Tutoring Business Basics
Learn How To Start A Successful Tutoring, Lessons, or Coaching Business
Ready to work for yourself and make some extra cash?
Wondering how long it will take and how expensive it will be to set up a tutoring business? You can take the course in a weekend and be ready to work as soon as you finish the paperwork! The course is affordable and the suggested start up costs are minimal (My local and state fees were under $200.) Plus you get many cost and time saving tips! (Should you use a Google Doc or set up a website? Should you tutor in person or online?)
Ready to cut out the middleman and make the hourly wage you deserve? It is easier and cheaper than you think to start your own tutoring business. Tutoring one or two students now but want to take it to the next level? This is the Business Basics course for you! I started with a couple of students a week and simultaneously started doing the paperwork to make my business official. (Or go ALL IN with Business Basics Plus in 6 weeks)
Ready to earn some extra cash? I was! Business Basics can get you there! This course is for tutors, teachers, parents, college students, grandparents, coaches, or people who want to start a successful tutoring business. I did it, and so can you. I love my private tutoring job and the income and freedom it provides. Are you ready to love your job? Enroll now.
How to start a successful tutoring business
Build your own business, set your own hours, and work a job you love! Many people fail at starting their own business because they don’t care to invest the time and work it takes to set it up well. Many are scared they lack the business skills to start a business. Sound familiar? It isn’t as complicated as you think, especially if you have a plan. Business Basics – How to Start Your Own Tutoring Business walks you through the key steps to building your own business. If you are a teacher or parent without business training, I wrote this course for you! I want you to be able to make educated decisions and set your business up well, not just follow a free checklist you found online.
I quit my teaching job to take care of my aging parents and started tutoring to earn some extra cash. Soon I realized I could make a good income doing a job I love and officially created my tutoring business. I researched how to start a business, took good notes along the way, and made checklists of the steps I needed to complete. I am a certified elementary teacher, but I tutor all ages in reading, writing, and study skills, plus elementary math and business coaching. Happy clients keep telling their friends and my successful tutoring business keeps growing! I often have a waitlist!
Friends and teachers began emailing me asking how I got started. I sent long emails detailing all the steps and decisions to think through. As a result, I wrote this course to save YOU time and money and help you think through all the steps necessary to start a successful tutoring business. The cost of this course, affordable to teachers, retirees, and stay at home parents alike, can easily be recouped when you start your business. In addition, a typical tutoring business has low start up costs.
Want to know how many steps it takes to build your own business? Over 200 big and little steps! Want a checklist to streamline the process and track what you’ve completed? I’ve got a customizable one for you!
How long does it take? The course can be completed in a weekend (but I recommend spreading it across a few days so you can think through your action steps). In most areas, it just takes a few weeks to process the business paperwork to form a business. You will be ready to start earning cash in no time! (Want accountability? Check out Business Basics Plus below.)
Check out the testimonials below to see what others are saying, too. They had these same challenges, fears, and questions!
What clients are saying
About Jennifer Donaldson
Jennifer Donaldson is a certified teacher with over 30 years of experience working with students of all ages and brainstorming solutions with parents and teachers. She currently provides online academic tutoring and conversational ESL instruction, helping learners build confidence and practical skills for everyday life. She says that starting her own successful tutoring business is one of the best things she has ever done.
Jennifer is known for asking thoughtful questions, creating a welcoming learning environment, sharing educational resources, and trying out new technology tools.
Connect with Jennifer on Instagram @tailorjoy, Facebook @tailorjoytogether, or visit her website https://dev.tailorjoy.com
From start to finish, you will learn how to set up and grow a successful tutoring business that brings you joy, freedom, and income.
Business Basics is an online course with a step-by-step checklist to keep you on track and moving forward. This course has 12 lessons with action steps, a detailed checklist, customizable forms, and a ready-to-use Asana template. You can read more in the course outline below.
Haven’t used Asana, the online work management platform? Don’t worry! It’s free and easy to use or you can use the printable pdf checklist.
Many free generic checklists are available on how to start a business, but there are not many step-by-step tutorials on how to start a private tutoring, lessons, or coaching business that lay out all the systems and strategies you want to consider using. Join this course and this fast-growing occupation. The need for private tutors and lessons has become more important than ever to personalize learning and help students be successful in and out of the classroom.
In the course Business Basics – How to Start Your Own Tutoring Business:
I lay out key tasks to starting your business with tips and systems along the way. You get a behind-the-scenes look at my own tutoring business and learn from my years in and out of the classroom.
Like me, you probably have many questions about setting rates, legal considerations, marketing, advertising, qualifications, technology options, building a client base, and more. Building Basics covers all these questions and some you probably have not even thought of yet.
You have action steps for each area where you customize your own business plan.
The master checklist keeps you on track. The simple templates help you craft your business plan, your sales pitch, and more.
Each resource is customizable to your business and applicable to tutoring, lessons, or coaching businesses.
What do I get with the course?
Course
Immediate access to 12 short online lessons with 4-9 action steps per lesson to help you set up and grow a successful business that’s personalized just for you
(value $900)
Checklist
Ready-to-use Asana template with over 200 big and little steps to keep you on track (or a pdf printable version if you prefer), saving you many hours and countless sticky notes
(value $50)
Bonus
Mini coaching session*
Personalized Business Plan suggestions*
Session Plan template (customizable)
30 Day Marketing Challenge to help you grow your new business
*2026 guarantees
(value $200)
Material
Course workbook pdf, Simple Business Plan template, Simple Pitch Template, Client Forms (customizable), Simple Business Health Check Up template, and more
(value $150)
Total Value $1,300 but you can get all this
for only $399
What will I learn?
Lesson 1: Introduction
Before we start the course, I outline the content, show the lesson format, and give you access to the course material. You are set up for success right from the start!
Lesson 2: Why Start a Tutoring Business
We look at the reasons to start your own business and the joy and freedom that comes with it. Everyone is capable of tutoring something, let’s figure out what your expertise is!
Lesson 3: Set Up to Tutor
From physical space to subject expertise, you learn the steps to set up your tutoring space whether you plan to tutor in person or online.
Lesson 4: Set Up a Business – Internal
An overview of the important steps to setting up a business including requirements, start-up costs, choosing a name, and writing a mission statement. Checklists and templates included.
Lesson 5: Set Up a Business – External
An overview of the important steps to setting up a business on the client side including scheduling, client management, and professionalism.
Lesson 6: Branding Development
This is the fun part! Design a logo and choose a look for your new business! Do the work yourself or hire a graphic designer to help.
Lesson 7: Set Up a Website
Learn about setting up your website or business page from the easy versions to the totally customizable. If you don’t know what SEO is, you will learn!
Lesson 8: Marketing
From considering what type of clients you want, to advertising, to building an email list, I walk you through marketing strategies to help build and grow your business.
Lesson 9: Financial Accounting
I share with you the billing and bookkeeping strategies I have used over the years with tips for setting up the financial side of your business.
Lesson 10: Session Plans
Having a session plan makes tutoring so much easier. In this lesson you get many customizable ideas for remediation, extending learning, and building rapport with your clients.
Lesson 11: Forms and Templates
Create forms and templates for your new business with explanations on how to use them and how to customize them to fit your business needs.
Lesson 12: What Happens Next
You are almost there! This lesson helps you make a plan and set a launch date. Plus learn about business health checkups to grow your business and celebrate milestones.
Why purchase these courses from Jennifer?
Affordable Prices
Learn new skills and valuable content through well organized classes that are worth the investment of your time and money.
Why Should You Purchase this Course?
You’ve dreamed about starting your own business and the freedom it brings. You have been tutoring, but you want to take it to the next level. You’ve worried about all the steps it takes to start your own business. You want a checklist to keep you on track with all the big and little tasks.
Trusted Knowledge
Created by a certified teacher with over 30 years of experience as a teacher, tutor, and educational writer.
Anytime, Anywhere
Digital learning is compatible with any schedule, and available anywhere you have an internet connection.
Why Shouldn't You Purchase This Course?
You are looking to avoid hard work. You are looking to get rich quickly and think this might be the answer. You do not care about being professional or building a good reputation. You hate talking one-on-one with people or helping them problem-solve.
WAIT! There's more! Business Basics PLUS
How do you go from sticky notes to start up in six weeks?
With accountability and a plan!
If you are serious about launching your own business and willing to put in the work, then let’s get started with this business accelerator. Business Basics Plus gets you the full business basics course plus coaching at a discounted price. Coaching calls will help you stay on track and give you the accountability you need to fast-track your business launch. Research shows you can have a much higher success rate with accountability than with just an idea on a sticky note.
When Kimmie decided to get serious about starting her coaching business, she knew she needed more than just the course, she needed weekly accountability meetings. We talked about her progress, her roadblocks, and her goals. Soon she was launching her business and coaching her first clients! The grin on her face was so big when she told me the good news! Business Basics Plus gives you more than just a plan to start a business.
What happens during a coaching call? This is YOUR time and it’s not a group call. We can discuss your course progress, your business plan, your elevator pitch, your obstacles, your business brainstorming, your action steps, and so much more. This is your opportunity to build your unique business with a coach alongside you brainstorming with you, celebrating your wins, giving practical feedback, keeping you accountable to your action steps, and helping you strategize your launch.
Think about what this will mean to your business launch! Think about where you will be in 6 weeks!
What you get upon purchase of the Business Basics Plus:
- Immediate access to the Business Basics course and master checklist
- Link to schedule your initial 55-minute coaching session (we can schedule the rest during our first call)
- Five additional 25-minute coaching sessions
- Accountability and coaching to help you go from sticky notes to start up in 6 weeks
- Unlimited email access during business hours
This exclusive accelerator plan – Business Basics Plus – has very limited openings for 2026, so sign up now if you are serious about launching a business and want to lock in your price.
Business Basics Course
Get everything listed above ⬆️ – immediate access to the course, the materials, the master checklist, and the bonus material. (value $1,300)
PLUS Coaching Package
Business Basics Plus includes everything in the Business Basics Course plus 6 coaching and accountability sessions in 6 weeks. (value $350)
So, what's the total cost for the Business Basics PLUS?
Total value is $1650, but you get all this for only $600 in 2026!
Total value is $1650, but you get all this for only $600 in 2026!
Still have questions? Email me at hello@tailorjoy.com and I will help you decide if this course is right for you.
Frequently Asked Questions about Business Basics course
This course is perfect for those who want to start their own tutoring, lessons, or coaching business, even if you have no past experience teaching.
One year for the online content and forever for the downloaded materials and checklists.
The course is self paced and immediately available after purchase. Each lesson takes about 15-30 minutes plus the action steps that you do on your own time.
Absolutely! Everyone can teach or tutor something. This course helps you narrow your subject expertise (lesson 3) and walks you through planning out an hour long session (lesson 10).
Nervous about tutoring or writing lesson plans? Tutor Toolkit, my free one lesson workshop, is the place to start. Tutor Toolkit workshop helps you set up a session. Business Basics course helps you set up a business.
That depends on you and your situation. Staying organized and putting in the work necessary to start your business depends also on how motivated you are to get it up and running and how much time you are willing to commit to doing that.
No, you do not, but you will be more professional and organized if you do! Lessons 6 and 7 will help with that!
Asana is an online work management program that’s super easy to use. You don’t have to use it, but it’s a total game-changer! Did I mention it’s free? I walk you through how to get it set up in Lesson 1.
Great questions. Business Basics in the master course and a checklist that will help you plan out your business. Business Basics PLUS includes the course AND a coaching package at a discounted rate. You can always choose to add coaching separately, but not get the discounted package deal and 6 week committment to jump start your business.
Typically, I am available for tutoring, coaching, and mentoring sessions 9 am to 9 pm, Monday – Thursday, Eastern Time Zone. Very occasionally, I work a few weekend hours. I love the freedom and flexibility of my job and the ability to choose to only work 4 days a week.
Coaching sessions purchased as part of the Business Basics Plus are not eligible for refund but may be scheduled within 3 months from the purchase date. I try to be flexible with my work hours, so if you give 24 hours’ notice for a cancellation, I can usually reschedule it. Click here to read the coaching terms and conditions.
No. Due to the digital nature of the program and immediate access, we are unable to offer refunds. We are more than happy to answer questions prior to purchase. Just email us at hello@tailorjoy.com. The coaching package within Business Basics Plus is nonrefundable but can be used within 3 months of the purchase date. Click here to read the coaching terms and conditions.
If you have more questions, please email us here.
There has never been a better time to start your own tutoring, lessons, or coaching business!
Imagine the joy, freedom, and income owning your own business can bring!
Enroll now in Business Basics and get started building something you love!