You almost certainly own most of what you need. $200 to $800 covers a decent webcam and mic, a subscription to a whiteboard tool, and a simple scheduling and payment setup. There is no storefront and no inventory.
Because the setup is nearly free, the thing parents actually pay for is proof. They are not buying your hour. They are buying the belief that their kid's grade will go up. Your first job is to make that believable, and that has nothing to do with gear.
The fastest way to build it is results you can point to. Tutor a few students at a low rate or free at the start, then collect the specific wins. A jump from a C to an A, a passed exam, a kid who stopped dreading the subject. Those sentences sell better than any credential.
Pick one subject and one age band and own it. "Algebra for middle schoolers who fell behind" gets recommended parent to parent. "Tutoring, all subjects, all ages" gets ignored, because it sounds like everyone else.
Referrals are the engine. One happy family in a school tells other families, and word of mouth inside a single school can fill your calendar without a dollar of ads.
The rest, setting a rate that respects your time, the tools that make online sessions feel in person, and how to turn one student into a waitlist, is in the full plan:
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