In order to get more tutoring clients, you have to know the right things to say and when to say them. Any successful tutoring business has a one line elevator pitch that conveys exactly what they do and how they do it. Many of the tutors I work with are scared to sell. In the Tutorpreneur Academy™ we talk a lot about perfecting your pitch and eliminating the mindset that you’re selling. I want to stress to you this point: in order to make an impact tutoring, you have to sell and to start selling your services, you need the perfect pitch.

I was staring down at my phone in awe of an email I’d received. A former parent emailed to ask if I still had a tutoring business. I’ll back up a bit….You see, a few months prior to receiving that glorious email, I had done something scary. I put myself out there BIG time. I emailed 10 former student’s parent’s letting them know I had started a tutoring business. I took the leap of faith knowing that I had what it takes to tutor students with my years of teaching experience.

Building that like, know, trust factor with your current clients is paramount to getting feedback that screams “WORK WITH ME!” Annnd the great thing about an amazing testimonial is it does the heavy lifting for you. It’s the social proof you need to have for a new person visiting your website, social media profile, or seeing your name in a Facebook group go from interested to client. It proves that you not only deliver great services, but also deliver great results.

I was sitting at my computer staring at the 10th email that just popped up with a potential tutoring client’s parent. She had soooo many questions and I was exhausted from answering her. Don’t get me wrong, I love a good email, but there had to be a better way to answer all her questions and avoid this Marco Polo game we’d begun. And that’s when it hit me. I didn’t have a system and process in place for dealing with new tutoring client inquiries. I also didn’t have my boundaries established. Clearly. (Something I now teach in the Tutorpreneur Academy™)

Every successful entrepreneur I read about, reads books. Lots of books! Those same entrepreneurs channel their years of knowledge into writing books of their own. Many of these books helped me overcome teacher burnout and realize that I could become a successful online entrepreneur while still in the classroom. While in the grips of teacher burnout, I found a few business podcasts that changed my life. You see, I was driving to school everyday with tears in my eyes dreading the day ahead of me. I’d just changed schools and my teaching life had been flipped upside down.

Growing your tutoring business isn’t as hard as you’re making it. Let’s say you’re currently tutoring 5 kids, but to hit your monthly revenue goal of $1,000 extra a month, you think you need 5 more clients. You’ve done the math on the tutoring income calculator but you’re running low on hours in the day. It’s true, you could tutor more kids but you’re likely teaching full-time and unsure where you could squeeze in extra sessions with balancing your own personal life and family. That’s where learning pods come in.

It’s the end of another school day and you head to your car. You put the key in the ignition but you’re so tired you find yourself sitting in the parking lot unable to move. The day was overwhelming: a faculty meeting before school, a call with a parent about behavior over lunch, and two kids got into a fight at recess. You’re over it. On top of everything else, you didn’t even get a chance to meet with your reading groups today because of behavior issues. Reading groups are your favorite thing to teach, and it just seems like the school day has so many barriers to actual teaching. As classroom teachers, the expectations put on us can be daunting at times. You got out of college with an excitement for a new job and a fever to expand little minds. The realities of teaching set in after that first year and so did teacher burnout.

You might have heard that blogging was dead. I’m here to tell you friends, blogging is alive and well. If done correctly, you can grow your business by driving traffic to your website using your blog. Your business isn’t going to grow in a vacuum. Blogging is one of the best ways to organically grow your tutoring business.

So you’ve started a tutoring business and you keep hearing the term LLC. You might be wondering what is an LLC and does your business need one? It’s a great question and you’ve come to the right place for the answers. Let me start by saying, I’m not a lawyer nor am I qualified to give you any sort of legal advice.

What would this year be like if you finally started the online tutoring business of your dreams? What if I told you that it didn’t have to be all or nothing. You don’t have to leave the classroom behind just to make more money. You see, we live in a world where people only present us with two choices. I truly believe you can have all the choices you desire when you become the CEO of your own life.