How I Started A 7-Figure Online Language Learning Platform Thanks To SEO

April 2nd, 2021
Ray Blakney
Founder, Live Lingua
$120K
revenue/mo
2
Founders
9
Employees
Live Lingua
from Boston, MA, USA
started March 2009
$120,000
revenue/mo
2
Founders
9
Employees
market size
$12.5B
avg revenue (monthly)
$62.5K
starting costs
$11.7K
gross margin
90%
time to build
210 days
growth channels
SEO
business model
Advertising & Media
best tools
Google Drive, Ahrefs, Libsyn
time investment
Side project
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Hello! Who are you and what business did you start?

I am the CEO and co-founder of the Live Lingua online language learning platform. Live Lingua offers a unique and immersive approach to mastering a new language, as it pairs users who want to learn Spanish, French, German, Chinese, and more with their own hand-picked, certified, native-speaking tutor for online teaching sessions. I build and also help others build 6- and 7-figure businesses on a bootstrap budget using SEO.

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What's your backstory and how did you come up with the idea?

I came up with the idea because of the Mexican swine flu. My wife and I started our first business back in 2008, which was a brick-and-mortar Spanish language immersion school in Mexico. My wife is Mexican (but went to university in the US) and was my Spanish teacher when I arrived in...

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