How do you get new students through introductions from people you know or are able to reach?

1.   Firstly, who is the first batch of your students?

Start this business from your first batch of students, the first group of students you knew in the first place, and we call them startup clients.They can be someone you previously taught or some other potential clients from your current students. You may have worked for some online schools before, or you are working at an online school. In simple words, you could have taught someone before or are teaching them who are the potential target clients. They belong to your student connections network, and you can start from them as a good startup.

2.   How can you transform them to become your students in your own business?

Students trust teachers because they are satisfied with teachers’ teaching skills and teaching experience in the current online school. But to make a student your client, you need to consider not only teaching skills but other factors as well.

It is not easy for students to move from a well-developed platform to one with unknown situations like how to pay teachers, attend classes, and book classes, and maintain the same friendly systems and easy-to-organize processes they have now at other online schools.Can I trust the teacher after leaving the platform? Many signs will pop up. The best solution is to let them know you will offer an entire and exactly similar advanced online school system.  TutorPage offers a mobile app for students to download, and teachers can establish their schools on TutorPage. That is to say, the students can have exact functions just like at other online schools. They can select and book teachers’ classes from the timetable offered by the teacher, and pay at the rate set by the teacher. They can see how many lessons are used or remaining, making lesson balance management much easier. There is a built-in virtual classroom as well.  

As a result, students keep the same learning procedures as the regular school when working with private tutors on TutorPage software—same scheduling policy, class management software, virtual classrooms, and so on. All the teachers need to say to their students, if you like my class style, just come with me. Don’t worry about the rest. Because you already found a platform and software that works very well. They will have the same learning experience as they do now in a normal online school.

3.   How to get new students?

Two ways

A: Gain students from social media in public

B: Spread by word-of-mouth marketing through your current students

No matter which way of the above, you need to have a website/brand/landing page and your business reviews from your current customer to gain new students.

When your credibility arises, students will register through your website—crossing your fingers because it means they presumably want to start your courses from a trial lesson. See, it’s an excellent chance to show your teaching skills and connect with the student before he decides to buy your lessons. TutorPage's online school system enables teachers to create their own websites with customized domain names. It's a showcase page of your official personal school. Students can register through your website page or download the TutorPage app to connect with you and get their student accounts.

However, how to gain new students from the public and spread by word-of-mouth marketing?

As I said above, you've built an online school brand and prepared your APP for students. Your current students will be among the first accelerators to share your website page or business poster with their friends or other student groups on social media. Your potential clients can simply scan the QR code on the poster you shared, or they can go directly to the website address you shared, view your profile and student reviews, and sign up for a student account to book your trial lesson. You are also able to share your school website or your TutorPage QR code with the public on social media for potential students' reference. Moreover, there are different language versions of TutorPage on the student dashboard. So there are no language barriers. TutorPage also has a global service that ensures students have a smooth local internet speed to visit the site and the same experience and speed as they visit the local website.

How TutorPage helps you with your private tutoring business?

These are the videos about how TutorPage helps you with your private tutoring business start-up and get students.

Teacher Account Video： https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIQunRRTAAA&t=7s

Student  Account Video:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uw5eY5tNKdo

How to find students with TutorPage Website function?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EnBSRXwxMck&t=2s