I am a senior electrical engineer with over 40 years of experience.
The platform is free for anyone to join. It is also free to list what you are good, at which is your expertise.
There are no upfront or monthly fees just to offer consulting.
The real cost is indirect:
The platform usually takes a percentage for each call that is completed. This means that, for every call that the platform finishes it gets a part of the money. The platform makes money by taking a percentage of the amount for each completed call.
You are trading time and availability than setting fixed packages. This means that the amount of time you have available is what you are really offering to people. You are not setting fixed packages instead you are letting people decide how much of your time they want to buy. The time and availability of your services is what is being traded, not a set of things that you will do for them. This can be a bit tricky because it is hard to know how much time you will have to give to each person.. It can also be good because it lets people choose how much of your time they want to use. The idea is that you are selling your time and availability and people can decide how they want to use it than you setting fixed packages for them.
The quality of a lead depends on how visible your profile's how active you are. If people can see your profile and you are always doing something then you will get leads. This is because people are more likely to trust someone who has a profile and is always active. So lead quality is really important. It is connected to your profile and how you use it. The more visible your profile. The more active you are the better the lead quality will be.
For consultants this works best as:
a low-risk acquisition channel
a way to validate demand
or a complement to existing clients
If you want an straightforward consulting experience you will probably want to take the good leads that you find and move the consulting experience off the platform into a longer term relationship, with the leads so you can work with the qualified leads more closely.
Used this way, the platform’s cost is minimal — the main investment is your time, not money.
