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Schedule Tetris

by Adrianne Meldrum | May 1, 2016 | Policies and Contracts, Starting a Tutor Business

It’s a busy tutoring afternoon and you check your email right before your first student only to be smacked in the face with an expert game of Schedule Tetris with a parent. The following question was posted inside of the Just for Tutors Facebook group (accessible...

Is it Time to Hire?

by Adrianne Meldrum | Oct 25, 2015 | Expanding, Policies and Contracts

You can feel it coming. You really don’t like disappointing potential clients, but it’s becoming inevitable. Things are going great with your business, but you are getting to the point that now you are going to have to turn away students! For a moment or two you...

Boundaries

by Adrianne Meldrum | Sep 16, 2015 | Boundaries, Policies and Contracts

The phone rings, I don't recognize the caller but I answer anyhow. It's a parent looking for math help for their child. They tell me their story and my heart aches for them, but I find myself at odds because I have no spots open. I cave and agree to tutoring during...

Getting Organized for New Students: Info and Policies

by Adrianne Meldrum | Feb 11, 2015 | Policies and Contracts, Starting a Tutor Business

I'm taking you behind the scenes of how I get ready for a new student to come for tutoring. This post is part of series where we'll discuss what I refer to as my new student intake process. I think you'll find the process interesting and I keep it under 10 minutes...

About Adrianne Meldrum

I'm a private tutor on a mission to help other tutors make smart decisions, get more students, and ultimately make more money. I'm the creator of the Profitable Tutor Framework™--a course created to help you take the guess work out of tutoring .