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by reilly3000 1772 days ago
Great idea! I think it would be a neat UX if mentors could have a drop-in (iframe) widget they could put in their contact page, link tree, or other common contact points. "Looking for advice?" That would make it easy to funnel those types of requests into paying customers, but perhaps more importantly cut down on their volume of inbound requests. I see you already have a decent stable of mentors- how have you recruited them so far and how do you plan to expand the network?
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Thank you! The widget definitely makes sense--right now, we give each mentor a unique link that directs to their profile page on a browser, which we encourage them to share in social media profile bios etc. The early mentors all came in through our own outreach. Now we are getting about 50% from referrals and inbound requests.