FAQs for Working With Influencers

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11 Q: Can I delete my Influencer account?
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.
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10 Q: How can I get access to the full list of Influencers?
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.
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9 Q: Will 5StarTeachers facilitate the payment between Teachers and Influencers?
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.
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8 Q: Can Influencers reach out to me if I am a Teacher?
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.
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7 Q: How can I obtain the blue checkmark?
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.
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6 Q: Who can see my influencer profile?
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.
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5 Q: Can anyone create an influencer account?
A: Yes. Anyone who is 18 or above.
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4 Q: Can I work with influencers on this platform?
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Yes you can and you should!

We built a 100% transparent feature for you to cooperate with Influencers so that you can get exposure in their circles, i.e. a market in which you currently have no connections. You don't need to be the marketing expert. Let others do that for you and focus on what you do best, that's our suggestion.

Here are the steps: 

  1. Find yourself an Influencer and negotiate their reward. 5StarTeachers will not interfere in your negotiations with them or dictate how much they should be paid or what they should get. That is totally up to the both of you.
  2. Edit your Course and find the field "Coupon Codes from Influencers". There are 2 values you have to enter: the first is the agreed upon Coupon Code, the second is the email address of the Influencer, in this order. Both the Coupon Code and the Influencer's email address are never shown on the Course or anywhere on the platform.
  3. Save your Course, it automatically becomes "unlisted" which means that only people with the link can see it. And if they are a registered Student, they can book it IF they book it with the correct coupon code from the Influencer. 
  4. Suppose they booked it correctly, both the Teacher and the Influencer get an email that it was successfully booked. 
  5. And when the Teacher decides to take the Course offline (deactivate), the Influencer gets notified of this as well. And therefore this is 100% transparent to both the Teacher and Influencer.
  6. Explain this to your Influencer and we are sure they'll love it because it's so easy.

 

Good to know about Coupon Codes from Influencers

Courses can have multiple influencer email addresses and coupon codes.

If you had set a Free Course Coupon Code to offer Students a free Single-session Course and you add Coupon Codes from Influencers, your Free Course Coupon Code will be removed automatically.

Case:

You have a "listed" Single-session Course that you offer at the regular price of USD 100. To work together with an influencer, you "duplicate" this Course and set the Course price on the duplicate to USD 50, for example. You add the Influencer's email address and the agreed upon coupon code and save it. This Course duplicate is now exactly the same except that it is now available at USD 50. It is also "unlisted" and only bookable with the coupon code from the Influencer. When the Influencer can successfully influence people in their circles to book and buy your Course via the link and the coupon code, they have now bought the Course at a 50% discount because everyone else is paying USD 100. 

The reason why you should duplicate your Course, is so that you can always compare the data between the two Courses, the one with the coupon code and the one without, or in case you just wanted to try out a different price for a specific Course without coupon code or influencer. We wanted our Teachers to be able to keep their Course data to analyse their marketing efforts at any time so they can adjust based on data.

 


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3 Q: What are unlisted Courses and who can see them?
A: 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 them. They should not be picked up by search engines like Google but if you switch too often from "listed" to "unlisted" and back, we cannot guarantee that the search engines won't pick it up. When your Course is "unlisted", people who have the correct link to your Course can see it and book it. That's why it's so useful for marketing your Course using influencers or in your own social circles. And if you are a famous person or a popular Teacher on our platform, you can easily set all your Courses to "unlisted" so that only the ones who have your Course links, can book you.
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2 Q: How can I attract more Students to buy my Courses on 5StarTeachers?
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Good question!

Our platform allows each Teacher to create different marketing strategies for each Course. The first and foremost thing is to create each Course with 5-star content: a great Course Introduction Video, description, title, tag line, tags, images, video thumbnail, etc.

Besides that, you can:

  1. Create a Course Request from your own Course
  2. Create an Added Value article and connect your Course to that so it will show up as an "ad" on the AV article.
  3. Provide a downloadable Course file. Then, once they pay, they can instantly download that file.
  4. In your Course description mention that you create specific tailor-made files for your Students when they buy the Course. Examples are: "audio recordings", "voice recordings", "downloadable files" e.g. code, calculations, spreadsheets, etc.
  5. In your Course description mention that "you" take the notes for your Student. Then, they can just watch, interact with you and review their notes any time after their Session.
  6. Use the default required settings for your audience so that you target the largest audience possible: Student level, English level, gender, etc.
  7. Set your required commitment to all commitments
  8. Set your classroom options to the most popular ones e.g. Zoom, Google Meet, MS Teams, etc.
  9. Work together with Influencers: set the Influencer's coupon code and their email on your Course (these are never shown to anyone) They will do the marketing for you in return for an agreed deal you have with them.
  10. Provide a Single-session Course free of charge: set "your own coupon code" in order to do that. Then market this Course with the coupon code in your circles.

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1 Q: Does your platform match me with Students?
A:

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

We ensure that you have lots of features and functionality that you can use to make your Course stand out. 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, 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).


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