Ray Blakney ~ Founder of Live Lingua
~ Current Series ~
100 Interviews with 100 Location-Independent
Entrepreneurs that have over $1,000,000 in Annual Revenue
Back in 2011, I was a lonely world-traveling digital entrepreneur living in Costa Rica. I wanted to learn Spanish as quickly as possible so I bought an online course for $30 teaching me power verbs. Honestly, it was one of the most useful products I had purchased to learn Spanish and to help me understand languages I still use that same method. Fast forward to today, and I have the creator of that online course on our podcast to chat about how he has grown his language business into a 7-figure remote company.
His name is Ray Blakney and he is the co-founder of Live Lingua. Ray is an American that grew up in Turkey and now is based in Mexico with his wife and family. They started a full-fledged brick and mortar language school in Queretaro, Mexico and quickly expanded to a learning platform online. Today, Live Lingua has served over 15,000 students, they offer classes in eleven different languages and they are helping people learn all over the world!
03:07: Basing in Queretaro, Mexico
06:00: Who is Ray Blakney
08:05: Starting a Language School and Building it Into an Online Business
11:18: The Power of SEO to Launch a Business
14:10: Take a Language School to a Multi-Language School
15:15: Tips to Grow Your Online Teaching Business
16:55: LiveLingua a 7-Figure Language Business
18:35: Pros and Cons About Leaving a Brick and Mortar Business
20:45: Keeping Company Culture w/ 200 Contractors
23:43: Ray on Having Passion for Your Product
28:20: The Difference Between a 5-Figure, 6-Figure & 7-Figure Educational Business
Contact Info:
Ray Blakney Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/raymond.blakney