UPDATE: The Homework Program applications are now CLOSED. Thank you to everyone who joined us!
It doesn’t quite look like this, but you’ll have the full new menu with your logo on the top – how about that for creating an amazing impression on the parents 🙂
Hello,
I hope you’re having a * GREAT * time with all the new materials!
Today, to go with the 2017 Calendars from yesterday, I’ve got a very different, but very special treat for you.
And I’m very excited about it.
It shows you how to vastly improve your students’ English. And at the same time gain another important income stream for your school.
The best thing is that unlike regular franchise schools, where you are forced to sell to all your students for crazy prices and get to keep none of it, here with Genki English you choose which classes you wish to improve AND I split the money with you 50/50.
Check out the video below. It’s 20 minutes so grab a coffee and have a sit down!
P.S. We’ve also increased the prices since we shot the video! 🙂 Current prices are $250 / 29,000 yen / 190 Euros. You keep half. Half you send to me. Over the course this is still cheaper than most of your competition charge for old school textbooks. And this is 21st century computer software, branded with your school logo, now just think how impressive that is to the parents!
Pretty cool eh!
UPDATE: The Homework Program applications are now CLOSED. Thank you to everyone who joined us!
Ninja Tip 2: If you’re not a VIP member yet, you become one when you purchase the Teacher’s Set. If you make the homework program compulsory for just one class of four students you have effectively got the Teacher’s Set for free. Anything more than that are you are in profit. Plus you have all the benefits of seeing the kids progress so much more quickly, and all the marketing benefits that brings too.
If you think you’ve got what it takes & are seriously interested in trying it out, get in touch. As I said in the video I let too many people into the online version to manage last year so I’m going to keep this one a * lot * smaller.
I’m sure you’ve got questions, so please write them up in the comments.
Be genki,
Richard
P.S. I just drew the winner of last month’s comment competition. It was … Carolyn! This month’s competition is now on so get commenting and you might win this month!
P.P.S. The best teachers offer separate classes, one deluxe class with the software and one regular class. I think you can imagine which one is the most popular with parents. If you only do the homework for some students in a class, and not all, be prepared to split the class in future.
This is great! I also tried giving the web access to some of my students but they never used! This could work! However I’m done for this school year and will start once again in late September. I am interested though and would like more info!
Nena
Hi Nena,
I’m going to start up a thread on the forum with all the detailed info and things that Margit has sent. Yes, the idea was to get it up now so hopefully everything will be all ready to go for September!
i just started using Genkienglish this year in my home with my students and it has been so useful. One of my students wanted to have access to all the material, but I told her that it was not possible, so this could be something good for them.
Hi Yolanda,
Great to hear about the success! Yes I’m sure this will help!
Hi Richard!
What fantastic news!!!
I was often asked by my kids and colleagues whether I could copy the software for them. But I had to answer it wasn’t allowed. And they (I mean kids first of all) seemed to be very upset.
Now I work in our school summer camp. The kids I taught with the help of GenkiEnglish just few lessos last summer here remember the songs and games till now and beg me to repeat them this time. I think it’s great!
And it’s an extraordinary breakthrough for all of us who likes you mehtod to get an opportunity to make many people happy and earn some money.
How exactly can I do it now? Where can I get the lycence for copying? The school where I teach is not a private one. Will it go there then? How can I send the 50 % of profit to you (if I could hear right)?
With best regards,
Julia
Hi Julia!
Nice to see the excitement! We haven’t actually tried this in a non-private school, but let’s see what happens! Check out the forum link and I’ll get you started!
Hi Margit!
Nice to meet you! And to know you’re from Germany. I’m a teacher of German and English.
I admire your work with kids who speak English without fear. Thank you for the inspiring video with Richard!
Am I right: you tried to make your students to play GenkiEnglish with CDs but it didn’t work? And now you are going to do it on memory stick and beliave it will go? Why?
Good luck and be ever so genki!
Hi Julia,
thanks for your feed back.
Great to hear you’re teaching German, too.
(Whisper this to Richard as well~~~~!)
Can you join the discussion on the Forum?
I’ll answer to your question on the thread. OK?!
Thanks, Margit
Hi Richard and Margit
I think the idea is excellent. I would love to be able to implement it here with private classes, however I do not think that the parents who are already paying for the classes will wish to invest in materials when previously all class materials have been provided for free (prepared by me).
Do you have any suggestions as I´m sure that there are thousands of ESL teachers in the same position as me?
Thanks
Heidi
Hi Heidi
Why not give it a try?
As Margit says in the video she thought her parents wouldn’t pay but they all did!
Hi Heidi,
the result will cover such a huge amount of lessons (and lesson fees) that parents will be more than happy and see that there is nothing to regret just after a few weeks.
Of course you have to talk to the kids, too. Ask them wether they want to do this at home, on their computer. Show them and the parents the curriculum sheet and tell them that they will sign this each week at the topic you chose.
There are things you can hand out for free, and there are those you can’t. Parents understand this.
Just great, have you got any idea for the rates in France?
I’m working with Genki English for more than one year and I’m really satisfied. Pupils are really motivated to learn more and they retain the vocabulary and the structures so easily…
Thanks a lot,
Carla Chazottes
France
Hi, great news!
I am using GE with all my students in both private and government schools. After the GE lesson with games and songs one kid said ” I was talking so much, my mouth is sore!”
As I am planning my next school year, I would like to build this new way of charging parents and planning the lessons into my private school activities.
Please, let me know the details.
This is truly great news!
I’m going to be in your ninja workshop next month and I’ve been working on a cool flash website where I was planning to buy the server rights from you so the kids could do homework…this changes everything! It will save me time (and headaches) on website development.
I’m opening a small (part-time) school in September so the timing is awesome.
How do I get you to put my schools’ name on your great product?
Hi Richard – I think it is an amazing idea… I have had parents asking about the CD but this is even better… would love to give it a try… start the summer school in July and we will be using GENKI a lot… let me know how to proceed.
Thanks Jennifer
Great to hear all the Genki English success stories!
@Deena (& Carla): a) Yes, compared with most English courses that (lots of !) parents buy it works out very cheap. We’re discussing prices for different countries on the forum, so it looks like developed countries such as Israel, Western Europe etc. will have these prices and of course I’ll have different prices for different developing countries.
b) I’ll definitely be putting school names onto the software menu. And I’m looking at having school names engraved on the USBs themselves, but at the moment it looks like several hundred units are needed for engraving which is probably too much for most schools!
Hi Stephen,
Excellent! This is the best way to do it. We had loads of fears and lots of anticipation before doing this “Would parents think this? Or be OK with this part? etc.” and in the end when we actually launched and tested it, it all worked out.
I’ll be in touch via email, let’s pick which of the two you’d like to do and let’s get started for September!
Be genki,
Richard
Great to hear everyone’s amazing stories!
Hello this is my first time ever blogging. Over two years ago I started Gordon’s English School here in Sasebo Japan, from Richards advice. Before starting it I was Teaching in Elementary Schools. I’m proud to say because of Genki English my school has grown to over 220 students and twelve locations. I employ eight teachers. I really think this is an awesome idea and want to get started now!! My parents have expressed interest in the cd’s but it was difficult to match the cd’s with my annual training plans.
Gordon
Dear Richard,
I am an English teacher based in Strasbourg France. I work part-time in an elementary school and the rest of the time I run my own private English workshop.
My intention is to stop working for the school and create my own English workshop. I love Genki English and find that it works wonders with the kids as it is not like English lessons at school.
I would love to be part of your programme and make my English workshop really Genki! I would love to hear back from you with any advice.
Catherine
Dear Richard
I am Diana from Nicaragua, this is my third message for you, and in this time I like to congratulations you, for your whole work and energy you transfer when you teach English. My classes are changing a lot, since I am using Genki English. The children like my classes; they love the song and the movement or TPR things that I am using. I teach English in the university and I am behalf of project Read me a Book, that consist in teach English in elementary public school, English in elementary school is not a request, but I believe, English in this level is so important and necessary for the culture of society. I am training volunteer’s students from the university to teach English in elementary school, I am using your free videos and songs and everybody love your method and they say the songs are sticking on the mind all the time. I love it. I watched the Megan video with you about the USB with the software and it is fantastic…. How can I get??/ I can see you travel a lot, I believe school call you and you go to training teachers and demonstrate to students your method, is that right? I wish one day you can come to Nicaragua, too. What the process to do it?
Diana, Nicaragua
Hi Diana,
Thank you very much for the kind words!
I’ll just send an email now with details of the USBs.
And for the workshops, yes I spend around half the year on the road! All you have to do is to get the teacher’s together and then organise the funding. This can be done through the school or through charging the teachers individually. I haven’t yet been to Nicaragua so it would be fantastic to visit!
I love the idea of USB + software to sell to the students. The Czech cost of living (and income) is way less than Japan however. I have no need to make money from this, but would like to offer it at cost to my students. I currently have 35 students. How much is the cost of just giving them the games and songs (the GE software). The parents are absolutely loving to hear the kids break into the songs around the house.
Hi Cindy,
No worries, we now have it pretty much sorted out in that we offer the package at 4 months the average monthly lesson fee for whichever country you are in. This works out the fairest for everyone, by far cheaper than other systems, and so far all the parents have been over the moon with it!
Just send me an email and we can get you started!
Hi Richard,
this is a great new development. I am really interested . I am wondering if you have figured out a way to make the USB available to schools such as those you are working with in India and in my situation in a school up in the mountains where the average income for the parents is $8.75 US per day for a family of about six. How can the USB materials be made available to this population, who are just as gifted for language learning but lack resources and opportunities. We have some computers availale for after school use but the parents would not be able to afford the going price for the USB.
What are your plans for Africa, or are you working with the affluent population there?
Bernie
Hi Bernie,
The prices we are scaling according to location – usually around 4 months English tuition – which works quite well. However of course for the poorest areas, the provision of computers (or even electricity! ) in the homes means the USBs don’t really work with either our slum schools in India or the poor schools we work with in Africa. In those cases I’m keeping an eye on how the tablet computer project is going in Thailand – I think that is probably the future.
For the rest of you in developed/developing countries (i.e. if you are lucky enough to shower in clean water each day!) then the USBs are the way to go!
Hi Richard!
How are you?
This is my first post, lets see if go to right!
Hug.
What a creative idea! it will definitely benefit more people.
I am retraining to becoming an English teacher in Israel. I speak both German and English, next to Hebrew.
I tried the trial song out on my two little kids who generally don’t like to produce English without me prompting them (I speak with them in English). They have not stoped singing it!!! Two weeks later and they still love it (I did it acapella while driving in the car).
I am now setting up a small English class for 4 to 6 year olds and will be using your program once I get enough students together.
Richard, I forgot to say say good bye, and also forgot to say that I am Patricia from Mexico City.
Will you let me know how many gigabytes does a memory stick should have to back up all the software, please?
I want this for Mexico, please send me more information.
It’s so nice to share your videos, so energetic!
I am teaching 5 to 11 years children in France.
I have little time with the children every week and I was wondering how to have them practice the words and expression to ensure we can do more! I was thinking about challenging the kids, asking them as homework to call one class mate and ask the lessons question, just to play “pretending”. We’ll see whether the parents agree on that… So I’ll be glad to test your “new project” and see if they are ready to practice!
If I can be part of it I’ll be glad. Please keep me posted!
PAIGE
Hi Richard
Please could you just clarify for me that the software being dowloaded for the homework is the same content as the downloadable pack that teachers buy?
Sorry for being a bit confused 🙂
Dear Richard!
I’m located in Kitsuki City, a small castle town in Oita, Japan. I have just barely purchased the teachers’ set, (kindness of your installment plan system-thank you so much) and besides watching tons of your training videos have been printing tons of materials from your VIP website (such a treasure-chest), all to get ready for this next new school year a local public schools. This is going to be a very BIG year!
I absolutely love everything you’ve done and are doing and oh my gosh, while I feel like I push myself hard to have new material and whatnot, I’m conking my head against the wall wondering why I didn’t encounter your website earlier! I feel like I’ve literally been trying to ‘reinvent the wheel’ with so much that I’ve been doing, to keep the GENKI alive in classes here, and yet you have a system and program fully developed and so incredibly functional! How thankful I am to have found your website, FINALLY!
I love your program, and I will recommend it to EVERYONE!! What you have done and are doing is truly EXTRAORDINARY!! Thank you!!
Hi Laura, yes it’s just the same software with all the lessons, games and songs. And … it’s branded with your school’s very own logo! 🙂
Hi Patricia, the software is just over 1GB, so usually 4GB sticks are cool. Although these days sometimes 8 or 16GB ones are even cheaper!
Hi Richard,
I have a question concerning the Homework program.
So , the homework program is the software which is the same as in the teacher’s set.Is that correct? Can you tell me what is included in this homework program?
If I pay now for the homework program, will I receive a permission to sell this software to the parents .I am a little bit confused. I will tell the parents about this possibility/ the homework program/, but do they pay to you or I send their money to you. Could you please clarify this for me.
Now , when I pay to you 2 commissions , what will I receive ?
And also for the school logo – when and where I write the my school logo, so that you can write it on the software.
Thank you.
Regards
Hi Galina,
Let me see if I can help.
So , the homework program is the software which is the same as in the teacher’s set.Is that correct?
Correct.
Can you tell me what is included in this homework program?
You simply sell the software for the students to learn the English at home, before they come to lessons. Then the lesson time is spent actually using the English and for you to give feedback, corrections, motivation etc.
If I pay now for the homework program, will I receive a permission to sell this software to the parents .
Correct.
I will tell the parents about this possibility/ the homework program/, do they pay to you or I send their money to you.
They pay to you, and then you send half to me. The other half you keep for yourself.
This is very different to the big franchise schools where you have to sell to everyone AND you get to keep none of the money. 🙂
Now , when I pay to you 2 commissions , what will I receive ?
It’s basically just the two commissions in advance. I do it this way because otherwise I get swamped with teachers who just want the logo on the software but have no intention to sell the program 🙂 You’ll receive the permission to make the copies of the program and also when you send me your logo you’ll get your own personalized menu.
And also for the school logo – when and where I write the my school logo, so that you can write it on the software.
You just email it to me!
Is that OK? Do let me know if you have more questions!
Hi everyone! I must be blind but I cannot find any recent discussion on this topic on the forum. My questions are:
1. I think I understood that we teacher buy the programs, at least two “compursory” ones that will be our subcription fee, is this right?
2. Can’t the parents buy the package directly just naming their teacher?
3.Could a teacher decide to make less money and sell the program to a lower price?
I am sure these answers are on the forum as well, Could you tell me exaclty where to look for them? Thanks
Rosa from Italy
Hi Rosa,
Hi everyone! I must be blind but I cannot find any recent discussion on this topic on the forum.
The most recent comments are on here in this thread 🙂
My questions are:
1. I think I understood that we teacher buy the programs, at least two “compursory” ones that will be our subcription fee, is this right?
Correct, you’re just paying the first two commissions in advance. It takes me a while to set up all the admin etc. so it’s just a way of limiting the numbers of people who apply to a manageable level 🙂 Plus it also adds a bit of pressure for you to get the first two sales once you’ve paid. The first one is always the hardest, but once you’ve figured it out it’s really easy to move all of your students onto the program.
2. Can’t the parents buy the package directly just naming their teacher?
They could buy the Teacher’s Set at the regular price here, but it would cost a lot more and you wouldn’t get the commissions. You selling the USBs is a much easier way to do it and it also lets you know exactly who has the software so you know which students to set the homework for.
3.Could a teacher decide to make less money and sell the program to a lower price?
No. I want to support you in building your business so I want the financial incentive to be there for you. Plus, of course, the more the parents invest the more likely they are to use it and of course then to get the English results we want.
I am sure these answers are on the forum as well, Could you tell me exaclty where to look for them? Thanks
Let’s keep the questions on the thread here, it’s the easiest way!
Be genki,
Richard
Hello Richard,
I’d like to pay for the homework program but when I go to PayPal, the price there is 29000 JPY which converted in Bulgarian leva is much more than 190 EUR.
Can you tell me how to change the currency in PayPal? Or if there is another way to send you 190 EUR, please, let me know.
Thank you.
Galina
Hi Galina, the exchange rates are a little crazy at the moment – and the students in Europe are getting a bargain!
So just pay the yen price, convert it into Euros and just knock that off the first payment. As long as you sell more than 2 to your students then it all works out OK!
Hi Richard! it’s a fantastic idea!
I am teaching GE for more than a year in Indonesia and students often want to see all the materials( esp. the games).
In 4 weeks I plan to open a small English language school in my neighborhood and I will give this Amazing Homework Program a try.
Concerning the price, I hope for the Indonesian parents you have a different price. As you say 4 times monthly payment, what do you mean? does it mean the parents can pay in installments?
Thank you!
Fleur
I don’t have school of my own but I’m teaching elementary kids in the school
So how can I buy some of your materials if I need it . Or how can I be a member but when I saw the price ( 29,000) is it the same for me ????
@Fleur: Thank you I just got your application through, I’ll be back to with the details!
@Clarita: What you need is the Teacher’s Set. That includes the full VIP membership, which isn’t included with the Homework version.
Government schools usually pay for the Teacher’s Set for their teachers. ( You just have to figure out which budget to take it from!)
Although for the Homework program then that usually is at a higher level e.g.
http://genkienglish.net/teaching/genki-english-on-800000-tablet-pcs/