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From top tutor to top content creator. HOW?

by andr3w84
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Hi fellow warriors

I've been in the private education sector for over a decade, managing to earn well over $100K per year in my private practice tutoring Math to kids and adults. Now, due to growing family commitments, I'm looking into switching towards digital product / course creation and sales, as it would allow me to earn more and fulfill my family duties better as well (I have a toddler and another one coming up, plus an ageing parent overseas).

A key objective is to be able to live anywhere while creating my ebooks, courses, subscription websites, etc as school/uni tutoring is very location and time specific. I'd also be interested in other highly scalable passive income revenue sources, again so that I can free up time for family.

If you've been there done that or know someone who has, do please let me know.

Much appreciated.
#content #creator #top #tutor
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  • Profile picture of the author GordonJ
    I suspect you might find a hungry crowd of tutors who would love to make well over 6 figures, maybe your own marketing strategies would be a good first product, in an arena you have had success and have expertise in. Eh?

    GordonJ

    Originally Posted by andr3w84 View Post

    Hi fellow warriors

    I've been in the private education sector for over a decade, managing to earn well over $100K per year in my private practice tutoring Math to kids and adults. Now, due to growing family commitments, I'm looking into switching towards digital product / course creation and sales, as it would allow me to earn more and fulfill my family duties better as well (I have a toddler and another one coming up, plus an ageing parent overseas).

    A key objective is to be able to live anywhere while creating my ebooks, courses, subscription websites, etc as school/uni tutoring is very location and time specific. I'd also be interested in other highly scalable passive income revenue sources, again so that I can free up time for family.

    If you've been there done that or know someone who has, do please let me know.

    Much appreciated.
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    • Profile picture of the author andr3w84
      Thank you for your reply, I had thought about that, there is a rather heavy barrier to entry though, which would be knowing the subject and being able to teach it at expert level (it took me years to develop these skills).



      In any case, what would be your thoughts about making a tutoring practice a franchise? Having a tuition centre wouldn't be that appealing to me as I prefer to work in small groups or on my own.



      Thank you once again.





      Originally Posted by GordonJ View Post

      I suspect you might find a hungry crowd of tutors who would love to make well over 6 figures, maybe your own marketing strategies would be a good first product, in an arena you have had success and have expertise in. Eh?

      GordonJ
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      • Profile picture of the author GordonJ
        Some ideas for you.

        First, I Googled "math tutors near me"...and within 15 mins of my place here were the top 4 out of several.
        KUMON (a franchise)
        SYLVAN (a franchise)
        KENT STATE UNIVERSITY
        gradeamath dot com A tutor.

        These out of 25 or so in the area. So, great market.

        So, the advice....visit Mike Senoff's HARD TO FIND SEMINARS and read or listen to the Rand Brenner interview about LICENSING. It doesn't have the red tape of franchising, so is faster, and has renewable/recurring PASSIVE income too. You license your proprietary info and collect yearly fees plus a small per student fee.

        udemy has a free course from Rand, a good place to start...and if interested he has a full blown course on A to Z of licensing. It may take some time to set things up, but you already have tons of tutors in the game, and the missing link for many of them is the marketing...so that should be your secret sauce if you do think about LICENSING.

        Good luck.

        GordonJ
        P.S. There are over 2250 Kumon + Sylvan learning centers out there...and these are almost all franchisees...having paid thousands for the rights to tutor, some food for thought, eh?

        ADDITIONAL INFO. A model. An annual license fee of 1200 (100 a month) and you had only 100 licenses, renewable every Jan. Start the year with 120k in the bank, and then a small % (maybe 2%) of tutoring fees. Any of your people that could replicate your success would bring in an additional 2k per year and that on top of the fee.

        Back in 1997/8 I paid $1,000.00 to be part of Bill Myers IDEA BANK, and I don't know if he had 100 or not, but he started the year off with a big chunk of change in the bank, so the idea isn't anything new. Of course you would offer a branded courseware for the licensees to use also, which could be your digital IP in whatever form you wanted; ebooks, courses, reports...it is getting multiple use out of your IP.

        To think that 100 people might want to be TUTORS in math, is to have a gross misunderstanding of the market. But you don't need thousands, 100 a year doing well would mean you were doing very well. This model seems ideal for the desires you expressed. OK, that is all for now.


        Originally Posted by andr3w84 View Post

        Thank you for your reply, I had thought about that, there is a rather heavy barrier to entry though, which would be knowing the subject and being able to teach it at expert level (it took me years to develop these skills).

        In any case, what would be your thoughts about making a tutoring practice a franchise? Having a tuition centre wouldn't be that appealing to me as I prefer to work in small groups or on my own. Thank you once again.......
        I tried getting into Internet Marketing long time ago, and remember it was too easy to get into "information overload". Many things learned in these endeavours helped with setting and marketing my tutoring practice though. At this point I'm probably one of the busiest Math private educators in Australia, so certainly it wasn't time wasted.

        However, to move forward with creating and selling my own content, and with making it essentially passive income, I believe I need a mentor or at least to follow a course, as otherwise as mentioned above it'll again be information overload and being stuck with thousands of ideas without really moving on. Please let me know if you know of someone or some truly helpful course, thank you once again.
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  • Profile picture of the author Princess Balestra
    Cool you gaht math steada ballet as your natchrl areah of expertise there.

    Bcs least'n if'n you ravaged by plague or insurrectschwaahn or mebbe jus' hooked on sugah foodstuffs, the algoorythms gonna seeya right -- evin if'n you cain't stand up straight without sum kinda PROP.

    What does this mean?

    The hell I know -- I jus' followin' the same kinda script as evrywan here (whilst'n also multitaskin' out on naht bein' zackly stoopid while ima about it.)

    LET'S TRY THAT AGAIN, ONLY IT IS AI THIS TIME

    What does this mean?

    The hell I know.

    Sumtimes I cain't evin count up to like 2.

    Which is weird, bcs THOSE ARE MY FEET.

    Balance in all things, always.

    Which is why we gaht leapin' out all parabola-friendly vs smacko de point.

    Do you wish to purchase evil phantotype dental equipment?

    LET'S TRY THAT AGAIN, ONLY TO HELL WITH THAT PRIOR PART, OR MEBBE THE LAS' ONE

    What does this mean?

    The hell I know.

    There a las' one?

    Sumtimes you don't gotta grab the foist one, you gotta hold out for the las' one.

    LET'S TRY THAT AGAIN, ONLY CAN THIS NAHT PERSIST FOREVAH BCS I GAHT LIFE AN' SHIT?

    What does this mean?

    The hell I know.

    YOU COMPLAININ'?

    What does this mean?

    The hell I know.

    Ballet is a subclass of math.

    YOU PROCLAIMIN'?

    Git laaaahst.

    SO WHEREYA AIMIN?

    Said I would smackya, the frick you still dowin' here?

    WHICH 'HERE' YOU FRAMIN' ZACKLY WITH YR STOOPID GODDAMN MATH?

    Dunno, you want I slapya again for the benefit of sum kinda A/B test or nuthin'?

    TBH I GAHT NO IDEAH HERE WHO IS THE PROTAG OR THE ANTAG, SO MEBBE THE INFINITEDILIGENCEHAG CAN KINDA FLOAT DOWN FROM OUTTA THE SHARPEST CLOUD EVAH AN' EAT UP CYBERSPACE HULLECTRICKS WITH ALL KINDSA PROTO-DITZOID CRAPOLA

    Hey, so I said I was a BALLET gal, naht a MATH gal.

    The **** is your prahblem?
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  • Profile picture of the author Monetize
    Originally Posted by andr3w84 View Post

    Hi fellow warriors

    I've been in the private education sector for over a decade, managing to earn well over $100K per year in my private practice tutoring Math to kids and adults. Now, due to growing family commitments, I'm looking into switching towards digital product / course creation and sales, as it would allow me to earn more and fulfill my family duties better as well (I have a toddler and another one coming up, plus an ageing parent overseas).

    A key objective is to be able to live anywhere while creating my ebooks, courses, subscription websites, etc as school/uni tutoring is very location and time specific. I'd also be interested in other highly scalable passive income revenue sources, again so that I can free up time for family.

    If you've been there done that or know someone who has, do please let me know.

    Much appreciated.

    I cannot tell you how to become a top content creator other
    than advising you to get started and get busy.

    There are numerous course platforms where you can publish
    your courses, lectures, tutorial videos, and whatever else you
    would like to include.

    There are also several A.I. course development systems, you
    can find those online. You normally need to provide the A.I.
    with a course outline, but all of that is simple.

    It shouldn't be too difficult to take what you have already been
    teaching, and convert it to online courses.

    As to being a nomad, I would recommend that you set up your
    passive income streams before you start traveling around, I'm
    pretty sure that there are people who took off traveling only to
    be stranded somewhere with no income, so don't let that
    happen to you.

    Passive income methods can be researched online, through
    books, videos, etc. But passive income is not some magic
    system that just happens, most methods require major upfront
    effort and work to put into effect, as well as periodic tweaking
    and updates.
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    • Profile picture of the author andr3w84
      Thank you for your detailed reply, ideas and advice.


      I tried getting into Internet Marketing long time ago, and remember it was too easy to get into "information overload". Many things learned in these endeavours helped with setting and marketing my tutoring practice though. At this point I'm probably one of the busiest Math private educators in Australia, so certainly it wasn't time wasted.


      However, to move forward with creating and selling my own content, and with making it essentially passive income, I believe I need a mentor or at least to follow a course, as otherwise as mentioned above it'll again be information overload and being stuck with thousands of ideas without really moving on. Please let me know if you know of someone or some truly helpful course, thank you once again.







      Originally Posted by Monetize View Post

      I cannot tell you how to become a top content creator other
      than advising you to get started and get busy.

      There are numerous course platforms where you can publish
      your courses, lectures, tutorial videos, and whatever else you
      would like to include.

      There are also several A.I. course development systems, you
      can find those online. You normally need to provide the A.I.
      with a course outline, but all of that is simple.

      It shouldn't be too difficult to take what you have already been
      teaching, and convert it to online courses.

      As to being a nomad, I would recommend that you set up your
      passive income streams before you start traveling around, I'm
      pretty sure that there are people who took off traveling only to
      be stranded somewhere with no income, so don't let that
      happen to you.

      Passive income methods can be researched online, through
      books, videos, etc. But passive income is not some magic
      system that just happens, most methods require major upfront
      effort and work to put into effect, as well as periodic tweaking
      and updates.
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      • Profile picture of the author Monetize
        Originally Posted by andr3w84 View Post

        Thank you for your detailed reply, ideas and advice.


        I tried getting into Internet Marketing long time ago, and remember it was too easy to get into "information overload". Many things learned in these endeavours helped with setting and marketing my tutoring practice though. At this point I'm probably one of the busiest Math private educators in Australia, so certainly it wasn't time wasted.


        However, to move forward with creating and selling my own content, and with making it essentially passive income, I believe I need a mentor or at least to follow a course, as otherwise as mentioned above it'll again be information overload and being stuck with thousands of ideas without really moving on. Please let me know if you know of someone or some truly helpful course, thank you once again.

        Your initial post seemed pretty clear in that you wanted
        to develop ebooks, courses, and subscription products,
        as well as digital downloads.

        Information overload is always going to be a thing as
        long as we are online, etc. but you eventually get to a
        point where you filter out the noise and focus on what
        is important to your goals.

        I replied to your post because I felt that I could help
        you. I have been at this for 25 years, I could tell you
        exactly what to do, but the way that I do things might
        not work for you because everybody does things
        differently.

        I don't think that any of this requires a mentor, it really
        isn't that complicated, it can be self-taught, and you
        will be better off if you learn by doing.

        If you need guidance on developing an online course
        there are several books on that topic. It's a little scary
        when you first get started, but once you develop your
        first course, future ones are easy.
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  • Profile picture of the author ben niu
    TikTok would be better, persistent creation courses
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  • Profile picture of the author discrat
    You mentioned information overload. Well yes ,it can be, but anything worth pursuing almost ALWAYS has this variable to contend with.

    From my own experience the best thing to do is pick one info. creation course that has been lauded by multiple highly successful online marketers. Get a real consensus. Then tune the other stuff out and just FOCUS on learning and absorbing as much as you can.
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  • Profile picture of the author TobiMDD
    Since you are very good in math you can easily also create youtube videos helping people with these things or/and on tiktok. Just get started. Upload your first videos and see how people like you
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  • Profile picture of the author RMRC
    You could always start by creating courses on sites like Udemy or Coursera and build social media accounts around your courses and get an official website. Looks like you already have a great starting point with your expertise and demand for tutoring. A guy named Ben Robinson built a completely online business around teaching people to become bookkeepers. People pay for his course and they are invited to a closed Facebook community where students can ask and answer questions. You could Google Bookkeeper Launch and maybe get some ideas from looking at his business model.
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  • Profile picture of the author writeaway
    OP, why not DIGITIZE or "PRODUCTIZE" your math tutoring to online self-paced modules?

    You get passive income and you also get to leverage the expertise you already have (math tutoring)

    As for promotions, this type of service basically sells itself
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  • Profile picture of the author Kingshouse
    Originally Posted by andr3w84 View Post

    Hi fellow warriors

    I've been in the private education sector for over a decade, managing to earn well over $100K per year in my private practice tutoring Math to kids and adults. Now, due to growing family commitments, I'm looking into switching towards digital product / course creation and sales, as it would allow me to earn more and fulfill my family duties better as well (I have a toddler and another one coming up, plus an ageing parent overseas).

    A key objective is to be able to live anywhere while creating my ebooks, courses, subscription websites, etc as school/uni tutoring is very location and time specific. I'd also be interested in other highly scalable passive income revenue sources, again so that I can free up time for family.

    If you've been there done that or know someone who has, do please let me know.

    Much appreciated.

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  • Profile picture of the author Zoheb M
    Seems like content will not be a problem for you. As mentioned above there are tons of tools and methods to move your knowledge into a digital format.

    What is really hard, is getting enough traffic. You need money and time, otherwise not many people will see your sales material. Make sure you study this thoroughly and have at least 5-10 different traffic generation methods in place.
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  • Profile picture of the author spartan14
    Well i think in your case it will be a good idea to dive in into Paid Traffic with affiliate marketing as example
    Because diving into paid traffic it will save you precious time that you will save for you and your family
    Even if you like so much what you do lets not forget that our time its limited on this eartth

    Plus having a income that makes you some good money allows you to spend a procent of it on paid traffic
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