Morning all, As some of you will know, I started to run two group sessions recently. One for older students preparing for their GCSE examinations and one for home ed students (around the 11-14 age bracket). I'm pleased to announce that at the time of writing, I have 10 paid subscribers for the GCSE students and 7 for the home ed group. Once the groups get over a certain number, it will eclipse your 1-2-1 rate and because they're (presumably) paying a bit less each, everyone is getting a good deal out of it. My first group 'cost' me in terms of being small numbers at first whilst it got off the ground, but if you're providing a good service and you use some of the social proofing strategies in the videos on here, I'm confident you can grow the numbers to make it a profitable use of your time. For context, my resit course group session has 30 paying families who are paying around £20 per session each so if you are looking to scale your revenue, this can be a great way to go. Happy hunting! Rob

Good morning everyone I have been tinkering quite heavily with Meta ads and Google ads and I would love to know about anybody's experience if they have any? I'm contemplating advertising my group sessions and marketing is haaard! Be great to share experiences if applicable - my Mock Prep course is making sales but quite slowly and I did have a late burst with the last one I ran but it's still scary! :) Happy Friday Rob

Thank you to our new members and my apologies for the delay in some content. I have been extremely busy evaluating the 1-2-1 business and I've decided that group sessions are the way to go! I'm looking to grow my group sessions as now, each new member brings another £10 to the 'hourly rate' with no extra admin. I believe that many people can improve the efficiency of the admin with the use of AI (incrementally not going the whole hog straight away) and provide a better service which can justify increasing prices should you wish to. This isn't a flex at all, I just want to share with you what a normal guy did in 6 months of working on this solidly using the strategies within my videos. My average rate per 50 minute session has more than doubled and I'm still getting near to 100% conversion rates on conversations with leads that come my way. Because I'm quoting significantly higher figures, people assume you're a better tutor (which hopefully you are!) and there's still room to drop your figure slightly if you want to make a sale and fill your remaining sessions. However, with a group there is no cap. I'm doing the sessions almost like a 'stream' experience with students interacting via the chat so if you can get a decent number in there, it will overtake whatever you feel you can charge for 1-2-1 and you can start paring that back or just keep growing your revenue. If you have any questions, please let me know and I will do my best to get back to you ASAP. Enjoy the rest of your weekend! Rob

One thing I’ve noticed about teaching maths is that creating good resources can take almost as much thought as planning the lesson itself. A worksheet might look great, but if the questions aren’t well matched to the specification, don’t provide enough variety, or don’t help students understand their mistakes, it may not have the impact we hoped for. For tutors teaching GCSE or IGCSE maths, I’m curious: What do you look for when deciding whether a maths resource is genuinely worth using with your students? Is it accuracy, question variety, difficulty progression, time saved, exam relevance, or something else? And what’s one resource or tool you’ve found that has genuinely made your tutoring easier?

Hello everyone and welcome to our new members. This is just a quick post talking about social proof and how important it is to get some social proof in order to gain new clients. I created a Google business profile for free and on that profile you can request reviews and testimonials from your current and past clients. This has been something really useful for me when getting new clients because I can just point them to my reviews or you could do your reviews on a Facebook page. That can help sway them to work with you in the future. I used to underestimate the power of a decent review and now I see that actually it's one of the most useful things you can do to convert your leads into paying clients. You can Google Bow Tie Teacher and see the sorts of things people write about me if you wish; I used to find it extremely difficult to ask for reviews especially if people ignore it after a couple of times. But I'm growing a thicker skin as time goes by and am learning not to take it so personally, especially when you've done so much to help their child progress. So give it a go! Reach out to your WhatsApp contacts, your email contacts and whoever else has worked with you in the past and ask them for some positive words!! Have a great day, Rob