How to Start and Run a Home Tutoring Business: A Complete Manual for Setting Up and Running Your Own Tutoring Agency

How to Start and Run a Home Tutoring Business: A Complete Manual for Setting Up and Running Your Own Tutoring Agency

How to Start and Run a Home Tutoring Business: A Complete Manual for Setting Up and Running Your Own Tutoring Agency

How to Start and Run a Home Tutoring Business: A Complete Manual for Setting Up and Running Your Own Tutoring Agency

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Overview

This book is a complete business package in book form. It contains a proven successful formula which eliminates the expensive trial and error period of setting up your own tutoring agency and guides you through every aspect of running your own business. More and more people are seeking a flexible lifestyle, which allow greater freedom while still earning a living. Reading this book will give you the courage to take the first step towards what is a viable and exciting venture.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781848030985
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
Publication date: 11/06/2012
Sold by: Hachette Digital, Inc.
Format: eBook
Pages: 300
File size: 1 MB

About the Author

Gillian Stellman has been involved in education for 30 years in both England and abroad as a teacher, an advanced teacher and as an assessor. She has taught at primary and secondary schools mainly in the North London area. Vivienne Howse has a background in administration in a large university medical school and has worked for many years in the NHS. She has also taught English as a Foreign Language in England and abroad. They are partners in a highly successful tutoring agency, Top Class Tutors Ltd, and are consultants to others considering starting similar businesses.

Table of Contents

List of Figures ix

Preface xi

Part I The Manual

1 Why a Tutoring Agency? 3

Education is always topical 3

An interesting business 3

Being your own boss 4

Working from home 4

A good income 5

No training required 5

What's in a name? 5

The right catchment area 5

In summary 6

2 Where do I Begin? 7

Why tutors register 8

When to advertise 8

Specific subject recruitment 9

Where to advertise 10

Monitoring your advert 15

In summary 16

3 What Happens Next? 17

Dealing with the response to your recruitment campaign 17

Meeting the criteria 20

Chasing up applications 22

References 22

Vetting 24

Parental responsibility 24

Manual record keeping 25

Computerised record keeping 25

4 Getting Your Business Going 28

Advertising for clients 28

Important dates in the school year 32

5 Responding to Clients' Enquiries 34

Bookings 34

What you need to ask clients 34

What you need to tell clients 36

A word of caution 38

6 Clinching the Deal 39

Linking clients to tutors 39

Keeping a record of the deal 42

7 When the Tuition Ends 47

Finding out when tuition ends 47

8 Making Your Money 49

Methods by which tutoring agencies make their money 49

Setting the rates 51

Exceptions to the rule 52

Administration fee 53

9 Financial Matters 54

Keeping accounts 54

Tax returns 57

Banking 57

Telephone systems 57

10 Expanding Your Business 60

Diversification 60

11 Resources for Tutors 65

Teaching materials 65

12 Troubleshooting 70

Problems you may encounter 70

13 Tutors 74

Essential requirements of tutors 74

14 Case Studies 76

15 Becoming a Home Tutor 79

Qualities of a home tutor 79

Qualified teachers79

Payment 79

Graduates 81

The National Curriculum 82

The National examination system 83

Payment 84

Part II Starting Your Own Business - Useful Information

16 Tax and National Insurance for the Self-employed 87

Income tax 87

National Insurance contributions 88

Benefits and tax credits 89

Value Added Tax 89

17 Pensions 90

Personal Pension Plans (PPPs) 90

Stakeholder Pension Schemes 90

Self-Invested Personal Pensions (SIPPs) 91

18 How to Trade 92

Sole trader 92

Partnerships 92

Limited Company 93

19 Furnishing and Equipping Your Home Office 95

Why have your office at home? 95

Where you can work in your home 96

Equipment and furniture 96

20 Going on to Bigger Things 97

Widening your existing geographical area 97

A new geographical area 97

Buying out a competitor 98

Franchising 98

21 Setting Up a Website 100

Creating a website 100

Advantages of having a website 100

Costs 100

Making your website known 101

22 Financial Help for Small Businesses 102

How to finance your initial advertising campaign 102

Ongoing finance 103

Grants 103

Loans 103

Useful Addresses and Websites 105

Final Note 111

Index 113

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