Preply: How to Make Money Tutoring Online #2
Preply is another website to make money tutoring online, but here the focus is on teaching languages. The languages that you can teach others as a tutor on Preply are English, French, Spanish, Polish, Hindi, Urdu, Norwegian, etc.
The great thing about this website is that you don’t need to have a degree in the language that you want to teach to be a tutor on the platform. As long as you are a fluent speaker of a particular language, you are good to go.
How Preply works is that users that want to learn a language or need help in solving a problem in a language they don’t understand sign up on the site, find tutors to help them, and book lessons according to their schedules.
Tutors, on the other hand, also sign up on Preply, set up their profiles, working hours, and hourly tutoring rates, and are ready to start getting tutoring gigs.
With that said, let’s see the tutor sign-up process on Preply.
How to Sign up as a Tutor on Preply
- Head over to the Preply tutor sign-up page here.
- Sign up using your email and create a password. Alternatively, you can sign up with your Google or Facebook account.
- Verify your email via the confirmation link sent to your inbox.
- On your profile, proceed to provide some basic information about yourself. Upload your headshot photo, describe your strengths as a tutor, record a short video introduction (up to 2 mins long), and finally choose your availability.
Once you complete your application process, the Preply Tutor success team will review your profile within 5 business days. Once approved, your profile will be live on the Preply tutor marketplace and students all around the world will be able to book lessons with you.
How to get a quick tutor profile approval on Preply
To get a quick tutor profile approval on Preply, it’s important that you upload a clear headshot photo of yourself, describe your strengths as a tutor, and record an up to 2 mins long introduction video about yourself.
In all, you need to follow the profile approval tips given at each step in your application.
Equipment needed for tutoring on Preply
You’ll need a laptop or desktop computer, a stable internet connection, a webcam, and a microphone for conducting lessons in the Preply virtual classroom.
How much can you earn as a Tutor on Preply?
According to Preply, it’s estimated that their most popular tutors earn up to $550 weekly. However, tutors’ earnings are dependent on the hourly rate set, the number of lessons taught, and the number of students that continue learning with you after the trial lesson
It should be noted that Preply takes a commission fee from tutors’ lessons. The commissions start at 33% and decrease to 18% based on the number of hours that you taught on the platform.
This is my #55/365 article in 2022, I’m on a challenge to put up 365 articles here this year.
