I have two daughters, a niece and a nephew who might be moving from Spanish Immersion this fall to classes that are more rigorous in math, science, etc. Maybe I'm your target audience., maybe not. When I look at your website, the last blog post and tweet are from 2010. It makes things look dead. We're not homeschooling but http://homeschoolspanishacademy.com/ looks a lot more active. Also, "fair trade" often seems to translate as "expensive". Education seems more valuable than coffee (now that I'm on my second cup) but not having any sense of what pricing or structure is like is off-putting.
I think you're getting at one of the major dilemmas of running a one-man lifestyle business, the need for self-self discipline and motivation. Once things are automated and profitable, it's hard to find the motivation to keep innovating and eventually even just updating the product. In my case, I started a niche website in 2008 that soon became profitable. I thereafter started working on other projects that we more successful and I abandoned new developments on my original site, which is still profitable and producing about the same revenue as 2008. It's just not a large enough revenue source to continue working on it over my other projects.
Thanks for that. Hey, your email's not in your profile so I can't contact you directly, but if you'd like some free lessons, I'd love to have you, the kids, and the nieces as beta testers when we relaunch this spring.
Drop me an email (in my profile) if you're interested!
