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Business Plan Presentation
EnglishLive Inc.
EnglishLive Inc.
1934 Broadway
NY, NY 10023
212 362 2374
Mission Statement
• To enable students to have the confidence to communicate with the world .
• To be able to deliver an ESL solution to countries and rural areas with broadband access so their citizens can experience learning English using a premier yet affordable ESL program by leveraging technologies of the Web, mobile, cloud and big data.
The Team
Founded & Operated by:
• Rosally Daniel
• Andre Bodowski
Rosally Daniel is a business administrator with a degree in Economis who has been managing companies for over 10 years.
Andre Bodowski is a marketing director with over 10 years of international experience, with a focus on bringing new services and products to emerging markets.
The Problem
• Millions of students in developing countries need to learn English as a foreign language.
• There are not enough native-speaking teachers who are qualified to provide adequate teaching.
• Schools can be expensive.
• Affordable schools offer subpar services
The Solution
• The best English teachers in the world are here in America.
• Using the latest online education technologies, EnglishLive created an online platform that brings demand and supply closer together: we created virtual classrooms that use audio, video, and interactive tools that allow students to learn English anywhere, and teachers to teach English to foreign students in the most efficient and effective way
The Market Size
• According to the 2011 Ambient Insight Study, the potential for Digital English learning products and services will reach $2.58B by 2016
• The same study identifies over 20 important markets worldwide, with over 100 million potential students
• Even a tiny fraction of market share is enough to make our school successful.
• The online world will allow the school to acquire students using digital advertising tools that can be targeted at search engines and social media sites so we can identify and reach students, our main target group.
Competition
EnglishLive Competitors (traditional schools, other online EFL schools)
Offer localization (classes taylored to micro-regions
Offline schools do. Online schools don’t
100% of teachers are native speakers
Local traditional schools located in foreign countries can’t offer. Most online schools do not offer such guarantee because they are not located in the U.S. Like we are.
Business Model
• All of our classes are conducted online. We provide a solution that combines the convenience of online classes, with the power of one-to-one learning experience.
• This allows us to cater to a target market of busy students and professionals.
• In addition, we offer 100% native teachers who are qualified to teach foreign students.
Business Model
• All instructors are online: no physical classes, no overheads related to facilities maintenance. All teachers are independent contractors will be working from home.
• The platform is online: all stakeholders (students, instructors, administrators) interact via the LMS platform.
• Margins are high, costs are low. Tuition is affordable. Payback is achieved within the launch FY and ROI is high (see Financials)
Financials
Basic Assumptions FY1
Class duration/hours 2
Teacher
compensation/hour $40.00
Classes per month 8
Student tuition per
hour $12.00
Number of Classrooms 20
Payment processing
fee% 3%
Students per classroom 8 Effective tax rate 15%
TOTAL STUDENTS 160
Total Gross Revenue (Sales) $ 437,760
Cost of Sales
Hourly Payroll Teachers $ 128,000
Hourly Programmers $ 3,000
Hourly quality controllers / Facilitators $ 25,600
Hourly School secretary $ 8,000
IT Support $ 12,800
Moodle costs $ 9,600
CMS Solution $ 10,800
Web/DB Hosting $ 12,000
Payment processing $ 9,216
Total Cost of Sales $ 231,016
Gross Profit $ 203,672
Advertising $ 15,530
Accounting and legal $ 3,000
Taxes (real estate, etc.) $ 48,384
Total Expenses $ 61,149
Net Profit $ 142,523
Capital Requirements
• This is not a capital intensive enterprise.
• No systems are going to be developed: all software solutions are leveraging existing (and robust) solutions such as Moodle used worldwide by several thousand online schools.
• Therefore, only basic set up costs and marketing costs are required. Initial investments:
• US$ 10,000 for advertising at a cost per acquisition of US$ 62.50.
• Founders are responsible for most programming and setup. IT costs arelimited to SaaS services and hosting: US$ 2,000
• Total investment needed: US$ 12,000
• Payback: 8 months.