<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Pillar OS — Blog</title><description>Playbooks on running and growing a tutoring business: pricing, retention, operations, and the software that ties it together.</description><link>https://pillaros.ca/</link><language>en-ca</language><item><title>You cannot calculate last quarter&apos;s tutor utilization rate</title><link>https://pillaros.ca/blog/tutor-utilization-rate/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://pillaros.ca/blog/tutor-utilization-rate/</guid><description>Utilization is booked hours over available hours, and availability is a setting rather than a history, so every backward looking number is an estimate.</description><pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Operations</category></item><item><title>Billing and invoicing for a tutoring business</title><link>https://pillaros.ca/blog/tutoring-business-billing/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://pillaros.ca/blog/tutoring-business-billing/</guid><description>Where the money quietly leaks between a booking and a payment, what a cancelled package legally owes back in Quebec, and what your invoices have to show.</description><pubDate>Sun, 26 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Operations</category></item><item><title>Session packs vs subscriptions: pricing for retention</title><link>https://pillaros.ca/blog/pricing-tutoring-packages/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://pillaros.ca/blog/pricing-tutoring-packages/</guid><description>Drop-ins, packs, and subscriptions each do something different to cash flow and retention. A plain framework for choosing, and when to move a family up.</description><pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Growth</category></item><item><title>The tutoring business software stack, explained (2026)</title><link>https://pillaros.ca/blog/tutoring-business-software-guide/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://pillaros.ca/blog/tutoring-business-software-guide/</guid><description>The five jobs your software has to cover, what breaks when one is missing, and how to tell whether your tools or the gaps between them are eating your week.</description><pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Guides</category></item><item><title>Why families ghost tutoring sessions (and how to stop it)</title><link>https://pillaros.ca/blog/reduce-tutoring-no-shows/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://pillaros.ca/blog/reduce-tutoring-no-shows/</guid><description>No-shows are not bad luck. They are a systems problem: a reminder that landed at a useless time, a reschedule that needed a phone call. Here is the fix.</description><pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Operations</category></item></channel></rss>