$1000 a Week Tutoring on the Side (Greatest Hits)

Here's an oldie but a goodie from the archives from the Side Hustle Show Greatest Hits collection. [upbeat music] 1,000 bucks a week tutoring on the side. What's up? What's up? Nick Loper here. Welcome to the Side Hustle Show, because your earning power doesn't have to stop when your day job does. What if, what if there was a high-earning side hustle that helps other people, that uses your brain, that you could do evenings and weekends, and bonus points, you could do it from home? Well, tutoring may check all those boxes, and we'll, uh, learn about that today. Matt Fuentes from Take Aim Tutoring is here. He's a teacher by day. He's a sought-after tutor after hours. Matt, welcome to the show.

Thanks for having me, Nick. I am super pumped to be here. Love all your stuff. Love listening to you. I just can't wait to share, to help out your amazing, you know, group that, that you've created, so I'm super pumped to be here. Thanks for having me.

Well, I appreciate you joining me. Longtime member of the Side Hustle Nation community. Stick around in this one to hear how Matt markets his business, how he prices the service, and how he's taken almost all of it remote from what was previously almost an all, you know, face-to-face, in-person business. Your listener-only bonus for this week is my big list of 101 service business ideas. You can start and use some of Matt's same tactics to get customers. You'll be able to download that for free at the show notes for this episode at sidehustlenation.com/tutor, T-U-T-O-R, or just follow the show notes link in the episode description of your podcast app. But first, Matt, inquiring minds wanna know, did you end up acing these, uh, standardized tests as a kid? Like, what, you know, what gave you the qualifications [laughs] to become a tutor in the first place?

Gr- I... You know what's funny? I ne- th- Parents and students never ask me that when they start working with me. They're always just like, "We got your name. Can't wait to work with you." It's never just like, "So what did you get so that we know [laughs] that this is good?"

[laughs]

I didn't do really well, but I did well enough to, you know, kinda get into any school that I had applied to. And I think it's important because, you know, I wasn't the best test taker when I was a student. I really kinda hit my stride when I was getting my undergrad and then my bachelor's and then my master's degree, two master's degrees. That's when I kinda started clicking as a student, but I did pretty well. Pre-

All right. But that's... It's not something that parents are, like, testing you on, which is interesting.

It's so interesting. I've never been asked it once, and I've had, you know, hundreds and hundreds of students and, and never, [laughs] never asked. It doesn't matter how amazing or how lousy of a test taker you are, you can teach yourself these skills to be an amazing tutor to students out there who are taking the ACT and SATs.

Yeah. Did you ever see the, uh, documentary on the college admissions scandal?

Yes. Yes.

And they talk about the guy who was, like, t- you know, forging the tests, and, uh, they ha- you know, have him branded as some, like, test-taking savant,