For tutoring services
You’re teaching. That’s the whole problem.
Parents ring after school and in the evening, which is exactly when every tutor you have is in a session.
- Price
- $50 a month, no contract.
- Your number
- Stays exactly as it is.
- Setup
- Two minutes. We do it.
- Reply time
- Seconds, not this evening.
01 The moment
Why tutoring services miss calls
Not because you are careless with the phone. Because of where your hands are.
Four thirty on a Tuesday. Every tutor is with a student, you are with one yourself, and the phone rings in the next room. It was a parent whose child has just brought home a report card, and that particular motivation lasts about a week.
02 What they get
The text that goes out
Within seconds of the call dropping, in your words, with your name on it.
Your business
It’s [BUSINESS] — I’m in a session and can’t answer. Text me your child’s year level and the subject you’re after, and I’ll come back this evening with times and what’s involved.
The caller, a minute later
Year 10 maths, struggling with algebra, report just came home. Once a week if possible. What do you charge?
That reply is the job written down. You ring back knowing what it is, where it is and whether it is worth stopping for.
03 What changes
What it changes for tutoring services
- 01
Year level and subject decides everything
Whether you can help, which tutor, and what it costs all follow from two facts. Getting them in the first reply means your callback is an offer, not an interview.
- 02
After school is when you’re least reachable
Enquiries peak in exactly the hours your tutors are teaching. That is not a scheduling problem you can solve by trying harder.
- 03
The window is days, not weeks
Report cards and exam results create the urgency, and it fades. A reply within seconds catches a parent while they are still motivated to act.
04 Questions
What tutoring services ask
The questions that come up on the phone, answered the way we'd answer them there.
I’m a solo tutor. Is this overkill?
Possibly. If you are turning work away it will not help you. If you are teaching four hours an evening and finding missed calls afterwards, it is catching enquiries that currently evaporate — and the free audit will tell you which of those is true.
Can it quote my rates?
You can put your rate in the message if you want to, and many tutors do because it is the second question every time. It saves the callbacks from people the price was never going to suit.
What about exam season?
That is when this matters most. Enquiries spike in the weeks before exams and every tutor is booked solid, which is exactly when nobody can pick up.
Do parents prefer texting?
Generally yes. They are usually ringing between dinner and homework and would rather type a message than hold a conversation about their child within earshot of them.
See what you’re missing before you pay anything.
The audit counts the calls to your business that went unanswered last month, from your own records. It costs nothing and nothing changes on your line.
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