Marketing
How to Build a Professional Online Tutor Profile That Gets Bookings
Most online tutor profiles read like a CV — generic, beige, forgettable. Here is how to build a profile that ranks, converts, and gets bookings.
Blog
Insights for language tutors
Tips, strategies and stories to help you grow your online teaching business.
Scheduling
The Online Tutor's Complete Guide to Scheduling (Without the Back-and-Forth)
The fix for back-and-forth scheduling is a single booking link, timezone-aware, connected to the rest of your tutoring workflow. Here is how.
Tools
How to Track Student Progress as an Online Language Tutor
How to track student progress as an online language tutor — lesson notes, vocabulary retention, CEFR goals, and the tools that work.
Tools
Zoom for Online Tutoring: Is It Actually Enough?
Is Zoom enough for online tutoring? What Zoom does well, where it falls short for tutors, and when a purpose-built classroom wins.
Invoicing
How to Invoice Students as a Private Tutor (Templates + Best Tools)
How to invoice your tutoring students — what to put on the invoice, the best free and paid tools, and how to stop chasing late payments.
Tools
Stop Juggling 6 Apps: How to Run Your Entire Tutoring Business From One Platform
Independent tutors spend $66+/month on 6 disconnected apps. Here's what the fragmented stack really costs — and what it feels like to run everything from one platform instead.
Marketplaces
Why I Left Preply (And What I Wish I'd Known Before Joining)
I spent 3 years on Preply. Here's what I learned — the commission maths, the control problems, the dependency trap — and what finally made me leave.
Student Acquisition
How to Get Your First 10 Private English Students (Without a Marketplace)
How to find your first 10 private English students without a marketplace — network, SEO, LinkedIn, Facebook groups, trials, and referrals.
Rates
How to Set Your Tutoring Rates (And Stop Undercharging)
Most tutors guess their rate. Here's how to calculate a minimum, justify a raise, and stop undercharging the work you're already doing.
Marketplaces
Preply vs iTalki vs Teaching Independently: Which Is Actually Worth It?
An honest comparison of Preply, iTalki and independent tutoring — including the real numbers on what each platform actually costs you.