[katherineparker]

I have not tutored but I can offer you my experience from being tutored. My classmate tutored me in C++ last year. He was part of a peer tutor program at my school.

Things I liked:

   -Flexibility in hours to meet up

   -Signing up for a certain amount of hours (keeps the
    commitment there)

   -Being patient with me

   -Answering my questions without speaking over me

   -He asked me to prepare specific questions or code to go  over before we met up 

   -Before the first session, we talked about specific goals I wanted to achieve

Things I didn't like:

   -It was hard staying on topic sometimes because we were also friends

Good luck with your tutoring business!

[GotAnyMegadeth]

Lots of good points, thanks. Signing up for a block of hours is a good idea, I hadn't thought of that.

[katherineparker]

Your welcome =)

Btw, the standard at my school is to do 5 hours as sign up, then do one hour tutoring sessions (and sometimes the odd two hour session). It's kind of nice so you have a commitment and people will be more likely to show up and continue tutoring than waste their money and your time waiting for them to show. Once again good luck with everything, I'm sure you will be successful since you're planning this out well!