If you are interested, we are also on our way making Airbnb for individual's expertise.
http://expert.io
But it is just like the Airbnb story, start from nothing is always difficult.
I don't mind the odd guy sneaking in a shameless plug here and there, but this was just a bit too forced and you just made yourself look silly. :/
and check the initial post's comment thread: the same comment caught Mr Wilson's attention.
so not that silly...
Your first minute is useless. I go to your site and understand, okay, you're basically an online tutoring intermediary. But the services you offer are difficult to figure out, there's no categorisation or tagging, the search is bad, and you're not sure if your primary customers are the people buying or selling the service.
All in all, desperate.
Will this one be more clear to you about the platform? http://ex.gs/4n7YXa
Basically the homepage is for experts, and this little url is for experts to get their clients.
Back to your question: Yes, tutoring is an important part of our service, if you type "english tutor" into that search box, you will pretty much get the idea.
At this moment, english tutor is our main focus and almost every visitor come to the site is to find tutor or is a tutor. So the search form is quite useful to them.
But we don't want to offer categorization or tagging now is because that there is not so much to be categorized or tagged. I personally don't like a 3 level of categories without any real content. And we don't want to tag our site to be a tutoring platform with those categories. So we tend not to show them at the moment.
Apart from that, everything you said is true. With the exception of we are not an online tutoring intermediary.
// ready to be downvoted for this useless moderation on moderation