Archive for the 10th anniversary Category

Year 3: Not just us At the beginning of 2015 we were determined to get more clients. Well, to get any client other than our one and only (client). And we needed a website. Of course we still had nativespeakersonline.com but at that point we knew it was us drawing the business not the page. We had no money to invest so the very first page of MD Online with its very basic prototype of a logo came to life thanks to the recently acquired blogging skills by Dorota. The process was fast. A simple visit card webpage followed by mailing. This time not with our own efforts sending tens of emails daily. Instead, we purchased a big database and sent out the so-called spamming mails. The result was as expected. Most emails went nowehere, some called us spammers but… some started ordering! That gave us a lot of new

Year 2: Go LIVE At the beginning of 2014, after long time planning and dreaming, our website nativespeakersonline.com  finally went LIVE! At that stage we moved with the family to England to make our dream come true, the traditional way, a few years in Poland, and a few years in England, so that our children and us feel home in both countries. We knew that the website should not be an empty shell. As such, we had to drive the first traffic there! We asked as many English friends as possible to log in to our website and set their profiles (as native speaker language providers). Easier said than done…many promised, few of them did. We tried to spread news about our site via different forums, blogs. We managed to get 70 qualified native speakers online and were ready for the orders. We needed clients. So we emailed as many

Year 1 – A Dream At the beginning we had an idea…and a dream. We didn’t quit our jobs and dream to become enterpeneurs. We needed a solution for Mark, who at the time as a native English PhD researcher working at a research institute in Poland, was frequently asked to edit scientific papers for his collegues. He didn’t like to refuse. So he spent a lot of time working on other peoples texts, in many cases quite far from his area of expertise, that often had little time to actually write his own papers! And there was Dorota, MBA and CFO of her family business who at a coffee shop together recalled clearly that ‘if an opportunity comes grab it- there is a business there […]if there is a need then you need a business’ There was a dream too for Dorota coming from Poland and Mark from England,