Teaching English online has helped me to work from home, create an income, and build my own business. After teaching English online for three years, I have learned a few things that I wish I had known when I was starting.

Beginning August 1st, 2020, VIPKid will gradually transition all new and existing teachers on the platform to the latest version of the incentive pay system, called the New Service Fee Structure. These are two very different systems, and the new one is quite complex, so we hope this article will shed a little light on how the new one works.

There’s nothing worse than receiving your long-awaited pay check and then losing a chunk of it to annoying fees. Because most online English teaching companies are based in countries different from their teachers (mostly China), getting your money can be a little tricky.

VIPKid is now offering an even faster way to get through the interview: The 2.5-minute Smart Demo Lesson.

The new Smart Demo Lesson can be done completely from the phone app.

Today, we are going to talk about that wonderful thing that undeniably makes the world go round: money.

Here at Online English Teaching, we talk to a lot of people about teaching English online.  One of the first questions we get from interested candidates is, “Can I make a living doing this?”

So, you’re interested in teaching English online.  Maybe you are a bricks-and-mortar teacher who wants to supplement their income with a little side hustle.  Maybe you teach ESL in a foreign country and want to make some extra cash in the evenings and on weekends. Or, you have returned home looking for a reliable and flexible revenue source. 

One of the hot topics of the online English teaching world these days is the idea of teaching for multiple companies. 

Some people see it as a betrayal to the company that first hired them and would much rather put their time and energy into one thing.  Others view it as a smart choice for maximizing their options and furthering their online English teaching career. 

Beginning March 2019, VIPKID will allow all applicants who pass Basic Info to skip the normal interview process and record a 3-minute Express Demo video.