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Something About Wednesdays
20 Nov 2010I thought I was imagining things. It seemed like on Wednesdays more tutors became paying customers on UniversityTutor. So I ran a quick query and it turns out it’s true. So….tutors are more than twice as likely to start paying on a Wednesday vs a Saturday? Seems like such a big difference I hardly believe [...]
Punishing Nigerian Scammers
8 Nov 2010I started getting complaints recently from some tutors on UniversityTutor.com that they were receiving scam emails. I looked into it and the scam is the same one you commonly see on Craigslist and numerous other sites. It usually goes like this: Someone contacts you pretending to be interested in your services (tutoring in this case) [...]
I was reading this presentation by the Dropbox.com Founder, Drew Houston, the other day and the most interesting part about it was that most of their marketing with Adwords and conventional approaches completely failed. Yet Dropbox has over 4 million users. So how did they do it? Apparently it was almost entirely word of mouth [...]
I had an interesting conversation with Neil Patel earlier this week. I called him to get some advice on UniversityTutor.com and how I could take it to the next level. Neil is a really successful guy in the web business space, so I figured it’d be a good brainstorm. His biggest advice was to get [...]
This post is going to be a random collection of thoughts/events from the past week. Video of Mint.com Founder You might have heard recently that personal finance site Mint.com got acquired by Intuit for $170 million. This video by the founder, Aaron Patzer, is really awesome and should be watched by all entrepreneurs I think. [...]
UniversityTutor Revenues Fall By 50%
27 May 2009As you might have seen a few weeks ago, I posted about how the new UniversityTutor.com business model wasn’t working very well. Revenue has fallen by about half during this time. Also, it’s not just the summer time effect. There are still a fairly large number of contacts going through the site (see below). Even [...]
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Video Of The New Billing Feature On UniversityTutor.com
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7 Apr 2009Hey Folks, Here is the video as promised of the new billing features on UniversityTutor.com. For those just joining us, this represented a big change in the business model. Previously I was charging tutors $10/month to keep their profiles on the site. With the new business model, tutors can now have a free account, but [...]
Progress On UniversityTutor.com
22 Mar 2009Ok so this week I’ve been working on the new business model for UniversityTutor.com that I discussed in the second half of this post. Basically, charging a percent of each transaction instead of a monthly fee for tutors. I’m hoping this will be better in the long run as most people prefer to avoid monthly [...]
Hey Folks, The past week or so I’ve been working on a cool new feature for my passive income business, UniversityTutor.com: MAP BASED SEARCHING FOR TUTORS! This is using some Google Maps technology underneath to integrate with my site and hopefully it will make it much easier for people to find tutors based on their [...]
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