ClassQuill Blog

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.

Setting Your Tutoring Rates and Packages (Scale Series, Part 2)
Setting Your Tutoring Rates and Packages (Scale Series, Part 2)
By Brandon Collis6 August 2026

Pricing across multiple tutors and tiers: rate structure, packages vs hourly, and raising rates without losing clients.

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The Tutoring Business Plan: A Real Template and Financial Model (From an Operator)
The Tutoring Business Plan: A Real Template and Financial Model (From an Operator)
By Brandon Collis5 August 2026

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.

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What Parents Expect From a Tutor Now That They Have AI at Home
What Parents Expect From a Tutor Now That They Have AI at Home
By Brandon Collis3 August 2026

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.

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How to Run an Online Tutoring Business: Video, Whiteboard, Homework and Payments Without Ten Tabs
How to Run an Online Tutoring Business: Video, Whiteboard, Homework and Payments Without Ten Tabs
By Brandon Collis1 August 2026

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.

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What Running a Tutoring Company Taught Me About Tracking Student Progress
What Running a Tutoring Company Taught Me About Tracking Student Progress
By Brandon Collis30 July 2026

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.

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How to Get Tutoring Clients (and Keep Them): A Growth Guide (Scale Series, Part 5)
How to Get Tutoring Clients (and Keep Them): A Growth Guide (Scale Series, Part 5)
By Brandon Collis27 July 2026

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.

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How to Handle Payments and Invoicing as a Tutoring Business (Australia, 2026)
How to Handle Payments and Invoicing as a Tutoring Business (Australia, 2026)
By Brandon Collis23 July 2026

How money actually moves through an Australian tutoring business: invoicing policy, how families pay, chasing overdue invoices, and how tutors get paid.

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The Research ClassQuill Is Built On — And What It Means for Your Tutoring Business
The Research ClassQuill Is Built On — And What It Means for Your Tutoring Business
By Brandon Collis13 July 2026

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.

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How to Start and Scale a Tutoring Business in Australia (2026): The Operator's Guide
How to Start and Scale a Tutoring Business in Australia (2026): The Operator's Guide
By Brandon Collis11 July 2026

How to start, run and scale a tutoring business in Australia — pricing, scheduling, hiring and clients, from someone doing it.

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Session Counts Are a Vanity Metric — What I Track Instead After 3 Years Running a Tutoring Company
Session Counts Are a Vanity Metric — What I Track Instead After 3 Years Running a Tutoring Company
By Brandon Collis9 July 2026

Sessions, attendance, revenue can look fine right up until a family cancels. Here's the KPI framework I track student progress with instead.

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A Stanford RCT Tested Whether AI Could Make Tutors Better. Here's What They Found.
A Stanford RCT Tested Whether AI Could Make Tutors Better. Here's What They Found.
By Brandon Collis3 July 2026

900 tutors, 1,800 students, a real randomised controlled trial. The results changed how we built ClassQuill.

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How Much Should You Charge for Tutoring? A Tutoring-Company Owner's Guide (2026)
How Much Should You Charge for Tutoring? A Tutoring-Company Owner's Guide (2026)
By Brandon Collis2 July 2026

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.

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