How To Become a Tutor and Earn Extra Money:

If you are wondering how to become a tutor, keep reading and I will do my best to give you the information you need.

Tutoring is one of the fastest growing home-based businesses that you can find. There are many options available to you, including working as a private tutor, tutoring online for an online tutoring agency, tutoring locally for a tutoring center, or tutoring students who are taking classes by distance learning or correspondence.

Setting up a tutoring business, in which you have a group of tutors working for you, is also an option you should consider. Many skilled and experienced people are looking for online tutoring jobs or local tutoring positions. If you are interested in running your own little-or big- business, this may be the choice for you.

First you will need to decide...do you want to tutor online? If you do, the whole world is your marketplace. Do you want to tutor in person only? This is very satisfying and rewarding, and there is great demand for local tutors who can meet in person with their students for tutoring instruction.

Next, you will need to decide...how will you do your marketing for your tutoring business? You can put up signs locally where accepted. You can advertise online, you can ask your friends to spread the word. For the 25 years I have been tutoring, I have used only word of mouth advertising and I have more students than I can possibly take on for tutoring.

How much will you charge? What hours will you work? How much tutoring will you do in a week? Where will you do the tutoring? Are you knowledgeable about tutoring regulations in your country?

Once you have answered all these questions, it is time to proceed with your plan. Get some students, and start sharing your skills. You will be helping someone else and making good money at the same time.

This blog contains much useful information for your tutoring business. Good luck! And please leave comments if you desire.




How to Become a Tutor Online

Online Tutoring has really exploded over the last few years. There are dozens of respectable online tutoring franchises that you can sign up with to get some tutoring jobs. Basically you follow their application process, and choose what subjects you want to tutor. To be a tutor online, go online and search under "Be A Tutor Now" or "Tutoring Jobs", or "Online tutor jobs".

Most agencies which hire people to be a tutor online have a qualification process where you indicate why you are qualified to tutor the subjects you choose. Some of them also have some standard tests you take to test your skills. It is not too difficult to get in as a tutor, especially if you have already identified that you have strengths in the subject areas. (Of course, someone who is not good at math should not be applying to be a math tutor and hopefully wouldn't be accepted.)

If you decide to be a tutor online, here are some of the advantages you might enjoy:

1) You don't have to pay advertising money to find clients. They are funneled through the agency you signed up with and assigned to you based on the subjects you chose and the schedule you agreed to.

2) You do all the work from the comfort of your own home computer. That means no travel time, no more commuting, no paying parking, etc. If you are the only one home when you are tutoring, then background noise wouldn't be an issue. If you tutor when others are at home, you will want to have a room where you can close the door to filter out background noise.

3) You get to decide your rate of pay. Most agencies which hire you to be a tutor online allow you to set your own rate of pay. This is great because you decide what your time is worth. Also, you can go in to the website and see what other tutors in your field are charging.

4) You decide what hours on which days of the week you want to work. To be a tutor online is one of the most flexible jobs you can imagine for setting your own schedule.

5) When you sign up with your chosen agency to be a tutor online, you will most likely be offered some training. This training may cover how to handle sticky situations, give you access to worksheets and other resources, and educate you on the rules of conduct for both tutors and students.

6) To be a tutor online as opposed to in-person tutoring also gives you the advantage of not having to collect the money yourself. The agency handles money collection from students and distribution to tutors. (You get paid!)

Don't delay another day! Check out the great opportunity to be a tutor online starting now.

How to Become a Tutor: Keeping Track of Business

One important aspect of learning how to be a tutor is taking care of the business end of things. You do spend a lot of time making sure the student's needs are being met, but don't forget to stay organized and keep good records.

If you are going to be a tutor as your own business (self-employed), you will need to keep track of business income and expenses, and make sure you are following all the guidelines to pay taxes etc. It is a good idea to keep a file box just for your business and have files for categories related to your tutoring business. I also found it helpful to keep a file of student names, phone numbers, addresses, etc. I used this once in awhile when someone asked for references.

You may want a shelf on a bookcase for all your reference books on tutoring, starting a tutoring business, how to be a good tutor, etc. You will probably also have text books in the subjects you are tutoring. Keep them all together for handy reference.

Buy an invoice book and a receipt book you can use when billing and collecting from your clients. Make sure they copy in duplicate or triplicate. You will need one copy for your clients, one for you, and one spare in case they lose their first copy. It is handy if you keep your copy connected in the book and only tear out their copy.
Keeping invoices and receipts in good order and matched up is a great way to keep your financial records organized.

It will be up to you to decide the billing period. Do you want them to pay each time they come or by the month? Maybe weekly is more convenient. You can decide this and then work out the details with your clients.

If you are employed through an agency, a lot of these details will be handles a certain way through the agency. Find out how they take care of billing and collecting. Most of the time, they handle those details and then pay you a certain amount for your time.