Things You'll Need:
- You'll need a thorough knowledge of the following:
- tutoring
- tutor
- online tutoring
- home tutoring
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Step 1
Step 1) At Home Tutoring is a great business to start because of the low-overhead it costs to tutor. Think about it. You can run it out of your home (it's a home-based business), you can advertize your tutoring cheaply, and you can help kids get the grades of their dreams. Here's how to start a tutoring service.
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Step 2
Step 2)Decide upon the particular subjects you are going to tutor and brush up on them if you haven't in awhile. Are you an experienced tutor? If you are currently a teacher, tutoring is a natural segway for you. Can you tutor high school math? science? ACT/SAT? Then you will be in high demand. Tutor ONLY the subjects you are competent to tutor in otherwise you will get a bad reputation.
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Step 3
Step 3) Locate the private/public school teachers in your general area and give them a call or shoot them an email to set up a face-to-face meeting. At that meeting, tell them about the tutoring services you are going to provide and leave them a handful of brochures to give to their students about the subjects you tutor. Make sure your tutoring brochure is excellent as it is your primary selling point.
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Step 4
Step 4) Give calls to school counselors to set up meetings to discuss your tutoring. Oftentimes, school counselors are responsible for setting up troubled students with additional instruction. At your meeting with school counselors, make sure to leave a handful of professional tutoring brochures for parents. You can market yourself as a tutor through craigslist, mailbox flyers, etc., but the best way is to meet with teachers and counselors to dicuss tutoring.
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Step 5
Step 5) Decide upon your rates. It's common for at-home tutors to charge between $40 an hour to $70 an hour (1:1) to tutor someone in his or her home depending upon geographic area. If you can teach ACT/SAT to the highest level, it's not uncommon for some tutors to charge well over $100 an hour.
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Step 6
Step 6) Decide how you will be paid. I recommend putting everyone on a payment plan and accepting credit cards as the primary (if not only) way to be paid as a tutor. That way you don't have to worry about getting a check in the mail at the end of the month.
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Step 7
Step 7) Tutoring can be a very rewarding and lucrative profession, and this how to article has not even mentioned online tutoring! For more information on tutoring, check out the tips sections below. Good luck!
Comments
Coach4U said
on 8/14/2009 Thanks for the information on starting an at-home tutoring service.
chrisanimelo444 said
on 8/13/2009 Sounds interesting. Great tips!