Thinking of offering teaching services

Hey guys
As the title suggest it,I am thinking about offering teaching services in french and chess.
Could any of you give me some advice on how to proceed?
Should I first own a land/building/island?

Thanks

I'd learn to play chess and speak French, if you don't already.

LOL. I'm hoping that's a given.

I don't think it's necessary to own land. I'm sure there are plenty of places to provide space or rent space. I'm presuming you are planning on charging for your services and if that's the case I'd say it's definitely better not to jump in and purchase land. To make it successful you'll just need to advertise and promote ALOT.

Knowing French may not be that essential to teaching it:

"In Paris they just simply opened their eyes and stared when we spoke to them in French! We never did succeed in making those idiots understand their own language." (Mark Twain, The Innocents Abroad)

LOL
I actually do
I lived in France for 10 years and I have been playing chess since 1997 participating in tournaments such as the Chicago Open and others

I'd say you don't even have to own any land. You can teach French any place. I suppose if it's spoken French you will need to find voice enabled land. Maybe you can visit people's homes in SL and teach them there.

Yea, that is true.
I also bought a chess set today,but haven't succeded in actually opening it in game yet LOL

There's a thread over in the Volunteers forum about free classroom space.

Also, Help People! is a multilingual helper organization. They might be interested in hosting your classes.

That chess set (if its the one I know of) comes with quite a few prims, I think you need more than a 512 land plot to rez it.

why would you need more than 117 prims to make a chess set?

I don't know??? Maybe chaos built it.

Seriously, 32 pieces which half are probably 2 prims each, probably a second set for rezzing into new positions, the table and board it comes with, each square may need to be a prim for scripting thats another 64, the chairs that come with it too!

Yea,so if I got this right,I would need to own a land to set up that chess set,correct?

or play chess in an area where you have build permissions.

unless there is a way to play chess while wearing the chess board....

or you have avatars be the chess pieces

http://picasaweb.google.com/florenze.k/Secondlfe/photo#4998381923850256402

Come on! Give the poor guy a break.

It was funny though.

I assume you have a fee in mind. Is it scaled to SL pricing? If not, it will be interesting to watch your progress. When avatars are used to paying L$100 for a set of shirts or a dress, they might have sticker shock were you to charge US$20 for a French lesson. However, if your fee were to be scaled to SL pricing, would it be worth your while? Some considerations as you formulate your business plan.

Put me on your mailing list when you launch because I'd be interested in refresher course en Francais.

The fee structure is SL/RL based.
That means that I have checked the exchange rate for each fee.
It also takes into account the L$300,one receives.
Because I was gone this past weekend for easter,I am not yet ready to launch.
I hope I will be in a few weeks(hopefully this coming week)

How I learned to teach in two quick steps:

(1) Took the "How to Be a SL Teacher" course from TUi. Spendy but worth it. Especially if you've never taught before. Upon successful completion, they offer you a job. You don't have to take it.

(2) Join the SL Teaching Without Borders group. There is a join kiosk in the Crackerbox Palace classroom (http://slurl.com/secondlife/Plush%20Elektra/4/223/600). This puts you on a list of teachers who can make use of a list of schools and their classrooms.

No land needed. IM me in world if you need any help.

Disclaimer: I'm not endorsing anyone over anyone else ... this is just what I did. And it worked for me.

Hooah
Thanks for that.Will join the teaching group next time I log in
I will also check the TUi,although I do have teaching experience in real life

I would like to inform you that I have launched my services as french teacher.
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