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I was wrong about Business English
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Hey it's Robbie. When I first started teaching Business English privately, I thought I had to justify the higher fee somehow. So I did what most of us do. I added more. More vocabulary. If they were paying more, they should get more… right? Turns out, not really. Most of my professional clients didn’t need more information. It was clarity they were paying for. What they needed was filtration. They needed someone to say: You don’t need all of this. In context. So instead of long vocabulary lists, I started building lessons around moments: The exact sentence you say when:
Not twenty options. Two or three that work. Repeated. That shift changed my lessons completely. And my students' confidence improved much faster. Because when the moment came, they knew exactly what to say without second-guessing themselves. I’ve just uploaded the first lesson from the 10-week Business English course I built around that idea. It’s fully animated, structured, and ready to teach. If you’d like to try it, you can download it for free this week. Just click the link below for your copy of the lesson: Sound More Professional at Work Hope it’s useful. Robbie P.S. In the next email, I’ll share how I turned lessons like this into a full 10-week curriculum without overwhelming myself in the process. |
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