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by Shari Nielsen, Sha

Tutor #1 drives for 10 minutes across town to meet her first client of the afternoon at 4:30. She works with this student for an hour in his busy home while his mother is in the kitchen preparing dinner and his siblings are running around the house. After the session is over, the tutor meets with her client's mom for another 15 minutes and then gets back on the road at 5:45. She then drives for another 15 minutes to the house of her next client which she works with from 6:05 to 7:05. By the time she meets with the parents, packs up, and arrives back home it is just about 8:00. Now it is finally time to prepare dinner, spend some time with her family, and put her little ones to bed. At $30/hr she has earned $60 for two hours of tutoring, almost an hour of driving, and 3 ? hours of time spent away from her home, not to mention that her family didn't see her or get fed until after 8:00.

Tutor #2 decided to switch her face-to-face tutoring business to an online one and now meets all of her clients online. She gets home from work around 4:30, spends a little time relaxing, and then logs on to her computer at 5:00 for her first session. She runs the hour long session and then takes an extra 5 minutes to drop her client's parent an email summarizing their progress. She then prepares dinner, enjoys family time for a while, and then logs back on for her second session at 7:30 after she puts her little ones to bed. It is about 8:40 when she logs off, after running the hour-long session, emailing the parent, and checking her schedule for the following day. She too charges $30 an hour and made $60 for the two sessions but did not have to leave home, waste time in the car, or inconvenience her family at all.

More and more tutors are finding that online tutoring is a more convenient alternative than meeting clients face-to-face. As you may have noticed in the scenarios above, Tutor #1 lost a great deal of time driving around to meet her clients while Tutor #2 simply had to log on to her own computer a minute or two before the session was to begin.

Also, Tutor #2 was able to fulfill her family obligations such as making dinner and putting the kids to bed at reasonable times while Tutor #1 wasn't able to do these things until much later. Tutors who have switched to online tutoring find that they have much more time available to do the things they want to do now that they are not wasting time driving around to meet clients.

Both tutors realize how important communicating with the parents of their clients is and both took time to touch base after their sessions. However, Tutor #1 lost about 15 minutes chatting with the parent after the session while Tutor #2 was simply able to send off an email and update the parent in less than five minutes.

Online tutoring businesses are starting to boom as more and more people begin to realize how convenient it is compared to the traditional face-to-face method. As a result, many different programs or methods of working with students online are becoming available. Some are very basic and may just include a white board or a voice component while others, such as TutorFi.com, are more inclusive and include not only a whiteboard and voice capabilities, but a management system that allows for scheduling sessions and organizing client information.

If you are interested in starting a tutoring business, consider the benefits of running an online business instead of a traditional one and ensure that your efforts will maximize your income and allow you to be as efficient as possible.

We always dreamt of studying anytime whenever we feel like... after school, after baseball match gets over, early in the morning or late nights. Just imagine if your studies would not be restricted to a fixed schedule or a prescribed syllabus. You are then free to learn anything at anytime or anywhere whenever it suits you the most! In this modern era of education this has been made possible for the young minds. This is the world of Cyber Education.

Online tutoring is the latest trend in education industry. It is a user friendly platform wherein two people i.e. teachers and students can interact with each other. The communication between the two is being established with the help of high net connectivity and computer systems. With the help of simulated white board and voice chat, the discussion goes on between both of them with quite ease, that too in real time. The most flexible part of online tutoring is that teachers are available 24x7, which means you have a teacher for math help, online, always! So at any time whether it's a night before examination or the last day of assignment or project submission, the help needed is just a mouse click away.

"My daughter improved from C grades to A's now. Now she no longer has to be dependent upon home private tuitions. She can now concentrate more on her guitar classes for which she has a passion. All this thanks to online tutoring?, Says Jenny, mother of Emma who is in the 7th grade. This is true for million of teenagers across the states of America. Students can now balance their studies along with extra - curricular activities. In addition to this they now get more time for sleep which leads to interest in the subject and a 100 % concentration.

Many new companies are involved with Online tutoring industry providing variety of educational services online. Some of the established online tutoring companies like TransWebTutors (transwebtutors.com), Brain Fuse, TransTutors and Smart Thinking are known to provide high quality education not only for K - 12 studies but also for pre - college and college level students. Some of the companies like TransWebTutors also provide preparation for standardized tests like TOEFL, GMAT, SAT; GRE etc.These online tutoring companies are providing exciting packages like unlimited online tutoring for $ 99 per month; now isn't that unbelievable? These companies have a pool of teachers from all across the globe who are highly specialized in their respective subjects like English, Mathematics, Science and everything else! The best thing about these companies is that they also get their services outsourced to some of the Asian countries, thus are able to provide such high quality education at a low price as low as $15 an hour.

According to ?No Child Left behind Act?, each and every school in United States must periodically monitor the educational activities for each and every student. Schools which failed to provide quality education took the help of private tutorials, thus led to the growth of online tutoring segment. Since then this has been one of the driving forces towards the growth online tutoring along with things like tremendously low prices. Many American families are enrolling their children to these online tutoring companies rather then sending them to expensive private tutors.

Tutoring is a big business and is expanding day by day. With millions of American teenagers in both private and public schools using online tutorials, it has now become a part of middle class. Apart from high quality education at reduced costs these companies are also providing counseling and career planning sessions to the students. Online Tutoring is the future of education industry and would be a boon for education starved teenagers of America.

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