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Posts by Brandon Collis
Playbooks, comparisons and how-tos for running a tutoring business — scheduling, billing, payroll, reporting and the learning platform that proves the teaching.
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Pricing across multiple tutors and tiers: rate structure, packages vs hourly, and raising rates without losing clients.
Most tutoring business plan templates are generic small-business boilerplate. This is the one-page version that actually matters, with a real financial model and the Australian market numbers behind it.
Students now have free AI at home, and that has quietly raised what parents expect from a paid tutor. A photocopied worksheet no longer clears the bar. Here is the new expectation, and how to meet it without adding tutor hours.
Running online well isn't about picking the best video app. It's closing the gaps between your tools, so the session and everything after it live in one place. Here's how, from someone who ran EquateIt on a stitched-together stack first.
For my first few years I didn't track progress at all. I hoped, asked how the tests went, and re-tested a hard question the next session. Here's where that broke, why the spreadsheet most owners reach for next fails too, and the four things a progress-tracking system actually has to do.
The channels that win your first tutoring clients are word of mouth, Bark and local groups. But the families who stay and refer are what actually make you grow.
How money actually moves through an Australian tutoring business: invoicing policy, how families pay, chasing overdue invoices, and how tutors get paid.
Most tutoring software is built on gut feel. ClassQuill is built on randomised controlled trials, peer-reviewed rubrics, and published benchmarks. Here's exactly what the research says — and why it changes how your tutors should run sessions.
How to start, run and scale a tutoring business in Australia — pricing, scheduling, hiring and clients, from someone doing it.
Sessions, attendance, revenue can look fine right up until a family cancels. Here's the KPI framework I track student progress with instead.
900 tutors, 1,800 students, a real randomised controlled trial. The results changed how we built ClassQuill.
I run a tutoring company in Australia. Here's how to set your tutoring rates — what to charge clients, what to pay tutors, and the margin that keeps the business alive — with real numbers.