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3 Popular Tutoring Business Models
On the surface, the typical tutoring business model is simple. Your revenue comes from the fixed hourly fees your students pay you. And your primary expense is marketing efforts to acquire and retain your students. However, there are many types of people who require tutoring and there is more than one way to teach them. […]
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Do Online Teachers Need a Personal Website?
If you want to teach online, you can choose among several platforms, create your profile and start teaching. You don’t need to have a website if you only intend to teach for a short time, teach for a few hours a day to earn some extra cash or you work for a company that pays […]
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How to Teach Test Preparation
Some teachers like to prepare students for official language exams, some hate it. However, helping students to prepare for an exam has advantages. Your student will most likely be very motivated and also willing to pay a higher price for your lessons when passing the exam is important or perhaps even essential for him.
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Professional and Personal Approaches to Teaching
There are two different approaches to tutoring: professional and personal. Depending on your personality you might choose one or deploy both of them simultaneously.
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How to Share Teaching Materials With a Student
How do you present your material? How do you make it available to your students? There are 5 basic ways to share your files, documents and slides with a student.
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How to Politely Reject a Request to Tutor
As language teachers, we’re normally happy when a potential student comes along or when a student indicates that he would like to continue having lessons with you. When you’re new to teaching, saying “no” to a student probably won’t occur to you. Most of us still have this image of a classroom situation in our […]
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Time Management Tips for Tutors
How do you manage your time as a teacher? Is your schedule constantly changing or do you have steady working hours? Do you adapt to your students’ needs or do you have a fixed schedule? What happens when you’re on holiday or have an appointment?
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Word-of-Mouth and Referral Programs for Tutoring
Word of mouth is one of the best types of marketing for a tutor. That’s when your current student tells her friends how awesome you are at tutoring and then they decide to hire you as well. Word of mouth is ideal because your clients, past and present, will tell people about you whenever they […]
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How to Tutor? 5 Ideas and Tips to Get Started
This is a super broad question and depends on you and the student. I prefer to leave things flexible, but have “plans” in mind in case the student rocks up with no questions to ask me about and no work they need help with.
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Start Your Own Tutoring Business vs Work in a Tuition Centre
This is often up to personal preference and confidence. It’s a matter of working for someone else, or working for yourself.