<p>I am looking to spend some time tutoring this summer, but I’m not sure how to start. I’ve only tutored on a volunteer basis at school. However, I really enjoyed it, and I have a car, so I feel like it would be a good way to earn some extra spending money. I’ve tried using Craigslist to advertise, but I’m not sure if it’s the best or safest option. Where are some places that I can get the word out that I’d like to tutor? I’m thinking of putting ads in the library and in my local community college.</p>
<p>The things you mention - Craigslist, library, CC. Word of mouth can be best - let people know you are available to tutor. Call your local high school or jr. high (depending on what ages you are willing to tutor) - especially if you still know a teacher/principal there - and let them know you are available. If you attend a church, they may let you post something there…</p>
<p>Son was a tutor for almost five years at his university. The head of the tutoring center would routinely send emails to the tutors asking if they wanted to tutor privately. Most of the emails were for high-school kids in the surrounding cities and towns and some were for college students that wanted scheduled and private tutoring.</p>
<p>Libraries, colleges, supermarket bulletin boards can work.</p>
<p>Our son made a lot of money tutoring for a national firm that sends him clients wherever he has been living. As an undergrad he could make $15/hour tutoring for his college but he was able to double and sometimes triple that by working for a corporate tutoring company. They were really great to him. They paid for him to take the LSAT, GMAT and GRE while he was still an undergrad so that he could tutor for those tests. He still tutors a little on the weekends and has stayed in touch with some of his clients.</p>
<p>pm me if you’d like to know the company.</p>
<p>At our son’s high school, it was the guidance counselor who kept lists of private summertime tutors on hand. Some were the regular teachers, but a few were recent high school graduates such as yourself.</p>
<p>Thanks for all the replies! I will be sure to try them once I get back home from abroad. I guess I should’ve started earlier, but thankfully, having a job isn’t crucial to me. I still want to be able to earn my own money.</p>
<p>sewhappy sent you a pm</p>
<p>Mine was almost exclusively word of mouth and when I moved to another city after undergrad, through referrals from friends who were already established there. </p>
<p>If I had craigslist back then, I’d use that too…especially considering it has been really great with many free/near-free items ranging from music CDs to laptop computers. </p>
<p>Heck, I picked up a decent notebook computer as parts with maxed out RAM and decent HDD space for $20 off CL a week or so ago because the previous owner thought it was dead and didn’t want to deal with it anymore. Turned out to be a dead adapter which happened to be the same type used by other laptops in my possession. Simple swap and that notebook was up and running.</p>