Starting Language/tutoring Classes

[chrisdouglas123]

hi, those of your who had or previously managed private tutoring classes- did u legally or illegaly run them?.

would it be possible or EASY to run a simple non registered/ home run tutorial center with say a maximum of 10 students a day (mixed class sizes, 1-5 students) and never growing too big for what one teacher could manage?

i am considering starting a home run center like this, but would appreciate some opinions and advice.

thanks in advance

[Scott]

I and a friend one ran a small school from his home for a number of years. It was quite successful. At that time, in the area where I live, there was very, very little, if any real competition. This was about 13 years ago and it wasn't registered. The friends girl friend had a step-brother who was a police officer, although no one seemed to think it would be a problem.

Remember times were very different then as far as regulations were concerned.

We were approached by a math tutorial school about how to set up an English school and decided to turn it over to them and just go to work for them. It was a lot of work. It was successful. The friends girl friend did the managing and it kept her very busy, but she had a knack for business and was good about dealing with customers.

Now there are a lot of tutorial schools around and I think we might just attract some unwanted attention. Now there is significant amount of competition as well.

Part of it is knowing yourself. I prefer to be an employee and let someone else handle the business end. I ended up working for the company that took it over for the next 13 years!

Private tutorial isn't a big problem, but when you start advertising and having classes you may have problems. When you get successful, someone will notice and success on your part will bring out envy and revenge on their part.

At this point in time, I wouldn't do it now without a Thai person being in charge of it.

Best of luck.

[Scott]

chrisdouglas: I believe we have this information running in another thread:

http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/Opening-Lang...ol-t339299.html

So I will re direct you there and close this one.

Again, best of luck.

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