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12May
Techniques for Naming Your Tutoring Business

Business name parts
Small businesses or new businesses often have two parts to their business names. The first part can be described as the unique part and the second part is the descriptive portion. Some people try to use only a unique name for their business without a descriptive part. This is generally a bad idea for small businesses because without the descriptive portion people won’t know what services your business offers. Over time as your brand becomes well-known in your market you should be able to drop the descriptive portion of your name and people will still know what business you’re in.
The unique portion of a business name takes many forms. The following list contains several variations of the unique portion that are often used for tutoring business names.
Aspirational
Tutoring businesses often use words related to success, reaching goals, and succeeding since these are some of the reasons people hire tutors. Words like “Elite”, “Ivy”, “A+”, and so on are examples of aspirational words. Check the thesaurus for more ideas for your business. Words like these are great for a tutoring business name because people will begin to associate your business with success.
Geography – Tutoring companies often operate in specific geographic markets so including the name of your market in your company’s name is a good strategy. For example, you might name your company “Grand Rapids Tutoring” if your company is based in Grand Rapids. A name that includes your location is an effective way to communicate to people in your area that you offer tutoring for their area.
Unique Value
Many businesses have a unique value proposition – something that distinguishes them from their competitors. If your business offers some kind of unique value to customers you might want to include this in your business name. Examples include words like “Traveling”, “One-on-One”, or “Total Math”. Unique value propositions can be related to your method of teaching, grade level, subject you specialize in, etc.
Subject Specific
If your tutoring company specializes in a single subject you might want to create a unique name related to the subject in which you specialize. Unique names can include words in a foreign language you teach, terminology such as “Pi”, or names of influential figures in your subject such as “da Vinci”, “Pascal” or “Einstein”.
Personal Name
Using your own last name in the name of your tutoring business is another useful technique for naming your business. Many successful companies have used this naming technique (i.e. Kumon, Huntington Learning Centers in the United States, Kip McGrath in Australia. This technique can become even more effective if you are already well-known for your work in the education field.
The second part of your business name should be the descriptive portion. Including words such as tutoring, tutors, education, academy, learning, learning center, etc. The descriptive portion of your business name is what tells people what your company does. This is very important when your business is starting out since you want to begin establishing a link between the unique part of your business name and the descriptive portion in people’s minds.
Conclusion
The naming techniques above should help you generate several ideas. By creating different combinations of the unique and descriptive portions you can create even more name variations. Create a list of your top ideas and ask your friends or coworkers which ones they like the best and you’ll have a name that will help your business grow and establish a strong brand.…
17Apr
Physics – A Subject Can Be Described by Logic or Magic

It is very easy to know and understand that every action (which has its own set of equal and opposite reaction) executed by man force or nature, in this world or beyond, is being carried out due to the presence of the power of science. It is when we grow up that we realize how our Utopian fairy tale world (which as children we knew was held by a herculean force) actually stands, rotates and revolves due to Physics. It seems very nice to think about Einstein sitting in the shade of a tree and discovering gravity or Watt looking at a pan in his kitchen and gifting the world what we call a steam engine. But all these miraculous inventions and discoveries start to seem impossible to decipher when they enter our Physics books and the spirits of those great men haunt us in sleep.
We often necessitate the need for extra guidance in the subject in concern beyond the reach of classroom studies and that is exactly the time when we can opt for experienced tutors according to our respective individual needs. The general theories of Physics include Electromagnetism (including Magnetism, Electricity etc.), Thermodynamics (including heat engine, Kinetic theory etc.), Theory of Relativity (including special and general relativity), Statistical mechanics, Classical mechanics (including Newton’s law of motion, Kinematics, Statics, Dynamics etc.) and Quantum mechanics (Schrodinger equation, Scattering theory etc.). Astrophysics, Chemical Physics, Atomic Physics, Biophysics, Classical Physics, Geophysics, Nuclear Physics, Molecular Physics and Condensed Matter Physics are the basic classifications that form the subject from the roots. A few other sub fields are Optics, Thermodynamics, Quantum and Particle.
Some fundamental ‘general concepts’ among the most sought after topics for tutoring Physics are Physical observation, quantity, experiment, theory, unit, state and system and the force of Gravity and some ‘theoretical concepts’ are Particle, Physical field, Wave, Physical constant, Physical law, Physical interaction and Mass energy equivalence. More and more proficient people are taking up tutoring as the source of income beside their mainstream profession. Professional teachers and professors also give out tuitions at home or tutorials. To get a grip of Physics, one of the most profound primitive institutions of academics, you can opt for tutors from the best teachers you know, or even get through with suitable tutors online.…
20Mar
Pricing Strategies for Private Tutors

Pricing plays an important role in the success of any tutoring business. However, there is a lot of confusion about the best way to price your tutoring services and how to go about finding the right price. This article looks at pricing strategies for independent tutors and tutoring companies and how to research prices in your market.
Setting your Pricing Level
The first step in determining how much you should charge for your tutoring services is to determine what other tutoring services in your area are charging. You’ll want to focus on tutoring companies that offer similar services to your own tutoring business since there can be a large variation in tutoring prices for different types of tutoring.
The next step is to do some research just like someone searching for tutoring would. Search for tutoring services in your area online, check the phone book, ask guidance counselors about other tutoring companies. When you have a list of similar tutoring companies in your area you can find out about prices by calling them up and asking or checking their website for prices. You can also check online tutoring directories to find out what independent tutors are charging for the subjects your company offers.
If your company is new and you or your tutors have average experience and credentials then you should try to price your services a bit above the average price.
If your company has been operating for a while, you have satisfied customers, and you or your tutors have teaching experience and credentials then you should price closer to the upper range of comparable tutoring services.
Many new tutoring companies think they need to start with low prices in order to attract clients, but this is a risky strategy and can actually hurt your business more than help it. The reason for this is that if your prices are very low, you will be generating very little profit to reinvest into promoting your business. If you are paying tutors to work for you, you will also have a difficult time attracting and keeping high quality tutors which are extremely important for building your reputation and creating satisfied customers who will refer you to other clients.
Early on it might make sense to focus on an under-served segment of the tutoring market in your area. This will allow you to charge higher rates, and generate higher profits which will help you afford more marketing and better tutors. These in turn will help you establish a base from which to expand into more competitive segments of the tutoring market.
Tutoring Price List
Providing different pricing options can also help your business meet the needs of more clients. There are several pricing or billing methods you can use.
Pay per Session
This pricing option has clients pay before or after each tutoring session. This is a good method if your business does not have much of an operating history. It also puts new clients at ease if they are new to your business and are wary of paying for a longer period of time in advance.
Pay per period
Paying per period may have clients pay for a week or month in advance based on the number of sessions they will have during that period. This method is good for tutoring businesses because you receive the money up front and don’t have to worry about students forgetting to pay for each session. It’s more convenient for clients because they can pay for a week or month and don’t have to worry about writing a check for every single session. Some tutoring companies may bill at the end of each week or month, but for new companies it’s best to require payment in advance since this will allow you to receive payment for tutoring sessions before you need to pay your tutors.
Prepaid Packages
Some tutoring companies sell prepaid bundles of tutoring services. Such as 10 hours of math tutoring or 12 hours of English tutoring. These hours can then be scheduled over the following months as the student schedules them. This method allows you to offer volume pricing which can encourage potential clients to commit to more tutoring sessions.
Adapting your Prices
The tutoring market is constantly changing so it’s important that you’re flexible with your tutoring company’s pricing. If your pricing structure is not helping you meet your business goals you simply need to try tweaking your prices or possibly your services. People are concerned with value so if you offer more value in your tutoring services you may not need to lower your prices or if you offer more value than you did a year ago then it might be a good idea to raise your prices.…
13Mar
Why Professionals Trade Options and Why Retail Investors Should Too

It is time for you to dismiss the “options are too risky” sentiment and truly see why quite a few investors actually trade them. Contrary to everyday opinion, options can be employed in less risky ways when used appropriately. In fact, that’s the reason why they were developed – to help reduce risk in investment portfolios.
Stock options can be adjusted to work in any situation. Options can be used anytime and anywhere. With options, you can invest in the short-term or hold to invest for the long-term. Therefore, it really does not matter if you need the capital for your child’s college tuition or for retirement.
Although, the concept of options are very similar to stocks — in that you can make money when the markets go up and lose money when the markets go down — trading options give you more opportunities to profit. That means you can make money if the stock goes down, up, or absolutely no where. With that said, investors can use the unique abilities of options to be a complimentary portion of their portfolio or the main portfolio appreciation investment vehicle.
The benefits of options:
A. Reduces Risk – By using options, you can effectively reduce your portfolio risk. Using options are one of the only ways that a retail investor can protect themselves from markets that move against them. Strategies like the Broken Wing Butterfly and Unbalanced Condor limit trading risk while giving investors a high probability of profit.
B. Leverage – You can control 100 shares of XYZ company for a minimal amount of capital as opposed to purchasing the shares outright. In the end, you benefit from adjustments in the stock prices without actually purchasing the stock.
C. Cash Flow Generation – You could create a consistent cash flow through existing owned underlying. That means, you can sell covered calls against your portfolio if you feel that the underlying will depreciate or remain stagnant.
D. Insurance – As mentioned previously, options can protect you from markets that move against you. By purchasing a “put option” for every 100 shares of the underlying stock that you own, you can effectively protect your holdings from downward moves.
E. Easy to Get Started – With an internet-enabled computer, anyone can trade options. Commission prices are much cheaper than they were 10 years ago. Most brokers even give you all the tools you need to succeed in options for FREE.
F. No More One Way Trading – That means you can trade anyway that you want. You can play the downside if you choose to. You can also play stagnant markets or place delta-neutral trades.
That is why options are not the risky speculative investments many people perceive them to be. They can be risky if you simply do not have an idea on what you are doing. However, that’s like most things in the world. Once you get past the financial lexicon through education and learning, you can use options in a much safer manner. At that point, you will have the assurance that your portfolio can be safer in any market environment moving forward.…
4Dec
Advantages of Online Tutoring

Online tutoring is that method of learning which is done by a computer with internet connection. It has gained tremendous success in last few years for both students and tutors. It is a win-win for both students and the teacher. The main reason behind this wonderful success is that online tutoring is free from time, distance and transportation. Moreover one-on-one tutoring enables both tutor and student to ask for clarification and discuss problems in details. Online education or tutoring is a much focused way of tutoring because the tutor has to give time to only single student at a time. One-to-one tutoring provides students an extra advantage for asking questions with hesitating.
The main advantages of online education and tutoring are following:
1. The primary advantage that students get with studying online is that it allows the flexibility to schedule your learning and that with the comfort of your own hose. What you require for all this is to have only computer with an internet connection. Also student have their own wisdom to select the time and date for tutoring sessions.
2. It is a lifeline for handicapped students who can not travel to have tutoring easily.
3. With the facility of online tutoring student can very easily learn foreign languages with help from appropriate online tutors.
4. Students do not need to go far distances to have tutoring.
5. This tutoring can be taken in vacations also to keep yourself in touch with your subjects.
6. Online tutor companies offer 24/7 support for students which lets students to decide their own time for tutoring.
7. Online tutors are experts of their subjects and can play instrumental role in enhancing the abilities of a student.
So, clearly online tutoring and online education is going to be a preferred way of learning.…
29Nov
Using Rebuttals in Argumentative Essays

In college writing, most essays argue for a position. They are persuasive essays in that the goal is to get the reader to believe a statement is true by providing support. This is what distinguishes high school writing from college writing. I have mentioned in other essays that sometimes one already knows what they want to argue for before they begin writing their essay. However, sometimes college students find or think of support for a position and argue for it, even if it is not the position they would prefer to take! No matter which of these situations describes you, you should provide a counterargument and a rebuttal in your essay. A counterargument is a good argument which weakens or calls into question the thesis of your essay. Acknowledging such an objection and responding to it will make your essay more interesting to read and also provide better, well substantiated support for your thesis.
A brief structural outline of an argumentative essay may look like this:
1. Thesis statement
2. Support for thesis
3. A reasonable objection detractors may take (this is the counterargument).
4. A response to this objection that addresses it and shows it to be weak, misguided or incorrect.
Here is a simple example:
Cemeteries near urban expanses ought to be used as both public parks and a place to memorialize the dead. They offer a huge expanse of space in which persons could recreate, meditate and reduce stress by getting away to a quieter place. Most urban environments are short on open space and cemeteries provide it. It may be objected that it is sacrilegious to suggest that places set aside for the purpose of remembering and honoring the dead be used by the public for recreation. This may be the current mindset of society, but that alone does not make it correct. Many societies used to hold that animals were mere automatons and that they did not deserve any rights. Now, a different view is held and animals are better understood and respected. So too it is with cemetery use. It is time to get used to the idea that the living and the dead both deserve to use the open spaces we have.
In this argument the thesis is that cemeteries should be used as public recreational facilities. The support for this is that most urban environments do not have the luxury of space to have both public parks and cemeteries and the living need space for the maintenance of mental and physical health. The counterargument is that it is blasphemous to suggest that sacred ground be used for multiple purposes; that it goes against the values that we hold as a society. The rebuttal given is that society used to believe X but gradually came to believe Y. Therefore, while we may now see the idea of cemeteries used as parks as immoral, it is merely a societal belief that could and should change, just like our attitude towards animals has changed.
Clearly, a short example like this will not suffice for a college level paper. But the idea is to get the basic idea in your mind, and then you can flesh it out into 5 or 8 pages as needed. If you need to write a longer piece, you can fill in more at each of the four basic elements of the simple outline above. If needed, you can add a second or tertiary counterargument and provide a rebuttal to all of them. This will make your argument even stronger, provided you have thought correctly about both the rebuttal and the response.
Thinking of an appropriate response to an objection brought against your position can be difficult. When I work with students, I usually suggest that they first try and think about what they might say in response. Depending on the position and the background knowledge a student has, this may or may not render a rebuttal. Second, I tell students to do a little internet research and see if they cannot find information that may help them (just be sure to credit outside sources in your essay). Finally, talking about a paper with peers can often lead to ideas to be utilized in an essay. While preparing rebuttals to counterarguments are time-consuming and difficult, the result is an essay which sets itself ahead of most.…
27Oct
Adult education being an effective form of learning

There is no ending to learning and is a life long process. We can learn new skills and gain new knowledge at any stage of life. Adult education is a process of study in which the adults engage in self-learning in order to upgrade their skills and gain more knowledge. They can be generally offered by community colleges, universities and secondary schools.

Scope and benefits of adult education 

Many subjects can be learned in Adult education. It can relate to English, Mathematics, Business, Economics, Construction Management, Economics, sociology, Biology, communications, religion, geography, and many more. There is now a range of colleges to choose from and choosing the best institution can be hard. One can research online to find the best institutions to get the proper education that they need.

Different types of adult education

The very first type can be a vocational study. This type of education can be helpful in getting a new job. It may also help him to keep up to date with new developments. The other kind of adult education can be an education for welfare and health-related subjects. The subject matter of this type of education can be hygiene, child care, and others. Other types of education can be civic, community and political education. These types of education are related to politics, the government, voting system, public engagement. The other type of adult education can be an education for self-knowledge. This type of education is not to gain any professional advancement but just for the pure joy of learning. Examples can be an education in music, literature, history and many more.

How E-learning can be a part of adult learning

One of the fundamental distinction between young and adult learners is that most adults want to learn for the sake of learning and not to get graduated. Most adults start learning again keeping a motive in mind. It can be gaining a new skill or to get a promotion in the workplace. It is not necessary to learn in a classroom. For a properly motivated student e-learning can be a good option. With the internet being available everywhere it is easier to sit at home and learn new things. It is easier now to learn online with all the new technologies and tools available for online courses. There are many online tests available to get certified and also for preparation of those exams which are necessary for career growth. For example, A+ is an examination for computer science which deals with hardware. After taking any A+ Practice Test, one can be more ready to give A+ certification examination.

The benefits of adult education

There are many benefits of adult education. It can increase the self-confidence of a person. Adult education can inspire people to learn new skills and not become age a barrier to learning. It also allows people to be more connected socially. It also encourages the development of new skills that are necessary for business growth.

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