STEER - Study Method:

Dear Reader,

We are excited to welcome you to a wonderful and easy business opportunity. I am sure that at this point you are anxious to get more information. Here is the answers to the 12 most frequently asked questions we get.

1. What does the work entail?
Most of your time will be spent in the classroom, training pupils the STEER-study method. At the beginning and in the middle of the year you will have to allocate time for marketing for which we give you a step-by-step proven recipe.

2. Since when does STEER exist?
STEER is a subsidiary of Helios. Helios was founded in 2003 by Lorette Dye. Helios mainly focus on the training of psychology students by offering a practical course. This course is now a certificate short learning course of an university in South Africa. Being involved with psychology and working in counselling with children, Lorette became aware of the need to understand and help children that battle to learn and STEER was born.

3. What is the study techniques that STEER teaches based on?
The techniques that we teach the children are based on the research of Dr. Mel Levine. His basic theory is that the brain functions that children need to be successful in school can be divided in eight clusters and not all children are strong in all of these areas. With our program we work on six of these clusters and teach children a method to develop it. We also enable children to translate a left brain function (as schoolwork mainly requires) to a right brain function.

4. Will I be able to train pupils in different languages?
We enable you to train children in Afrikaans or in English. If you want to work with children from another language group, you will be allowed to translate the material as long as you inform us of your intention.

5. How much time will I have to invest?
The time that you will have to set aside for training is only eight hours a week. That is two hours per day, four days a week. (That is if you want an income of R200 000 – R400 000 per year.) It is however possible to double this if you want to double your effort and your income! Twice a year you will have to work reasonably hard on marketing, but it will be possible to use assistants to help you. See next question .

6. Can I train people to help me?
Yes, for the marketing and for the teaching of the course. It will still be worth your while even after you paid them for their work. However, they have to sign a contract of confidentiality and of the acknowledgement of copyright. (We will supply that to you.) You don’t need to spend extra time on their training as they can learn by watching you and asking you questions if there is anything they don’t understand.

7. What is the starting capital?
The starting capital is R25 000. This includes your training, the franchise for specific schools and an after-support service. There are no hidden costs, however, as the training is in Pretoria or Witbank, you will have to carry the cost for getting to and/or staying there for the week of the training.

8. Will I have to pay a monthly percentage of my income to you?
There is a yearly fee of R2000 to keep up your registration as a franchiseholder, to keep the sole right to work at your allocated schools and have the right to teach the STEER-method. You also have to pay 10% of your total income for collaborative advertising and general support received from head office.

9. Which area can I work in?
The franchise that you buy is not for a specific area, but for the sole right to certain schools. You choose eight schools and as long as someone else hasn’t booked those schools yet, they will be allocated to you. If you move or want to change schools for any other reason, you just waiver the right to the school(s) and request rights to another school(s). If you want to work at even more schools, there is a once off “buying” price per school of a R2000.

10. Do I need any qualifications?
No, but any experience in training, teaching or marketing will be an advantage.

11. What is my expected income?
From experience we know that an average of 30 children per school per year will enroll. We give the STEER-training over 10 weeks at two hours per week. We take a maximum of 15-20 children per class, in other words we have two classes per week per school. If you work at two schools the first half of the year and another two schools the second half of the year, you have a total of 120 pupils that you train at R3000 income per child, that gives you a total of R 360 000 per year. You can even do training three times per year at six schools as every training program is only for ten weeks. Work out for yourself your potential income if you work at 8 different schools (With the help of assistants of course). For example:
 

	1st block		2nd block		3rd block
School 1	15 x 2	School 3	15 x 2	School 5	15 x 2
School 2	15 x 2	School 4	15 x 2	School 6	15 x 2
Income	R180000		R180000		R180000	TOTAL: R540 000

12. How do I sign up?
Fill in the registration form, pay your franchise fees (find bank details on the application form) and e-mail or fax it to us. Be sure to be on time the first morning of the training (venue will be confirmed) and that all your fees are paid, bring a pen and exam block. After the training go and do everything exactly as we taught you. You will be guaranteed of success.

Please contact us via telephone or e-mail if you have any questions.

Kind regards
Lorette Dye
0822996926
HELIOS trading as THE STEER STUDY CENTRE.