Tutoring As a Successful Business: An Expert Tutor Shows You How

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Summary: For anyone looking to get a job in one-on-one teaching
Review: Eileen Shapiro draws upon her many years of experience and expertise as a successful master tutor, to write Tutoring As A Successful Business. This firm, explicit, basic guide is strongly recommended reading for anyone with the aspiration, knowledge and wherewithal to be their own boss. Chapters cover such topics as working with special needs children, working with parents, choosing one's market, what to charge and how to advertise, countless anecdotal stories and much more. Tutoring As A Successful Business is an absolute "must" for anyone looking to get a job in one-on-one teaching, whether for a few extra dollars on the side, or as a lifetime primary career!

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Summary: Helpful Look at Tutoring as a Business
Review: I agree with the reviewer who said the title is misleading. I do wish there were more about the business side of tutoring, but I find Eileen's advertising experiences very helpful, as well as her experiences in hiring other tutors to work with her. I thought this was a fascinating look into the career of a tutor with many examples of real students, their challenges, and the methods used to overcome those challenges. It is more narrative than instructional, and I really enjoyed this approach rather than the strict "how-to" approach in others I've read. Eileen is obviously very intelligent and highly dedicated, and her approach to tutoring is inspiring and insightful. She is highly attentive to the emotional states of her students.Overall, a great read, but it won't answer all your questions about tutoring.

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Summary: Title deceived me
Review: This is a great book for people who want an anecdotal account of the author's tutoring experience. It is also probably very good for those who are tutoring or wanting to get a glimpse of how to tutor many different types of students in many different subjects. I was looking for something that was more business involved. Although the title implies such a book, it only devotes about 56 pages of the 243 pages to this topic. Much of the information could be read in other generic small business books.
In short, I was disappointed because the title is very deceiving. If you want to know the business side of tutoring, get a book for small business. If you want to read some stories of how she has successfully tutored some very difficult children, by all means, read this book. I would suggest checking it out at your local library to read the 56 pages on the business side of tutoring.

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Summary: Great book for those wanting to start a tutoring business
Review: This is indeed a handy book to read on tutoring because it not only starts from Mrs. Shapiro's very first client (she tells you of how anxious she was, she describes the client, explains what she did to help him out, and eventually the successful little boy he became) but it continues to cover what she did over the years (the changes, improvements, the "what to do AND what not to do" etc) up until the present. It helped me to look at her tutoring tactics from a big picture point of view since she spans over 27 years of tutoring in her concise book. I highly recommend it. Informative and helpful.