This week on the podcast I am joined by the co-founder of Yoga Trade, Erica Hartnick. Erica discovered yoga after spending years as an athlete, and after slowly falling in love with the practice, Erica decided to teach. Soon after she become a yoga teacher, she started pitching companies, and hotels around the world to see if she could do a trade. In return for accommodation, she would teach yoga!

Erica did this for a number of years before the idea for Yoga Trade was a born! Why not create a platform where people can find traveling and teaching opportunities around the world? Fast forward 5 years, and Yoga Trade is the most popular online platform to find traveling yoga teaching opportunities.

On this episode, Erica shares how the idea for Yoga Trade was born and how she actually got it started with her co-founders. She talks about the struggles of creating an online platform and membership site, tips for other people who want to travel and teach or create an online business, as well as what she’s learned through the process.

Enjoy!

Business Lessons from this Episode: 

• If you want to get a job teaching abroad, be persistence and reach out to tons of places
• When you’re cup is filled up, that’s the time to share ideas and create!
• When it comes to traveling and teaching, be realistic with where you can, how long you can go for, and what is going to work with your life
• Have an online presence – have a simple, basic website that looks professional
• On the reach out emails, be professional, polite and craft good emails
• Work on projects little by little and do one thing everyday
• When it comes to setting up a membership site, choose how you want to charge your members – monthly, yearly or something else
• Get clear on your long-term goals when it comes to starting a business / project / membership site
• Don’t give up! It takes time to get things going and we won’t always see immediate results
• Make sure you are passionate about whatever you decide to start your business on
• And much more… Here’s the episode!

Connect with Erica:

Erica Hartnick
Yoga Trade

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