There are many reasons why people are looking for a viable home business. These reasons may include the need to work from home while raising a young family, supplementing full-time work, physical disabilities, or the desire to be your own boss.

Tutoring is a great choice for a home based business. The market for tutors has exploded in the last few years, and the demand is high for good tutors in many subject and skill areas.

Tutoring offers a lot of flexibility as your home business choice. For example, you choose your own hours, you choose your rate of pay, and you can be picky about which students you accept. You can do private tutoring in person or you can tutor online through one of the many online tutoring agencies available.

If you decide to tutor privately in your local area, then you will need to do your own advertising. You can start by telling people you know, advertising in free classifieds, or putting an ad in your local paper. You can also call high schools and ask if they keep a list of tutors at the office, and if so then you can ask them to add your name and contact information.

If tutoring online sounds appealing to you, then check out some of the online tutoring agencies. You will probably be required to provide your credentials and even take a qualifying exam of some kind. Make sure you read the terms of service for each agency you are interested in.

You will want to start collecting some resources to use in your tutoring business. If you know what subject and grade level you want to tutor, you may want to start researching which text books the local schools are using, and also see what the local library carries. If you haven't tutored in your subject area for a few years, you might want to do some refreshing of the material for yourself.

You can tutor school subjects or you can advertise that you are willing to tutor a skill, such as a sport you are particularly good at, or a craft you can do well.

Keep in mind that tutoring does not require you to have a teaching certificate. Another place you can look for a job is to contact your local college or other educational institution that offers evening continuing education classes. Because these classes do not offer college credits- people take them just for the fun of learning- they are not required to be taught by a certified teacher. Some examples of these types of classes are chocolate making, calligraphy, photography, candle making, and fly tying.

There are many opportunities out there, now that you know a few more places to look. You can tutor to make extra money and make a difference in the life of someone else at the same time.