We recently connected with Evan Weisberg and have shared our conversation below.

Evan, looking forward to hearing all of your stories today. What’s the backstory behind how you came up with the idea for your business?

In 2010, I was working with various tutoring companies when I decided to go off on my own. I had been watching the ins and outs of the tutoring business as well as paying extremely close attention to the holes in the market. I realized that clients truly valued the little things that many of the major companies I worked for neglected. I also identified that there was a wide open demographic of working with students with special needs and learning challenges. I decided I was going to specialize in working with students who have special needs or learning challenges, homeschooling, and ACT/SAT preparation. I realized that these three main areas were the most rewarding yet challenging, had the best retention rates, and were the most profitable. In December of 2010, I created my first business card and I put it everywhere I could. Eventually, I obtained one client, which led to another client. By 2012, I had about 35 clients and was already driving to three different counties. I was homeschooling students, providing ACT/SAT preparation and also providing subject tutoring from 3rd grade-college.

Evan, before we move on to more of these sorts of questions, can you take some time to bring our readers up to speed on you and what you do?

In 2020, I created Tutors Who Care Corp. I had already been in the tutoring business since 2008 when I came out of college and had been a self-employed, self-operated tutoring company from 2010 on. I tutored students specifically with special needs, learning challenges, provided ACT/SAT preparation, homeschooling, and did various subject tutoring for students in 3rd grade-college. In 2017, I was working more than 70 paid hours a week with over 100 plus hours with the drive-time included. The demand was too big for me to handle on my own then. So, I took the leap to hire my first tutor. However, it wasn’t until 2020 that I went all in. In 2020, I saw the opportunity to expand our business throughout the entire state. With everyone in panic mode due to the pandemic, I started having families come to me to hire private tutors to work with their children instead of attend a school with the fear that they could become sick and get other relatives sick as well. During this time period, the Pre-K market took off as many parents with early childhood students felt apprehensive about sending their little ones to Preschool. We were able to build bases in Naples, St. Augustine, Ocala, all throughout South Florida, Jacksonville, and various other cities within Florida. Fast Forward to 2026, we have worked with thousands of kids via direct to consumer clients, school district programs, and even library programs.

How did you put together the initial capital you needed to start your business?

Unfortunately, I got involved with an international con-artist when I was 31 years old. At that time, I was already in a very strong financial position as I had been tutoring on my own from 24-31 and was able to save a significant amount of money. By 34, through various real estate deals and other investments, the con-artist had taken my entire life savings and I also accumulated a debt of nearly $104,000 consisting of credit cards and a personal loan. It was my father who had also been conned out of a ton of money who decided to give me $10,000 to be able to push our business throughout the entire state and I took another $10,000 from the SBA to start Tutors Who Care Corp. In addition, I was fortunate enough to have my marketing and back end right-hand man Raz front me a lot of the websites and let me pay him overtime.

We’d love to hear a story of resilience from your journey.

With only having $20,000 to invest, I knew I had to take everything I had as far as blood, sweat, and tears to make this company succeed. In our first year, we did $70,000 in sales. But, it wasn’t until almost the end of that year that I realized my supposed co-founder was stealing from the company. He was responsible for doing specific tasks and in turn earned a salary from it. I later realized that he was telling me he was doing these tasks, but instead was farming them out and keeping the extra money. This usually bankrupts or completely shuts down a company. I removed him in April of 2021 and we went on to do $265,000 in sales in our second year of business. We turned close to $100,000 in profit that year alone and I was able to get back strong on my feet.

Contact Info:

• Website: https://www.tutorswhocare.org