Hope you have been enjoying your summer. We have. A reminder August 8th we will be resuming our weekly newsletter. In August we’ll be talking about ways you can get your tutor business prepared and give you some tips for having your rosters filled before school starts back. Today we want to talk about some things you’ll want to make sure you have in place, before then.
Getting Ready –
The plan – Now is the perfect time to decide how many new students you want. Sometimes it’s hard to figure out a good goal. Do you want to be busy every day of the week, every hour of the afternoon or evening? It’s up to you. Here is an article that can help you figure out a good goal that works.
http://www.cleverapple.com/blog/growing-your-tutor-business-part-1-figuring-out-where-you-are/
http://www.cleverapple.com/blog/long-range-plans-and-goals-for-your-tutor-business/
A website – everyone needs a website. It can help your business in a number of different ways. I like to think of it as an extended brochure. Once the website is complete, you’ll only have to worry about posting to it and paying a small monthly fee for hosting. If you’ve ever used brochures you know it can start to get expensive.
There are a number of different ways you can build a site. You can do it yourself or you can hire someone to build it for you.
Information on building your own – http://www.cleverapple.com/blog/starting-an-online-tutor-business-part-1/ is the first article in a series of articles. Make sure you read / do the steps that follow too.
Want us to do it – details can be found here. http://www.cleverapple.com/growyourtutorbusiness.html
IMPORTANT NOTE: Till August 14th you can get a website built for $590.00 (Saves you $200.00)
To get started, please send us a note first, and we’ll send you details on the next steps.
Your Business Cards – again a no-brainer. Make sure you put information about your website, after all only so much information will fit on your business cards. We talk some about business cards here – http://www.cleverapple.com/blog/finding-local-clients-20-ways-you-can-find-your-first-client-or-more-clients/
Tear Sheets – the best way, besides advertising on the internet to get new business.
Here are some templates from Microsoft – http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/templates/results.aspx?qu=tear&ex=2&av=zwd150
Hope you have a wonderful day.