Home Tutoring Business

Home Tutoring Business Success Stories [2024]

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Updated: October 7th, 2024

A home tutoring company is an educational company that offers private tutoring from a tutor who visits the students at the student’s home.

Home tutoring is a growing business opportunity for motivated people and comes with the flexibility of working anytime, anywhere, and creates a passive income.

If you love teaching and helping others, one way to make money is to start a home tutoring business. Whether you want to tutor kids or adults, there’s a niche for you.

Once you have started your home tutoring business, promote it by putting fliers at other stores and on bulletin boards at colleges and libraries. Also, engage parents and guardians for home tutoring opportunities.

In this list, you'll find real-world home tutoring business success stories and very profitable examples of starting a home tutoring business that makes money.

1. Third Space Learning ($9.96M/year)

Tom Hooper, the founder of Third Space Learning, came up with the idea for his business after selling his previous online tutoring company, BrightSpark, to TES Global. He recognized the importance of market focus and decided to launch Third Space as a second venture, with a specific focus on making one-to-one tuition accessible to primary school students, particularly those from disadvantaged backgrounds. This market-oriented approach, combined with valuable feedback from teachers, allowed Third Space to gain traction and establish itself as the largest online tutoring company in the UK schools market.

How much money it makes: $9.96M/year
How much did it cost to start: $100K
How many people on the team: 80

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Third Space Learning has become the largest online tutoring company in the UK schools market with around 75% of English primary schools and over 100,000 teachers signed up, generating around £8m in revenue this year and delivering nearly 800,000 hours of teaching to just under 70,000 pupils since 2015, with plans to expand globally in the future.

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2. TutorCruncher ($1.2M/year)

Samuel Colvin, the Co-founder of TutorCruncher, came up with the idea while working at a tutoring agency and realizing the need for a software solution to streamline administrative tasks. Through hard work and collaboration with tutoring agencies, the TutorCruncher system was developed and launched in 2013. Today, it is the leading tutor management software in the UK, trusted by over one million users worldwide.

How much money it makes: $1.2M/year
How much did it cost to start: $500
How many people on the team: 0

We Built A $1.2M/Year App For Tutors

TutorCruncher Co-founder Samuel Colvin details the success story of his tutor management software company, which has grown to become the leading software in the UK with over one million users worldwide and is set to expand its market through the launch of a new Tutor App.

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