Before starting out as a home-based tutor, you will need to setup your business structure. Find a place in the home where you can comfortably teach others while not being overly distracted by outside noise. You may have to purchase some comfortable chairs, tables and a writing board.After you have setup the learning space, you will need to create your class curriculum. Typically, 8-weeks would be enough learning material. This can be translated into eight one-hour classes.

Once you have established yourself as a tutor, you should consider branching out into offering other courses such as computer training, business writing and perhaps even phone etiquette. This is the commercial side of the business. On one hand, you offer courses to school students and those on the other you offer working professionals courses to assist them to grow professionally.By diversifying your course offerings you mitigate the risk of lost business should something change. For instance, teachers begin to offer additional classroom time after school free of charge. If this happens, you will still have the commercial business to fall back on and vice versa.