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| Learning and Marketing Stage |  It is good idea to do a market study in the area where you are willing to travel. Find out if there are enough homeschoolers. Drop in at park days and talk to parents about tutoring possibilities. Inquire about what sort of tutoring they want for their children and what classes they already have them signed up in. Is there some gap? Determine your niche and place an advertisement in the publications of support groups. Contact into contact with nearby conference coordinators and see about putting a flyer in their vendor packets.
It will be useful to attend some field trips or other learning situations where there will be homeschoolers. This will help you to get the idea, especially of what works and what doesn't. You'll see "lectures" fail dismally, while moderated explorations work wonderfully. You probably knew this, right?
You may subscribe to local support group newsletters as well as national publications regarding natural learning and homeschooling. Look through a number of books on the topic of homeschooling.
A nice book you may read is David Albert's "And the skylark sings with me". The Alberts carefully select tutors or mentors for their daughters as their interests dictated. You should expect that homeschool parents will want some very specific instruction for their child, and not that they'll want to hand the kids over to you all day and every day for learning "the basics."
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