FAQs
+ What platforms do you use for your virtual tutoring and coaching sessions?
We use Zoom and Google Docs. This combination allows us to interact face-to-face with our clients while collaboratively editing shared documents. We’ve found this method works well for clients of all ages - even ones in elementary school!
+ How do you take payment?
After each session, your coach will send an electronic invoice to your email inbox through Square, our primary payment platform.
+ How long can one tutoring / coaching session be?
To avoid burnout (and boredom), we generally don’t meet with clients for longer than 2 hours at a time.
+ Are you hiring new tutors / editors / writing coaches?
Once in a while, we are! Please feel free to introduce yourself by sending over a resume and writing sample to brady@gilliamwritersgroup.com
+ Do you offer reduced rates to clients seeking long-term support?
Unfortunately, the Gilliam Writers Group cannot offer discounted rates for our tutoring, writing coaching, or editing services.
+ Will you tutor two or more people at once for the same flat rate?
Sort of! We do offer two-student lessons; they're a great way to save money, because clients can split the cost of each lesson 50/50. Although our tutoring sessions are primarily designed to be one-on-one, we're happy to arrange group lessons including no more than TWO students at once. We won't meet with more than two people at once. However, we charge slightly more for two-student lessons, since planning and facilitating them is extra difficult.
+ Do you accept clients who speak no / very little English?
We specialize in advanced ESL, so in order to benefit from our services, GWG clients should speak English proficiently. However, perfect fluency is not necessary or expected for clients speaking English as a foreign language.
+ Say I’m certain I want to schedule, say, 10 or 20 hours of tutoring. Can I pay in advance for a certain number of lessons?
Absolutely. Contact us to work out the details!
+ Are you booking new clients?
Yes! Please visit our Services page.
+ Can your editors write copy for my website / business / blog?
Yes, we can. Feel free to schedule a consultation to discuss.
+ Will you write my essay / research paper / school project for me?
No. We cannot help students cheat in school.
+ Would you refer me to a previous or current client so that I can ask them about their experience with the Gilliam Writers Group?
We’d be happy to! Feel free to ask, and we’ll connect you.
+ Brady - why did you start out as a private tutor and not a teacher?
Our school system encourages teachers to rely on external incentives to drive student performance, and I’m more passionate about the inside-out approach to education: inspiring students to love English for its own sake, for its potential to enrich their lives, and letting the results follow from there.
+ Is the Gilliam Writers Group a community?
No - the Gilliam Writers Group is a company that provides writing coaching, private editorial, and writing tutoring services to a wide variety of clients and students, and our main goal is to provide those services more effectively than anyone else. Not all of our customers would get along, were they to meet, and at the end of the day we prefer to be realistic in our understanding of the organization we've formed; making the words "company" and "community" interchangeable is, in our view, more dishonest than helpful. Our faculty members confer regularly and support each other professionally, but beyond that, GWG cannot be defined as a community.
Communities are wonderful at providing services to their members, but they ask for services in return. The benefit of hiring a company is that its representatives ask not for reciprocal services, but for pay, in exchange for their work, saving the customer time and more. For these and other reasons, GWG will avoid spamming you with daily "community" marketing emails, etc.