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Saturday, January 17th, 2009While you are earning money it is important to think about saving your money. Everyone should have an emergency fund of money stashed away for any of the many sudden expenses that can pop up. The Frugal Dad gives some advice on the subject in his post Emergency Funds on Steroids. Check it out for [...]
Work at Home without Distractions: 4 Habits to Avoid
Saturday, January 17th, 2009Rolling out of bed at noon, sitting with your laptop on the couch in your pajamas, sipping on coffee with your favorite soap opera playing on the T.V. This sounds like the perfect work at home experience right? Well, it sounds great but if this is how you work everyday your business if going to [...]
How to Turn a Little Bit of Money into Big Savings
Tuesday, January 13th, 2009As with most people, one of your resolutions for this year is probably to have more money. On the College Finance 101 blog I found some good advice for turning a small amount of money each week into big savings. Check out the savings strategy here! .
8 Helpful Tax Tips for your Home-Based Business
Saturday, January 10th, 2009With the recent passing of 2008 it is time to start thinking about TAXES! I found a great blog post on PowerHomeBiz.com that has 8 tax tips for your home business. This information is useful if you had a business last year or even if you plan on starting one this year. Check out the [...]
6 Advertising Strategies to Start a Tutoring Business
Monday, January 5th, 2009So, you have decided to become a tutor. You have yourself all set up with a website, email address, and online resources for your subject area but one important thing is missing: CLIENTS! The only way you can have a successful tutoring business is if you have someone to tutor. I have put together a [...]
Changing a Child’s World View: How Tutors Can Truly Make a Difference
Tuesday, November 4th, 2008Do you remember going to school? The friends, the fun and recess, of course! Oh yeah, and then there were those annoying classes that filled up time between socializing with friends. OK, so this might not be how everyone remembers their school career, but for me, classes and homework were something that I barely put [...]
How to Become the #1 Tutoring Resource for Parents
Monday, October 6th, 2008Most parents have paid for a tutoring service or a private tutor at some point. In many cases, parents hit the panic button when their child brings home a D or F. During these times, parents will look through the phone book and contact either a tutoring company or private tutor. If the parent chooses [...]
Hard Times at Douglass High: A No Child Left Behind Report Card
Monday, June 30th, 2008I watched this HBO documentary about a high school in Baltimore. I was blown away by the reality of this show. The one thing that stood out to me as an educator was when a teacher decided it was time to quit in the middle of the school year. He explained that he wasn’t getting [...]
How to Acquire Students For Your eTutoring Business
Monday, June 30th, 2008There are many online and offline tutor websites who generate parent leads for tutors. Most of these websites generate student leads instead of parent leads. The reason for this is simple. Students are always searching for ways to short cut their homework assignments. Imagine if we had Google growing up. Students are the ones usually [...]
Online Tutoring Companies vs. TutorFi
Friday, June 27th, 2008Online tutoring companies usually hire tutors who are underpaid and are not given a chance to communicate with the parents. Most of these companies offer homework help or curriculum based tutoring. The student rarely gets to work with the same tutor and in some cases 1 tutor might have up to 5 students so it’s [...]
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