Finding Students – How to post to your blog

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Tutor Business Tips  Finding Leads  what if you don’t have a child in school.

For this exercise we’re going to pretend we don’t even have a child in school and in fact we’re going to act like we’ve just moved into a brand new city.  If you would like us to provide the instructions as a video let us know and we’ll work on it.

We’ll say we just moved to Louisville Ky. We tutor Jr. High School Math.

1. The first thing we’ll need to do is find out where all of the schools are we want to serve in the area. We go to Google and search Louisville School System Ky.
2. Our first result is http://www.jefferson.k12.ky.us/ – we click on the schools tab.
3. We see a couple of good links from this page. We’ll want to save a couple of the pdfs for our files. As we do this process we want to collect as much information we can on the schools. I think every school has a different personality, some are very friendly and others not so much. You can save the pdfs for your computer by right clicking on the link and choose where you want to save the file. There are 23 middle schools so we’ll want to choose 4 or 5 schools to base our efforts on. We’ll say we live near Fern Creek and there are 6 schools within an easy driving distance. We save the pdfs for the school map and the telephone directory.
4. We then list the 6 schools we want to target and get a map that we’ll be able to lay on a table to plan things. You’ll also want to create a folder for each of the schools on our computer.

More next time.

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Building your blog – adding a blog post

Before getting started with your post you’ll want to make sure you have a few things.

You’ll want to have your post written and you’ll want to make sure you have some image you want to use.

1. Log into your blog.
2. Click on New post button.
3. Paste your content into the box.
4. The title is your most important part of your post – use some good keywords. If it’s about something local you’ll want to make sure to add that to your post.
   Examples –
   A post about some ways to make multiplication easier. – title – Five ways to learn your multiplication tables quicker.
   A school you serve just won a basketball tournament title {Name of school} [Name of team] wins [name of the tournament]
5. Make sure you put it in a good category and add appropriate tags. Think of tags as keywords for your post.
6. Click publish.

Next time we’ll talk about some ways to use your post to expand your reach.