The Tutor Podcast

Welcome to another episode of The Tutor Podcast. In today’s episode, your host Neil Cowmeadow explains why staying playful, having fun and enjoying your job, may be the most important factor to achieving success in your tutoring business. If tutoring sessions are fun for you, you’ll never work a day again in your life, you’ll have fun and have a steady stream of income as a by-product. The more fu...

Welcome to another episode of The Tutor Podcast. In today’s episode, your host Neil Cowmeadow shares his top time management tips. Learn how to make better use of your time and make your business more consistent, more successful and overall, more profitable. Time does not exist in any substantial sense and therefore we can exert no influence over Time. 
Time is a useful illusion invented to allow...

Welcome to another episode of The Tutor Podcast. In today’s episode, your host Neil Cowmeadow discusses Talent, is it a myth or is it a method. Consider how harnessing the idea of talent can help you to grow your tutoring business and increase your student base. It doesn’t matter if you believe in talent or not, you can use it to your advantage. If the natural talent is there, acknowledge it and a...

In Today’s episode of The Tutor Podcast, Neil wraps up the Killer Copywriting mini-series with Part 3 ‘Developing Your Own Voice’ discover how to create your own personal style, write compelling copy and super-charge your tutoring business by communicating with your customers more effectively and more efficiently.  Learn the correct techniques to construct your own killer copy and share your story...

TITLE #026 The Tutor Podcast Killer Copywriting Part 2   DESCRIPTION Welcome to part 2 of The Tutor Podcasts Killer Copywriting three-part mini-series. In today’s episode Neil dives deeper into this valuable skills and shares with you some essential technical tips to writing killer copy. If you’re looking to write more compelling copy, construct a powerful message or simply communicate with your c...

In today’s episode, Neil begins the first of a three-part mini-series about copywriting for your business. Discover how to write and create killer copy, that can help market your business and bring in new customers. Neil shares with you his Top 10 Tips For Killer Copy and why you should implement these right away! Learn how to start, grow and love your Tutor Business. KEY TAKEAWAYS Firstly underst...

Your host Neil Cowmeadow explores the subject of tax in your business. Understand how to keep control of your money and out of the hands of the tax man and corrupt governments. Discover the rules of the game what you need to do in order to minimise your tax and maximise your earnings. If you can name it, there is probably a tax or a duty tax put on it so it is essential that you lean the legal way...

Welcome to another episode of The Tutor Podcast, In today’s episode, Neil urges you to invest in your education and never stop learning. Understand the value in continuous personal development and how you too, can innovate by developing a unique blend of skills and abilities. Discover the secrets to ongoing personal education and how to leverage your time in order to constantly educate ourselves,...

Welcome to another episode of The Tutor Podcast, Learn how to start, grow and love your Tutor Business! In today’s episode, Neil dives into testimonials why they are important, how to get them and how to use them. Neil explains why testimonials are killer marketing, add credibility to your business and most of all inspire you to keep faith in your passion, and best of all they’re free. Neil shares...

Welcome to another episode of The Tutor Podcast, today your host Neil Cowmeadow discusses the value of time, how to use it and how to sell it. Learn how to do what counts with your time and see your hourly rate soar with multiple streams of income. Teachers end up continually trading time for money, a transaction that repeats over and over again. Discover how to add residual income into your life,...

If you doubt yourself or you’ve taken the wrong turn, then there’s a lot of nuggets of wisdom you’ll get when you tune in to this episode of The Tutor Podcast. Today, Neil sits with Chris Plumley, a partner-lawyer at Trowers & Hamlins, to talk about humble beginnings, social mobility, diversity inclusion, importance of coaching & mentoring among other stuff. He also talks about his experience work...

Welcome to another episode of The Tutor Podcast, in this edition your host Neil Cowmeadow rounds off the final 5 Commandments to keep you happy, motivated and on track to success. Learn how to start, grow and love your Tutor Business! Neils explains how to fill your life with joy, happiness, optimism and pride, and reminds you to celebrate the small achievements along your journey in order to savo...

Welcome to another episode of The Tutor Podcast, in this edition your host Neil Cowmeadow dives into the next 5 Commandments to keep you happy, motivated and on track to success. Learn how to start, grow and love your Tutor Business! Discover why caring intensely about yourself and those around you, will lead to you being more fulfilled in both business and your personal life. By caring you will b...

In this episode of The Tutor Podcast, Neil discusses the 15 Commandments to keep you happy, motivated and on track to success. Neil dives into the first 5 commandments and explains that in order to be successful you must know who you are, and who you want to become. Understand that it is important to stay true to yourself and your values in order to know where you want to go in life. Neil touches...

Discover Your Value System Here! What are values and what can they do for me? You might be like me, and think “Values? That’s a bunch of airy-fairy new-age crap”, but stay with me on this – Values work, big time. I’ve used them and I’ve gone from sceptic to fan because I’ve seen how Values work and how transformative it can be to put them to work in business and life. If you want to Start, Grow an...

How do you know what your Why really is? The answer lies in your own personal values, the beliefs that underpin every aspect of your personal life. If your Why is big enough and your reasons are valid enough then they will act as rocket fuel to propel you forward in your business! KEY TAKEAWAYS Your Big Fat Why is the reason you do what you do. Knowing your own personal why can make or break your...

DBS: Disclosure & Barring Services. What are they and how can they make you money? Discover how easy it is to get yourself checked and instantly prove yourself as a credible, serious and concerned market leader! KEY TAKEAWAYS DBS Used to be CRB checks - a government body replacing the Criminal Records Bureau & Independent Safeguarding Authority. Better & safer recruitment decisions. DBS check poli...

How to find your own sweet spot price? More specifically, how to find the right price strategies for your teaching business, how the delivery of your material impacts the pricing and also, the aspect of discounting.

Did you know that you can make more money and more of a difference to your clients by building routines to make your business run smoother?! But what really are routines and how can they benefit you? Neil outlines and defines the different types of routines including back office, administrative, planning, strategic & personal development. Learn how you can use them as an automatic yardstick to mea...

It is about business structures and types that are available to tutors/teachers, laying out the reasons why it matters, the implications, which will thus help you to decide what's the best befitting one, and that could work for you.

What do you want your tutoring business to achieve and how will you succeed in achieving it? In this episode Neil discusses and reveals tips on the importance and value of identifying, finding, reaching and retaining your dream customers. So put on the kettle, grow your tribe, make your life easier and your wallet fatter!

Neil explains the forthcoming general database protection regulations, GDPR, to be made effective on 25th May 2018 in the UK, which protects individuals’ personal data. In combating GDPR, he gives a 5-Step Process to help those in the teaching, tutoring and coaching field how to be compliant with the regulations, and use it as an opportunity to open a level of contacts or renew contacts with custo...

Dr Simon Martin, a former NHS general practitioner and currently, a freelance storyteller based in Shropshire elucidating on the power of stories in teaching from and about creativity and what teachers/tutors can do to enhance that to other people. He shares the neuroscience behind why storytelling is the most effective communication medium in getting information across to people; and emphasises t...

How a journalist misconstrued research and created a “Magic Number” for Mastery. What a teacher needs to know, and why we should bury Malcom Gladwell’s toxic “Rule” without ceremony.

Listen in as Neil reveals one of the most important principles in business - DDWT. How to get paid for spending time with your friends, avoid bad business propositions, ease negative people out of your schedule, increase your effectiveness and ultimately fill slots and raise prices!