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Miriam shares her insights from some of the most relevant and exciting presentations at MozCon Virtual 2021 — learnings you can put to work for the local businesses you’re promoting.
If you have great teaching skills and subject matter knowledge, there’s a lot of money to be made in the tutoring industry—whether you’re working it as a side hustle or want to grow it as a full-time gig.
The problem, though, is that it can be hard to know where to start or how to earn your first few clients.
But as they say, when there’s a will there’s a way, and we have a way.
Here’s everything you need to know to start a tutoring business on the right foot.
The Easy Parts of Starting a Tutoring Business
The easiest part of starting a tutoring business is creating your business website. With so many web building options today that are accessible to just about anyone, you don’t have to go the expensive route and hire a web developer to do it for you.
With a platform like Squarespace, you can have a sleek and professional tutoring website up in less than a day.
Squarespace offers plenty of website templates so you don’t have to start from scratch. And if you’d need to accept tutoring payments through your site it easily lets you add an online payment processing option to your pages.
Here’s where you can get started creating a website that showcases your tutoring services. From there, we’ll jump into the more involved parts of creating a … Read More
So you want to start a dog walking business, but you have no idea how to start.
Starting any business—let alone a dog walking business—-can be hard when you’re new to all things business.
But once you arm yourself with knowledge and set a solid foundation, you can start making your dog walking dreams more of a reality.
It starts with drawing out a solid business plan and knowing what your true dog walking goals are before anything else.
Let’s jump right in.
The Easy Parts of Starting a Dog Walking Business
By now, you’re probably aware that if you’re going to start a business, people need to have a way to find you. Especially if your business is service-based—like a dog walking business is—you’ll want to have a professional site that customers can visit and book appointments through.
With Squarespace, you can easily create a clean and professional-looking site with one of its many templates. It also helps that it’s specifically built for small businesses with features for ecommerce and service-based offerings.
Once you sign up, you can start setting up an appointment booking page and start collecting online payments for every dog walking appointment you book.
The Difficult Parts of Starting a Dog Walking Business
You’ve… Read More
If you want to escape the rat race, reduce the financial pressure of being laid off, or fulfill your entrepreneurial dreams, you should start your own business.
A pressure washing business may be particularly appealing to you if you want to provide a service in the local community. Plus the startup costs for this type of business are relatively low.
But unfortunately, around 20% of new businesses fail in the first two years. Thus you need to get your business off to a strong start.
In this guide, we’ll teach you how to plan, prepare, register, market, and grow your pressure washing business. In other words, we’ll help you tick all the necessary boxes and then some.
The Easy Parts of Starting a Pressure Washing Business
A Business that Grows with You
You can start the business with a small budget if you need to. For example, you could even begin as a one-person operation with rented equipment. Then over time, you have the opportunity to expand by hiring laborers, acquiring your own equipment, and so on.
Managing Your Finances
You’re a budding entrepreneur, not an accountant. Thankfully the days where managing your finances means a ton of paperwork and complex calculations are long gone.
There are some fantastic small business accounting tools out there that simplify bookkeeping and help you run your business more efficiently.
QuickBooks, for example, has a ton of features. You can u… Read More
