Author Archives: Charles Steel

Student Management System | Why Having a Student Management System Matters

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Do you Need a Student Management System? If you’re a tutoring or an after-school provider looking for increased efficiency you are in the right place. A student management system is what you need. Aside from automating and making your tutoring management more structured, it can also help reduce cost and increase efficiency. Here are some [...]

Is Your Tutoring Service Unique?

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Unique Tutoring Service Do you have a unique tutoring service? One key to marketing success that many small businesses often overlook is development of a Unique Selling Proposition (USP). So, what is a USP? It’s the one thing about the product or service you’re offering that differentiates you from your competition. Furthermore, it answers the [...]

Three Methods of Assessing Student Performance in Tutoring Sessions

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Assessing Student Performance Student performance is key to your tutoring business. Therefore, following the initial evaluation of a student’s needs, you will need to track improvement. That is to say, your tutor will be assessing the progress and performance of that learner. Additionally, the tutor will be able to determine whether the student has learned [...]

The Art of Listening to Your Staff

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 Art of Listening Listening to your tutors is important. For example, consider a vice president of a Fortune 500 corporation meeting with his CEO. You need to know that this was his annual review, and he was baffled to discover the emphasis on one aspect of his feedback. That is to say his peers, customers, [...]

Why Tutoring Employees Don’t Do What They’re Supposed To

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Tutoring Employees often don't do what you Want During this time of the year you may struggle when motivating your tutoring employees. So how do you get the best out of your employees and keep them motivated? For example, I suggest a little important reading. For instance, have you read the New York Times bestselling [...]

Remembering Stephen Hawking on Pi Day

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Pie for Pi Day, Remembering Stephen Hawking Get Pie for Pi day to help remember Stephen Hawking. Stephen W. Hawking, is the Cambridge University physicist and best-selling author who roamed the cosmos from a wheelchair. Above all, pondering the nature of gravity and the origin of the universe and becoming an emblem of human determination. [...]

Getting the word out about your Tutoring Business

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Getting The Word Out Whether you have just started your new tutoring business or are introducing a new program you need to spread the word. That is to say, getting the word out is really important marketing. Most importantly, it does not have to be expensive but it is hard work. You need to have [...]

10 Ideas for March Marketing Madness

March Marketing Madness
March Marketing Madness March is an incredible month for you to launch great promotions and March marketing madness campaigns. To clarify, ideas for tutoring marketing include everything from aligning yourself with a pet store, or a cross promotion with a local doctor's office. Because of Pi Day, March is also the best time to share [...]

Four Ways to Kick-Start Your Marketing

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Kick-Start your Tutoring Marketing Kick-start your tutoring marketing. Marketing is more than simply creating awareness about your tutoring business. Therefore, you must reach out in ways that are powerful, memorable and tangible to have a lasting impact. That is to say, if you’re waiting for customers to come to you, it's time to act. Consequently, [...]

Research Supports the Value of Training Tutors

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Why You Should Train Your Tutors So it's a month into the new year already! And I'm sure you are all still following your new year's resolutions, right? Well, lucky for you, there is no better time to improve your own skills as a tutor. On the other hand, if you run a tutoring company [...]