Rebirth of the Entrepreneurship Era

Xu Yiyang came to the electric classroom on the south side of the second floor, and after opening the door, he turned on all the lights in the classroom.

To put it bluntly, the electronic classroom is a multimedia classroom. Traditional classrooms rely on blackboards for lectures, while electronic classrooms rely on projections and slides for lectures.

The size of this classroom is larger than ordinary classrooms, and it looks very spacious.

The lighting configuration is higher than that of ordinary teachers, so it is brighter.

The matching desks and chairs are also much better than the double desks in the classroom.

Xu Yiyang stood on the podium and counted. There are 10 rows of electronic classrooms, with a total of 80 seats.

This also means that in your own training class, a class can accept up to 80 students.

In addition, there is a Lenovo desktop computer and a microphone on the podium, which are connected to the speakers hanging from the four corners of the classroom.

On the top of the front of the classroom, there is also a projector suspended, and there is an old-fashioned slide projector in the corner.

For Xu Yiyang, who was reborn in 2020, almost all the equipment in this electric classroom are products of ancient times.

In his previous life, when he was doing education and training, every student in the classroom had an iPad.

All the courseware, homework, and test questions of the teacher are completely through the APP developed by the teacher, and the online interaction with the students is extremely convenient.

At the same time, when the teacher is lecturing, there are high-definition cameras in the classroom for online live broadcast. Students who purchase courses online can learn remotely through the APP.

You can even do homework, exams, and even answer questions in class remotely.

However, he is also very clear in his heart that this electronic classroom looks very old to him, but in the eyes of current students and parents, it must be very advanced.

Xu Yiyang lowered his head in the podium and found a printer, so he hurriedly turned it on together with the old-fashioned computer, ready to connect the printer and print some admissions advertisements.

The computer system is still the ancient Windows95, the computer is very slow, the color and resolution are also very poor, it is very uncomfortable to watch.

Fortunately, Office97 was installed in the computer, so Xu Yiyang opened Word, typesetting a relatively simple and eye-catching recruitment advertisement by himself.

The title of the ad is: Xu Yiyang's Oral English Assault Intensive Class is recruiting!

The reason why it is called the Assault Enhancement Class is to create a sense of urgency for people.

When parents think that other people's children may be receiving intensive training here, they should involuntarily have the illusion that their children have fallen behind.

To put it bluntly, it is also selling anxiety in disguise, which is a kind of marketing method.

Next, is the slogan.

"Do you want your child to speak standard and fluent spoken English?"

"Do you want your child to be able to chat and laugh with foreigners in fluent English?"

"Xu Yiyang's Oral English Assault Intensive Class is specially aimed at oral English, and carries out systematic and professional assault training. The eight-day winter vacation training will make your child's oral English improve by leaps and bounds!"

Course introduction: elementary class (for primary school students), intermediate class (for junior high school students), advanced class (for high school students)

Special Note: The senior class does not recruit students from the senior year of senior high school, please prepare for the college entrance examination!

Curriculum arrangement: eight classes in one period, each class is 60 minutes;

Course fee: 100 yuan per person per session;

Registration place: Electric classroom in the experimental building of Yingzhou No. 1 Middle School;

Registration time: February 11, 1999, from 8 am to 8 pm;

Class start time: Beginner class: 8:00 am to 9:00 am on February 12th; Intermediate class: 9:30 am to 10:30 am on February 12th; Advanced class: 11:00 am to 12:00 am on February 12th.

Special reminder: there are only 80 places for elementary, middle and advanced classes.

Register now!

Xu Yiyang felt that the price of one hundred yuan for eight classes was not expensive, and it was basically the current market price of extracurricular cram schools.

He still remembers that when he was in high school, off-campus cram schools usually cost 40 to 50 yuan a month, and there were only four classes a month.

Therefore, my own pricing is not high.

In addition, I am somewhat well-known now, and being well-known means that there is a premium. In this way, my training courses are still very cost-effective.

According to his plan, it is best to recruit 80 students in the three classes of elementary, middle and advanced.

In this case, there are 240 students in total, 100 yuan each, which is 24000!

It doesn't matter if you can't recruit so many students. Anyway, my training class is basically a zero-cost operation. As long as there are students who sign up, you can make money.

Even if you can only recruit 100 students in total, you can still earn 10,000 yuan. In 1999, 10,000 yuan was a big number!

If you are lucky and there is a class with more than 80 applicants, then another class will be opened.

Anyway, I only have three classes in the morning, so I can arrange the extra classes in the afternoon and evening.

However, as for how many students he could recruit, Xu Yiyang himself was a little uncertain.

You can only do what you should do and leave the rest to the market.

As for the courseware preparation for the speaking class, it was not a problem for him at all.

After all, he has done English training for many years. Although he is not an English teacher, he has ten years of personal experience.

In the initial stage of starting a business, the teaching courseware, teaching methods and teaching entry points of the training school were all made by his wife, Gu Sijia.

After all, she is a doctor in the UK and has a deep understanding of English teaching. She also made many adjustments according to the actual situation in China to make this teaching method more scientific and effective.

At that time, Xu Yiyang had been assisting him all the time, and he was also studying hard while assisting, so his memory of these contents was very deep.

When Xu Yiyang started his business in his previous life, he focused on English training in three areas:

The first section is English course tutoring for elementary and middle school students, which is based on school textbooks, which is relatively simple;

The second section is for students who want to study abroad and take the IELTS test, providing professional and targeted counseling. This section has the highest professional level requirements, and there are giants like New Oriental, so the competition pressure is very high;

The third section is to provide professional oral English training and counseling for various groups who want to practice oral English. This section is actually the simplest.

The pursuit of oral language training is not to memorize a large number of vocabulary, grammar, and sentence patterns in a short period of time, so whether it is teaching or learning, the rhythm is not very tense, and even learning while playing or chatting is interesting. relatively high.

Xu Yiyang has already planned an eight-day oral assault syllabus in his mind for the three classes of elementary, middle and high school. It happens that there are computers and projectors in the electronic classroom. At that time, he can find some discs of classic English movies and select some excerpts from them. Fragments are used as example teaching materials to mobilize everyone's enthusiasm.

After all, the core of speaking English well is to listen more, learn more, speak more, and practice more;

In addition, when teaching students oral pronunciation, we should encourage and guide them to let go of their shyness and speak out boldly.

At the same time, do a good job of interacting with classmates to drive the classroom atmosphere, so that everyone can immerse themselves in a relaxed and cheerful atmosphere.

According to Xu Yiyang's experience, it is best to adopt a teaching mode that focuses on entertaining and entertaining in oral English training. Not only is it easy to teach yourself, it is also easy for students to learn, and the teaching effect will be better.

As long as this is done, it is basically in place.

After the recruitment advertisements were typed, Xu Yiyang directly typed dozens of sheets with the school's printer, and he could take them with him when he left later, and ride to some densely populated communities to post them.

In this way, the cost of publicity is saved.

Afterwards, Xu Yiyang designed a set of templates for the student registration form, and printed a few for later use.

Thinking about the need for student attendance vouchers after registration, Xu Yiyang designed another lecture card template.

The printed size of the lecture card template is about the same size as an ID card. It can be printed out on A4 paper and then cut.

The venue belongs to the school, the equipment belongs to the school, the printer belongs to the school, and the A4 paper also belongs to the school.

Xu Yiyang thought about it, this is a real zero-cost start-up!

After finishing all these, Xu Yiyang left the school by bike with a stack of printed A4 papers.

But as soon as he left school, he ruined his zero-cost entrepreneurial tone, and spent two yuan to buy a roll of wide tape at a roadside bookstore...