🎯 The business: business English by video call for engineers, managers and executives in Tokyo, Osaka and Seoul who need to present, negotiate and email in English. Premium hourly rates, no inventory, and your evening is their morning, which is exactly when they want a lesson before work.

Companies paying for their staff, and professionals paying for themselves ahead of a posting abroad, a conference or a promotion. Private coaching bills $50 to $120 an hour; corporate packages of ten to twenty sessions bill more per hour and come in blocks. Presentation rehearsal and email editing are the highest-margin add-ons.

Pick a specialty: English for engineers, for finance, for doctors, for job interviews. Record a three-minute video introduction in slow, clear English. Start on one or two of the platforms Japanese and Korean learners use to build reviews, then move students to direct booking. Write to the HR departments of a dozen Japanese and Korean companies with U.S. subsidiaries; they often buy coaching for staff rotating to America.

Fifteen hours a week at $70 is about $4,500 a month, taught between six and nine in the evening U.S. time. Group classes of four at $35 a seat earn more per hour. The ceiling is your evenings, so coaches who grow sell corporate packages and bring in two or three other coaches under their brand.

No license for private coaching. Companies in Japan and Korea may require an invoice format that their accounting accepts and may withhold tax on payments to foreign providers under the tax treaty; a simple form (your W-9 equivalent for them, their withholding certificate for you) usually resolves it. Payment platforms handle currency.

No-shows across time zones; a 24-hour policy with prepaid blocks. Platforms that take 20 to 30 percent and own the student relationship. A corporate contract that ends when the budget year does. The coaches who last specialize, teach blocks not single lessons, and keep a direct client list.