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Tips, strategies and stories to help you grow your online teaching business.
If you're an independent language tutor, there's a good chance your "teaching setup" is Zoom plus a browser with sixteen tabs open — one for your calendar, one for the invoice you haven't sent yet, one for that vocabulary list you made in
Nobody told you that becoming a language tutor also meant becoming a small business owner. One day you're explaining the subjunctive, the next you're Googling "how to send an invoice" at 11pm while your student's payment sits unpaid in the void. Welcome
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.
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.
Here's the fear that keeps most great tutors stuck on marketplace platforms forever: "If I go independent, where on earth do I find students?" It's a reasonable question. It's also, thankfully, a very solvable one. You don't need a massive
An honest comparison of Preply, iTalki and independent tutoring — including the real numbers on what each platform actually costs you.