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Online Tutoring Companies vs. TutorFi
By Scott Palat
Online 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 not even one-on-one tutoring. In my opinion, this is unfair to the student and the parent.
Many of tutors who work for online tutoring companies are not paid what they are worth. The industry average including tutors from
The big thing these companies lack is “caring”. Most just want to make money, so they pay the tutors a cheap rate and charge as much as possible to the parents. On a rare occasion, the parent will receive a free phone call to talk about their child’s progress. These rare phone calls are made by people who work for the online tutoring companies and not student’s actual tutor. Many online tutoring companies never even call the parents.
After running a few different online tutoring companies myself, I realized the biggest void in the industry was the caring aspect. Even when I hired tutors, it was hard to get them to really care like me and my staff did.
This ended up being the inspiration for TutorFi. We had such a high demand from tutors to work for us, but it was really unfair to everyone. So we decided to take a step back and teach tutors what we know and allow them to earn between $25 – $75 per hour.
So instead of TutorFi offering the actual online tutoring services, we match parents and our TutorFi clients with each other. By generating the parent leads, our members can call the parents who request more information and they can offer a demonstration inside our online classroom. Many of these connections work out perfectly for the parent, tutor and student. This is the goal of TutorFi. We want to create a real win/win situation for everyone.
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