Portland Teacher Meet-Up Recap

It was great to meet some of our teachers in the Portland area and help them get their profiles looking perfect. Katie and I hosted two morning events while down in Portland last week. On Friday we had a great meet-up at Stumptown Coffee and on Saturday we met at Cafe Umbria.

It was our goal to accomplish the following:

• Bring local teachers together to network
• Provide information about TeachStreet (where we came from and where we’re going)
• Show teachers how to promote their profiles
• Get feedback from our teachers about things they like, and more importantly, things they don’t

We got a lot of great feedback from everyone about the things we could do to improve TeachStreet.  We started a new feedback forum to capture all your great ideas and have the community vote on the top feature requests we should consider building. Please check it out and vote for your top features!

We went over the top things you can do to get more students from TeachStreet. Here’s a recap:

1. Get yourself on the TeachStreet homepage by adding photos to your profile and classes
2. Add more classes so that students can find you on TeachStreet
3. Boost your profile by requesting reviews from students (the link is right on your profile)
4. Utilize the free Craigslist ad tool to create awesome looking ads that give students everything they need to pick YOU as their teacher
5. Become a Guest Blogger on TeachStreet and get extra publicity that shows off the fact that you’re an expert

Here are a few pictures from the meet-ups on Friday and Saturday:

From left to right: Guitar instructor Kevin Anderson, Baby sign language and Spanish teacher Christina Webb Schabow, and Parenting coach Janet Allison

From left to right: Tango teachers Jake and Danarae, Snowboard instructor Salar, Story telling and Speaking teacher Anne-Louise Sterry, Meditation teacher Robert Beatty, Japanese teacher Brian Bost, Bass Guitar teacher David Kahl, and Photography guru Dwon Guvenir

By the way… We met with several teachers that mentioned they had space available for other teachers to rent or use for their classes or events.  If you are someone who falls into this category, please email Salar with more details.

Looking forward to the great events to come!

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