We’ve been getting a good amount of our community looking for test prep courses in order to prepare themselves for the upcoming school year. For a lot of high school juniors and seniors specifically, they’re aiming to ace their SATs for college applications to get into college next year. If you haven’t registered for the test, go check out College Board for the most recent SAT test dates.
There’s a lot of ways to improve your SAT score, and it deals a lot with preparation and surrounding yourself with a good support team. There’s a good amount of great SAT tutors and SAT Prep organizations you can connect with. We’re actually working with some great partners nationwide to provide our community with a greater selection of test prep courses to choose from like Kaplan Test Prep, among others.
If you want to learn more about how you can improve your SAT test scores, here are some great articles to get some great tips:
Thanks to the folks at Zillow for being so inviting — a few weeks ago, they released the new Local Market Explorer Wordpress plug-in, making it really easy for real estate agents and other locally-focused bloggers to add hyperlocal information to their blogs with the click of a button (or, more precisely, with the installation and activation of this spiffy Local Market information plug-in).
To see how it can work, check out this realtor’s local class and real estate results — it includes home and market activity from Zillow, local K-12 school information from our friends at Education.com, the ‘walkability’ information from WalkScore, restaurant reviews from Yelp, and voila, now new local class information from TeachStreet!
p.s. We’re still wrestling with some PHP5 upgrade issues with our own blog, else we’d point you to a nicely formatted example here — those issues have nothing to do with Local Market Explorer, but rather with our budget-constrained Web Hosting Service!
It’s time to introduce the two newest members of the TeachStreet morale team: Abbey Road the morkie (maltese yorkie mix) and Stella the French Bulldog. Ever since it’s been a whole lot of cute as they run around our office bringing everyone joy. We couldn’t keep the cuteness to ourselves — so here’s a video:
Of course, we’re also now fully embroiled in puppy training — if you need to find a trainer check out some of our Dog Training listings!
It’s been a long and glorious summer up in the Pacific Northwest and the TeachStreet team has been taking full advantage of long days and warm nights… while at the same time working diligently on a little summer project that is officially launching today: TeachStreet Pro.
TeachStreet Pro is a new suite of tools for TeachStreet subscribers. TeachStreet Pro makes it easier for teachers to connect with new students, collect payments online (without any teacher processing fees — that’s right no fees!) and grow their business.
Our CEO, Dave, has been so excited about this new offering that yesterday, in anticipation for today’s launch, he created the following video explaining the benefits of going Pro:
If you don’t have time for the video, here are the key new features we’re offering with TeachStreet Pro:
Free Credit Card Processing — that’s right, Pro Members get free online payments!
Customize your profile and class pages with your own personalized banner
New members-only marketing tools (Craigslist ad tool, tear-sheet flyers, and table-top signs)
Priority placement across TeachStreet site, search, and student e-mails
We’ve also made it super-easy to try out pro — with a 14-day trial you can sign-up without any hassle.
