Instructor Overview
Instructors
LSAT score
Estimated income
Estimated time commitment
16 weekends per year (8 weekends teaching plus 8 weekends putting up posters on college campuses)
Estimated hourly earnings
Here is a comprehensive overview of the Prepmaster Review part-time opportunity for law students and law school graduates. Start your new business in ten easy steps. Step 2 below includes instructions regarding how to submit your email application to Prepmaster Review.
Step 1
Prepmaster Review mails posters to law school placement offices and to law review offices seeking law students or law school graduates who are interested in earning an excellent part-time income by establishing an LSAT prep business in their city using our textbook, Instructor Guidelines, Instructor Website Template, poster templates, and e-commerce platform.
Step 2
Law students or law school graduates who are interested in earning an excellent part-time income by establishing an LSAT prep business in their city should send an email application to:
Please include the following information in your email application: Name, email address, cell phone number, mailing address, name of your law school, year you graduated or expect to graduate from law school, LSAT score with percentile ranking, law school GPA, any law school honors received, undergraduate college or university attended, undergraduate major, undergraduate GPA, and any undergraduate honors received. Finally, please include a brief statement explaining why you would like to own your own LSAT prep business.
Step 3
Item 1
Welcome letter with step-by-step instructions explaining how to set-up your new business. These instructions include important information regarding the website hosting company we recommend, the e-commerce service we recommend, and the freelance webmaster we recommend.
Your estimated start-up expenses include the following:
| Item | Cost |
|---|---|
|
Domain registration |
$50 |
|
Website hosting |
$150 |
|
Webmaster |
$600 |
|
Total |
$800 |
Your first two students will more than cover your estimated start-up expenses. The $600 fee for building your website includes updating and troubleshooting services for twelve months. After the twelve months are up, the fee for updating and troubleshooting services is $50 per month payable annually in advance in the amount of $600.
Item 2
Instructor Overview (print edition)
Item 3
Instructor Guidelines (print edition)
Item 4
A Systematic Approach to the Law School Admission Test, Classroom Edition (textbook)
Item 5
Initial posting supplies:
Stapler
Staple remover
(for removing staples from bulletin boards)
Staples
Push pins
You will need a briefcase to carry your textbook and teaching supplies. You will need a backpack to carry your posters and posting supplies while posting colleges.
Step 4
Instructor business owners who are selected by Prepmaster Review receive three key benefits:
Benefit 1
Instructors who are selected by Prepmaster Review receive a 50% discount when they purchase textbooks (author copies) directly from Prepmaster Review. Textbooks ordered directly from Prepmaster Review cost $49 per copy. Textbooks purchased on Amazon cost $99 per copy.
Benefit 2
Instructors who are selected by Prepmaster Review also benefit because Prepmaster Review spends 25% of author royalties on Google Advertising. We expect to spend $50,000 per year on Google Advertising once LSAT instructor businesses are established in fifty cities. Google Advertising directs individuals to the Prepmaster Review website where prospective students can click on the instructor website for the seminar location they wish to attend.
Benefit 3
Any instructor who uses our textbooks in class is welcome to freely use the registered trademark “Prepmaster.”
By accepting these benefits, instructor business owners agree to allow Prepmaster Review to list their name, credentials, seminar location, and website link on the Prepmaster Review website. Instructor business owners also agree to include the following sections, as provided by Prepmaster Review, on their website homepage:
(1) LSAT Self Study Course with Prepmaster Review Amazon Associates link
(2) Reading List for Entering Law Students with Prepmaster Review Amazon Associates links
While it is true that a few students will purchase the LSAT Self Study Course in lieu of the LSAT Classroom Seminar, in our experience most students who purchase the LSAT Self Study Course also register for the LSAT Classroom Seminar. Thus, the effect on your registration from including these sections will almost certainly be positive.
Step 5
Instructors need to act quickly to register their domain name, to open a hosting account, to apply to open an e-commerce account, and to send the edits they wish to make to the website template located on our website to their webmaster. Please refer to the welcome letter in the package we send you for detailed instructions and for the services and the freelance webmaster we recommend.
We recommend selecting a domain name that combines the name of your city with “lsatprep,” “lsatcourse,” “lsatclass,” “lsatreview,” “lsatseminar,” or “prepmaster.”
Here are examples of domain names for classes held in Austin, Texas:
Rather than using your personal email address for your business, we recommend establishing a separate business email address on your Google account.
How to add a new Gmail address to your current Google account:
To add an email address to your current Google account, you must first create a new Gmail account. You are probably thinking, “I already have a Gmail account. I don’t need another Gmail account. I just want to create a new Gmail address and add it to my current Gmail account.” I know it is confusing, but the way you create a new gmail address is to create another Gmail “account.” I promise you that when you are finished, your new Gmail address will appear side-by-side with your current Gmail address on your phone. You will be able to check all your emails on your phone just like you currently do.
01
The first step is to determine the Gmail address you want to use for your new business. Below are examples of possible email addresses for Prepmaster Review LSAT Classroom Seminars held in Austin, Texas.
- austinlsatprep@gmail.com
- austinlsatcourse@gmail.com
- austinlsatclass@gmail.com
- austinlsatreview@gmail.com
- austinlsatseminar@gmail.com
- austinprepmaster@gmail.com
02
In Gmail, click on your profile at the top right of the screen.
03
Click on “Add another account.” Then click on “Google.” Enter the four digit pin for your Google account.
04
Enter your current, personal Gmail address and then click on “Create account.”
05
Click on “Create your own Gmail address.”
06
Enter the new Gmail address you want to use for your business.
07
Select work/business for the account type.
08
Follow the prompts to enter your name, date of birth, gender, and to create a unique username and password. I used the same password for all my Gmail accounts without any problems.
09
You may be prompted to verify your phone number to ensure it's not an automated account.
10
Make sure you agree to Google's terms and privacy policy.
Click below for more information regarding course administration:
Step 6
Prepmaster Review is dedicated to helping instructor business owners any way we possibly can. We are always available to answer questions. We want instructor business owners to succeed. Our interests are aligned. Prepmaster Review wants to sell as many textbooks as possible and instructor business owners want to register as many students as possible. Here is our contact information:
Tom Lowry
Step 7
During the initial business start-up period, instructors should skip holding classes for the February and April test dates. This allows four months (February through May) for new instructors to prepare to teach while their posters begin working and while their websites begin accumulating clicks, course registrations, and payments. The first course new instructors will teach will be in late May or early June in preparation for the June LSAT.
Step 8
Once at least ten LSAT Classroom Seminar locations are listed on the Prepmaster Review website with links to each instructor’s website, Prepmaster Review will begin advertising on Google search. Individuals who click on the Prepmaster Review website can then click on the website for the seminar location they wish to attend. This will bring substantial traffic to instructor websites. Nevertheless, based on thirty years experience conducting LSAT classroom seminars throughout the United States, we are convinced that college postering is the key to success for your business.
Step 9
We estimate that each seminar location will register 100 students per year (10 students for each of 8 seminar dates plus an extra 20 students during the busy fall courses). At $499 per student, instructor business owners will gross $49,900 for 100 students. Expenses include $4,900 for LSAT manuals ($49 per manual × 100 manuals = $4,900) plus $4,000 for meeting room rentals ($500 per weekend rental × 8 weekends = $4,000) plus $1,000 for a year’s worth of posters ($.50 per poster × 50 posters x 4 quarterly postings × 10 schools = $1,000). Thus, the estimated net annual part-time income for instructors would be $40,000 ($49,900 minus $4,900 minus $4,000 minus $1,000 = $40,000).
This income is far more than a law student could earn working as a part-time instructor for a national test prep business like Kaplan or Princeton Review.
Step 10
The time commitment for instructor business owners includes a few days to set-up your business by following the step-by-step instructions in the welcome letter we send you; eight weekends teaching; eight weekends (or an equivalent number of evenings) placing posters on bulletin boards at colleges in your area (two weekends per calendar quarter). This adds up to 256 hours per year (16 weekends × 16 hours per weekend = 256 hours). Add 16 hours (4 hours per calendar quarter) for administrative tasks such as making meeting room reservations and accounting and you will be working a total of 272 hours per year (256 hours plus 16 hours equals 272 hours). Thus, your estimated hourly earnings = $40,000 ÷ 272 hours = $147 per hour. We recommend that you also take time to introduce yourself to prelaw advisors at local colleges.
The Power of Commitment
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