These days, language teachers are finding it harder and harder to find work in certain European countries. In some, for example Italy and Spain, companies are cutting back on their training expenditure significantly, to the point that many established schools are struggling to make ends meet.

The average teacher, paid only a fraction of what schools are paid by clients, are often much better off finding private students. Of course, this is easier said than done. However, when it can be done, the teacher is usually much better off.

I am one of a small group of teachers who until recently worked as a language teacher, mostly with corporate clients, in Italy. We all shared a particular hobby; that of designing websites. In 2010 we designed a website for the school we were working for - they knew of our hobby and saw it as a cheap way of getting online. As a consequence of this we started to get more and more requests to build websites for other people and, in mid 2011, we decided to quit teaching full-time and start a website design business.

Now, we trade as www.beendesigned.org and specialise in creating websites for teachers who are looking for private clients. For examples of our work, visit www.ildocente.it or www.docenti-inglese.com and see what we can do for you. You won't see any of those horrible little boxes that sit on one side of the page, or look as if they were designed to fit nothing bigger than an iphone display. You'll see professional websites that give the sort of impression a teacher needs to give; that of professionality.

If you want to find private students, using free advertising can only get you so far. You'll be competing with 'teachers' offering lessons for $10 an hour, you'll be one of a thousand others and you'll even be competing with traditional schools whose paid-for adverts will always be above yours. Instead, get your own website. You can still do the free adverts, but link them to your website, you can explain exactly what you offer instead of squeezing everything into a tiny little box. You can control everything. You can even use pages of your website as an online CV if you're looking for work.

We even provide hosting, so you don't need to worry about where to host the website. If you don't want to get involved with maintaining the site and updating it, we can even do that for you. What's more, we do all this at extremely reasonable prices. take a look at the website and see what you think. If you decide to order a website from us before March 31st 2012, add the code ESLT2012 to your order and we will include one year's free unmanaged web hosting to your order. Please note, if the code is not added to your order, it cannot be added at a later date.