I recently decided to coach beginners under 1200 for 5$/hour I looked everywhere in the forum you can check, I even offered a free session, why anyone is not interested? am I doing anything that I shouldn't? so annoying.
I have a question for you. I’m currently around 300 Elo. With this Elo rating, in your opinion, how long (in hours) would it take for someone at my level to reach 1200 Elo, given that ‘under 1200 Elo’ implies your aim is to help us reach 1200 Elo. When you’re at 300 Elo, you often make mistakes, you don’t spot checkmates, etc. I fully understand that this is a paid service and that you need to earn a living. But you have to put yourself in the student’s shoes. Over a week, at $5 an hour, for 3 hours a day, that’s $15. For a week, you multiply by 7, which makes $105. Multiply by 4, which gives $420 per month. Over a year, 420 × 12 = 5,040$ (This is assuming there are lessons every day, which, I admit, is a rather extreme scenario). In my case, I took out a premium subscription because I took advantage of Black Friday: the subscription price was halved; otherwise, I wouldn’t have done it.
First of all I would say that it depends on the student how much time is needed for the improvement because everyone is different, and secondly, lessons are supposed to be a weekly thing because it is not all lesson that wins you elo directly you have to apply your learnings to the games and your coach should know about it and I don't understand the point of that calculation because 5$/hour is pretty cheap if you compare ,it is as I said 20 dollars a month.
There is a lot of competition in coaching. Trust is a big factor. You have to build trust and an audience. Being titled already increases trust. Having a youtube channel is another one. Streaming can also increase trust etc.
I agree, I don't know how to do that, I just think that I am good at explaining concepts and want to get noticed by someone who might be interested.