Hi! I dont't know how it is working at your home, but i have a friend, not teaching just taking passengers for a ride / sightseeing at his free time, but the method is the same:
he advertised himself everywhere, non-online way, like a printed paper with phone nr, and photos etc at the information boards in every building
(it's not Uni, it's army base, but this structure is the same, buildings with ingo boards everywhere), as people starting to know him, giving his phone nr to each other.
He hires a plane from his flight school where he did his training, as he do not have an own one.
Btw, creating a FB / insta page ?
FlyingDawgg Flight Instructor
Invite your FB friends to like it
make a game, "if you vote, you can win a trial flight" (like one round at the traffic pattern)
FB ad is very cheap, and you can set the type of people, where your ad will appear (like people who like uni's page, flying pages, people who live within a certain miles area etc etc)
Start to fill this with photos, news, keep it updating, also lot of adventure / selfie pics of you flying with people, having fun, and like this people will come.
or need a special offer like ... people often afraid starting a course, and "trial" is also very popular (in europe, I know) like full theory preparation and 5 or 10 hours of flying etc
business card is also good, still not out of fashion
Originally Posted by
FlyingDawgg
So I've recently passed my CFI Initial and was told I was going to be instructing at my university. Well, there is now a surplus of CFI's and they stopped hiring. There are other flight schools but they're all over an hour and a half driving distances and I'm still in college. I don't have a plane so I'm pretty limited.
I have a few friends who do freelance instructing with students without an airplane. So far I've taken steps to avoid undercutting them and taking their business. They're having to turn down students with airplanes since they're so busy. I want to earn my own business but where do I begin?
So here are some questions I had.
1) Should I make a LLC or get liability insurance?
2) Do business cards really work?
3) What's a good website creating company/host?