Tutorz.com Newsletter November

Tutorz.com Newsletter November Pay-per-Job Tutorz.com is transitioning from a subscription based service to a pay-per-job system.   Setting up tutoring profiles, marketing your services and receiving messages from parents and students remains free.  However, before you can communicate with your potential client you need to purchase the tutoring job.  Purchasing a tutoring job also makes you become the owner of students contact information (email, phone number, website, twitter id if any).    The prices for each tutoring job will be low ranging from $0.00 (free) to $5.00.  Thus, Tutorz.com system is transparent, fair and of great value. The price of an individual tutoring job depends on the quality of the tutoring lead. We compute a jobs quality from measures such as the tutoring subject, the specificity of content, geographic region, meta data, and the students past history. Purchasing a tutoring job is simple and typically requires just one click. Such a click results in the jobs purchase amount to be withdrawn from your Tutorz credit balance. Credit can be bought with your credit card or PayPal account. There are 3 credit packages available: Green Apple, Red Apple and Gold Apple. Purchasing a premium credit package (Red and Gold Apple) earns you extra money: $5 and $25 respectively. All existing tutors and for a limited time all new tutor sign ups receive a complimentary $20 in free credit. For more information on our new pay-per-job system check out: www.tutorz.com/how-it-works www.tutorz.com/pricing SmartMoney features Tutorz.com In its October 12 issue, the SmartMoney magazine (a Wall Street Journal magazine) features Tutorz.com in its article “Behind America’s Tutor Boom â€" How a cottage industry became a $100-an-hour juggernaut.” by Missy Sullivan. We at Tutorz.com are thrilled to be recognized by SmartMoney as one of the tutoring companies that shape the American education industry.  Specifically, Sullivan says about Tutorz.com: “…leading site…Tutorz.com, a California start-up, offer(s) an eBay-like marketplace where tens of thousands of tutors are treated as independent contractors;” Read the full article here: SmartMoney features Tutorz.com Tutor of the Month: Michael Powers Michael is a communication specialist who tutors Math, English, Reading, Writing, computer programming among many other subjects. He holds a BA degree from the University of Davis and currently lives in Northridge, CA.  You may visit his profile here. Web Statistics of October After a 3 month dry spell Tutorz web statistics has picked up noteworthy.  There were 83 unique, non-spam tutoring jobs (up from 60 in September). 1,860 visitors came to Tutorz. (1,770 in September). The visitor-to-lead conversion ratio remained at 3.4%. However, the most positive event this month which more than doubled from 20 in September to 45 in October. Alexa improved Tutorz’ global rank to 1.26 million  (1.58 million in September). Also, the bounce rate has improved to 43.6% (from 44% in October). The graph below visualizes the most important statistics (tutoring jobs, sign-ups, visitors). Sincerely, The Tutorz.com Team