So there is a student who just needs a one-off lesson as an interview preparation on the next day. After being asked he said he is not interested in subscribing. He booked last minute and there‘s just 22 hrs left until the lesson. I definitely don’t want to loose statistics over this and conduct a free lesson that I know is not gonna convert. How do I cancel this to not get a canceled/missed trial in my statistics?
Just joking. 🙃 doing very well and just happy to have made it. That’s all, I got no tips🤷🏼
I’m a language tutor on Preply and I’m considering building a social media presence around teaching (Instagram+telegram). Before I start, I’d love to hear from both tutors and students.
Recording lessons
Does anyone know where Preply stands on tutors recording lessons for content creation?
I’m not talking about reposting students without permission. I’m thinking more along the lines of:
recording my screen or whiteboard explanations,
recording myself teaching,
possibly recording the lesson from a separate camera rather than using any built-in recording feature,
removing all personal information,
blurring the student’s face if they appear on screen.
Would recording the lesson itself, the whiteboard, shared materials, or classroom interface create any ownership or policy issues with Preply?
Student perspective
I’d especially love to hear from students.
What would make you feel more comfortable?
Your tutor asks for permission and uses your face/video in social media content.
Your tutor doesn’t blurs your face, removes identifying information, and only shows anonymized clips of the lesson. Let‘s assume you find part of your lesson online - would that bother you?
If your tutor approached you about this, what would your reaction be?
Growing a tutoring business
For tutors who market themselves online, what would you do?
Option A:
Create content around language learning and direct people toward your Preply profile. The biggest risk I can think of is that everyone has haters. Linking to my profile would give them just the opportunity they need to destroy someone they don’t like on social media.
Option B:
Stay relatively anonymous and create content that sends people to Preply in general rather than to your specific profile and being their affiliate?
Option C:
Build your own audience and eventually teach independently outside of platforms.
My main goal isn’t becoming an influencer. It’s simply expanding my tutoring business.
Edit: i guess I got my answer to one of the questions - I should not even try to create content, even when the students are not identifiable. Makes all the other questions irrelevant. Thanks for the feedback!
What is your policy on letting students run into autoconfirm? I show up to the lesson, stay 15 minutes, write in chat sorry he didn’t make it and leave. I have a couple of frequent no-shows already. Two of my students just subbed and we just started and they disappeared. Their subscription renews soon, and I have pocketed around 6 lessons each without doing actually teaching. I never scheduled for them though - so one can‘t call me a scammer tbh. I also reached out to them and sent some additional homework. But no response in chat. I have another one who I have been more than a year together with - she has not been showing up lately aswell, but said she‘s fine if I pocket her lessons.
Is this in a risky territory? Do I report as absent? Do I report as absent and cancel their subs? Or keep auto-confirming?
Anyone in the same boat? I earn quite a lot on preply and love the job. What makes me nervous- my last 3 withdrawals went through manual reviews. While I wouldn’t worry about it in general, I feel like smth may happen to my account through no fault of my own. There has not been any new patterns in my case. I’m working and withdrawing every day like I did when I started. I have never even taken a student off platform. It has been a full time job at around 60 lessons per week. And with nothing changing my last 3 withdrawals went through manual reviews. I have no idea why, because like I said, nothing really changed. Support ofc just gives generic copy/paste answers.
Kinda nervous now. Anyone have the same issues?
Anyone else shit themselves when payment is in moderation?
I have been a tutor on preply for almost 2 years. I make a comfortable living averaging 7-8k dollars per month. The only trouble - it’s my only source of income now and I committed to preply fully. To be honest - I would expand and diversify, but the platform has taken the uncomfortable part of processing the payment and marketing. So I commit to the platform, since it does seem to like me.
I don’t do any shady stuff. I don’t take students off the platform. I have never been scammed yet into opening weird links etc.
But once in a while - like every 2 months or so - i sh1t my pants when I don’t receive the “receive money” link from wise and see my payment “in moderation”.
I guess I want some input from others, who get this moderation message from time to time. What seems to trigger it? Have you noticed any patterns? I sure didn’t, but it seems to hit when I withdraw like 400$+ for a day. So right now I’m scared AF if the AI is gonna do some weird stuff and ban me without reason. I guess I’m overreacting, but having this “moderation” message pop up from time to time really gets to me.