The search happens at a kitchen table after a bad Christmas report or a mocks result: “Leaving Cert maths grinds” with the name of the area, “higher level Irish grinds”, “Junior Cycle science grinds online”. Before a parent sends the message they check which subjects and which level you teach, whether it is one-to-one or a small group, at your house, theirs or online, what an hour costs, whether you have anything left on a Tuesday evening, and who you are. Websites for grinds tutors in Dublin that answer all of that on one page get the message. The ones that say “contact for details” get skipped, because the parent has three other tabs open.
Your year is the school year
September brings the sixth years and the parents who swore they would start early this time. December brings the Christmas report and a January rush that fills whatever evenings you have. The mocks land in February, the results in March, and the two months before June are the busiest you will be, followed by a summer of almost nothing unless you run a revision course or take on students getting ahead for fifth year.
A page can carry that rhythm. “Two evening slots left for sixth year maths” in October. “Easter revision course, four mornings, book here” in March. “Taking enquiries for September” in July. You change the line yourself from a private edit page, and a parent on a Sunday night sees where you stand.
What has to be settled before anyone books
Subjects and levels, named the way the exam names them: higher and ordinary level, Leaving Cert and Junior Cycle, the new specification if it matters. Your rate per hour, whether a block of six is cheaper, and when payment is due. The format: your kitchen table, their kitchen table, or online with a shared whiteboard, and if it is online, what the student needs on their side.
Then you. Whether you are a registered teacher with the Teaching Council, your degree, how long you have been giving grinds, whether you are Garda vetted, and the results you got yourself if you want to say so. What the page should not do is promise a grade. You can describe how you teach, how you find the gaps, how you use past papers, and leave the result to the student.
Your cancellation policy belongs on the page too, in a sentence. Twenty-four hours’ notice or the session is paid for. Written down once, it stops the argument before it starts.
The slot, the payment and the reminder
The three things that eat a tutor’s evening are the message at eleven asking to move Thursday, the session that was never paid for, and the student who forgot. A booking calendar fixes most of it. You open the evenings you teach, the parent books a weekly slot that repeats, pays for the session or the block with a card or Apple Pay, and gets a text the day before. Moving a session is done in the calendar rather than in a thread of forty messages. If you run an Easter course, a deposit holds the place and the balance is paid before it starts. The plain version of how all this works is in how to take online bookings.
Reviews land after the mocks
Parents who are relieved write good reviews, and the relief arrives in March and again in August. A short text with a direct link to your Google review box, sent at those moments, builds a profile that says what you teach and that it worked for someone’s child, in their words. Nothing is faked and nobody is paid. The steps are in how to get more Google reviews.
Teaching online
If you teach online, the page should say it clearly, because a student in Donegal searching for higher level chemistry grinds is as good a student as one in Donnybrook. The page lists the tool you use, how the whiteboard works, and what the first session looks like. A music teacher’s week has the same shape as yours, the same September, the same reminders, and we have written about it on websites for music teachers.
What we need from you
Your subjects and levels, your rate and block price, the evenings and times you teach, where, your qualifications as you want them worded, your cancellation policy, a photograph of you and one of where you teach (or a screenshot of your whiteboard mid-problem), and ten minutes on the phone. If you have lines from parents you want quoted, they go in with their permission. Most grinds sites are live within a few days of that call.
Plan and price
Complete at €1,499 to set up and €100 a month puts the weekly slot, the payment, the reminders and the review link together. A tutor whose book is full from referrals and who only wants to be found on Google for next September is well served by Essentials at €499 and €50 a month. The two are laid out side by side on the pricing page. Outside Dublin, the first chat is a phone or video call and everything after works the same.