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How to Build a Tutoring Blog Your Audience Loves

By Shannon Sweetser On March 3, 2011 · 2 Comments · In Content, Education: General, Teaching & Tutoring
No matter what industry your business belongs to, blogging is a very valuable use of your time. Blogging has the potential to engage your audience, attract prospects, and share thoughts and ideas which can thus be spread in the social media world. Tutors considering starting a blog or tutoring companies who are already blogging may [...]
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How Tutors Can Get More Leads from Existing Blog Content

By Shannon Sweetser On March 1, 2011 · 3 Comments · In Content, Education: General, Resource, Teaching & Tutoring
If you’ve been blogging consistently for a few months or years now, you may be wondering how to get more mileage out of existing blog content. After all, not every prospect is going to see every tweet you send, every Facebook post you make and subscribe to your blog to get consistent updates. While some [...]
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Facebook Fever Makes Educators Sweat: 5 Education Articles to End Your Week

By Shannon Sweetser On February 25, 2011 · 1 Comment · In Content, Education Techology, Education: General, Education: Industry, Education: Technology, In The News, Teaching
Perhaps its Oscar fever for the Social Network, but this week I’ve got Facebook on the brain and it’s my intention to share it with you. If you’re just tuning in, within a week I’ve created two blog post with the intention of helping tutors get the most out of Facebook. If you want to [...]
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5 Common Mistakes Tutoring Companies Make on Facebook and How to Fix Them

By Shannon Sweetser On February 24, 2011 · 3 Comments · In Education Techology, Education: General, Education: Industry, Education: Technology, Resource, Socrato, Teaching & Tutoring
Is your company’s Facebook page getting the traffic you desire or the attention you believe it deserves? Before you ask yourself “What went wrong?” read the following blog post. It’s a Facebook guide for tutors and it may just help you turn your Facebook page from a lifeless desert into a hub that your fans love [...]
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Why the Independent Educational Consultant is the Hottest Job in Education Today

By Shannon Sweetser On February 23, 2011 · 4 Comments · In Assessments, Education: General, Education: Industry, Exam: ACT, Exam: SAT, Teaching, Teaching & Tutoring, Test Preparation, Testing
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Independent Educational Consultant: if it feels like you”re hearing about this position more and more in the news, blogs and out-and-about at education industry conventions, you”re right, you have. Don”t be surprised either if you continue to hear even more about it. Last year was a big year for the profession, as that it saw [...]
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Tutors Taking Over: 5 Education Articles to End Your Week

By Shannon Sweetser On February 18, 2011 · 3 Comments · In Assessments, Education Techology, Education: General, Education: Industry, Education: Technology, Exam: ACT, Exam: SAT, In The News, Teaching, Teaching & Tutoring, Testing
The tutoring industry continues to be a very necessary supplement to the educational world. Let’s take a look at how tutors are shaping the educational world and reaching out online to make tutoring more convenient than ever before. 1.   SATs, Tutors, & You by Eve Kelly, San Diego Reader In this week’s San Diego Reader, [...]
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3 Reasons Tutors Need a Facebook Page Today

By Shannon Sweetser On February 17, 2011 · 2 Comments · In Content, Education Techology, Education: General, Education: Industry, General, Teaching & Tutoring
With 596 million users and counting, Facebook is becoming much more than a social network – it’s become part of the very fabric of modern communication as we know it. Facebook facilitates the sharing of ideas between people, businesses, brands and the rest of the world. Twenty years ago, when there was no Facebook, many [...]
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Should You Combine Your Student’s ACT or SAT Test Results into a Superscore?

By Raju Gupta On February 15, 2011 · 3 Comments · In Assessments, Common Core, Exam: ACT, Exam: SAT, Socrato, Teaching & Tutoring, Test Preparation, Testing, Tutoring
In horse racing, breeders struggle to match and breed horses with the best possibility of successful offspring. By looking at a mare and stallion’s family history, a breeder can determine the likelihood of that pair creating a “Superhorse” capable of wining major horse races. It’s not easy work predicting the future; breeders often breed several [...]
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Minority Rules — 5 Education Articles to End Your Week

By Shannon Sweetser On February 11, 2011 · 2 Comments · In Education Techology, Education: General, Education: Industry, Education: Technology, In The News, Test Preparation, Testing
This week’s “5 Education Articles to End Your Week” we touch on minority performance in AP testing, Asian American college admission challenges, and we also take a look at what we’ve learned from the Teach for America organization now that the 20th Anniversary of Teach for America is here. 1.     College Board AP [...]
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Here’s a Tutoring Company with a Formula For Helping Students Choose the ACT or SAT

By Shannon Sweetser On February 10, 2011 · 3 Comments · In Assessments, Common Core, Exam: ACT, Exam: SAT, Resource, Test Preparation, Testing
While there are some tutoring companies who have a very basic formula for bumping up a student’s SAT score, there are some tutoring companies who go above and beyond. In the case of PrepMatters, a tutoring company which specializes in helping students achieve excellence through standardized testing preparation, test preparation starts with the student. Though [...]
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