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Essays, guides, and product updates. Practical playbooks for independent teachers, tutors, and coaches running live courses.
Zoom setup for a class of 1 to 30: free or Pro, ten settings to change first, whiteboard and iPad sharing, breakout rooms, and what Zoom leaves to you.
A one-page tutoring agreement you can copy today: parties, schedule, rates, packages, cancellations, materials, recording and ending the arrangement.
Teachable Starter is $39 a month plus a 7.5% fee. Eight alternatives with October 2026 pricing, three with a free plan, and each bill at $1,000 a month.
2026 tutoring rates per hour by level and subject, how the number moves with who you are, and three ways to raise your rate without losing families.
Kajabi Basic is $179 a month for 2,500 contacts and 5 products. Seven alternatives with October 2026 pricing and a worked example at $1,000 a month.
Skool from $9 with a 10% fee, Circle from $89 with 2%, Mighty Networks from $79 with 2%. 2026 pricing and three tests to run before you host a live course.
A cancellation policy template for tutors: 24 hours' notice, a 15-minute no-show rule, one free pass, prepaid packages, and how to enforce it calmly.
AI tutors now explain anything instantly for a few dollars a month. What families still pay a human tutor for in 2026, and how to package and price it.
Zoom's free plan ends at 40 minutes, Meet and Teams at 60. The caps and teaching tools of each alternative, and why the video app was never the problem.
A free 30-day talking-to-camera challenge for people who teach: four rules, thirty daily prompts, and a day-31 finish line: your first live class.
Scared to go live? The fear is a size problem, not a courage problem: a four-rung ladder from talking to your phone alone to a real class with a date.
What is the Yap Challenge? Jessi Jean's 40-day face-to-camera reels program, explained for educators: what it trains, what it costs, and the free route.
The exact system behind Ada, the AI teammate that ships code for Classentra while I sleep: the spec format, the quality gates, the review loop, what broke.
Ten steps from 'I could teach this' to a real live class with real people in it: the outcome sentence, scope, price, date, room setup, invites, reminders.
A pricing framework for teachers and coaches: why fear pricing rounds down, what underpricing does to commitment, and the question that sets your number.
The word-for-word warm outreach script for filling a live class or cohort: who to send it to, the five lines, two examples, and what to send on a reply.
A playbook for launching an online tutoring business in 2026: pick a subject, choose a model, price the work, and land your first five paying students.
Head-to-head of Wyzant, Preply and Classentra in 2026: commission math on real lesson prices, student-ownership tradeoffs, and which to use when.
A no-fluff guide to choosing an LMS for an independent or charter K-12 school in 2026: what to compare, what to skip, and which vendors will sell to you.
How to choose an LMS for a tutoring center or after-school academy in 2026: multi-tutor workspaces, per-student progress, and parent reports that get read.
A no-fluff guide to launching a training company that sells courses to external clients in 2026: the niche, the pricing, the platform, the first months.
When does a white-label LMS beat building your own, and when does it not? A decision matrix for training companies, course platforms and B2B operators.
We compared Zoom, Calendly, Stripe, Preply, Wyzant, TutorBird and Classentra. Which one fits which kind of tutor, and the tradeoffs nobody writes about.
We ran a Skool community for 30 days to see what the platform delivers. The honest readout on community, gamification, mobile, and teaching live.
Six channels that work for finding online tutoring students, and the two everyone tries that don't. Honest math on conversion, leads and revenue.
Moving from Teachable to Classentra changes how you bill, how you teach, and how your students show up. The readout on what changes and what you keep.
Skool has two plans, Hobby at $9 and Pro at $99, with all-in transaction fees on every payment. The real monthly math, including the Zoom you will need.
Skool is a paid community with a courses tab. Classentra is a teaching platform with a community tab. Pick by which question your business depends on most.
A sourced side-by-side of Wise.live and Classentra for independent teachers, tutors and coaches: pricing, features, and when each one is the better fit.
A pragmatic framework for setting hourly and package rates as a solo tutor, with concrete worked examples from Quebec, Ontario and the United States.
A plain-English checklist for solo tutors under Quebec Law 25: consent, data minimisation, cross-border storage, portability and deletion requests.
Zoom is great for 1-on-1 tutoring. Classentra wins when you run a multi-student course with assignments, materials, and recurring sessions.