#2321 - Q&A: “I’m a language tutor… and I need more students!”
Side Hustle School
Chris Guillebeau
4.7 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 10 May 2023
⏱️ 6 minutes
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Summary
A language tutor in Boston wants to focus more on her sessions and less on bringing in new students. How can she become fully booked?
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Side Hustle School features a new episode EVERY DAY, featuring detailed case studies of people who earn extra money without quitting their job. This year, the show includes free guided lessons and listener Q&A several days each week.
Show notes: SideHustleSchool.com
Email: team@sidehustleschool.com
Be on the show: SideHustleSchool.com/questions
Connect on Instagram: @193countries
Visit Chris's main site: ChrisGuillebeau.com
Read A Year of Mental Health: yearofmentalhealth.com
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| 0:31.0 | Welcome back, side hustle school listeners. |
| 0:35.0 | So glad you're out there. |
| 0:36.0 | Today's episode promises to be a linguistic adventure. |
| 0:39.0 | A linguistic adventure, that is what I said, as we help a fellow side hustler expand her language tutoring business. |
| 0:46.0 | Now I know we've got all kinds of people out there with all sorts of unique skills, including a lot of folks who have turned their skills and passions into profitable side hustles. |
| 0:54.0 | Listen, I am your champion. I am cheering you on. |
| 0:58.0 | You have done all the work just to be clear, but I think it's so awesome when I hear from just ordinary people who don't necessarily plan on being full-time entrepreneurs, but want to take more control of their financial situation, their career situation. |
| 1:12.0 | Maybe you've got a day job and you don't always want to have that day job, or at least you don't want to always be dependent on it. |
| 1:19.0 | So it's always a thrill to explore new ways to grow and scale a venture or start your venture for the first time. |
| 1:24.0 | I salute you wherever you are in the world, whatever you're up to. |
| 1:27.0 | And today in the world we're going to go to Boston, at least on the podcast, at least our caller today is from Boston. |
| 1:34.0 | Her name is Penelope. She has been tutoring for a couple of years in her language learning side hustle. |
| 1:40.0 | But as kind of like our listener yesterday, totally different project, they were doing pottery sales, if I recall correctly. |
| 1:47.0 | But today Penelope is also hit a bit of a plateau in terms of growing her student base. |
| 1:51.0 | So social media has not yielded the desired results, which to me is not shocking. |
| 1:56.0 | I always think social media is kind of overrated for a lot of these local businesses. |
| 2:00.0 | I mean sometimes it can be great, but lots of times people put in a lot of work and don't see a ton of return. |
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