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Are you looking to find tutoring job opportunities in your area? Now you can use Twitter to stay up-to-date on all the tutoring job opportunities in your metropolitan area! Whether you check Twitter on the go from you handheld device or from your home or work computer, WyzAnt Twitter Jobs can help you find and land new tutoring assignments. Give it a try today!

WyzAnt recently announced plans for WyzAid, a program where deserving students can receive free tutoring.

The program, which will first be rolled out in the Chicago metropolitan area, hopes to ultimately affect the lives of many thousands of students across the country. WyzAnt plans to utilize its community of over 20,000 tutors to deliver the tutoring, making the program highly scalable.

Crain's Chicago Business and other online news sites have recently featured the WyzAid program. Please see the following links to read more:

Crain's Chicago Business
Examiner.com
WayneLiew.com

In cooperation with Lexis-Nexis, WyzAnt now offers the ability for interested students and tutors to run background checks. Tutors looking to improve the visibility of their profile can elect to order a check on themselves through the new system. Moreover, students may run a background check on a potential tutor prior to beginning lessons. To learn more, please review the background check policy.

WyzAnt now offers site updates via RSS! Using your location, travel willingness, and subject interests, we have created a personalized job feed for all WyzAnt tutors. You can also subscribe to some of our other feeds or create your own custom job feed. Check out our RSS feeds page to get started!

As an added feature for the WyzAnt community, earlier this month WyzAnt enabled tutors to post videos on their profile pages related to education and tutoring. So far videos have included musical performances, video introductions, short films, and more! Do you have a great idea for a video? Signup or login to your tutoring account and visit My Videos.

In response to growing demand, WyzAnt has launched a blogging section of our website where tutors can submit articles about tutoring and education. The articles range in content from stories about successful tutoring relationships to specific tips about how best to communicate difficult concepts to students. By reviewing these articles, students can learn more about potential tutors or pick up new tips for success. Be sure to check out some of the great articles today!

Earlier this week, WyzAnt launched a mobile version of our website at mobile.wyzant.com. Use any web-ready mobile device and navigate to mobile.wyzant.com. Once you have logged into your account, you can check your WyzAnt email, search for tutoring jobs in your area, and contact potential students. Manage your tutoring account when you're on the go with mobile.wyzant.com!

At WyzAnt, our goal is to help you connect with current and new students as quickly and easily as possible. If you are interested in receiving immediate updates by text message anytime a current or new student emails you, and anytime a new job is available in your area, than sign up for text message alerts. Simply login and go to your My Account page. Under Tutor Info next to your profile picture, you will see a link to sign up for text message alerts. Please not that standard text messaging fees set by your carrier will apply.

WyzAnt Rewards is a new points-based incentive program available to registered tutors who are interested in taking a more proactive role in the WyzAnt community. Through the program, tutors can earn rewards like cash prizes, vacations for two and much more.

The initial iteration of WyzAnt Rewards is called the WyzAnt Advocate Program and is available to all registered tutors. Tutors can earn points for leaving a testimonial about WyzAnt, encouraging students to leave feedback after lessons, and for referring new students and tutors. The WyzAnt Rewards Program is based on the idea that the more the WyzAnt community grows and the more vibrant it becomes, the more valuable it will be to both tutors and students. With a growing student population, tutors will have greater opportunity to teach, and with a growing tutor population, students will have more opportunities to learn.

As the WyzAnt community continues to grow, so too will the WyzAnt Rewards Program and the opportunity for tutors and students to earn points. Stay posted for new ways to earn points including contributing educational materials to the website, entering to win fun contests, providing helpful feedback and more. To learn more about the Rewards Program, login to your account and click onWyzAnt Rewards

Wyzant is excited to announce a new tutoring package for purchases of $2,500 or more. With a discount rate of 20% and savings starting at $500, this new lesson package is our best value offer yet. Have a child heading back to school? Looking to learn a new language? This package is perfect for curious minds who want to make a serious commitment to education. Remember, your WyzAnt credit is good for any number of students, with any of our tutors, anywhere in the country!

Quova, Inc., the leading provider of Internet geolocation data services, today announced that WyzAnt, a national provider of private tutoring services, is using the Quova On-Demand IP geolocation service to localize content, seamlessly connecting students with tutors that match their location, need and budget. Implemented as part of a major Web overhaul initiative, Quova's geolocation data enables WyzAnt to pinpoint the IP address of each visitor, down to a zip code level, and display a landing page featuring tutors in their local area, greatly improving WyzAnt's conversion rates.
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On December 24, 2008, Fox News Chicago ran a story featuring the best part-time jobs in the Chicago area. With the help of local tutor Sarah Southcott and student Rachel O'Donnell, the Fox team conducted an interview explaining how WyzAnt allows people to make money while helping students in their community achieve their academic goals.

CHICAGO – Wyzant.com, a Chicago-based website where students find local tutors with expertise in more than 150 different subjects, announced today it will donate $10 for each student who registers on Wyzant.com to help Chicago’s Crane Tech Prep High School. To register on WyzAnt.com, students simply search for and contact local tutors, but no purchase is necessary.

The new “Give the Gift of Education” program is already increasing the website’s traffic and registrations. The program will also offer one free tutoring lesson to all new students who visit WyzAnt.com and contact a tutor between December 15 and January 15.
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WyzAnt Tutoring - a national provider of private tutoring services,
released the latest version of the company’s leading tutor-student matching website on Tuesday, November 1. The newly optimized site will allow WyzAnt to increase its presence; the tutoring and test prep industry estimates 2008 sales of over 40 billion dollars (2009 Barnes Reports: US Exam Preparation and Tutoring Industry)
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Parents seeking tutors to help their kids improve their grades
are turning to WyzAnt's private tutoring service, an online matching service that connects local college students, teachers, retirees and other professionals with students who need tutors to improve their grades.
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WyzAnt.com, a tutoring service that matches students with tutors, now has 10,000 certified tutors and is celebrating by offering all new customers a free lesson with the tutor of their choice. WyzAnt offers homework help, test prep tutoring, music instruction, foreign languages and more.
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WyzAnt (pronounced "Wise Ant") has a fully searchable database of over 10,000 tutors who teach over 140 different subjects. These certified tutors come to your home to teach you any academic subject, musical instrument, foreign language or test prep. With WyzAnt, every lesson is guaranteed. We are so confident in our tutors that if you are unsatisfied in any way with your lesson we will provide you with a different tutor and the next lesson is on us. WyzAnt provides a way for you to search for a tutor, pay for a lesson, and schedule it all online. Please visit WyzAnt Tutoring Service online or call (703)945-1835.

This article will introduce the WyzAnt service. This is unlike most online tutoring services. WyzAnt connects tutors with students and the tutoring occurs in the students home or other safe places.
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All WyzAnt tutors now have the option of receiving their paychecks via direct deposit. Registering is simple and can be done via the link on the My Account page. Stay tuned for more helpful features to be released in the near future.

Good news if your an Amex user. In addition to Visa and MasterCard, we are now accepting American Express. Current clients are welcome to change their billing preferences if they'd rather have their Amex card as the primary credit card on the account.

WyzAnt.com recently surpassed the 5,000 tutor mark for the first time, further distinguishing itself as the largest directory of certified tutors on the internet.

WyzAnt now boasts over 50+ tutors in 26 US markets. New York City has the most tutors (444) followed closely by Los Angeles (403), Chicago (372), Boston (311), Washington DC (290), Portland OR (246), San Diego (205), San Francisco (204) and Atlanta (190).

By subject, WyzAnt currently has 500 or more tutors in 26 different subjects ranging from SAT test prep to French instruction. Other popular subjects include piano, English, elementary education, ESL, algebra, reading and biology.

WyzAnt’s customer base is growing in step with its tutors; the company has attracted over 1,000 new customers in 2008 year to date. Particularly notable is the company’s growth in West Coast markets, Texas, Florida and Atlanta.

The company’s rapid growth is good news to those people who are seeking an in-home tutor or are interested in being a tutor part-time.

WyzAnt and Tutorz: the perfect match when it comes to connecting tutors and students.
The web services of Tutorz.com have teamed with the professional tutoring expertise of WyzAnt.com to generate an academically effective online connection between students and tutors. Now that Tutorz and WyzAnt have joined forces, it is simpler than ever for tutors and students to find each other online.
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WyzAnt and Tutorz: the perfect match when it comes to connecting tutors and students.
The web services of Tutorz.com have teamed with the professional tutoring expertise of WyzAnt.com to generate an academically effective online connection between students and tutors. Now that Tutorz and WyzAnt have joined forces, it is simpler than ever for tutors and students to find each other online.
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WyzAnt's
new markets include San Diego, San Francisco, Seattle, Portland, Sacramento, Houston, Miami, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh and Chicago. Previously, WyzAnt has restricted its business primarily to Boston, Washington DC, New York City. WyzAnt President, Andrew Geant, cites the company's "improved marketing and recruiting techniques and more sophisticated web systems" as the catalyst behind its decision to expand into these new markets.

WyzAnt is now highly active in Los Angeles, San Diego, San Francisco and Seattle. We’d like to welcome our new West Coast customers and tutors. We are also making inroads in Portland, OR and Sacramento, so if you’re in one of these markets, keep an eye out for our new tutors being added daily. WyzAnt offers you a highly searchable directory of in-home tutors in all academic subjects, musical instruments, computer instruction, foreign languages and more.

Other growing markets include Houston, Miami, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh and Orange County.

To search tutors in all our cities, visit us at WyzAnt.com.

WyzAnt has created an XML feed so that other websites can easily access our tutor data and list it on their sites. This is a great tool for websites who rely on content to drive traffic. We’ve made it easy for you to gain access to our data on over 15,500 tutors. Just go to WyzAnt.com/feed.aspx.

All WyzAnt tutors now have a new, internal email system to help manage their clients. The new system means that tutors now can do all their messaging, lesson-logging, and job-searching from one website. We hope you find the new system useful.

WyzAnt has taken several large steps this month towards expanding its operations, primarily into the greater New York, Boston and Chicago markets. WyzAnt has been active on a national scale of over a year now, and it has now committed substantial resources to penetrate its satellite markets more thoroughly.

So if you're a client in one of these new markets, be on the look out for a much greater selection of tutors. And if you're a tutor, now is a great time to join the WyzAnt team.

WyzAnt,Inc (www.WyzAnt.com) forged two close partnerships with educational charities in 2006. WyzAnt’s recruiting and tutor management systems have made the company an asset to these
charities in their search for and management of qualified tutors.
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WyzAnt forged two close partnerships with educational charities in 2006. WyzAnt’s recruiting and tutor management systems have made the company an asset to these charities in their search for and management of qualified tutors.

In August, WyzAnt began providing tutors for Catholic Charities in Hartford, CT. Catholic Charities helps immigrant children in East Hartford. WyzAnt’s tutors provide SAT prep, homework assistance and guidance to these children.

In October, WyzAnt became a major recruiting resource for the Harlem Children’s Zone (HCZ) in New York City. WyzAnt provides the HCZ with over 30 tutors, all of whom work approximately 24 hours per week. These tutors help Harlem Children prepare for New York State tests. They also provide homework assistance, encouragement and mentorship.

WyzAnt intends to increase this contract-based aspect of its operations in 2007.

WyzAnt continues to improve its user experience by adding helpful new features to its website. For tutors, these include a revamped homepage with more useful data about earnings, schedules, etc. For students, we’ve revamped the payment process and added a “My Tutors” feature. Students now also have the option of alerting multiple tutors at once about their needs.

We hope you enjoy these new features. There are plenty more to come in 2007. As always, we encourage your feedback and ideas.

WyzAnt’s network of partner Universities and recruiters has grown to enable us to find customers the exact tutor they need.

With over 1000 tutors listed on WyzAnt.com, WyzAnt can usually provide enough options for customers in its major markets. However, in more obscure subjects or less populated areas, customers may not find a tutor that suits their needs. In these cases, WyzAnt is now encouraging customers to contact us and let us know what type of tutor they want.

Let WyzAnt do the work for you…and for free. WyzAnt calls upon local universities and various recruiting resources to find its customers the perfect tutor. Often times, the search is complete in just a few days. If you or someone you know is having trouble finding a tutor, send WyzAnt an email today!

You may notice some new faces on our website. We’ve been doing a lot of recruiting lately in order to provide with you even more qualified tutors from which to choose. We have focused especially on recruiting experienced elementary education instructors for our customers with children in grades K-6. It is critical to get children started on the right track from the very beginning; our elementary education tutors have degrees in elementary education studies and all have great experience teaching children. To learn more about these tutors, do a search for "Elementary Education" in your zip code.

WyzAnt, Inc., a tutoring company in Northern Virginia, DC and Maryland, is now providing free tutoring to deserving students through its charity, WyzAide. WyzAnt, pronounced 'wise-ant,' is a tutoring company that has over ninety part-time tutors teaching more than eighty subjects. The company offers an advanced website (www.wyzant.com) that allows visitors to search for a tutor by a number of criteria. Once you find a tutor on WyzAnt.com, you can schedule and pay for the tutor right online, simplifying the often-troublesome task of hiring a tutor.
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WyzAnt is pleased to announce its expansion into Metropolitan Chicago and Central New Jersey. If you are looking for a tutor in these markets, let us know! Someone from our office will be happy to help you get started. Customers in New Jersey and Chicago can expect the same outstanding instruction and customer service as our Mid-Atlantic customers have grown to know us for.

Now is the perfect time to sign up with WyzAnt! We’ve just introduced several limited time specials. When considering which package to buy, keep in mind that your satisfaction is 100% guaranteed. So go ahead and save more money by purchasing a bigger package; you have nothing to lose!

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