RetireJapan wrote: ↑Thu Dec 20, 2018 12:40 am
I have charged up to 8,000 yen an hour
What kind of class was this? Was it very specialized?
I'd love to be able to charge that much
The real money is in group classes. I designed a program for junior high school kids: up to twelve kids in a class, paying 3750 (plus tax) each for two hours...
It's really fun to teach too.
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robster wrote: ↑Tue Feb 26, 2019 10:03 am
It is my considered opinion that the person who succeeds in making Easter a "thing" in Japan will retire very rich. It has all the kawaii elements to appeal widely to consumers, and is maybe the last major western holiday that has not yet got a foothold here. Might take more than your 2-5pm downtime, but when it happens it will be big. I recall that 10 years ago, Halloween was virtually unheard of and certainly not well commercialized.
That's a great shout tbh.
Although I'm not sure if Japan needs any more commercial events!
On a slightly separate topic...can anyone explain the difference between a kabushikikaisya(株式会社) and a Godogaisya (合同会社).
TIA.
robster wrote: ↑Tue Feb 26, 2019 10:03 am
It is my considered opinion that the person who succeeds in making Easter a "thing" in Japan will retire very rich. It has all the kawaii elements to appeal widely to consumers, and is maybe the last major western holiday that has not yet got a foothold here. Might take more than your 2-5pm downtime, but when it happens it will be big. I recall that 10 years ago, Halloween was virtually unheard of and certainly not well commercialized.
“A person” will never make Easter “a thing.” A marketing company might..
I usually charge ¥8,000 for a one-hour private lesson.
But I don’t have so many competitors where I live..
There's a small local English school that moved from a little farther away to fairly close. I looked it up online to see what they were doing and browsed their schedule. It looks like they have visits to 7-9 local 幼稚園 and 保育園 scheduled thru the week.
I'm not sure how they got to that point, but I'd bet it pays well enough, and that there's a "moat" around each place--once you're contracted and satisfying a place, it'd be hard for someone else to nudge you out. And word would travel. When the next place over wants some English lessons, your name would probably come up.
Some entrepreneurial type should take this idea and run with it--serving English lessons to daycare. You wouldn't need a school or venue since you'd take it to them. It'd be day work (not evening, not weekends). There might be levels/ages, but you could kind of sell the same package over and over, maybe allow some tweaks. I've never taught kids, but groups like daycare might be easier to satisfy (less demanding) than older groups.
captainspoke wrote: ↑Thu Feb 28, 2019 7:50 am
There's a small local English school that moved from a little farther away to fairly close. I looked it up online to see what they were doing and browsed their schedule. It looks like they have visits to 7-9 local 幼稚園 and 保育園 scheduled thru the week.
I'm not sure how they got to that point, but I'd bet it pays well enough, and that there's a "moat" around each place--once you're contracted and satisfying a place, it'd be hard for someone else to nudge you out. And word would travel. When the next place over wants some English lessons, your name would probably come up.
Some entrepreneurial type should take this idea and run with it--serving English lessons to daycare. You wouldn't need a school or venue since you'd take it to them. It'd be day work (not evening, not weekends). There might be levels/ages, but you could kind of sell the same package over and over, maybe allow some tweaks. I've never taught kids, but groups like daycare might be easier to satisfy (less demanding) than older groups.
Depending on the area, this market was probably locked up over a decade ago. There are basically no kindergartens/nurseries in our area that don't have existing providers
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