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No, it doesn't. Students buy or they don't buy.

We ensure that you have lots of strategic features that you can use to make your Course stand out from the crowd. When Students search for Courses in which they are interested, we give every Course a chance to be found. We're not like Google who only float the most liked, most seen to the top. But the reason why they would buy your Course has everything to do with the value you offer in your Course description, the Course price, the Course features you've set that are attractive to them (e.g. screen sharing options, course files, repeat bookings, coupon codes, influencer connections, etc.), and the quality of your Personal Introduction Video (PIV) and your Course Introduction Video (CIV).

A: If you are a native English speaker, you can update your Student's English level to the level you think they currently have. Doing so, is recorded on the Student's Profile revision log for the team to check in case a mistake was made. When the Student has a higher English level than they had previously set on their own profile, the Student will be quite happy because it opens more doors for them. The opposite, however, is a bit tricky. If you decide to downgrade their English level, please discuss this with the Student first. If the Student has a certificate which shows an English level congruent with their settings on their profile, please do not do this. If they can't prove it and you feel that having this incorrect English level on their profile is disadvantageous for the Student themselves and for other Teachers as well, then go ahead and change it.

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As a 5StarTeacher, you are in control of when your available Sessions should automatically expire when they remain "unbooked". That's why created the" Session Expiry Term". This allows you to automatically set or change the expiry date and time of all of your Available Sessions at once.

The Session's Booking Expiry Date and Time is the date and time at which an unbooked Session expires automatically. You can set your Session Expiry Term to 2 hours, 4 hours, 12 hours, 24 hours or 48 hours before the start of every Session. Currently, each month you can change this setting only 3 times.

Why is this so?
This is so that Students can rely on booking Sessions with you. Suppose you had set your Session Expiry Term at "2 hours", meaning your Available Sessions would expire 2 hours before the start date and time of those Sessions, and you changed it to 48 hours, all of a sudden, all your Sessions within the next 48 hours would then expire.

There are benefits for the Teachers too.
Suppose it's Friday but something unforeseen has come up for the weekend e.g. the babysitter has fallen ill and you need to stand in. You can then set your Session Expiry Term to 48 hours and all your "Available" Sessions will automatically expire. Note that "Booked" Sessions will not go away, you do need to show up for those. If that were not possible as well, you can choose to cancel them. See cancelling Sessions in the FAQ section to learn more.

 

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Here's why:

1. it's just not allowed. See our Terms & Conditions.
2. the acquired Student can report you for this at any time. And if they do, you are liable to prosecution. Is that really worth it?
3. it may be convenient for you as a Teacher but may be less convenient for the Student i.e. on our platform they have a guarantee,
4. you would have to create, market and sell your Courses on your own,
5. you would have to spend 'unpaid' time selling and pitching your Courses to potential customers,
6. you may not have the exposure to lots of potential customers who come here to find the right teacher, coach, consultant or expert in the field,
7. we'll make sure you'll miss the convenience of using our platform by continuously improving the user experience on our platform. That's a guarantee.

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"Allow repeated bookings" is a checkbox on every Course. When you edit your Course and you tick this checkbox, you allow Students to book that Course over and over again. Once you untick it, anyone who has bought that Course with you before, will not be able to book this Course again.

This can be a great strategy to create recurring customers by requiring them to take on a greater commitment e.g. to buy the Multi-session version of this Course.

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Steps to become an approved 5StarTeacher:

1. Sign up "as a Teacher" and choose either Teacher, Coach, Consultant or Expert. (a LinkedIn profile is required)
2. Verify your account. (via email)
3. Take our Pre-Teacher Training Quiz (easy) and agree to the terms and conditions.
4. Update your profile, (our system will guide you). 
5. Create your first Single-session Course.
6. Create 50 Sessions available for booking (your availability).
7. Create a short Personal Introduction Video. 
8. Create a short Course Introduction Video.

When you are happy with your content, set each of these items to "Ready to go!" and your profile will go in our moderation queue.

9. Allow 48 hours for our team to check and moderate your profile and content. If certain changes are required, we will communicate this with you.
10. If all is good, our CEO will book one of your Available Sessions to have a short interview with you.
11. And if that is all good: CONGRATULATIONS! You have just become an approved 5StarTeacher.

Now start earning money from wherever you are in the world by sharing massive amounts of value via teaching, coaching, or advising 1-to-1 online, via screen sharing and video calls. Yay!

Good to know: Check your profile page to see a comprehensible profile status card. (this is private info)

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Yes, you can. Up to 4 translations.

This is a great strategy to target a specific audience. You add the translations in the field "Description Other Languages". When you do, make sure that the first text is the 2-letter code of the translated language. Then select these 2 letters and choose the option "language" from the formatting styles dropdown menu. Hit enter and write your translation in the text field. Example:

Once you save it, it will automatically show up as a clickable language tab above the Course description.
Note that all Courses load in English first.

A Strategy:
To share a link in your social circles or via an influencer for a particular market you are targeting, you can create a language link for that particular Course. Simply copy the link of the Course and add: ?lang=FR at the end so that it looks something like this:

https://5starteachers.net/my-course-link-here?lang=FR 

The Course translation in French will now appear as the primary language upon loading the page and if your users use Safari's Reader, they will see the Reader in French. Cool, huh?

 

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We pay out every month on the 1st of the month, just like you would receive a salary.

Note that you can only be paid out if

1) the Course you've sold has been completed, i.e. if there are no more outstanding Sessions for that Course and the Course end date has not been reached yet OR the Course end date has been reached, and
2) you have requested payment for that Course by clicking the "request payment" button on your Financial Transactions overview page.

Only when you click the request payment button for a completed Course, it will be included in your next payment because we want to give you the option to "aggregate" your incoming payments in order to reduce the bank charges you will incur from receiving your payments made by us. Banks charge money for every transfer and on our platform these are borne by the receiver. Therefore we, 5StarTeachers, bear the bank charges from the payments made by the Students, and you, the Teacher, bears the bank charges from the payments made by us, 5StarTeachers. The fewer transfers you have, the lower your overall bank charge will be, and the more money you get to keep.

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Any. Simple.

Subjects can range from academic subjects for school or university, to business and personal development like coaching, for example.

Say you are experienced in beer brewing and you want to be a consultant for people who want to start out brewing beer, that should be possible.

Say you want to share your knowledge and insights from your career as a salesperson, that should be possible. I'm not aware of any Bachelor's or Master's degree in "sales", are you?

So go find your best talent, gift or skill and start using that to generate an income from wherever you are, online, 1-to-1 via screen sharing and video calls. 

Good to know:
You cannot set an unlimited number of skills on our platform. Only 3. So choose them wisely. Follow your heart, follow your passion.

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An "unlisted" Course is a Course that will not show up in any of our listings on the platform. This means that no one can search and find them but when you have the correct link to that "unlisted" Course, you can see it and book it. It's very useful for marketing your Course using Influencers or when you only want people in your own social circles to find them.

A Strategy
Suppose you are a famous person or very popular on our platform, you can easily set all your Courses to "unlisted" so that only the ones who have the link to your Course, can book it. It makes you more exclusive and you have more control over your marketing data and efforts.

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No. Out of the question.

Why not?
When you are an approved 5StarTeacher on our platform, your profile, your Courses, and your videos have been thoroughly screened and checked by our Team. The "5star" part in our name is congruent with our commitment: to always deliver high quality and great value. We don't want anyone to waste your time. And therefore we do things differently.

Your "paid" Single-session Course is the best opportunity to show your Students what value you have to offer and the best opportunity for them to experience you as a teacher, coach, consultant or expert in the field.

So make sure that you have created a 5-star value Course with an attractive title, a concise and clear Course description and a confident Course Introduction Video which will function as your sales pitch. And if that is all 5-star quality, it will be approved by our Team and we're sure Students will take your Courses.

No back-and-forth sales conversations before they buy on our platform.
They either buy, or they don't. Just like on Amazon.

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Currently we only pay out through regular bank transfer and Paypal so make sure that you fill out your bank details correctly on your profile.

Please note that we bear all costs for receiving the payment from your Students and that you will bear all bank charges for payments you receive from us. Therefore, in order to minimise these bank charges on your end, we've added an option for you to aggregate all your outstanding payments so you can reduce the costs on your end.

To do so: go to My Financial Transactions  > Pending Course Payments . This is a list where you can see all your Courses that are completed and have outstanding payments in your favour. You can then choose to have them paid out all in one amount on the 1st of the next month by clicking/tapping on the "Request Payment button". 

Note: If your bank account is in Hong Kong, payments will occur faster and with far fewer bank charges on your end because our bank account is with HSBC in Hong Kong.

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As a 5StarTeacher, you are in control of when your available Sessions should automatically expire when they remain "unbooked". That's why created the" Session Expiry Term". This allows you to automatically set or change the expiry date and time of all of your Available Sessions at once.

The Session's Booking Expiry Date and Time is the date and time at which an unbooked Session expires automatically. You can set your Session Expiry Term to 2 hours, 4 hours, 12 hours, 24 hours or 48 hours before the start of every Session. Currently, each month you can change this setting only 3 times.

Why is this so?
This is so that Students can rely on booking Sessions with you. Suppose you had set your Session Expiry Term at "2 hours", meaning your Available Sessions would expire 2 hours before the start date and time of those Sessions, and you changed it to 48 hours, all of a sudden, all your Sessions within the next 48 hours would then expire.

There are benefits for the Teachers too.
Suppose it's Friday but something unforeseen has come up for the weekend e.g. the babysitter has fallen ill and you need to stand in. You can then set your Session Expiry Term to 48 hours and all your "Available" Sessions will automatically expire. Note that "Booked" Sessions will not go away, you do need to show up for those. If that were not possible as well, you can choose to cancel them. See cancelling Sessions in the FAQ section to learn more.

 

A: Yes. However, you can simply deactivate your account by switching off the "active" button and no one will find you anymore on the platform. And if you changed your mind, switch it back on again. Simple.

A: Sign up as a Student or a Teacher and you'll receive full access to all information from all "active" Influencers on our platform. This includes all filters on the Influencer Search List and their extended profile view which includes insightful audience information and more. Signing up is always free of charge.

A: No. The influencer can show their preference of payment and collaboration via their profile but 5StarTeachers can never be held responsible for paying influencers. That is something have to agree on between the two of you. If you'd like, you can use a coupon code to collaborate with the Influencer to maintain 100% transparency. We have a feature to facilitate this. If enough Influencers want to see an option to have their payments received through the platform, we may look into it.

A: At the moment we don't allow this as it could cause spam. You are responsible for filtering, searching and contacting them on our platform via the link on their profile. If enough Teachers want to contact our Influencers directly on our platform, we may look into this. If enough Teachers want to be contacted by our Influencers directly on our platform, we may look into this as well. So let us know.

A: Yes. It's free of charge in any case. Just make sure you comply with our Terms & Conditions.

A: A blue checkmark shows more credibility which may increase the number of Teachers who want to collaborate with you. The blue checkmark is given to Influencers who have specifically requested us to check the truthfulness of their account as well as their compliance with our guidelines. Suppose we cannot issue a blue checkmark, our team of moderators will leave you a message to inform what you should change in order to get the blue checkmark. So how to get it? Go "edit" your Influencer profile and change the "user application status" right above the "save" button. Select the option that states: "I allow profile review if necessary". If you already had a blue checkmark and you didn't change any fields that require moderation, you won't lose your blue checkmark. If your profile has never been reviewed, and you have selected this setting, it will automatically go in our moderation queue. If that's the case, please be patient as we work through this list with the limited resources we currently have. Remember that only our logged-in users can filter Influencers based on the blue checkmark.

A: Anyone. People who are not signed in have access to a limited version of your profile. They can see your handle, your follower count, your main social platform, your avatar, your first name, your industry, the main location and language of your audience and they can click through to your channel. That's where they can reach out to you. Logged-in users like Teachers and Students have access to your full profile. Of course, certain sensitive information you provide is never shared or shown on the platform. We don't want people to spam you.