TEFL Online Pro versus ESLinsider, MyTEFL, and ITTT TEFL and The TEFL Academy (TTA).

Introduction

The TEFL & TESOL certification course industry is highly competitive.

The competitiveness between TEFL programs has several implications. On one hand, it can drive innovation and encourage institutions to improve the quality of their programs. On the other hand, it can lead to the proliferation of subpar programs that do not adequately prepare graduates for the challenges of teaching English online or abroad.

A further implication of operating within a highly competitive business field is that some companies will try to sabotage their business competitors.

Since winning the Teachers’ Choice Award in 2019, and subsequently winning the same prestigious award in 2020, 2021, and 2022, TEFL Online Pro has been on the receiving end of online attacks by a few of our business competitors.

Which programs have carried out the attacks?

It began with Ian Patrick Leahy, the owner of the TEFL program ESLinsider.

The ESLinsider (unaccredited) TEFL program is run exclusively by Ian Patrick Leahy. ESLinsider has been banned from Facebook (since 2017) for spamming and publishing misinformation, and it has had a number of its videos deleted by YouTube for the same reasons.

ESLinsider is notorious in the TEFL world for writing fictitious, malicious content about its business competitors – on anonymous complaint websites, discussion forums, Reddit, on the blogs it runs, etc.

Pick any TEFL accreditation body, TEFL program, or TEFL reviews website – ESLinsider will have written some trash about it.

MyTEFL, ITTT TEFL, and The TEFL Academy (TTA) apparently sensed blood in the water and joined in on the attacks- essentially regurgitating the nonsense that Ian passes as gospel.

TEFL Online Pro has issued a refutation to the false allegations made by these business competitors, on the teflonlinepro.com official school website:

https://teflonlinepro.com/refutation-of-allegations-made-by-our-business-competitors/

TEFL Online Pro (https://teflonlinepro.com/) established this tefl-online-pro-reviews.com blog so as to have a platform where we would be able to respond to attacks made by online competitors.

TEFL Online Pro is a legitimate company, providing award-winning and Fully Accredited Online TEFL/TESOL international certification courses training.

We receive consistently positive (verified) customer feedback, and this is in part because of our commitment to maintaining a high level of customer services.

Our course graduates teach English online and teach English overseas, in every country worldwide where English is taught as a second or foreign language, and typically start their teaching jobs within four weeks of course completion.

As of August 18th 2022, 100% of our graduates that have taken one of our courses and that have then wanted to teach (online or overseas) have been successful in their job-search objectives.

All three of the international certification courses provided by our company come with lifetime job support services, included in the price of the course.

In addition to all of the above, TEFL Online Pro is a verified business member with Paypal and has been since 2019.

TEFL Online Pro has many competitors within the Online TEFL/TESOL training marketplace.

The majority of our competitors are similarly held accountable through their accreditation affiliations, but a few of our competitors are not bound by the Codes Of Practice associated with Fully Accredited status – i.e., some of our business competitors offer unaccredited TEFL courses and can operate without any oversight from an external moderation board.

This article has been written as an official rebuttal to the defamatory, malicious, and untrue statements published online about TEFL Online Pro – statements published by four of our business competitors: ESLinsider, ITTT TEFL, MyTEFL, and The TEFL Academy (TTA).

We can confirm for readers of this article that none of those TEFL programs are Fully Accredited, and are, therefore, unaccountable to an external accreditation body – meaning that they can act with impunity with regards to how they treat their customers and how they treat their business competition.

TEFL Online Pro is Fully Accredited by ACTEFLC – Accreditation Council for Teaching English as a Foreign Language Courses.

This article looks at the Google Search results for ‘TEFL Online Pro reviews’ and identifies the real TEFL Online Pro reviews versus the online attacks carried out by our competitors.

The TEFL Academy Caitriona Maria McTiernan teflonlinepro.com Google Search scam — Anyone who wants to cause damage to a business can easily do so simply by going online and harming them in one of many different ways. Online attacks on businesses and their professionals may originate from a number of parties, including business competitors.

We would also like to point out at this stage in the article that TEFL Online Pro is in no way a unique case when it comes to the online attacks instigated by the above mentioned TEFL programs.

All four competitors routinely attack their business competitors online.

At TEFL Online Pro we place significant importance on transparency – we have nothing to hide – and we will now look at the (USA) Google Search results for ‘TEFL Online Pro reviews’.

‘TEFL Online Pro reviews’ Google Search results.

Currently, as of 20th July 2021, these are the ‘TEFL Online Pro reviews’ USA first-page Google Search results:

We believe that this Reddit thread was started by a Reddit user, genuinely wanting more information about the TEFL Online Pro Online TEFL/TESOL certification program. However, it was immediately hijacked by shills – represented by our business competition. This is a common issue on Reddit and other discussion forums.

This is an authentic ‘TEFL Online Pro reviews’ Google Search result. The link leads to our company Facebook page, where our graduates have left verified testimonials of their course experiences.

This link directs the reader to the Reviews page on the teflonlinepro.com school website. On this page, readers can read verified customer reviews.

This Google Search result redirects readers to the our YouTube channel, where readers can watch verified video testimonials – all submitted by recent TEFL Online Pro course graduates.

Common online platforms for executing competitor attacks, such as defamation, include gripe websites such as Ripoff Report and Complaints Board. These websites require users to register accounts, yet neither of them prevents users from using aliases and posting false or misleading information under them. This ‘TEFL Online Pro: A potential fraudulent company…’ Complaints Board complaint was created by The TEFL Academy (TTA). ESLinsider, ITTT TEFL, and MyTEFL then proceeded to add their own additional comments, under different aliases- employing a click farm to upvote negative comments and downvote positive comments.

This Trusted TEFL Reviews ‘Is TEFL Online Pro Legit?’ listing was created by one of our recent graduates – who left a review of their Online TEFL/TESOL certification course experience.

We established tefl-online-pro-reviews.com so as to be able to defend ourselves against online attacks made against us by our business competitors.

Yet another online attack by Ian Patrick Leahy, from ESLinsider – one of our business competitors. In this post, Ian publishes misleading content that attempts to link our company with the creation of Trusted TEFL Reviews.

The domain was registered by MyTEFL. MyTEFL created this attack website and still to this day pays for web hosting for this website.

Analysis of the above nine search results.

Out of the nine search results listed above, only five are authentic TEFL Online Pro listings.

These are:

The TEFL Online Pro Facebook page:

https://www.facebook.com/teflonlinepro/ | https://www.facebook.com/teflonlinepro/reviews/

The teflonlinepro.com school Reviews page, where we include examples of verified customer reviews:

https://teflonlinepro.com/tefl-online-pro-reviews/

The TEFL Online Pro YouTube channel, where there are currently eleven video testimonials uploaded from our certification course alumni:

https://www.youtube.com/@teflonlinepro

A review published on the independent Online TEFL/TESOL certification course reviews website – Trusted TEFL Reviews. In this review, one of our customers has answered the question as to whether TEFL Online Pro is Legit:

https://trustedteflreviews.com/2020/05/07/is-tefl-online-pro-legit/

tefl-online-pro-reviews.com is a website that we created in order to have a space online where we could defend ourselves against such baseless online competitor attacks:

https://tefl-online-pro-reviews.com

The remaining four Google Search results have been created and marketed by our business competitors.

We are now going to strip down to the bone the search results for ESLinsider because he (Ian Patrick Leahy) was the individual that began the misinformation campaign in the hope of piggybacking off our success.

ESLinsider / Ian Patrick Leahy

We have written extensively about Ian Patrick Leahy already on this website:

https://tefl-online-pro-reviews.com/2020/07/27/eslinsider-reviews-and-tefl-online-pro-reviews-online-defamation/

https://tefl-online-pro-reviews.com/tag/eslinsider-reviews/

Therefore, we don’t wish to repeat what we have already stated with regards to Ian Patrick Leahy, his documented crimes, his documented defamation, his unaccredited TEFL/TEKA certification course, and how Ian Leahy has pretty much written trash online about all of his business competitors.

Trusted TEFL Reviews has also exposed this individual for what he really represents:

https://trustedteflreviews.com/2020/02/03/eslinsider-reviews-scam/

What we are going to do, though, is simply show you the individual behind ESLinsider:

ESLinsider’s About page. Ian Patrick Leahy took an arts degree at the University of Arizona. Later on, he took a TEFL course. He then decided that he would begin his own TEFL program – something he really had no business doing at all – and since then, he has moved to various different locations and has been accused of providing a subpar TEFL program. He has also been accused of defrauding his TEFL students of money, via credit card fraud.

Ian Patrick Leahy (ESLinsider) runs a YouTube channel, where he gives out poor advice. This screenshot was taken from one of his more recent videos, where he recklessly recommends to people that they should avoid going to college. Ian has also published YouTube videos where he has spread his toxic defamation of TEFL Online Pro and other Online TEFL/TESOL certification course programs. His YouTube TEFL Online Pro youTube videos are unavailable for viewing in the UK because YouTube banned them at our request. They were banned because they are defamatory – containing malicious, untrue statements.

Ian Leahy – Online English Tutor on Cambly. Ian’s history of defrauding his customers has recently caught up with him and his ESLinsider business is now blacklisted. As a result, Ian has moved back to his hometown of Monroe, New Hampshire, and is currently tutoring English online. Ian Patrick Leahy’s ESLinsider is also banned from Facebook – hence the reason why ESLinsider has no Facebook page.

Ian Patrick Leahy represents everything wrong with the Online TEFL/TESOL industry.

ESLinsider is a one man show, unaccredited, operated by an individual with far too much free time on his hands, who spams the internet with misleading information about his business competition in the hopes that he can convince some people to instead take his TEFL/TEKA course.

A few years ago, Ian was giving out the poor advice that people could teach English in China without the need for having a college degree. Ian actually recommended that instead, people could just buy a fake degree online and use that. As a result, some people took his TEFL/TEKA course, and his advice about using a fake college degree, and were promptly arrested and then deported by the Chinese authorities.

As a result, the ESLinsider TEFL/TEKA certificate is worthless in the largest ESL teacher’s market in the world.

We are 100% certain that Ian Leahy will continue to market his ESLinsider TEFL/TEKA course to unsuspecting newbies, and that he will continue to publish defamatory material online about his business competition.

Legal action against Ian Patrick Leahy of ESLinsider

We began by issuing a Cease and Desist formal notice to Ian (via our company email address) and a copy of this was published as a private message to Ian, on his YouTube channel. When Ian responded as though he could write whatever he wanted to, without accountability, we contacted YouTube and requested that the video be blocked in Japan – Ian’s current home country at the time, before he moved back home to Monroe, New Hampshire.

Ian Leahy comment on ESLinsider.com YouTube channel. — Cease and Desist formal notice, delivered to Ian Patrick Leahy – ESLinsider.

YouTube blocks ESlinsider and Ian Leahy channel post message. — YouTube also have a zero tolerance policy regarding Ian Leahy’s online defamation.

It is very difficult to proceed with legal action against Ian Patrick Leahy because he resides in Monroe, New Hampshire. New Hampshire has the most liberal free-speech laws in the United States – meaning that Ian has a carte blanche to write and publish absolutely anything online that he feels the urge to.

Another obstacle to this process is that ESLinsider is not a registered company. ESLinsider is just a website that Ian Patrick Leahy established.

We are, however, in talks with other Online TEFL/TESOL course providers that have also fallen victim to Ian’s online defamatory attacks and we are all currently pooling our resources together in order to follow a litigation path, whereby we can try to prevent Ian Patrick Leahy from continuing with his Online TEFL/TEKA course scam.

Our research has also shown that Ian Patrick Leahy has likely not paid any taxes to the IRS on any of the revenue earned from his ESLinsider TEFL/TEKA business activities.

ESLinsider April 2nd 2023 update:

Ian has moved back from Japan to the United States because, as he put it, his website “wasn’t doing very good”. He continues the ESLinsider blog and ESLinsider TEFL program, but spends his winters working on ski slopes and appears to be spending a chunk of his spare time continuously repairing an old postal van that he drives across the country in now.

As for ITTT TEFL, MyTEFL, and The TEFL Academy, we would advise them to focus on developing their business and focussing on providing better customer service; as well as obtaining proper, legitimate accreditation.

Anyone who has run a business understands how frustrating it can be when rogue competitors try to run your business down.

Thankfully, we run one of the top-rated Online TEFL & TESOL certification course programs and we have the support of our customers and graduates.

You can read and view verified TEFL Online Pro customers’ reviews on our company Facebook page, on the independent Trusted TEFL Reviews, and on our company’s YouTube channel:

https://www.facebook.com/teflonlinepro/reviews/

https://trustedteflreviews.com/category/tefl-online-pro-teachers-choice-award-winner-2022/

https://www.youtube.com/@teflonlinepro

teflonlinepro.com runs three award-winning, Fully Accredited, internationally recognised Online TEFL/TESOL certification courses:

60-Hour Fast-Track – the perfect solution for people with TEFL experience.

120-Hour Professional – the perfect solution for people with little or no TEFL experience.

140-Hour Hybrid – the perfect solution for people with little or no TEFL experience who are wanting in-class teaching practice.

All three certification courses come with 24-Hour Online Tutor support, and with lifetime international job support services- both of which are provided without charge.

TEFL Online Pro Online TEFL/TESOL certification courses are equivalent to the Level 5 and CELTA qualifications.

With a TEFL Online Pro TEFL/TESOL certificate, you can teach English online or abroad.

For any unanswered questions, contact us via the TEFL Online Pro official school website: https://teflonlinepro.com/contact-us/

Thank you for reading this TEFL Online Pro Versus ESLinsider and MyTEFL article.

Paul Murphy | Operations Manager | TEFL Online Pro

https://teflonlinepro.com/enroll/

https://www.facebook.com/teflonlinepro/reviews/

https://www.youtube.com/@teflonlinepro

The Teachers’ Choice Award winner in 2019, 2020, 2021, and 2022

https://trustedteflreviews.com/category/tefl-online-pro-teachers-choice-award-winner-2022/

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Customer TESOL Certification Course Video Testimonials

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Customer TESOL Certification Course Video Testimonials are a great resource for people wanting more information on the reputation of a TEFL certification program.

What better way to find out whether an Online TEFL & TESOL certification course is legitimate than to hear the spoken words of recent graduates!

We are so blessed that the vast majority of our customers are simply wonderful.

Why are our customers so wonderful?

One of the reasons is because at TEFL Online Pro we deliver on all of our promises and our customers really appreciate this commitment to our professional word.

Bearing this in mind, please find below our current (eleven) customers’ TEFL/TESOL certification course video testimonials of their TEFL Online Pro experiences:

Astrid | TEFL Online and in Valencia | 2022

In this follow-up video, Astrid explains how her certificate has been an essential document for teaching English online with Preply, and for on-site teaching English work in Valencia, Spain, where she is currently living a fulfilled life.

Clara | Teaching English online and in Spain

In this follow-up review, Clara, a November 2020 Professional course graduate, takes time out of her busy teaching schedule, to speak about how her certificate has been an essential qualification for the process of being hired as an online English teacher and as an in-person English teacher in Barcelona, Spain.

Noor | Teaching English online and in South Korea

This is a new follow-up video, with Noor explaining how her certificate was instrumental in finding online teaching work with PalFish and Preply. Noor then decided that she would like to travel overseas, to teach English in South Korea. In this video, Noor also briefly explains the process of successfully applying for a teaching English job position in South Korea.

Paige | Best TESOL Certification

In this review, Paige, an experienced school teacher from the USA, outlines what you can expect when you enroll in the TEFL Online Pro 120-Hour (Professional) Teaching English as a Foreign Language certification course.

Troy | Teaching English in Europe/Asia

Troy, a Wisconsinite, provides his feedback on the Professional 120-Hour Online TEFL/TESOL international certification course.

Clara | Teach and Travel

In this TEFL Online Pro video testimonial review, Clara speaks about her 120-Hour Professional international TEFL/TESOL course experience.

Astrid | Professional 120-Hour

Astrid’s TEFL Online Pro review describes her (https://teflonlinepro.com/120-hour-professional/) 120-Hour (Professional) TEFL/TESOL study experience, and she discusses her future teaching English plans.

Noor | Teaching English Online

Noor’s TEFL Online Pro review outlines her (https://teflonlinepro.com/140-hour-hybrid/) 140-Hour (Hybrid) TEFL/TESOL course experience, and she speaks about teaching English online.

Alison | Teaching English Entrepreneurship

Alison, from the UK, is a recent https://teflonlinepro.com/ course graduate. This is her TEFL Online Pro review of the 120-Hour Professional Online TEFL/TESOL international certification course.

Nico | 140-Hour Hybrid

Nico, a Portlander, provides his feedback of the 140-Hour Hybrid international TEFL/TESOL certification course.

Annelise | Teaching English in Austria

Annelise, from the USA, describes her course experience and how it has helped her pursue a teaching assistant post with the Fulbright Austria program. Annelise is now an English teacher in Germany.

For any unanswered questions, contact us via the TEFL Online Pro official school website: https://teflonlinepro.com/contact-us/

Thank you for reading this Customer TESOL Certification Course Video Testimonials article.

Paul Murphy | Operations Manager | TEFL Online Pro

https://teflonlinepro.com/enroll/

https://www.facebook.com/teflonlinepro/reviews/

https://www.youtube.com/@teflonlinepro

The Teachers’ Choice Award winner in 2019, 2020, 2021, and 2022

https://trustedteflreviews.com/category/tefl-online-pro-teachers-choice-award-winner-2022/

TEFL Online Pro customer video reviews on YouTube

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TEFL Online Pro Reviews | 2023 | Video Testimonials

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TEFL Online Pro Reviews in 2023

TEFL Online Pro reviews | 2023 | video testimonials.

If you have taken a TEFL Online Pro international TEFL/TESOL certification course, you probably read some of our verified school reviews: on the TEFL Online Pro Facebook page, or on Trusted TEFL Reviews – the independent Online TEFL/TESOL courses reviews website:

https://www.facebook.com/teflonlinepro/reviews/

https://trustedteflreviews.com/category/tefl-online-pro-teachers-choice-award-winner-2022/

You might also have read some of the featured TEFL Online Pro student testimonials on the the Reviews page on the teflonlinepro.com official school website:

https://teflonlinepro.com/tefl-online-pro-reviews/

Furthermore, you might have had the free time to take a read through some of the TEFL articles that have been added to this this TEFL Online Pro reviews blog:

https://tefl-online-pro-reviews.com/blog-2/

And, you might have discovered how so unprofessional some of our business competition behave when it comes to black-hat SEO tactics used in the hope of winning new customers.

This is, unfortunately, the price of conducting business in a highly competitive and largely unregulated marketplace as the TEFL & TESOL industry is.

We constantly aim to find new ways of providing the best services for our customers, and we also strive to present all information regarding TEFL Online Pro in a clear, easy-to-digest format. This also applies to TEFL Online Pro reviews, so that our future customers can clearly, and transparently, read genuine feedback from customers who have gone through the process of course enrolment to course graduation.

With this in mind, we have decided to begin a TEFL Online Pro YouTube channel:

https://www.youtube.com/@teflonlinepro

So far, we have eleven TEFL Online Pro customer’s videos uploaded.

Three of these videos were recorded by customers who initially recorded a post-course video testimonial, and who have now recorded a video about how their TEFL Online Pro certificate has been an essential document in opening online and abroad teaching job doors.

TEFL Online Pro video testimonials, recorded by our customers:

Annelise | Teaching English in Austria | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-4jC0ErDmo

Alison | Teaching English Entrepreneurship | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BpvUp4ViAo8

Nico | 140-Hour Hybrid | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XpGUVAiGCrA

Noor | Teaching English Online | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4unbJrFRCnY

Astrid | Professional 120-Hour | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZclYMgznmE

Clara | Teach and Travel | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijVyam6l_PI

Troy | Teaching English in Europe/Asia | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OrtgTQ5Rdkg

Paige | Best TESOL Certification | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-bt8EDVF0g

Noor | Teaching English online and in South Korea | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K46PDonA6QA

Clara | Teaching English online and in Spain | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e–ZyA4VU-I

Astrid | TEFL Online and in Valencia | 2022 | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YuF99D5iRos

For any unanswered questions, contact us via the TEFL Online Pro official school website: https://teflonlinepro.com/contact-us/

Thank you for reading this TEFL Online Pro Reviews | 2023 | Video Testimonials article.

Paul Murphy | Operations Manager | TEFL Online Pro

https://teflonlinepro.com/enroll/

https://www.facebook.com/teflonlinepro/reviews/

https://www.youtube.com/@teflonlinepro

The Teachers’ Choice Award winner in 2019, 2020, 2021, and 2022

https://trustedteflreviews.com/category/tefl-online-pro-teachers-choice-award-winner-2022/

ESLinsider TEFL Online Pro reviews scam.

ESLinsider | MyTEFL, TEFL/TESOL Scams

ESLinsider Reviews And TEFL Online Pro Reviews Online Defamation.

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ESLinsider (Ian Patrick Leahy) Online Defamation Against TEFL Online Pro

The following article highlights for our readers one of the dark underbellies of the Online TEFL/TESOL industry – online defamation. It specifically exposes one such specific example, regarding ESLinsider, and also looks at how we recommend you respond to online defamation should you also become a victim of this spineless (often anonymous) crime.

For any of you unaware of the meaning of ‘defamation’, it is when knowingly false material is published online and with the intent to harm someone’s reputation.

If you have stumbled upon this article, you might have arrived here by typing ‘TEFL Online Pro reviews’ into a search engine.

Listed in that search will be examples of verified customer reviews of the TEFL Online Pro international TEFL/TESOL certification program, such as:

Verified customer reviews on our company’s Facebook page:

https://www.facebook.com/teflonlinepro/reviews/

Verified customer reviews on Trusted TEFL Reviews – the independently-run Online TEFL/TESOL reviews website:

https://trustedteflreviews.com/category/tefl-online-pro-teachers-choice-award-winner-2022/

Business Competitor Attacks

But among the genuine TEFL Online Pro customer reviews, you will also see links claiming that TEFL Online Pro is a scam, untrustworthy, a fraud – none of which have been written by anyone who has taken one of our courses.

Ian Leahy is the one-man-show owner of ESLinsider.

It was soon after when TEFL Online Pro won the Teachers’ Choice Award, 2019, when we first noticed the Reddit and forum posts appearing – attacking TEFL Online Pro with conspiracy theory slings of mud. At first, we didn’t really take much notice of them – they were so ridiculous that we brushed them off as prank posts.

But the false accusations grew over time and it has only recently been the case that we have been able to identify exactly who is behind the publication of this online abuse.

It is actually four schools – four of our Online TEFL/TESOL program competitors:

ESLinsider, ITTT TEFL, MyTEFL, and the TEFL Academy.

As the online attacks originated with Ian Patrick Leahy from the ESLinsider TEFL program, and the other three competitors have simply copy and pasted his misinformation, we will focus on ESLinsider in this article.

Pick any TEFL accreditation body, TEFL program, or TEFL reviews website – ESLinsider will have written some trash about it.

The ESLinsider Online TEFL/TESOL program (shared apartment) Head Office – Fukuoka, Japan.

At first, we were dumbfounded as to why Ian Leahy would spend so much of his personal time focussed on trying to bring down a competitor. But then, we had a read of his Online TEFL/TESOL school blog – located on his official school website pages – and we plainly saw that Ian is a serial defamer that piggybacks of the good reputations of his business competitors.

Why does he do this? What’s in it for him? Why waste the time on this unprofessional path?

Ian Leahy targets his competitors, because when he does so a post linking back to his school shows up in the Google results.

Let’s take TEFL Online Pro as this example. If you Google ‘TEFL Online Pro Reviews’ you see that Ian’s (ESLinsider) attack post is one of the first results for this Google search. This is because he has spent over two weeks now linking the article to other articles and posts that he has written on the internet. Ian is hoping that anyone who searches for TEFL Online Pro reviews will click on his post, be directed to his school website (where the article is published) and then become convinced to take his course, instead of the tefl online pro international TEFL/TESOL certification course.

However, it looks as though people are becoming wise to this scraping-the-bottom-of-the-barrel tactic as is demonstrated in a recent ESLinsider customer review:

https://trustedteflreviews.com/2020/02/03/eslinsider-reviews-scam/

Ian Leahy doesn’t just contain his defamation to website posts and articles published on his own school website though – he also spams his own YouTube channel with his relentless conspiracy theories.

According to Ian Leahy, TEFL Online Pro is ‘FAKE’!

Published on 12th July, 2020, this video is like watching one of Ian’s greatest hits – with TEFL Online Pro being his latest fixation.

It was because Ian obviously thinks that he can get away with online defamation with impunity – spreading false allegations in the hope of winning new customers for his own program – that we decided that enough was enough.

We began by issuing a Cease and Desist formal notice to Ian, via our company email address and a copy of this was published as a private message to Ian, on his YouTube channel. When Ian responded as though he could write whatever he wanted to, without consequences, we contacted YouTube and requested that the video be blocked in Japan – Ian’s current home country.

As you can see from the email screenshot above, YouTube also have a zero tolerance policy regarding Ian Leahy’s online defamation.

We feel that it needs to be pointed out here that Ian Leahy has been accused of faking ESLinsider customer reviews. We can’t comment on this accusation, because we don’t have any proof of this. Besides, we are far too busy – focussed on our customers – to even consider spending time investigating whether this accusation is true or not. What is clear though, is that Ian prefers to have full total control over his customer reviews and that the largest source for ESLinsider reviews are on the ESLinsider school website, where every customer but one has left a 5-star review of his program – which doesn’t seem fishy at all, right?

The only other “reviews” that we found of the ESLinsider Online TEFL/TESOL program are a few Quora posts, all claiming that ‘ESLinsider is legit’ and all (recently) written within days of each other. We searched for the ESLinsider Facebook page – an excellent source of verified customer reviews – but couldn’t locate a page for ESLinsider. On Trusted TEFL Reviews, ESLinsider just have the one (2-star) customer review.

ESLinsider.com fake 5-star reviews. — The chief source of ESLinsider reviews is on the ESLinsider school website.

So, what should you do if you find yourself a victim of online defamation?

If the information being spread is false, and if you know who is spreading the untrue rumour(s) then call the person/people out. It might not prevent them from continuing on their sick campaign, but it will let other people be made aware of the larger picture.

And if you do have access to a company lawyer, as we do, then we advise taking the legal route. It might seem expensive at first, and it might take some time to receive closure, but when that closure comes it will be worth it – both in terms of protecting your company name, and making the person/people think twice about doing the same thing to other people in future.

The particular issue with Ian Patrick Leahy is that he has now returned home to the USA and is leading a nomadic lifestyle, so it is extremely difficult to track him down for legal ramifications for his online defamation.

It must also be noted that his ESLinsider TEFL program is now pretty much dead in the water.

Despite the despicable actions of ESLinsider, ITTT TEFL, MyTEFL, and The TEFL Academy, we wish both companies all the best.

If they want to spend their precious time on this planet trying to ruin the reputation of a business competitor then that is their choice. We, on the other hand, prefer to focus on the development of our business and on our customer service support.

What we have done, though, is named and shamed these companies for their poor competitive business practices:

https://teflonlinepro.com/refutation-of-allegations-made-by-our-business-competitors/

For any unanswered questions, contact us via the TEFL Online Pro official school website: https://teflonlinepro.com/contact-us/

Thank you for reading this ESLinsider Reviews And TEFL Online Pro Reviews Online Defamation article.

Paul Murphy | Operations Manager | TEFL Online Pro

https://teflonlinepro.com/enroll/

https://www.facebook.com/teflonlinepro/reviews/

https://www.youtube.com/@teflonlinepro

The Teachers’ Choice Award winner in 2019, 2020, 2021, and 2022

https://trustedteflreviews.com/category/tefl-online-pro-teachers-choice-award-winner-2022/

Verified TESOL Course Testimonials

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Verified TESOL Course testimonials

This article looks at where our customer reviews are predominantly published, and the red-flag Online TEFL/TESOL review tactics of some of our competitors that should be taken with a generous pinch of salt.

To begin this article, it should be made clear that we welcome both positive and negative feedback of our services.

Of course, it would be great if every review that we received was a five-star review. But life doesn’t work that way. You can’t please all of the customers all of the time. And actually, a negative review is often a positive for us – negative reviews can possibly indicate to us where there is further room for improvement, so that we can develop as a company and develop in the delivery of our customer services.

We will start, with the review websites that we recognize as being trusted sources of TEFL/TESOL student and graduate feedback.

TEFL Online Pro | Facebook

Facebook is an excellent platform, where potential customers can read verified reviews from TEFL Online Pro students and graduates.

One of the major benefits of Facebook reviews, is that you can read a review and then check the poster’s Facebook profile; seeing whether the reviewer has a Facebook history and, therefore, if it is a legitimate review. This is arguably the best medium with which to tell if a reviewer is a real person, who has actually taken a TEFL Online Pro international TEFL/TESOL certification course.

Some examples of recent verified reviews posted on our company’s Facebook page, by students and graduates of the tefl online pro international TEFL/TESOL certification course program:

Verified TEFL Online Pro reviews on Facebook:

https://www.facebook.com/teflonlinepro/reviews/

TEFL Online Pro | Trusted TEFL Reviews

Trusted TEFL Reviews Verified TESOL Course Testimonials | TEFL Online Pro — Trusted TEFL Reviews Homepage

Trusted TEFL Reviews is a similarly excellent source of verified reviews of tefl online pro students and graduates.

According to Trusted TEFL Reviews, the owners of the website are a group of English teachers (based in Vienna, Europe) who set up the website in order to clean up the Online TEFL/TESOL reviews industry. It is a non profit website, so this avoids the grey area corruption that is prevalent in some of the other major Online TEFL/TESOL review websites.

Students and graduates of the tefl online pro international TEFL/TESOL certification program, who have left reviews on Trusted TEFL Reviews, have reported back to us that in order for their review to be published they had to prove course attendance – submitting a copy of their international TEFL/TESOL certificate.

Trusted TEFL Reviews also allows Online TEFL/TESOL schools to respond to reviews.

Verified TEFL Online Pro reviews on Trusted TEFL Reviews:

https://trustedteflreviews.com/category/tefl-online-pro-teachers-choice-award-winner-2022/

The ‘TEFL Online Pro Reviews’ section of this website also addresses reviews of the TEFL Online Pro TEFL & TESOL online international certification course program:

https://tefl-online-pro-reviews.com/verified-tefl-tesol-customer-course-reviews/

The Dark Underbelly Of Fake Online TEFL/TESOL reviews

And now, we need to take a look at the dark underbelly of Online TEFL/TESOL reviews.

There are two main ways in which some Online TEFL/TESOL companies manipulate their company reviews, in order to present a far rosier picture than what is true in reality.

The first way in which some companies artificially increase their review ratings, is by writing the reviews themselves and publishing them on websites that lack a verified review process. Another option for these unscrupulous companies, is to pay people (people who most likely haven’t taken one of their courses) to write reviews for them. One way of telling if a company is involved in this tactic is if they receive a bunch of reviews all at the same time – such as ten in one day.

The second way is affiliate marketing. Affiliate marketing is a form of fake reviews corruption, and it is a big problem within the Online TEFL/TESOL industry. Some of the more popular Online TEFL/TESOL reviews websites work on this principle. They encourage Online TEFL/TESOL schools to add a listing on their website, and they then receive an affiliates fee when a sale has been made. The issue with these types of review websites is that they often delete negative reviews, because it is bad business for their affiliate marketing model.

Affiliate marketing is also prevalent among bloggers who finance their world travels by claiming that such and such a course was AMAZING, and then they cream off the affiliate income when new customers use their coupon code when purchasing a course. It just isn’t possible to be objective about a product when the incentive for a blogger is to market it for their own financial gain.

So next time you read what appears to be a five-star review, shouting the praises of an Online TEFL/TESOL certification program, try checking to see whether there is an ulterior motive hidden behind the seemingly innocent review.

One thing that you can be certain of is that all tefl online pro reviews, published on Facebook and Trusted TEFL Reviews, have been written by actual students and graduates of the tefl online pro international TEFL/TESOL certification program.

We never waste our time trying to plant student and graduate reviews on unverified review websites, and we make it a principle not to add our school listing to review website that work on the affiliate marketing business model.

For any unanswered questions, contact us via the TEFL Online Pro official school website: https://teflonlinepro.com/contact-us/

Thank you for reading this Verified TESOL Course Testimonials article.

Paul Murphy | Operations Manager | TEFL Online Pro

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The Teachers’ Choice Award winner in 2019, 2020, 2021, and 2022

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TEFL Online Pro | Teachers' Choice Award 2022 Winner

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Teachers’ Choice Award Winner, 2022

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TEFL Online Pro – Teachers’ Choice Award winner, 2022.

Earlier this week, we received the fantastic news that TEFL Online Pro has won the prestigious Teachers’ Choice Award for the fourth year in a row:

https://trustedteflreviews.com/teachers-choice-award-winner-2019-2/

The Teachers’ Choice Award celebrates excellence in TEFL & TESOL online certification course training.

We would like to take this opportunity to thank all of our customers for choosing to take their Fully Accredited TEFL & TESOL online international certification course with teflonlinepro.com, and for all who voted for our company.

Language schools, universities, current English teachers, and recent Online TEFL/TESOL course graduates take part in the Online TEFL/TESOL international certification course Teachers’ Choice Award, by voting for their favorite Online TEFL/TESOL international certification course program.

It is, therefore, an honor to have won this award for a fourth consecutive year.

Throughout the year, to celebrate this milestone in our company history, we will be offering a number of special course discounts and promotions.

Therefore, please check the Discounts page on teflonlinepro.com when purchasing your TEFL Online Pro international TEFL/TESOL course in case we are running a discount or promotion at that time.

Another exciting piece of news involves the opening up of international borders.

As the world begins opening up, it is now possible again to get on a plane and head off overseas to teach English. And as a way of celebrating the freedom of travel, we want to share with you now some of the most popular Teach English Abroad articles – all taken from the teflonlinepro.com Blog: