Tutoring spreads through parents talking to parents. Your card has to survive being forwarded into a class WhatsApp group and still make a stranger comfortable booking their child in.
Almost no tutor is found by a stranger typing a subject into a search box. A parent mentions at pickup that their son's maths has turned around, and the parent beside them asks who. A class rep pastes a name into the year-group chat the week mock results come home. A teacher who may not tutor their own pupils names someone who can. Each time, your details travel through somebody else to a parent who has never met you.
So the card is opened cold, on a phone, in a busy group chat. It has to introduce you without you in the room: which subjects and levels, whether you teach online or come to the house, what check you hold, and how to book a first lesson. If the parent has to ask any of that in the chat, the recommendation has lost its momentum.
Whether the card arrives as a link in the chat, a QR code on a library flyer or the signature of your reply to an enquiry, it opens the same live card, so the availability a parent sees is this term's, not the slots you had when the flyer went up.
The parent opening your card is deciding whether to let a stranger spend an hour a week with their child, often in their own home. Before they message you they settle four things: that you teach the exact course, that you can fit their week, that you are safe, and what it costs. A card that answers those on the first screen gets the parent's message.
Put the check and the qualification near the top, and make the booking route the obvious next tap. One line saying you taught the course in a school or marked it for the exam board does more than a paragraph on your teaching philosophy.
The parent or teacher passing you on matters too. A parent answering the year-group chat wants a link they can paste without explaining it, and one that still works when somebody asks again in January. A class teacher or a tutoring agency with a list hands over your card, not a description of you, so it has to be right whenever it is opened.
A tutor's year runs on the school calendar. September and January fill your evenings; the weeks before exams bring parents who want three sessions a week; the summer empties out or turns into bridging work. Your rate moves with the academic year. An exam board changes its specification and the course you list needs a new name.
Each of those details is already written somewhere you cannot reach: the flyer on the library board, the card in the music shop window, the message a parent forwarded in April. Nobody re-forwards a chat message to say Tuesdays are now full. With a digital card, the flyer's QR code and every forwarded link open one live card: edit the availability line once and April's message is right again.
Tutoring is lightly regulated in most places, but three things on your card do fall under somebody's rules, and those differ by country, state and school, so check each for where you work. The first is the safeguarding check. Which check a self-employed tutor can hold and what you may call it in marketing vary by region; state the type and date exactly as your certificate does.
The second is your teaching title. Words such as qualified teacher or specialist can be protected or defined terms in some jurisdictions, and a school's policy may bar you from naming the school or tutoring its own pupils. The third is exam results. Grade guarantees and pass-rate claims you cannot document are the kind of thing advertising rules tend to cover, so describe what past students achieved rather than promising what a new one will.
The subjects, levels and exam boards you teach, whether lessons are online or in person and the area you cover, your qualifications, the safeguarding check you hold and its year, this term's open slots, your rates, and a link to book a trial lesson. Word the check exactly as your certificate does.
Yes. The link and QR code open the live card, not a copy. When September fills your Tuesdays, or you raise rates for the new academic year, edit the card once and every parent who saved it last term sees the current version.
State the type and date of the check as they appear on your certificate. Which checks a self-employed tutor can hold, and what you may call them in marketing, differ by country and state, so check your region's rules before you publish and update the card when a renewal comes through.
Many do, but schools and education authorities often restrict tutoring your own pupils or naming the school in your marketing. Check your contract and your school's policy first, then describe yourself on the card in the terms they allow.
Free forever, no credit card, and your link never changes.