Earn $30k to $70k as A Math Tutor Part Time
14 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 2 years ago -This podcast will reveal some simple strategies to get your first clients, grow your business, and market your services online as a tutor in any subject. There are five mistakes even experienced tutors make that can be costing you a LOT of money. Are you falling into any of the common traps? You might be surprised.
Eric Earle has started 4 different tutoring companies and been working in the tutoring industry for over a decade. Currently he runs his tutoring businesses remotely and travels around the world looking for awesome surf spots.
Along the way, Eric has discovered some tactics that are insanely effective to establish a tutoring business from literally nothing and grow it into a full time enterprise.
One of the biggest myths he came across is that you have to lower your rates when you’re first starting out. This is super pervasive and it’s simply not true. You can charge premium hourly rates right from the start, you just have to do it properly. Eric will show you a foolproof method in this podcast. Don’t discount yourself. Charge what you’re worth.
Whether you’re just starting out as a tutor or a seasoned pro with a thriving business, the hacks and secrets in this podcast will help you land more clients and scale your tutoring more effectively. You can use these strategies regardless of whether you’re meeting clients in-person or tutoring them online. This podcast will make you money!
Eric Earle is a tutor, entrepreneur, and investor. After science and math tutoring changed the course of his life, Eric saw the potential of tutoring to make a significant positive impact. He grew his tutoring business in Portland, Oregon, and soon needed to hire a staff of other tutors to meet all of the demand. He is also the founder of mathtutoraustin.com and the national tutoring platform zoomtutor.com as well.
It was at a neurology clinic high in the Himalayas that Eric had an epiphany: he realized he wanted to go to medical school. The problem was, he’d already graduated from college and hadn’t taken any of the math and science classes required for admittance. He went back to school to work his way through calculus, physics, organic chemistry, and biochemistry but the topics were unbearably difficult. Eric hired a tutor and, with diligent work, was able to turn himself into a top science student.
This experience with tutoring showed Eric that there is no limit to what we can become with the right teachers. He now supports tutoring and education through his businesses. He is here to share what he has learned about business, investing, tutoring, and life though this podcast. Hopefully you find some of his teachings valuable.
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Episodes
Allocating Capital
November 15, 2021 16:00 - 2 minutes - 2.61 MBSome people enjoy tutoring and aren’t interested in growing a company and hiring employees, which I understand. You might like driving around to people's houses and doing in-home sessions. But eventually, like when you're 80 or 85, you're going to want to stop tutoring. You're going to want some retirement funds, and planning on Social Security might not be a good bet. It’s a good idea to save 5% to 10% of your earnings and reinvest that back into your business, if you want to grow...
Marketing Strategy
November 08, 2021 16:00 - 4 minutes - 4.16 MBAlright, marketing 101 here. Let’s talk about marketing for math tutors. I've done most of it. I've done it all. Some marketing works and some doesn't. I’ll help you tell the difference. To get started with your marketing plan, do some work thinking about your target customer. What does that person look like? When I started my first tutoring company, I made three profiles for exactly who I was going to target: what they do, where they live, where they shop, things like that. You wa...
Active Learning
November 01, 2021 15:00 - 2 minutes - 2.44 MBI struggled with math my whole life. I got stuck behind because the class was moving forward but I had no idea what was going on. I was copying off Wolfgang and trying to get help but I wasn’t really learning the stuff. But the class would just continue and move on. But active learning strategies would have helped me succeed. Active learning is an engaging process. Instead of a professor lecturing about how to do something, the student actually discovers it themselves. There is re...
In-Home Tutoring
October 25, 2021 15:00 - 4 minutes - 4.28 MBHopefully you can make things easy for yourself and work with kids who are currently in a math class. This way you don't have to create content and bring it to the session. The main thing you need is a car to get around to your sessions. There are some benefits to in-home tutoring. For one thing, going to someone’s home helps you to build a long term relationship. It's more sticky than an online session. Going in-home is superior because you're physically there, making a connection...
Online Tutoring
October 18, 2021 15:00 - 3 minutes - 2.95 MBOne of the best practices for online tutoring is to get a gooseneck and instruct your clients to purchase a gooseneck as well on Amazon. They are like $8. That gets some compliance out of them and makes them feel more invested in doing tutoring with you. It's also just a good thing to have. It clips onto your desk and holds your smartphone, so you can easily record the surface of your desk. When your clients use these, you're able to see their desk. You can have them print out a wor...
Handling Complaints
October 11, 2021 15:00 - 5 minutes - 5.19 MBThink about any brand you admire. They probably have good customer service. Think about Apple, Amazon, or Nordstrom. If you email them, they always say, “Thank you so much for being our customer. Thank you for choosing to shop at Amazon. We are so sorry we've made this mistake. How can we help you? How can we make it right?” Even if it's not their fault, they still offer to do whatever they can to make it right. I've had nasty emails saying, “What the heck, why am I still getting c...
Customer Service Tips
October 04, 2021 15:00 - 3 minutes - 3.1 MBWe've all heard the customer is always right. But what does that mean? Jeff Bezos said when he was starting Amazon he would sit an empty chair at the table during meetings. And that would represent the customer. For every decision he thought about the customer. How is this going to benefit the customer? And really, that's why we are tutoring. We want to help the customer. They should have a seat at every decision we make. Any website we're making, or ad we're writing, or tutoring se...
Selling on the Phone
September 27, 2021 15:00 - 7 minutes - 6.76 MBWhen tutors get on the phone with new leads, many make the mistake of starting off talking about why they're a great tutor. But if someone is calling you, they don't want to hear five minutes about you. They're stressed and anxious and they want to talk about the problem. They want to tell you what's going on. Sometimes a potential client might even start right in and ask you, “What are the prices?” or “How does this work?” You want to shift the dialogue to talk about what's going...
Business 101 for Tutors
September 20, 2021 15:00 - 4 minutes - 4.31 MBIf you're working for a company like varsitytutors.com, tutordoctor.com, or a local tutoring company, you can think of it like Uber driving. Uber uses contractors. The difference between a contractor and an employee is that for a contractor, you can choose to open your Uber app and select a trip. You don't have a manager telling you to go pick a ride up, right away. If that happened, you would be an employee and they would be withholding some taxes for you. As a 1099 contractor, y...
Hone Your Messaging
September 13, 2021 15:00 - 6 minutes - 5.76 MBHow can you write about yourself in a compelling way? A lot of being successful as a tutor actually comes down to writing. You need to write an advertisement. Maybe it’s on Craigslist. Or you might have a website. You need to figure out how to write something that gets customers to raise their hands. One of the biggest mistakes people make is they start off talking about themselves. They say, “I'm an expert tutor, and these are the reasons why you should hire me.” That's not going...
Responding to Leads
September 06, 2021 15:00 - 5 minutes - 4.67 MBI keep my iPhone on me—I keep it very close. And when I get an email from a new lead, I try to adhere to my five minute rule: respond to every lead within five minutes. There is a study suggesting you are 300% to 400% more likely to convert a lead into a sale when you respond right away. We live in a world where things happen fast. People want to get things done quickly. Influence is based on emotions, which are highly sensitive to timing. People feel differently about things at d...
Grow Your Business
September 02, 2021 15:52 - 6 minutes - 6.08 MBAfter the first couple lessons you know how to get your first clients. And once you have a client the question becomes how to expand, develop, and move your business forward. One of the first things I want to touch on is the importance of getting into a weekly schedule with your clients. You should be meeting each client at consistent times each week. Generally, as a tutor, you’re going to be busy in the afternoon after school, and in the evening. Middle school and high school kid...
Your First Clients
September 02, 2021 15:50 - 5 minutes - 5.13 MBWhen I started tutoring I made a profile on universitytutor.com and forgot about it. For a couple months no one responded to me. But then I got a few requests, and I started working with those clients. And I liked it so I started looking for other ways to find more clients and grow my business. But those profiles were the first step. So if you’re just starting out as a tutor you should absolutely create profiles on various tutoring websites. There's universitytutor.com, varsitytut...
Why Tutor Math?
September 02, 2021 15:43 - 4 minutes - 4.05 MBSo, why should you be a math tutor? Math is one of the most important subjects. Many families are interested in getting their math issues solved—and they can pay a good amount for it. If you have some skill in math (and it doesn't even have to be much skill), you should be able to make 30,000 to $70,000 as a math tutor, working for yourself or for a tutoring company. The majority of tutoring involves just algebra and geometry. Rarely you'll get into some calculus with certain more a...