Tips for promoting your private lessons

We have written this article because many of you have asked us for advice on how to promote your ad on Findtutors..

1. Advertise yourself as a tutor in Findtutors. This is the most important and necessary step.

2. Make your advertisement attractive. Add a headshot of yourself to the ad (remember it must be you, not a group or abstract photo), fill in all the fields: price per hour, area where you give lessons, levels, etc. It provides a value to your ad and has more interesting content for your potential students.
Avoid excessive use of capital letters and symbols in your ad. Although you may think it makes it more attractive, you get the opposite effect on the students, as it makes it more difficult to read.

3. Fill in and complete your profile. On FindTutors, as well as being able to publish adverts, you can also publish your private tutor profile. Having a profile is very important, as it allows your future students to get an idea of who you are.
In your profile you will be able to include: your age, studies, qualifications, professional and private tutoring experience, as well as recommendations you have received from other students who have been satisfied with your lessons.

4. Ask your students and alumni to rate you. Once you have published your profile you can ask your students and former students to rate you from your personal area, and these ratings will be public for your potential future students. Without a doubt, it is a very useful tool for your contacts to get an idea of how you are at giving private lessons. Who better than your students to explain what you are like as a tutor!

5. Share your ad and profile on social networks. Nowadays social networks can help you find students for your lessons. In your personal area, you will find the option "Share" which allows you to send your ad to the main networks such as Facebook or Twitter.

6. Print and display a poster advertising your services in key locations.. In your personal area, you will also find the option "Poster", which allows you to print on an A4 sheet in landscape format an ad with your telephone number and a link to your profile so that you can publish it wherever you want.

7. Keep your ad in a visible position in the search engine.. Bear in mind that every day an average of 500 new tutoring ads come in, so it is difficult to keep your ad in the top results positions for a long period of time. To achieve this, you should regularly move your ad up to the top positions. If you also want it to stand out from the rest, we give you the option to highlight your ad from your personal area.