If you’d like to provide a service where you tutor students in their homes and earn $25 to $35 per hour but don’t know how to get clients, Wyzant.com offers a complete online prospecting and scheduling service.
It might be just what you’e looking for.
Be sure to check the Terms of Service carefully to be sure they’re to your liking. Also, carefully review the “No-Compete Clause” with an attorney if necessary.
It’s one thing for Wyzant to want to protect the clients they bring to you. They don’t want you telling the customer … “You pay WHAT? I only get ____… Let’s split the difference!”
It’s another thing to say you can’t get clients on your own.
Make sure you understand all the terms and conditions when you sign.
Update 10/23/2006: Wyzant.com writes to offer this information about their “no compete clause” and how they interpret it. “My name is Michael Weishuhn and I am a co-founder of WyzAnt.com. I am writing to say thanks for your post about us back in May and I also wanted to clarify things a bit about the no-compete clause in the agreement. We do not expect any tutor that signs up with us to only do tutoring through us. They can tutor with whoever they want, whenever they want. The purpose of the no-compete cause is just to ensure that no tutor will take a student that WyzAnt refers to them.” Thank you for this clarification Mr. Weishuhn.
Realize you’ll have the opportunity to “sell yourself” to prospective customers.
Wyzant serves as a tutor database … you will get to “pitch yourself”.
Maybe that’s where it’s time to offer some free reports to potential clients to set yourself apart from the other tutors.
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