There are two free and easy ways to promote your tutoring services to students and parents.

First, set up a free tutor profile in WeTutor's tutor directory, which you can personalize to include your tutoring grade levels and subjects, hours of availability, contact information, and any other information that you think might be useful for prospective students. Potential parents and students who come to the WeTutor website can then easily find and review your profile.

Second, you can use WeTutor's free marketing tools (see below) to promote yourself across the Internet. As described below, you can display badges and banners in your email signature, message board posts, blog, MySpace or Facebook page, or anywhere else to encourage people to review your WeTutor profile and buy your tutoring services.

Marketing tools are badges and banners that you can use to promote yourself to students and parents. They all link to your tutor profile. Here are a few examples:

Your badges and banners will work on just about any website or social network, most email services, and many message boards. For example, you can display a badge or banner on:

• your blog (Blogger, WordPress, etc.)
• your social network profile (Facebook, MySpace, etc.)
• classified listings (Craigslist, eBay Classifieds, etc.)
• message boards
• your email signature

.. and many more places!

Click on the Marketing Tools tab of your My Account page. Select the banner that you're interested in posting, and then use the Quick Post tool to quickly and securely post the banner. The Quick Post tool is provided by Gigya, a company that specializes in providing these types of tools.

Additionally, instead of using the Quick Post tool to automatically post your banner, you can manually copy the banner code (displayed in the Quick Post tool) and paste it into your social network profile (using the social network's edit profile settings), your blog, or your classifieds listing.

With certain email services, you can create an email signature that displays your tutor badge.

Click on the Marketing Tools tab of your My Account page and copy the code for your email signature badge. Then follow these steps:

For Yahoo! Mail:
1. Sign in to Yahoo! Mail.
2. In the Options menu (top right), click Mail Options.
3. Click Signature.
4. Check the box for “Show a signature on all outgoing messages.”
5. Click Rich Text (instead of Plain Text) if not already selected.
6. Paste the code for your email signature badge.
7. Click Save Changes (top).

For AOL Mail:
1. Sign in to AOL Mail.
2. Click Settings (top right).
3. Click Compose (left).
4. In the Signature area, select “Use signature” if not already selected.
5. Paste the code for your email signature badge.
6. Click Save (top).

For Outlook versions prior to Outlook 2007:
1. Open Outlook.
2. Open Tools menu and select Options.
3. Select Mail Format tab.
4. Click Signatures.
5. If you already have a signature, click Edit. If not, click New.
6. Click Advanced Edit, and then Yes in the pop-up window.
7. Paste at the bottom the code for your email signature badge.
8. Click Save, and then Ok to close the Edit and Options windows.

For Hotmail, Windows Live Mail, Outlook 2007 and Gmail users:
Unfortunately, these email services do not easily support HTML signatures. As soon as they do, we'll provide instructions.

Many message boards allow users to display images in their comments or posts.

Go to the Marketing Tools tab of your My Account page. Copy the code for your message board/forum badge, and then paste it at the end of your message board comments.

If your badge does not display in your comment, contact the site and ask them to allow users to display “BBCode or forum code.” In the mean time, simply add to your comments, “Check out my WeTutor profile” along with your profile URL link.

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