Being a tutor is one of the most appropriate professions for students or people who like to teach. If you are interested in becoming a tutor, fulfill that desire by finding students. One way to offer tutoring services to teach private courses is to advertise yourself. For that, you need to prepare biodata, create ads, and place ads.
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Part 1 of 3: Setting up a Bio as a Tutor
Step 1. Decide on the subject you want to teach
Before teaching, choose the subject that you are most proficient in, namely the subject that always gets an A. If you get an A in several subjects, choose 1 or 2 that you like the most.
You have to be very good at the subject you want to teach because you will be the teacher of others
Step 2. Determine the class or subject that best suits your abilities
Many tutors focus on a particular class or subject, such as grade 2 and 3 junior high school students, high school students, or only teach geometry. Determine the class that best suits your abilities or choose the subject that you are most good at.
- Look for assignments or practice questions for your chosen class and work on them to see if you can teach them well.
- Choose the subject with the highest score, such as math or science.
Step 3. Prepare biodata
Include experience as a tutor, for example teaching experience with friends and relatives. In order to prepare a good ad, remember when you helped a classmate with a math problem. This way, you can explain to parents why they need to hire you as a tutor for their child.
- List membership in clubs that study the subject you wish to teach. For example, if you want to be a math tutor, include information about math clubs you've been to. As another example, list your activities as an English literary critic if you want to be an English tutor.
- Also inform the achievements and awards that you have achieved, for example the achievement as a champion of the math olympiad.
- If you've never been a tutor, look for teaching opportunities by volunteering or offering to help a friend who is having trouble understanding the subject you're trying to teach. Ask if you can take advantage of teaching opportunities to complete your bio by becoming a tutor for free.
Step 4. Determine the amount of teaching fees
Find out how much other tutors charge as a basis for determining the desired fee. However, make a decision by choosing several tutors who have skills in the same field and are on par with you.
Teaching rates usually vary greatly depending on the subjects chosen and the experience of each tutor
Step 5. Decide where to teach
You can tutor at a client's home, in your own home, or elsewhere, such as a coffee shop or library. When creating an ad, include information about the place you want to teach or explain whether the place of study will be determined by agreement with the client.
When discussing with a client asking you to teach at home, let them know how long it will take to reach the client's home
Part 2 of 3: Creating Ads
Step 1. Prepare the flyer
Leaflets are a very effective advertising tool because you can provide a lot of information in an attractive design. At the top of the flyer, list the services you offer followed by a few sentences explaining your qualifications. Use your bio to determine the information you want to convey. Don't forget to include teaching rates and contact numbers.
- The right title helps you inform the services you offer and why readers should choose you. For example, "Mathematics Course with Ex-General Champion", "Certified Lecturer in English Course", or "Chemistry Course with Professional Teacher".
- Put a photo or image to make it more attention-grabbing. Leaflets that will be published may use photos, for example pictures of apples, study tables, or a group of students. Don't let your photo circulate throughout the city in flyers.
- If you are using someone else's photo, ask permission before publishing the flyer.
Step 2. Create an ad
Prepare advertisements for publication through websites or newspapers. Include the services offered, your qualifications, teaching rates, and contact information.
- Write the right ad title. Use the same title as the title written on the flyer.
- Keep your ad short with the most useful information. The longer the ad in newspapers and websites, the higher the cost.
- To make it more eye-catching, post a photo of yourself or the atmosphere of the course while you teach.
Step 3. Make a business card
Business cards are especially useful when you meet a potential client who needs a tutor. Give him a business card when he complains that he's not doing well or needs help with an exam. You will lose a potential client if he can't reach you. To make it easier for information to spread, leave your business card at a coffee shop or library.
- You can print your own business cards if you have a printing press. Purchase business card blanks at supermarkets, stationery stores, or online.
- Professional business cards can be ordered through a business card seller's website.
Step 4. Create a brochure
Through brochures, you can convey more information about the services offered, especially if there are many other tutors in the community. Take advantage of brochures to show that you are a more professional quality tutor by providing additional information about the tutoring services you offer. Brochures are a great way to make a good impression about you.
- You can make electronic or printed brochures.
- Electronic brochures make it easier for you to explain the services offered when potential clients contact you for information. In addition, you can send flyers with complete information.
Part 3 of 3: Placing Ads
Step 1. Advertise through the internet
Choose a free website that specifically promotes tutoring services. However, advertising in newspapers will incur a fee.
- Upload ads via Careers, Jobstreet or JobsDB.
- Check out community websites in your city to make the ads you publish more useful.
- Ads published via the internet must be opened and uploaded more often so that more people see it. Do a check to see if your ad appears immediately when you access the website.
Step 2. Place flyers in various places
Hang flyers in libraries, at nearby schools, and other places that teens frequent with their families, such as pizza restaurants, ice cream shops, and coffee shops.
- Ask the principal if you are allowed to post flyers in the counselor's office or in the school library.
- Find an appropriate location to distribute flyers, for example at a coffee shop that provides a table to place flyers so that visitors can easily pick them up.
Step 3. Distribute business cards and brochures
Always carry a business card so that it is ready to be given when meeting potential clients. In addition, leave business cards and flyers at the counselor's office, library, coffee shop, and other places that provide a place to leave business cards.
See if you can insert a business card in a community newsletter published by a library or coffee shop
Step 4. Upload the ad on social media
Join a social media group in your neighborhood and upload detailed information about the services offered. Look for groups with parents and students or groups related to education. Also, find out if there are groups on social media that city residents can use to advertise.
Look for groups of homeschooling students
Tips
- Before teaching, choose subjects that you really understand and are good at.
- Consider the possibility of teaching the first session for free or at a reduced rate.
- Ask the client for help to disseminate information about the services you provide.
- Find out if you can join the list of tutors published by your local school.
- Provide references if requested.
- Ask other tutors what success tips they apply.
- Ask friends and family for help to let you know if anyone needs a tutor.
Warning
- Find out if you need a business license or must meet other requirements before becoming a tutor.
- Provide the best service for clients because they will spread negative information if you are not serious about teaching.
- Make sure you understand the rules for advertising and have obtained permission before distributing brochures or placing ads.
- You have to pay income tax because the tutor profession is included in the self-employed category.
