Mr. Manoj Sharma was a Physics Teacher at Gyan Ganga Senior Secondary School in Banaras, Uttar Pradesh. While Manoj was a hardworking, competent teacher in his own right, he always felt that his salary wasn’t reflective of his skills. To make ends meet, Manoj used to provide tuitions after school, an act which he thoroughly enjoyed. He always wanted to open his own academy, but his family responsibilities towards his child’s education, and mother’s diabetes treatment, never gave him the independence to pursue his dreams.
I always wanted to open my own institute, but I never had the significant money to pay for the rent, the furniture, and other infrastructure needed to open my own institute.”
Manoj Sharma, Teacher
Mr. Sharma was happy, if not satisfied, with how is life was going, but then a tragedy stuck. COVID-19 lockdown forced several schools in Banaras to close their business, and unfortunately his school was one of them. With his school now shut down, and his income reduced drastically, Mr. Manoj started looking for more work – tuitions, teaching, part-time writing – to cover his family expenses, but due to countrywide lockdown work was low paying and infrequent.
To say it was difficult to survive the lockdown would be an understatement. My life savings was gone, I had almost no work, the debts were piling up, and the expenses were increasing. It got so bad that by the fourth month we were unable to afford the school fees of Sonu (his child)”
Manoj Sharma
Fortunately, a friend of Mr. Sharma and a client of EduGorilla, recommend the services to him. He was also helpful enough to arrange a ‘demo’ of the services for his. After understanding Mr. Sharma’s predicament, and his financial condition, EduGorilla suggested him to open his own online teaching academy through Gibbon – the PLUG and PLAY solutions of EduGorilla.
Mr. Sharma heeded to the advices and with INR 10,000 of cash, and a borrowed laptop, started his own online academy – Excel Academy – with the services of Gibbon. Although Gibbon has provided him with all the resources he needed for running and promoting his business, he still had to work hard towards ensuring the ‘quality’ of his online class. Slowly but steadily his efforts, and EduGorilla’s services, started to bring results, and he gained more and more students.
By 2023, Mr. Sharma rented an office for his academy, Excel Academy, which now has 1,000+ students and 3 educators. He earns 1.5 Lakh per month on average. His Mother’s medicines are now ordered in advance, little Sonu now goes to an English Medium Private school, and Mr. Sharma is now thinking to open his own school.
“EduGorilla helped me in my times of need. Their product Gibbon provided me with my own website and app. It provided Ready Made Content, facility to record & sell LIVE classes, and the ability to market myself. I don’t know what I would be without EduGorilla”
Manoj Sharma, Founder of Excel Academy
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