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First mentee

Getting your first mentees

More than ever, getting your start on MentorCruise is no easy feat. As of writing, about 30% of mentors get lucky enough to get a booking in their first week on the platform. For more than half of mentors, that moment happens within the first month.

But what if you don’t want to leave it up to chance? What can you do to attract your first mentees on the platform?

Touch your network first

The safest way to get your first mentee, a first good review, and some experience on the platform is to find one yourself.

We will provide you with several resources during your onboarding that allow you to share your profile elsewhere – your website, socials, communities. We recommend that you do so.

If you have a network of over 2,500 connections on Linkedin, we’re seeing a growing rate that someone in your network will want to book a quick session with you.

This may not be the key to long-term traffic on the platform, however it can provide that first review and solve the cold start problem.

Optimize your profile (to get traffic from us)

Our network will prioritize traffic to those with a complete and polished profile. Further, you should go through 📰Profile setup to make sure your discovery section is set up so our system understands which mentees are the best fit for you.

You should also experiment with different approaches to your positioning. The best profiles on MentorCruise mentor a very specific niche

Engage with us for more traffic

Check your marketing page for specific collaboration opportunities that can bring you more traffic. Our most successful new mentees will generally reach out about 2 or 3 of these.

  • Publishing a guest post on our blog
  • Recording a video snippet for our social media
  • Embedding your profile in newsletters, personal blogs etc.
  • Publishing an interview

Drop your price for your first mentees

Experienced mentor Mladen offered us his insights on how he attracted his first few mentees: promotional offers.

As other mentors grew in experience and started raising their prices, he saw the chance to gain a benefit offering services to the more budget conscious mentees on the network.

I started with around $100 and with every mentee, I’d raise the price by $40 until I got to a point where I was OK not to go higher.

This helped Mladen to get the flywheels running and gain more experience and standing on the platform.