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Mr. ZIP promoted the use of ZIP codes for the USPS during the 1960s and 1970s. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Last time we talked a about how you can target Facebook for a local ad campaign. Today we’ll work on getting you some steps for doing that. Tomorrow (hopefully) we’ll have a video that walks
you through it.

Please note we’ve tested this numerous times and it has worked.

Remember the point of any advertising is making more than you spend. If you do that then keep advertising. If you don’t then try something different.

We talk in our program about setting things up – so we won’t go through that here. This is for those of you who have already setup their facebook ad campaign. There are are a few things you’ll want to think about first.

1. Your image – pictures are what draw the eye to your ad. You want something that draws them to read your ad – then click on it.
2. Your ad text – you want to make it abundantly clear what you’re selling. You want those who need your services to click and those that don’t need it to move along. Let’s pretend you’re tutoring a Summer class for the ACT. You could have something like. “Take Your ACT Once – Make the score you need to the first time. Our weekend workshops make it easy.” If you want to further refine it you could put prices.
3. Decide where you want them to go when they click. I’ve had better luck sending them to a specific page on our site (for conversions). Sending them to your fanpage will increase the number of fans you have.

Here’s how you get started.
1. Log into facebook.
2. On the left you should see something in your aps that says “Ads”. If you don’t see it then click the “Apps” link.
3. Click Create an Ad – a green button in the top left.
4. Put in your url or the Destination ID.
5. Put in your Ad – Pictures – if necessary where you want them to land. Now you want to choose your specific audience.
6. In the Location section you can put in your city and / or zip codes. You’ll want to put any cities / zip codes you serve. You can also include cities within 10 to 50 miles.
7. Age range – you’ll want to put in ages of parents of the kids you’ll be tutoring – unless they are college age kids you’re targeting.
8. Put in your campaign name, budget, and schedule then click “Place Order”.

You’re done… good luck.

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Links to getting Tutor Students

by The-Apple on May 10, 2012

in Tutoring Business

News – A big welcome to our new subscribers.

Getting New Tutor Students –

We continue today with some more links to older content. Again these are all ways you can get students for your tutoring business. As always if you have any questions please don’t hesitate to send us a note.

1.    http://www.cleverapple.com/blog/is-there-a-market-for-tutoring-where-i-live/

2.    http://www.cleverapple.com/blog/staring-a-tutor-business-figuring-out-your-competition/

3.    How to start an Affiliate Program for your Tutoring Business – Creating an Affiliate Agreement

4.    Adding Affiliate Programs to your Tutoring Business – Discounts of Supplies

5.    Places to Find Affiliates for your Tutoring Business

6.    How to get your first tutor client – part 1

7.    How to get your first tutor client part 2

To Do List for the Week –

  1. Go thru the list of links in this week’s issue.
  2. Work on choosing at least five things you can do this week for building your business.

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Google Updates – the sky isn’t falling

May 8, 2012

It’s a rainy day here and my daughter is out of school. She has just completed her first year of high-school. The reason she is out so early this year is because of the mild winter we had. We usually miss anywhere from 2 to 3 weeks because of snow days… but not this year. [...]

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How to get more students for your Tutor Business

May 3, 2012

Getting New Tutor Students – I got a question in my in box this past week asking about how to get tutor students. We have a ton of stuff in our blog that shows you how to get students… after all having new students can make or break a tutor business. So today I decided [...]

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Tips for getting your first Tutoring Student

May 1, 2012

I had an interesting question this morning on our blog. They asked how to get their first tutoring student. We have a whole section on our website dedicated to getting your first student. You can find that section here – http://www.cleverapple.com/blog/category/getting-your-first-tutor-client/ Another good place to go here -  http://www.cleverapple.com/blog/how-to-get-your-first-tutor-client-part-1/ You’ll want to do parts 1-7. [...]

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The Year In Review – Reviewing your tutor business

April 26, 2012

It’s been a good day for ducks. I woke up to thunderstorms. Lightning and my computers don’t play well together so I spent some time this morning reading and writing. My daughter will be taking her finals next week and then summer vacation begins.. my how the time goes by when you’re having fun. Our [...]

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Clever Apple Newsletter for April

April 19, 2012

Hopefully you are busy as a bee as we hit crunch time for schools everywhere. It’s kind of funny, usually we have some harsh winters here, so schools start in very early August and we finish school at around the first of June. This year we had no winter at all and the kids missed [...]

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Creating a Summer Tutor Program – Getting the word out

April 17, 2012

Hope you’re having a wonderful day. Some terrible weather going on this past weekend. One of our clients had tornados within 10 miles of her in three directions. Some scary stuff. Today we’re going to talk a little about your Summer tutor programs. You’ve created your programs, decided on your pricing, now it’s time to [...]

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I need your help

April 12, 2012

Winter has returned and we’ve had frost for the last couple of mornings. No frost in March… and now it gets cold in April. We’ve also tweaked / tuned our website. We’ve added some new programs, made payment plans for some items and hopefully made it easier to use and understand. Here’s a good page [...]

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Creating a Summer Tutor Program — Part 2 – Setting Prices

April 10, 2012

We continue our series on creating a tutor program. If you missed the first part you can find it here. Tutor Tips – Creating a summer Tutor Program So you’ve figure out what you’re going to be tutoring, who you’ll be tutoring and when you’ll tutor. So for an example we’ll say we tutor high [...]

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