffling between diaper changes, naps, and

72: Planning Your Teacher Biz: Make These 3 Decisions First!

Oct 21 2024 10 mins  
Starting a business without a plan is like throwing spaghetti at the wall to see what sticks—and that’s exactly what we want to avoid. In this episode, Heather walks through the three critical decisions you need to make before launching your teacher biz. With a solid plan in place, you’ll avoid the hamster wheel of trial and error and set yourself up for real progress. If you

71: Using TPT as an Easy List Building Strategy

Oct 14 2024 12 mins  
Already have a Teachers Pay Teachers (TPT) store? Tune in to learn how you can use it to build your email list! While she advises against relying solely on TPT for selling products, Heather shares a quick, easy-to-implement strategy for utilizing your existing TPT store to offer free resources instead of paid ones. Why? Because it gives you a unique opportunity to attract potential

70: Final Numbers Revealed: The Engaging Early Learning Summit

Oct 07 2024 17 mins  
Heather shares an in-depth look at the financial outcomes and experiences from hosting her first virtual summit - The Engaging Early Learning Summit. While her goal was to hit 10,000 sign-ups, she ended up with 5,233 (and learned some valuable lessons along the way!). Hear what worked, what didn’t (like those tricky Facebook ads), and how she still managed to make a profit of $4,

69: BTS of Running a Virtual Summit

Sep 30 2024 20 mins  
The Engaging Early Learning Summit is officially underway! Get behind-the-scenes insight as Heather shares her experiences of launching her very first virtual summit. She discusses the challenges and triumphs of organizing the event, the strategies she used to attract speakers and attendees, and the benefits the summit brings to her business and community. She also explains why hos

68: Gaining the Confidence to Host a Live Webinar

Sep 23 2024 15 mins  
Curious if Amy Porterfield’s online course, Digital Course Academy, is the next step for your business? Heather shares her reasoning for joining DCA (to overcome her fear of webinars!) and how it gave her the confidence to go from scared to making $24K from one launch! Learn the benefits of using webinars as an advanced sales strategy, the comfort of having step-by-step guidance

67: The Free & Simple Strategy to Grow Your Email List

Sep 16 2024 12 mins  
Heather introduces a simple, free, and effective strategy for building an email list that doesn't require paid ads or extensive content creation. This tactic focuses on leveraging the power of networking within the online business space to exchange freebies with like-minded business owners. Learn how the freebie swap works and how to go about finding your freebie swap partner. Whet

66: How to Guarantee Your Digital Course Will Sell

Sep 09 2024 18 mins  
Imagine spending months creating a digital course, only to see it sit with zero sales. This can be disappointing and financially draining. The good news is that there's a smarter way to go about it! Heather shares a strategy to ensure that your digital course has customers before you create it, by pre-selling the course. The process involves outlining the course content, creating a

65: Business Branding 101 with Tracey Albrecht

Sep 02 2024 30 mins  
Tracey Albrecht started Soapbox Studio in 1997 to offer high-quality graphic design services to the local community businesses in a physical studio in the suburbs of Chicago. Today, any business owner, regardless of location, can access their high-quality graphic design services. The small but highly skilled team, with a combined experience of 50 years, is adept at design, color, a

64: What to Focus On When Just Getting Started In Your Business

Aug 26 2024 20 mins  
Heather addresses a common mistake that many new online business owners make - the mismanagement of their time. They end up running in circles, trying to do all of the things they don't even need to be doing yet. Don’t let this be you! In this episode, Heather outlines a step-by-step strategy for effectively managing time in the early stages of business (and it’s not on social