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Instructors for the Digital Age

Instructors for the Digital Age

 Mark Biggins
Although not the world’s oldest professions, tutoring has to be somewhere close. Since antiquity, young people have been taught and mentored by tutors, whether…
Business Management Technology Tutoring Tutoring
How to create a business plan part 2

How to create a business plan part 2

 Michaël Persyn
Continuing how to start a business plan. Read part 1 . 5. How we keep strengthening our position in the future? 3 years is a short time in business terms. The…
Business Management Business Management Marketing Marketing SaaS
How to create a business plan part 1

How to create a business plan part 1

 Michaël Persyn
You want to start a business, so you need a business plan. Most people go online and begin thinking about the financial part without working out the business…
Business Management Marketing SaaS
The Price of Freedom

The Price of Freedom

 Mark Biggins
In March 2016 the government pledged to make all secondary schools academies and free them from LEA control by 2022. After a backlash from the NUT and many…
Education
5 Essential Business Marketing Ideas

5 Essential Business Marketing Ideas

 Michaël Persyn
Competition is growing every day and marketing is essential for every business. To establish a business that keeps innovating and growing, staying ahead of the…
Marketing Starting a business Tutoring
Administering Tuition Agencies and Centres

Administering Tuition Agencies and Centres

 Rob Willets
If you take the average salary of an admin to be £15,000 not including pension and national insurance contributions, a would be saving your business…
Managing a tutoring agency Marketing
Marketing Relationships and Relationship Marketing

Marketing Relationships and Relationship Marketing

 Mark Biggins
Those of you running tuition agencies are probably painfully aware that you are not alone. Whether you are well established or just starting out, marketing is…
Marketing Tutoring

April's Newsletter!

March has been a very busy month for TutorCruncher, and we've seen some big features released. TutorCruncher's making waves! Last month we were delighted to be…
Newsletter TutorCruncher
Mandrill Changes

Mandrill Changes

 Mark, Tom and Samuel
All of those using TutorCruncher will also be using Mandrill. It's our transactional email client, and is used every time you send and email, such as sending…

Gaming Oxbridge Admissions

 Mark Biggins
So you are a parent looking to get your child into one of the UK’s best universities? You have done all the leg work - you have sent them to a great private…
Oxbridge Admissions

Tutoring costs across the world

 Mark Biggins
A conversation with an American client this week produced an interesting difference between the US and UK markets. In London “supertutors” working for the most…
Tutoring

TutorCruncher Making Waves

 Mark Biggins
We were delighted to be featured this week by our friends over at about how TutorCruncher, originally designed to solve a problem for a single tutoring agency,…
Business Management TutorCruncher

Oxbridge Entry Questions - can you spot the fakes?

 Mark Biggins & Tom Hamilton Stubber
Five of these questions were posed to 17 and 18 year olds in their interviews at Oxford or Cambridge - the other five were invented in the Tutorcruncher…
Oxbridge Admissions

Cambridge to reintroduce entrance exams

 Mark Biggins
The increase in both the quantity and importance of examinations has gone hand in hand with the rise of private tutoring. A pupil’s performance in a handful of…

January Newsletter

 Tom Hamilton Stubber
January has seen changes to help you use the system more efficiently, most notably the changes to labels for marketing. This is paving the way for a fabulous…
Newsletter TutorCruncher

Keeping up with the web-design times

 Mark Biggins
So your tutoring business has a website. You gave it quite a lot of attention when it was built, ensuring that it looked professional and enticing and had an…
Managing a tutoring agency Marketing

New Year’s Marketing Resolutions - SEO or not?

 Mark Biggins
As children head back to school and parents head back to work, it’s a chance for tutoring agencies to take stock and think about their marketing approach.…
Managing a tutoring agency Marketing

December Newsletter

 Tom Hamilton Stubber
TutorCruncher has seem some great features released in the past month. Check them out to see which one is going to be the most useful for you! Tutor Profile…
Newsletter TutorCruncher

Invoicing ahead of time

 Tom Hamilton Stubber
Invoicing clients ahead of time is sometimes a bit tricky, as you don't always know when tuition will occur, or even how many lessons the client will receive.…
Features

Tutor Retention

 Mark Biggins & Tom Hamilton Stubber
Most tutoring companies actually function as tutoring agencies - they connect self-employed tutors with clients looking to hire them and either provide a way…
Features Managing a tutoring agency

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