One of the hottest new areas is growth is Education Pods. What is that?
Basically, a small group of parents with kids in the same class get together in groups of 2-6 students, hire a college student to supervise and manage the kids together. Solving one of the largest problems with distance learning…that social interaction. Along with enabling these families to focus on their day jobs with the knowledge that their kids are learning and being supervised. Not to mention, this lowers the cost of the hired helped. $20/hr split 2-6 ways is much easier on the pocketbooks than going solo.
One of the most common push backs is that the parents rotate and share the responsibilities instead of paying for someone to assist. Or one of the parents was laid off and is available to handle this responsibility. There is many problems that come into that lead to this arrangement falling apart quickly.
Each parent handles their children differently, firing a parent from the group is a huge bag of worms and very uncomfortable so it never happens. While firing a college student is so much easier and less stressful for everyone to agree to. The student, being a student themselves also knows how they would like to learn. The laid off parent will be distracted with house chores, looking for a new job, social media, etc. You can go on and on with headaches and problems.
How to approach this.
School has just started back up. Many parents put very little effort into making distance learning work. Not that they don’t want to, sure there maybe some that don’t care, but most are just lost. They are feeling the stress of managing a child and working from home trying to hold onto a job. The frustrations are just starting to build up and they feel like there is no options.
This frustration is where you come in to save the day. Working through parent groups, Nextdoor, Parent Teacher Association, School Board, Church, etc to get education pods spun up. Once you get the first pod to posted a position, you’ll need to quickly find 2-3 college students to apply for the gig. Going through your local college job boards is the quickest way of finding folks that are available. There is always students looking for jobs. Especially students that want to earn education degrees. Sometimes with class schedules, you may need to have the families hire two individuals to ensure good coverage.
Once you have this education pod running, then you can use it as your local proof point on education pods. The parents, the teachers, church members and other will spread the word of mouth on their own…with a little bit of assistance from you as the expert of education pods. Before you know it, you could have 20, 30 or more pods going. Some full-time, some part-time, all generating passive income for you with minimal effort.
Real life Success Story
One of our independent agents is a College Student at UC Davis. He is trying to follow the Dave Ramsey teachings to have zero debt coming out of school with his Chemical Engineering degree. Working all sort of jobs, including the a dish washing at the University cafeteria, but Covid-19 changed that. He was kicked out of his dorm with no way of getting hime. His parent’s weren’t in good shape financially, so he was forced to couch surf at his grandparent’s house while he figured things out.
With work being hard to come by, he latched onto the idea of Hefe as a way of financing his education with minimal direct effort. The word he used repeatedly was “Scalable” income.
In his first full month of making it work with Sacramento area parents, he has earned more money through Hefe than he did washing dishes for students he went to class with. He himself started by working some summer tutor gigs, then migrated to getting other students and parents onboard.
In a few months he went from nothing to today. Here at the beginning of September he has earned enough to buy a car cash, pay for an apartment and furnish it…hitting the books hard in the new quarter without needing to wash another plate of a fellow student. Nor take out a hefty student loan. Talk about a great success story. We will love to hear yours.