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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Introduction | |
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| So You Want to Start a Home-Based Turtoring Business | |
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| Classroom Teaching vs. Home-Based Tutoring | |
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| If You've Never Taught Before | |
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| Reflecting on Your Potential for Home-Based Tutoring Success | |
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| The Realities of Self-Employment | |
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| Enlisting Household Support | |
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| Envisioning the Business | |
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| What You Need to Get Started | |
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| Defining Your Work Style | |
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| Ways to Meet Your Clients' Needs | |
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| What You Need in Your Workspace | |
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| Setting Up Your Home Office | |
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| Setting Up Your Tutoring Workspace | |
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| Merging Workspace and Personal Space | |
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| Achieving Work-Life Balance | |
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| Creating a Mobile Workspace | |
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| A Final Word on Workspaces | |
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| Writing Business Plan | |
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| Why Create a Business Plan? | |
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| Elements of the Business Plan | |
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| How Will You Define Business Success? | |
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| Getting Started | |
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| Setting Up Your Small Business | |
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| Steps to Starting Your Business | |
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| Consulting Professionals | |
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| Printed Materials | |
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| Building a Business Web Site | |
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| Ready to Tutor! | |
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| Home-Based Tutoring in Practice | |
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| The Successful Initial Parent Phone Call | |
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| The Initial Parent-Student-Tutor Meeting | |
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| Supplementary Materials for the Initial Meeting | |
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| Setting Up a Scheduling System | |
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| Establishing a Rapport with Your Students | |
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| Session Notes | |
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| Real-Life Example: A Typical Tutoring Session | |
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| Ongoing Client Updates | |
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| Keeping Clients Happy | |
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| Financial Planning and Management | |
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| Factors to Consider When Setting Your Hourly Rate | |
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| Designing and Enforcing Your Cancellation Policy | |
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| Weathering Seasonal Ebbs and Flows | |
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| Invoicing | |
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| Budgets | |
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| RecordKeeping and Taxes | |
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| Recordkeeping | |
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| Taxes | |
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| Ethical Issues | |
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| Confidentiality Issues | |
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| Maintaining Neutrality on Sensitive Subjects | |
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| Ethical Communications with the Classroom Teacher | |
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| Business Ethics | |
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| To Sum Up | |
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| Marketing Your Tutoring Services | |
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| Marketing Research | |
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| Marketing Factors | |
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| Creating a Market for "Off-Season" Tutoring | |
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| The Internet and Home-based Tutoring | |
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| Building a Business Web Site | |
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| Web Design Tips | |
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| Search-Engine Optimization | |
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| Offering Online Support Between Sessions | |
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| Expanding Your Business into Online Tutoring | |
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| Business Endgame | |
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| Visualizing the Evolution | |
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| Ways to Grow Your Business | |
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| The Benefits of Staying Small | |
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| Training and Certification | |
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| Staying Connected to Educational Trends and Tools | |
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| Ways to Grow Professionally | |
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| Above All, Keep It Practical | |
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| Appendix | |
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| Recommended Reading List | |
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| Recommended Web Sites | |
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| Recommended Software and Sources | |
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| Frequently Asked Questions | |
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| Index | |
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| About the Author | |