Running a tutoring business, done right

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.

A practical end-of-financial-year checklist for Australian tutoring companies — GST and BAS, super and contractor obligations for tutors, WWCC renewals, record-keeping, and why EOFY is the cleanest time to switch software.

Most 'AI for tutors' advice is written by people who've never run a session. Here's the actual workflow I run across my tutoring company — to walk into every session knowing where each student is stuck, and to send parents proof their kid is improving, in about 15 minutes a student.