Ways to make money for Unemployed Teachers

I have been thinking about the experience of an unemployed teacher who will remain anonymous, but who submitted this post.  I woke up from a sleep, driven to make this post to assist him. The first thing that I did was to check out other blogs.  Bad news.  Here’s a typical result:  http://www.proteacher.net/discussions/showthread.php?t=21838. Perhaps after I write it and direct him to the post, I’ll be able to fall back asleep. I think I’ll post a link on that blog to this solution.  Perhaps my ideas will help them too.  Also, if you get a chance check out this site, which I started some time ago, but never kept up. Still, it might help you.

Get Your Hands on a e-book from which you can cut-and-paste and build a presentation that will get you job interviews

Perhaps, I feel this way because I went through a period of unemployment that lasted over two years.  I know what it feels like. I know the “take me or leave me philosophy” that I developed.  I know that I wrote my own survival manual.  In fact, I’m going to offer that manual free to anyone who is reading this post. However, please don’t give it away to others.  Instead, ask them to buy it from http://www.max-opp.com/ejs/.  It’s $19.00.  However, if you post a comment in reply to this site, I’ll allow you to download it for free.  (I know that I e-mailed it to you, but I didn’t receive a reply, so perhaps it was too big for your e-mail.)

Consider Being a Contractor

Check out http://www.Dice.com as an example.  You are like to find that you can market some of your skill sets for at least $30/hour.  (Assuming that you know how to build a small database with Microsoft Access,  or write a really good technical report.  Perhaps you need to position yourself as a Management Analyst or a Process Analyst.

Tutoring

If you can do tutoring over the web, that will be great.  You can do this on your own using http://www.DimDim.com, http://www.Webex.com, or http://www.GoToMeeting.com, or you can contract with one of the companies that use tutors.  Search for tutors and tutoring on this web site, and you’ll find some of them. There are companies out there that are looking for good tutors.

Prepare Lesson Plans, and we Will Market Them

This is a long shot, and it will take a while to get up to speed, but I’ll give you 75% of the gross profit (sales price less direct costs such as PayPal fees) assuming that I don’t have to spend a lot of time editing your work.  Look at the response that you sent me, below, and you’ll see why this is a concern.  If I have to spend considerable time editing (or hire someone to do this) then your payout would be lower.  I have the technology in place to allow you to sell these Lesson Plans and get paid immediately upon their sale.  Money will be deposited directly into your  PayPal account, and you’ll be able to spend it immediately.  It will take some effort, but you can do this.

Write a Book / Audio Book / e-Book and Earn Immediate Royalties

It’s possible to use FastPencil* to write and market a book, and there are other sources such as http://www.scribd.com, http://www.smashwords.com, http://www.lulu.com, which will enable you to make income from them relatively quickly. What I like about FastPencil is that you can actually turn your blog into a real book and/or an e-book.  RoughCutUneditedPreviewOfMaximumOpportunity (Note that this e-book has both live hyperlinks (most chapters) and text–see Chapter 7.)  This is just an example.

My experience is that if you can write a series of information-based books, you can make money quickly.  Novels, short-stories, and poetry are a crap shot.  It’s true that I’m doing a novel and book of poetry now (see http://www.Harmony123.com) , and I expect to make money from it, but it’s also true that I don’t expect to make any money from it for at least a year.  Also, it has taken me four years to develop a strategy that will enable me to make money from writing it.

Be a contributing author and/or Editor and/or Marketing Person for this site.

There will be no upfront cash, but I’ll share some of the revenue that comes out of this site with you, assuming that we arrive at a mutually agreeable formula in advance.  To see the revenue potential for a blog take a look at this series of articles on a child blog on this site.  I can suggest that you check out the Stump Markus Internet Radio show* to hear advice on how to develop marketing skills on the web.  I’ve been listening to Markus for about 18 months now, and I’m impressed. Caution:  As Markus would say, the hardest thing to do on the Internet is to make your first dollar.  After that, it’s not so bad.  That first dollar can take years.  (Ask me how I know.  )  Here is a link to a [post that offers  one of his videos, http://max-opp.com/teachers/want-to-tutor-heres-how-to-launch-a-website-that-gets-traffic *