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Where to Recruit Tutors: Channels, a Simple Funnel, and How to Tell What Works
Where to Recruit Tutors: Channels, a Simple Funnel, and How to Tell What Works
By Brandon Collis19 October 2026

How to recruit tutors: what EquateIt does (website form and referrals), the channels worth trying, and a simple funnel to track which one works.

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Can a Tutoring Business Use Teachers Pay Teachers and Twinkl Resources? Copyright and Licensing in Australia, the UK and the US
Can a Tutoring Business Use Teachers Pay Teachers and Twinkl Resources? Copyright and Licensing in Australia, the UK and the US
By Brandon Collis16 October 2026

Whether a private tutoring business can use TPT and Twinkl resources, with official sources for Australia, the UK and the US.

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Where to Buy Tutoring Resources: Teachers Pay Teachers, Twinkl, Publishers and Past Papers
Where to Buy Tutoring Resources: Teachers Pay Teachers, Twinkl, Publishers and Past Papers
By Brandon Collis15 October 2026

Where tutoring companies buy resources, and what each licence allows a for-profit business, in Australia, the UK and the US.

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How to Organise a Tutoring Company's Resources in Google Drive (and What to Do When a Tutor Leaves)
How to Organise a Tutoring Company's Resources in Google Drive (and What to Do When a Tutor Leaves)
By Brandon Collis13 October 2026

Folder structure, permissions, file naming convention and a tutor offboarding checklist for keeping company materials in your hands.

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Should Your Tutoring Business Join a Tutoring Association? What ATA, TTA and NTA Membership Actually Gets You
Should Your Tutoring Business Join a Tutoring Association? What ATA, TTA and NTA Membership Actually Gets You
By Brandon Collis12 October 2026

What the ATA, TTA and NTA tutoring associations cost, what you get for the fee, and when membership is not worth it. By a paying ATA member.

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Tutoring Business Insurance: What Cover You Actually Need in Australia, the UK and the US
Tutoring Business Insurance: What Cover You Actually Need in Australia, the UK and the US
By Brandon Collis9 October 2026

What tutoring business insurance is compulsory, what associations expect, and what changes with staff and contractors, in Australia, the UK and the US.

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How to Write a Tutor Bio (Template, Examples and What Actually Gets You Booked)
How to Write a Tutor Bio (Template, Examples and What Actually Gets You Booked)
By Brandon Collis8 October 2026

A tutor bio does three different jobs depending on where it lives. Get a fill-in template, composite examples and how to get good bios from a whole team.

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How to Lower Your Stripe Fees as a Tutoring Business (Australia, UK and US)
How to Lower Your Stripe Fees as a Tutoring Business (Australia, UK and US)
By Brandon Collis6 October 2026

What Stripe fees cost a tutoring business in Australia, the UK and the US, with a $1M worked example and eight ways to pay less.

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Card Surcharges Are Now Banned in Australia: What Tutoring Companies Should Do Instead
Card Surcharges Are Now Banned in Australia: What Tutoring Companies Should Do Instead
By Brandon Collis5 October 2026

Australia banned Visa, Mastercard and eftpos surcharges on 1 October 2026. Here is how tutoring companies can absorb the cost and keep their margin.

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Connect Your Tutoring Business to Claude, ChatGPT or Codex — Ask Your Own Data Anything
Connect Your Tutoring Business to Claude, ChatGPT or Codex — Ask Your Own Data Anything
By Brandon Collis30 August 2026

Connect ClassQuill's hosted MCP server to Claude, ChatGPT or Codex and ask about your sessions, invoices and students in plain English.

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How I Run My Tutoring Company on Claude Code and Obsidian (the Real Stack Before ClassQuill)
How I Run My Tutoring Company on Claude Code and Obsidian (the Real Stack Before ClassQuill)
By Brandon Collis28 August 2026

The actual AI stack I rig by hand to run a tutoring company — Claude Code, Obsidian, MCP — and how to connect it straight to ClassQuill.

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The Claude Skills I Use to Run My Own Tutoring Company's SEO (No Agency)
The Claude Skills I Use to Run My Own Tutoring Company's SEO (No Agency)
By Brandon Collis26 August 2026

I don't pay an SEO agency. The real Claude Code tool stack I use for audits, schema, backlinks and keyword research, and what you can replicate free.

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