Just started my Preply journey today by teaching 3 trial classes. I’ve had previous experience teaching ESL online through VIPKID. I love the later class times since classes are for kids AND adults all over the world (and not just China). When I changed my rate from $25 to $3 to see if students would book with me, I was shocked to receive over 86 messages in my first day and a nearly full teaching schedule for the next month. Granted, I will increase my price over time, but I was shocked (in a good way) at the rapid response of students to message and book a trial class with me. There are plenty of students on Preply waiting to find their tutor match!
Hi Jessica, funnily enough my journey started in a very similar fashion. I reduced my rate down to $7 hoping to entice more students and it was the perfect case of 'be careful what you wish for' as I woke up the next day bombarded with messages and booked trial lessons. As you rightly said, there are plenty of students waiting, there will always be a demand for tutors
@@teachercook-e2572 Yes, initially when I saw the commission rate, I set my rates higher to ensure a reasonable hourly take home pay but then I realised if I get my 20 hours of 33% commission first at a low rate then I'm paying less overall as it's a straight percentage and then I can hopefully secure regular students for when it drops down to 28% and so on and I can start to raise my rate. It's an investment in my future on Preply. Immediately in 24 hours, I've gotten so many bookings and messages, so I really hope a I can retain as many as possible going forward too, plus the teaching hours and reviews will act as a sort of reference for new students searching who are comfortable with the newer rates. We'll see how it goes lol
Hi Jessica. I'm a new tutor on preply and this price thing is confusing. Let's say if I drop my price to 3 or 5 dollars. And have a plethora of students. Possibility is there that some may want to continue with me. So how do I take from 3 dollars to 12 dollars which is gonna be my price. And I suppose preply is strictly not allowing tutors to increase price after there is a conversion.
@@user-qq8jm4ir9p Welcome to Preply! I would slowly increase my price with my regulars who have bought subscriptions with me over a period of time. From my perspective, after 10 lessons would be a good foundation to build a professional rapport with your student for them to see your teaching style to decide if they would like to continue with you at an increased rate. I wouldn’t increase my rate significantly at the beginning, but you could always increase your rate for new students once you build up your regular student base. Hope this helps!
I've been on Preply for a while now, and i have a lot of views on my profile. I taught one student. I get a lot of students who consider me as a tutor, but they dont book me. It's quite frustrating . Do you have any suggestions ?
Hi there, my advice would be to message these students that consider booking with you. But don't just copy and paste a generic message for all of them, make it personalised and that helped me. When I could see a student was from Poland, for example, from the timezone in their bio saying 'Warsaw GMT+1', I would comment on this, compliment the country, say how I've been there and always loved it. These personal elements really help set you apart. I imagine these students receive lots of generic messages from other tutors, so why not stand out?
Thank you for sharing this Teacher. I have just started teaching online. Please can you recommend where I can get free teaching resources? Also Free Talk for adults and children
