{"id":1447,"date":"2007-11-25T11:00:18","date_gmt":"2007-11-25T19:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/getrichslowly.org\/blog\/2007\/11\/25\/how-to-earn-extra-income-through-private-tutoring\/"},"modified":"2019-07-24T00:18:46","modified_gmt":"2019-07-24T07:18:46","slug":"how-to-earn-extra-income-through-private-tutoring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.getrichslowly.org\/how-to-earn-extra-income-through-private-tutoring\/","title":{"rendered":"How to earn extra income through private tutoring"},"content":{"rendered":"
Are you looking for a way to earn some extra money? Did you do well in school, or on standardized tests? Offering tutoring services may be a good bet for you.<\/p>\n
I’ve been a private tutor for the better part of seven years now. It kept me in spending money as a part-time job in college, and it has turned into a full-time gig for me over the last few years. The best part about it, though, is that it’s an easy concern to keep going whether you have three or thirty hours a week to devote to it.<\/p>\n
I’ve taught everything from high school writing to college calculus to professional certification exams for public school teachers. That’s just the tip of the iceberg: there’s a market for tutors for every standardized test in existence, and probably every academic subject at every level, too. Heck, much of this article probably applies to things like music lessons, as well.<\/p>\n
If you have a strong academic background, but aren’t comfortable opening for business without some kind of certification, it might be worth taking a job with a tutoring service, particularly one of the big-name test prep companies such as Kaplan or The Princeton Review. They’ll train you, you’ll get valuable in-class experience, and after a few months you may feel better about setting off on your own.<\/p>\n
The standard advice for would-be tutors is to post flyers at strategic locations such as universities. In my experience, though, that doesn’t work.<\/p>\n
Ideally, your business would come via word of mouth. Every time you work with a student, make sure they have your contact information, and encourage them to tell their friends about you. The less effort it takes to get business, the better!<\/p>\n