Goodbye Teacher's Dojo

My shop on Teacher's Dojo officially closed on Friday. I am sorry that you were not given any warning. I only made $36 with thousands of hours put in the past year and a half. Talking to numerous other authors they made even less than that. The owners were filled with empty promises. I suggest buyers and sellers stay away. I hate airing grievances, but I believe that others need to know how sites are run. Please note I am NOT closing my Teachers Pay Teachers store. It will remain open for years to come. Please support my little store. You are helping me stay off the streets as I have not found a full time job in years.

Here is why I say to stay away from Teacher's Dojo. If you would like to discuss these things email me at tigermagic@bellsouth.net:

• The owners do not answer questions from their teacher authors 
• Make promises that they do not fulfill
• They rank priorities and then flip flop them with no notice or reason behind doing so 
• They state they will remove products that violate Trademark and did so at first with Dr. Seuss by canning an entire store, but have allowed Dr. Seuss, Olympics, Polar Express, etc. on their website for other authors to sell illegally
• They stated their teacher author newsletter would come out weekly, which has never happened
• The search is awful at finding what customers need and ranks products according to most recent, which is unfair to original authors who put a ton of things on the site when they first started 
• They cater to certain authors displaying only 2 teacher authors examples of their digital program in newsletters and on the site and nobody else
• Emails are rarely ever returned 
• Bugs are never fixed on the site. 
• The poor customers were told that Student Dojo the digital site would be coming in August, then September 1st, then soon, then sometime in September and to this day it has never happened with no explanation to the customers. 
• The truth is Student Dojo does not work across all platforms. Authors can't create products unless they have a MacBook Pro or Chromebook without bugs popping up, which favors certain authors. Others can sometimes create using Chrome, which is super slow and has its own problems.
• The preview player, which the students use has numerous bugs as well. It does not work on tablets as it is claimed it does. There are blanks, incorrect answers that show up, and things that the resource pop like curved edges and shadows don't appear as they should. 
• Schools should be aware if they don't have a Chromebook, MacBook pro or allow students to use the awful slow Chrome browser (which is the only browser the owners care about) it will not work. 
• The owners claimed that the Chrome Browser is used the most and then spouted out false statistics with it comparing it to Windows and OS both of which are operating systems and not a browser like Chrome. 
• Teachers and administrators beware if Student Dojo ever comes to be, which is unlikely as it has been almost a year! Stick with Teachers Pay Teachers, Etsy, Teachers Lingo, blogs that sell resources, and other avenues to purchase your products and I advise teacher authors to do the same as you will not make money on this site. 
• They barely even advertised their site wide sale with no promotions day 2. When reminded and asked there was no reply.
• The site is extremely glitchy lately sometimes with error messages so you can't even get on and other times with gobs of white space where resources should be.
• They have also taken down the forum so sellers have no way to talk to each other
• Select only certain social media groups for their site and reject others with no reason given
• No way to see how many items are wish listed
• Very little analytics that only show views and downloads
• Giveaways with no winner announced both for customers and teacher authors
• No inbox to send followers a note
• Followers do not always get alerts when new products are posted and when they do they will only show 2

An example of how the site looked recently with a glob of white: 



If they are going to succeed they have a lot to fix quickly. Take my advice and stay away.

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Cyber Monday Teachers Dojo Sale 2018

I am excited to announce that Teacher's Dojo will be having a Cyber Monday sale on Monday, November 26th and Tuesday November 27th! Follow my store so you get alerts when I post new products including FREEBIES! No code is needed for this sale! Save 24% in my store if you spend less than $15, but save 28% if you spend more than $15. Even my already heavily reduced priced bundles will be on sale, which makes them up to 58% off during the sale! Please note that other stores it will be up to 24% and up to 28% as everyone may not be participating in the sale or may put theirs on sale for a lesser amount.

Grab my winter and Christmas themed resources along with my popular task cards, write the room, word boxes, and more! 
 
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6th Blogiversary

Wow 6 years of blogging! Time sure flies by when you're having fun right? Today, December 28th and tomorrow December 29th you can get anything in my stores for 20% off!!! Head to TPT here, Teacher's Notebook here, or Teacher's Dojo here.

I have now hover 835,000 blog views, 2,569 Facebook followers, 14,851 followers on Pinterest, 270 on Instagram, 1,467 on TPT (and over 10,000 sold! WOW!!!), 239 follows on Teacher's Notebook, and 12 followers in my new Teacher's Dojo store! If you have an idea for a product or like something specific I have but want a specific skill or theme for it just let me know and I'd be happy to try to create it for you!

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Cyber Monday Sale plus Tuesday

I hope my United States friends and teachers had a marvelous Thanksgiving Day with your loved ones and had some mighty yummy food to eat. I am happy to announce two site wide sales!

The first big sale is the Teachers Pay Teachers sale which will run Monday, November 27th to Tuesday, November 28th, 2017. Hop on over to my store where everything will be 25% with the code Cyber17 at checkout. The rest of the stores will be up to 25% off as they may not mark their things for the full 20% off like I do and the code gives you 5%. Even my bundles are on sale, which already were an excellent deal.

The second big sale is the Teacher's Dojo site wide sale. My store is currently on sale today through Tuesday, November 28th. I put everything on sale for 25% (even better than TPT) and have the majority of my products on this site! On November 28th and 29th only Teacher's Dojo will throw in another 10% off so you will get 35% off my products on those 2 days. Amazing deal! Check out my store and as yes even already highly discounted bundles are on sale!

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Grand Opening! Teacher's Dojo Sale

I am happy to announce the Grand Opening of my brand new store on Teacher's Dojo. The site is having a special 8 day sale from Sunday, August 20th through Sunday, August 27th. You will save 5% off everything you order on the site without a code!!! Spend $15 or more and save 10%. Myself and many others will have our stores on sale for 20% off. This means you will save 24.5% off total or if you spend $15 or more you will save 28% off total. Bundles are heavily discounted and still 20% off in my store (24.5% or 28% off at checkout) so you save big time on Bundles. These sales are better than TPT when they have their site wide sales where the maximum savings is now 25%. Click the sales picture to head to my store. I appreciate your business.

Be sure to check out my Back To School, Fall, Fidget Spinner Games, Write The Room, Interactive Student Math Notebooks for Kindergarten, Task Cards, Puzzles, and more!

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