About Us
My passion is in helping and connecting others to the resources they need!
Reach for the Stars Tutoring, Inc, has been serving students of all ages since 2004. We work with students locally, across the US, and around the globe! Our primary goals are strengthening skills, building confidence, and reducing stress on students and families. Our teachers have been professionally trained in providing virtual tutoring and education.
If you can imagine it, we can help you to achieve it!
How We Got Started
I get my greatest pleasure from knowing that I helped someone else, from connecting someone to the resources they need, and by connecting people with each other. I started my tutoring company to support children's educational needs. Over the years, I have started additional endeavors, all with the goal of helping others and providing them with assistance to make smart choices for their families.
The products and services we offer
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"Not many people as committed to excellence like Melanie. She's built a great business, and truly..."
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"Not many people as committed to excellence like Melanie. She's built a great business, and truly seeks to help everyone she reaches. "
"Best tutors in the business. Efficient and Professional "
Products & Services
You want it? Make it happen! You can do it!
Don't give up and remember to enjoy the journey!!
We provide private tutoring for students of all ages, in all subjects, for general and special education.
Elementary - math, reading, writing, a...
With as little as one hour per week, we can:
1. Build skills and confidence!
2. Strengthen skills and concepts from this year.
3. Maintain skill...
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"Love Jake!! Highly knowledgeable, great integrity, outstanding client care!!"
"Owner-operated, highly knowledgeable, super thorough, and fast turnaround time."
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I always try to do right by my clients and potential clients. I own a tutoring company, so we're often talking about helping someone's child. I've got two kids of my own. I live on Long Island and pay Long Island taxes. I get it. It's not always easy to afford the services your child(ren)...
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I always try to do right by my clients and potential clients. I own a tutoring company, so we're often talking about helping someone's child. I've got two kids of my own. I live on Long Island and pay Long Island taxes. I get it. It's not always easy to afford the services your child(ren) needs. If I know the family is struggling, I will offer to slash my prices in order to help. If I can't get my prices low enough, I'll refer them to low cost/free tutoring options. We've got an awesome track record but you can't please everyone. Once in a while, a family will tell me that the tutor I assigned was wonderful and clearly knew what they were doing, but just didn't click with their child. I always offer to switch teachers. I've also given money back when a client didn't want to try another tutor. As a business owner, I strongly believe that you're only as good as how you handle yourself when things go wrong. Things will go wrong. I want to make sure that my customers know I truly care and I'll go to great lengths to make it right. Most of my new clients come through word-of-mouth referrals and recommendations on social media. My reputation is everything to me. I'd rather make less money or even give money back, if needed, to make sure I do the right thing.
I'm grateful to say that I no longer pay for advertising/marketing. Almost all of my new private clients come either from the professional business networking I belong to or from Facebook. I've been in business for over 14 years. Joining my professional business networking group 13 years ago...
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I'm grateful to say that I no longer pay for advertising/marketing. Almost all of my new private clients come either from the professional business networking I belong to or from Facebook. I've been in business for over 14 years. Joining my professional business networking group 13 years ago was the single best decision I ever made to grow my business. I've also worked hard to establish my reputation on Facebook. The combination of the two is working!
Great idea! Too often, paraprofessionals do not have the proper training to effectively work with students with autism. Can you offer online courses/workshops for paraprofessionals? I actually have a dear friend, who might be able to help you with this. She's an educational consultant and...
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Great idea! Too often, paraprofessionals do not have the proper training to effectively work with students with autism. Can you offer online courses/workshops for paraprofessionals? I actually have a dear friend, who might be able to help you with this. She's an educational consultant and she's amazing. I know she's done training in schools for paraprofessionals.
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I always feel most proud when I know that I truly helped someone and made a difference in their lives. It might be by providing a product or service for them or their child or by connecting them with a professional that can help them. Either way, it makes me feel great knowing that I helped and...
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I always feel most proud when I know that I truly helped someone and made a difference in their lives. It might be by providing a product or service for them or their child or by connecting them with a professional that can help them. Either way, it makes me feel great knowing that I helped and I made an impact on someone. That's what life is all about.
When I first started out 14 years ago, I advertised in my local Yankee Trader/Pennysaver newspaper. I also made up flyers with little pull-off tabs and spent hours every weekend, going to my local shopping centers, walking into each store, asking to speak with the owner or manager, and asking...
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When I first started out 14 years ago, I advertised in my local Yankee Trader/Pennysaver newspaper. I also made up flyers with little pull-off tabs and spent hours every weekend, going to my local shopping centers, walking into each store, asking to speak with the owner or manager, and asking for permission to post my flyer. It was time-consuming work and I learned that the store windows get cleaned every week, so the flyers are taken down. I started to get smart and only hit the high traffic stores like the stationary, cleaners, deli, pizza, and Chinese food places. I was careful to avoid corporate stores, too, because they aren't allowed to post flyers. Very time-consuming but nevertheless, it worked! The best decision I ever made to seriously grow my business, was to join a local chapter of a national business networking group! I haven't paid for advertising since. It's like having a group of salespeople working for me. It's all based on word-of-mouth referral. If anyone wants more info, feel free to message me. I also do a LOT in the last several years with Facebook. The majority of my new clients come from a combination of Facebook and the business networking group. You've got to be smart about social media. No one likes to read sales posts all the time. You've got to provide information, so that you're looked at as a resource.
I've been in business for 14 years and I've been part of a business networking group for 13 of those years. It was the best thing I ever did to help grow my business. When I meet one-on-one with people, I want to learn about them, their ideal customer, any specials or promotions they have going...
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I've been in business for 14 years and I've been part of a business networking group for 13 of those years. It was the best thing I ever did to help grow my business. When I meet one-on-one with people, I want to learn about them, their ideal customer, any specials or promotions they have going on, etc. I want to see if there's a way that we can refer business to each other.
I offer referral incentives. When a client refers a new client to us, they earn a free tutoring session.
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I offer referral incentives. When a client refers a new client to us, they earn a free tutoring session.
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The networking group is called LeTip. If anyone wants more info and/or would like to attend a meeting, please contact me at melanie@reachforthestarstutoring.com. Hands down, best decision I ever made to grow my businesses!
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The networking group is called LeTip. If anyone wants more info and/or would like to attend a meeting, please contact me at melanie@reachforthestarstutoring.com. Hands down, best decision I ever made to grow my businesses!
I have to be honest. When I share my post myself in different groups, I get a LOT more views than when I pay to boost my ad. For example, I have a post now that has reached over 6000 people through my own efforts and only 75 from boosting it.
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I have to be honest. When I share my post myself in different groups, I get a LOT more views than when I pay to boost my ad. For example, I have a post now that has reached over 6000 people through my own efforts and only 75 from boosting it.
