Rosie Sherry becomes a mentor
by dqmonnMentors are the bread and butter of MentorCruise, and it is always a special day if we can welcome a fresh one-of-a-kind mentor on the platform.
Today is one of those days. Rosie Sherry – known as the brain behind Ministry of Testing and friendly community manager here at IH joins us at MentorCruise to show people the art of building communities, marketing and gettings things done.
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Nice site and great way to provide mentoring services to an audience of startup founders etc. I am really impressed with what you have created.
One question though - I was looking through the list of mentors, and I noticed that some of them have reviews against their name, but there doesn't seem to be any way of actually seeing those reviews by peers?? That is an important consideration when I am looking for someone like a mentor, I like to hear first hand experience from another mentee about what they got out of the experience.
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Building that right now. Unfortunately many of the reviews need a bit of moderation to provide context, before they can be useful for mentees (e.g. if the comment includes private info or is about the platform).
You will start to see testimonials on some profiles, e.g. https://mentorcruise.com/mentor/YashishDua/
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OMG. Why is she priced so cheap?! She's worth probably 10X that (at least)...!
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Prices across engineering seem to be a bit on the low side. $50 / week is the max I saw and unlike being a content creator for a lessons site this isn't record once sell for <50 1,000 times, and experience across some of your mentors is pretty Junior. I guess it depends what level of mentorship people are after, but a bit more specialization and searchability over specializations would make it more enticing to me as a mentor.
What's your vetting process?
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Hey! yeah $50 is the max right now and is pushing the limit of what people want to pay. Simply said the higher the price, the higher the expectations, and with the vetting and training process there is right now, I would not be fully comfortable sending out folks charging $400 per month for 'mentorship'. That would be coaching then, and that's not what most mentors do. Maybe in the future! We track 'mentor experience' now, so maybe folks could unlock this as they earn their stripes.
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Makes sense. At current prices however it's more tax frustration than it's worth. So doing it out of the goodness of my heart is the only compelling sales pitch 😜. Cool idea, if all people are willing to pay is $50 then I don't know if the draw is there.
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I'd imagine it's a bit of both more tutor style. $50 hourly could be interesting but the "by appointment" or let's call it "ala carte", instead of on demand, aspect could prove difficult for time management or impact of mentorship. Maybe what I'm more interested in is "coaching" as you put it 😅. I want to help improve and drive to results with a mentee, that'd be fun and I guess here it'd be possible too.
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@dqmonn awesome! And is there a way for mentors to sign up for sessions only for discrete technical needs (like code review or help with up front tech design)? Funnily enough I was browsing mentor cruise last night and tbh decided it was not for me as I didn't like the idea of potentially committing undefined amount of time of time...also I am very much open to doing a session for free. I would love it if I can really meaningfully help someone and know that I can form a mentoring habit with to 2 hour per week consistent time dedicated. Hopefully this makes sense!
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There's no process for this right now, but you could totally set your 'open spots for longterm students' to 0 and just sign up for sessions instead.
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Ah okay thanks! I will give it a try. So sounds like there is an option to sign-up for one-off sessions, there is just not an official process for it. I should give it a try, as soon as I can allocate couple hours for the application, onboarding process. btw I really like the design and layout on your site. Nice work!
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Thanks!
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