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by barry-cotter 5567 days ago
[Edit; Okay, you're selling to tutors. You should make that even more blindingly obvious, and either make a separate section for people searching for tutors, or remove it altogether because the experience is crap. Are you sure adversising as free is legal? I mean you must be charging some mark up that the customer pays above what the tutor gets.]

Your first minute is useless. I go to your site and understand, okay, you're basically an online tutoring intermediary. But the services you offer are difficult to figure out, there's no categorisation or tagging, the search is bad, and you're not sure if your primary customers are the people buying or selling the service.

All in all, desperate.

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I am so sorry that you've wasted a minute of your time.

Will this one be more clear to you about the platform? http://ex.gs/4n7YXa

Basically the homepage is for experts, and this little url is for experts to get their clients.

Back to your question: Yes, tutoring is an important part of our service, if you type "english tutor" into that search box, you will pretty much get the idea.

At this moment, english tutor is our main focus and almost every visitor come to the site is to find tutor or is a tutor. So the search form is quite useful to them.

But we don't want to offer categorization or tagging now is because that there is not so much to be categorized or tagged. I personally don't like a 3 level of categories without any real content. And we don't want to tag our site to be a tutoring platform with those categories. So we tend not to show them at the moment.

Apart from that, everything you said is true. With the exception of we are not an online tutoring intermediary.