News –
Hope you are having a wonderful week. We tweaked the appearance of our newsletter and will be tweaking it over the holidays. Hopefully the one thing is we have content that you can use. Which reminds me if you have something you would like us to talk about, or want to know how to do something please let us know. You can leave us a comment on the blog, reply to this email or you can comment on facebook.
We will be taking some time off for Christmas (from the Newsletter and from posting on the Blog) – we’ll still be processing orders – providing support for our customers. The next issue of the newsletter will be on January 5th. This issue should give you plenty of stuff to do between now and then.
We also would like to take a moment to wish you and your family a wonderful holiday full of lots of fun stuff.
*** Our Gift to you ****
Normally with our tutor business program – we build you a website, facebook, Google plus and give you 3 months free hosting. We’ll give a year’s free hosting to the first 10 people that order before December 20th.
1. Go here – and place your order.
2. Email us after you order with the coupon FREE HOSTING and we’ll make sure to apply the hosting to your account.
If you already have a site – order the course – and we’ll give you a free Business review. We’ll take a look at your business and give you some tips to help you grow faster.
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Tutor Business Tips –
A few business tips for you to work on –
1. Now is a great time to make sure you have some local advertising in place. In many school districts report cards come out right before the Christmas break. If you haven’t done it yet you should find out when the schools you’re targeting give out report cards. You should then make sure on the calendar you advertise (especially) the week before and the week after report cards. During a couple of weeks leading up the report cards you’ll want to remind your current client’s to recommend you if they hear about anyone that needs help in the subject area you’re tutoring.
2. Do you have any goals? If you do we would love to hear them. With big goals I like to break them down into smaller parts. So let’s say for 2012 I want to sell 100 of our guides. That means I need to sell about 2 / week. So write down your big goal, break it down, and share it with someone. Someone that will hold you accountable and will ask you how you’re doing throughout the year.
3. It’s coming up on the end of the year. It’s time to think about the end of the year and taxes. I recommend you at least find out if you’re going to owe a bunch (or not). Here’s what I do. This isn’t tax advice, you should talk to your accountant.
a) Buy a tax program like Turbo tax or something similar. These were on sale quite a bit last week on Amazon. Don’t pay more than $100 but you’ll definitely want to have a business version.
b) Before the end of the year (I will do it on Dec 26th this year). Do your taxes within the program. You won’t know some of the numbers and for those estimate them. I won’t know exactly the income I will make but I can estimate it. Estimate your income a bit high, your expenses a bit low.
c) How did you do? If you made quite a bit more than expected you may want to purchase some things before the end of the year. You will of course want to purchase things you can deduct. One year I bought a new computer, last year I paid a few extra months of health insurance. If you’re going to owe quite a bit you’ll have some time to make sure you save up enough to pay it.
Continue – Building your Website / Web Presence.
There are many different ways you can build a web presence online. We’ve talked about several of them. Another easy way is to use Google Plus – which is super simple.
–> Make sure you have a Google Plus Account – https://plus.google.com
–> In the right column it says “Create a Google Plus Page” – click that and follow the instructions.
The only way to tie them all together [facebook, Google Plus, Google Places etc.] is to build a blog. Building a blog is awesome because you can create content there and then share it all over the web. So that one piece of content can be seen in numerous places and content is good. Since you’re building a business I would recommend you get a domain name and create a ‘real’ website. In future issues will talk about –
Creating a domain name for your site.
Setting up a hosting account.
Setting up your blog.
Adding things to your blog / making it SEO friendly.
The smart way to post content.
Hope you have a wonderful week.