Broadband Makes Tiny Town English-Teaching Hub
The nearest Wal-Mart is two hours away, and only foul weather, a deer in the road or a Washakie County sheriff’s deputy would slow down anyone with a mind to drive there faster.
Yet Ten Sleep, population 350, is just as connected as any place these days, and home to a new company that is outsourcing jobs not from the United States to the Far East, but in the opposite direction.
Eleutian Technology hires people in towns across northern Wyoming to teach English to Koreans of all ages using Skype, the free online calling and person-to-person video service. Two years old, Eleutian already is one of Wyoming’s fastest-growing businesses.
The company has close to 300 teachers hooked up to more than 15,000 students in Korea, and CEO Kent Holiday said he’s just getting started.
“Our plan was never to be a company that had a few thousand subscribers,” Holiday said. “It’s a $100 billion market just between Korea, Japan and China, and so we wanted to be the leader and we wanted to have millions of users.”
Photo by Associated Press.
SEO Software on November 25th, 2008 1:13 pm
Brilliant. What a great way to capitalize on technology innovations in communication. The world is getting smaller at an believably fast rate.
cassy on November 25th, 2008 10:17 pm
Its nice to hear that country like China is having a site that can help their people to learn English.
As we all know, English is a Universal Language. If we know how to speak English, theres a big advantage for us because we can easily understand and connect with almost all people in the world.
ezeudo on November 26th, 2008 5:54 am
i will like to know more about ur businees ,pls send me some details. thanks
Jaclyn on November 26th, 2008 12:48 pm
Awesome idea! I love to hear that everyone all over are helping others to learn something new, especially a language. I am one of those firm belivers of don’t live somewhere if you cant even speak their language there…so if countries teach each other their languages…the world will better understand each other!
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