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Blaine
Founder · Permit Hound
"I don't want to walk through an uncleared minefield without someone who has walked it before."
Hamel Shah
Co-Founder · CarrotsAndCake
"GrowthMentor enables us to swiftly get a world-class expert to give us guidance on any marketing issue or…"
Lena Sesardic
Product Manager
"Knowing I can always book a call to help me clarify what I'm doing is the best feeling in the world."
Minh
Solo Founder · SEOmatic
"I like to set my own strategies and then get help from experts to improve on them and check if I'm on the…"
Nicola Rubino
Growth Marketing Consultant · nicorubino
"It gave me fast access to expert-level insights that I couldn't get from academic research or user surveys…"
Annie Chen
Head of Marketing · DOWN Dating App
"Sometimes I'm stuck at one step and all I need is someone who can share experiences of what they did when…"
Carlos Terol
Co-Founder · Bagmaya
"I enjoy having pretty much instant access to a pool of worldwide, expert mentors who are keen to share their…"
Luka Karsten Breitig
Co-Founder · The Happy Beavers
"Imagine a world where everything you read was written by a subject-matter expert."
Flora Bui
Co-Founder · Acie
"My favorite thing about GrowthMentor is how it allows me to expand my network globally in a very short time…"
Maria Ledentsova
Digital Marketing Manager · magier
"Whatever problem I have, there's a friendly and incredibly helpful mentor ready to help."
Kate Bojkov
Head of Growth · EmbedSocial
"How quick and easy I can find somebody who had my problem and is willing to talk with me and openly share…"
Supriya Agarwal
Co-founder · BiosectRx
"Being able to connect with any expert across the globe at the click of a button. No network or previous…"
Anastasia Rubleva
Head of Growth · Rapid Dev
"I love the ability to receive valuable feedback from mentors who have been in the industry for decades."
Andrew McBurney
CEO & Co-founder · Review Robin
"You should cut out 99% of the things that you're thinking about."
The mentors, in their own words.
60 mentors available
Learning growth marketing is an exciting uphill journey and requires you to be perpetually curious about how each component in your business can affect the next, and how to harness a cascading effect to spur growth. Happy to share my advice on how to learn growth marketing, from my personal perspective running growth at EuroVPS and subsequently creating GrowthMentor.
Kevin Veitia
Digital Ad Ninja 🥷 | Learn How to Scale Ads & Grow Your Business | Ex-Canva, Starbucks | Meta & PPC Mentor
I've built websites that have scaled to 1,000,000 MAUs, have added hundreds of thousands of users in just months to popular apps like Canva, and have developed winning methodologies and frameworks for scaling user acquisition through paid advertisement. I'd love to share what I've developed with you.
I'm the founder of Growth Method, the agentic marketing platform for B2B teams. Generate ideas, launch campaigns, and prove what works. For people and agents. I have worked in-house, as consultant, and prior to that founded a digital agency (The Digital Elite).
Daniel Johnson
GTM & Growth Operator | AI & B2B SaaS | Fractional CMO | £18M+ Revenue Driven
Although I deeply dislike the phrase, my career has been focused on helping businesses grow through employing the scientific method to rapidly, cheaply and effectively identify growth techniques and strategies.
Nilay Jayswal
Fractional GTM & Performance Marketing Consultant | Google, Meta & LinkedIn Ads | Outbound Automation
Scaling a business isn't just about running ads. It's about building sustainable growth loops. I've driven 16X pipeline growth and cut CPL by 50% for SaaS startups through a mix of paid acquisition, content, and PLG. I can help you identify high-ROI channels, optimize conversion funnels, and run data-driven experiments that accelerate revenue growth.
How can I grow my user numbers? Are my tactics correct? Anything I could do more, or differently to sell more, acquire users and customers, or reduce churn?
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What a growth mentor does
A growth marketing mentor has already run the experiments you are about to run. You get a 1:1 call with someone who has owned a growth number and knows which levers move it for a company at your stage.
Most calls do some version of five things:
- Reframe the problem. "Growth is slow" becomes a named cause: a dead channel, a leaky step, the wrong audience. You leave knowing which one it is.
- Find the bottleneck. The fastest win is usually spotting which single part of the funnel is holding everything back, then fixing that first.
- Narrow the target. Marketing to everyone is the most common mistake. A mentor helps you pick the audience worth winning.
- Pick the channel. Instead of spreading thin across six channels, you decide which one to go deep on, and which to drop.
- Fix what you measure. If you cannot tell what is working, every decision is a guess. A mentor helps you track the numbers that matter.
The value is direction: what to do next, and what to ignore.
You also leave with a record. After each call, the takeaways are written down for you, ready to keep or skip:
Daniel JohnsonPPC budget sanity checkHold paid spend flat until CAC payback is under six months, then scale in 20 percent steps.
Track paid CAC per channel, blended CAC was hiding that Meta pays back twice as fast as Google.
KeepSkipKill broad match keywords before adding budget, they took most of last quarter’s spend without converting.
KeepSkipA workable CAC ceiling is a third of first-year revenue per customer, revisit it every quarter.
KeepSkipWhere growth gets stuck
Most people book a call stuck on something specific:
- Team of one. you own growth alone, often without formal training, and there is no one senior to sanity-check your plan.
- No budget. you are expected to grow with little or no spend, leaning on word of mouth that will not scale on its own.
- Traffic that will not convert. the top of the funnel works. People show up. Then almost nobody signs up or buys.
- The paid ceiling. ads worked at small scale, then stopped. Costs climb, returns fall, and scaling makes it worse.
- Spread too thin. a little of everything, none of it compounding, because attention and budget are split six ways.
- Broken measurement. tracking is patchy, attribution is a mess, and you cannot trust your own dashboard.
Most people here are not full-time marketers
The reader on this page is usually a founder or operator doing growth without a dedicated team. You do not need a job title in marketing to get value from a call. You need a specific problem.
Choosing the right channel
Channel choice is the most common reason people book a growth marketing call. The instinct is to add more: another platform, another tactic, another experiment. The fix is usually the opposite.
A good mentor looks at your product, your margins, and your stage, then picks the one or two channels worth real focus. They will also tell you which of the things you are doing now to stop.
Finding the funnel bottleneck
"We get traffic but nothing converts" is one of the most common things people bring to a call. The traffic is rarely the problem. Something after the click is leaking.
A mentor walks the funnel with you and finds the bottleneck, usually one of these:
- The offer. what you are asking people to do is too big, too vague, or not worth it yet.
- The landing page. you are sending paid traffic to a homepage instead of a page built for that one audience and action.
- The targeting. the traffic is the wrong audience, so it was never going to convert no matter how good the page is.
- The activation step. people sign up and never reach the moment the product clicks, so they leave.
- The tracking. it might be converting fine, and your measurement is just hiding it.
Fixing the right one is worth more than optimizing all of them at once.
Mentors start diagnosing before the call. A typical first exchange after you book:
Peter Murphy LewisKnowing what's working
Many people arrive unsure whether anything they are doing is working. That uncertainty leads to either freezing or thrashing.
A mentor helps you separate the numbers that matter from the ones that just look good:
- Measure outcomes, not activity. signups, qualified leads, activation and revenue tell you more than impressions, likes and raw traffic.
- Pick one number to move. a single focus metric for this quarter beats a dashboard of forty you never act on.
- Get attribution good enough. you do not need perfect tracking. You need enough to know which channel deserves more.
- Prove it to whoever you report to. tying marketing to revenue is often the difference between getting budget and losing it.
The fix is rarely more tracking. It is three numbers you actually trust, checked weekly.
Converting trial users
If you run a free trial or a freemium plan, the hardest question is why people sign up and never pay.
Usually the price is not the blocker. People sign up, never reach the moment the product proves its worth, and drift off. A mentor who has run this playbook can tell you whether to fix onboarding, change the trial, rethink the free tier, or adjust the offer.
Free-to-paid conversion is mostly an activation problem. Fix the moment users first see the value, and the upgrade decision gets much easier.
Growing on no budget
Plenty of people come to GrowthMentor with growth pressure and almost no money to spend. Paid ads are not the only answer, and for a lot of businesses they are the wrong first move.
A mentor can help you build compounding channels that do not depend on a budget:
- Content and SEO. Earn traffic that keeps paying off, built around what your buyers search for.
- Partnerships and referrals. Borrow other people's audiences and turn happy customers into a deliberate channel.
- Community and word of mouth. Turn the goodwill you already have into something repeatable, not accidental.
- Lifecycle and email. Convert and keep the people you have already earned, which is cheaper than finding new ones.
The goal is one or two of these working well, not all of them running at half effort.
a zero-budget month, x-rayed
Ten interviews booked from your own signup list1. One teardown post in the community where your buyers already hang out2. A swap with an adjacent tool: their newsletter, your audience3. The goal: thirty signups from owned channels this month4.
The list you own
Your signups, your inbox replies. Free reach nobody else has.
Proof in public
One useful piece where buyers already gather beats ten posts on your own blog.
The borrowed audience
A partner swap costs nothing and lands warm.
The number
Small enough to hit this month, real enough to tell you if it worked.
Nothing on this page costs money. The order is the judgment call, and that is what the call is for.
When to book a call
You do not need a giant question. Bring the thing you would ask a smart friend who happens to have done it five times before. The most useful moments to book:
- Growth has stalled. what worked has stopped, and you cannot tell whether to fix it or find a new lever.
- You are facing a channel decision. you are about to commit real time or budget and want a second opinion first.
- Your funnel is leaking. traffic is fine, conversion is not, and you cannot find where it breaks.
- You just became the growth person. first marketing hire, or a founder who now owns growth, with no playbook to inherit.
- You inherited a strategy you did not build. you want someone to pressure-test it before you keep pouring effort in.
A focused 30 minutes with the right mentor is usually faster than another month of guessing.
What a mentor can help with
Growth marketing is broad, and so is the network. You are not limited to one channel specialist. You can find someone who has done the specific thing you are stuck on:
- Acquisition. Paid, organic, outbound and the channel mix that fits your product.
- Conversion and CRO. Landing pages, funnels and the path from visitor to customer.
- Retention and lifecycle. Onboarding, activation, churn and email that keeps people paying.
- Content and SEO. A content engine and search strategy that compounds over time.
- Paid and performance. Meta, Google and paid social, from first budget to scaling.
- Positioning and GTM. Who you are for, why you win, and how to take it to market.
- Measurement and analytics. Tracking, attribution and the metrics that guide decisions.
- Pricing and monetization. Plans, trials, free tiers and how you present price.
Pick the mentor whose growth background matches the problem you brought.
You can also run it in reverse: post what you are stuck on as a help request, and mentors raise their hands to take it.
What people book growth marketing calls about
Rarely what they end up solving. The ask on the booking form is usually a symptom, and a mentor who has run these channels before recognizes the pattern underneath it. Three that come up again and again:
walked in as, walked out as
Walked in as
A traffic problem
More posts, more ads, more visitors.
Walked out as
A conversion problem
The visitors were there. The page loses them.
Walked in as
An ads problem
CPAs creep up every month.
Walked out as
An offer problem
The ad is fine. The page asks too much, too soon.
Walked in as
A channel problem
Which one should we add next?
Walked out as
A focus problem
Not the next channel. Depth on the one that works.
Three calls, one mechanic. The problem that leaves the room is never the one that walked in.
Why GrowthMentor
Every mentor on GrowthMentor is vetted before they are accepted. Fewer than 5% of applicants get in. They are operators and advisors who do this work daily, not influencers selling a course.
Because the network is broad, you are not stuck with a single-channel specialist when your problem spans the whole funnel. You can find the right person for this question, then a different person for the next one.
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People who were exactly where you are.
GrowthMentor enables us to swiftly get a world-class expert to give us guidance on any marketing issue or question in a matter of days.
Hamel Shah · Co-Founder
Read Hamel's storyKnowing I can always book a call to help me clarify what I'm doing is the best feeling in the world.
Lena Sesardic · Product Manager
Read Lena's storyI like to set my own strategies and then get help from experts to improve on them and check if I'm on the right track.
Minh · Solo Founder
Read Minh's storyIt gave me fast access to expert-level insights that I couldn't get from academic research or user surveys alone.
Nicola Rubino · Growth Marketing Consultant
Read Nicola's storySometimes I'm stuck at one step and all I need is someone who can share experiences of what they did when they were in my situation.
Annie Chen · Head of Marketing
Read Annie's storyI enjoy having pretty much instant access to a pool of worldwide, expert mentors who are keen to share their expertise and help others.
Carlos Terol · Co-Founder
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What people ask before their first call.
Start from your product, your margins and your stage, not from what is trendy. The most common mistake is spreading across too many channels at once. A mentor who has grown a business like yours can help you pick one or two to go deep on, and tell you which efforts to stop.
The traffic is rarely the problem. It is usually the offer, the landing page, the targeting, the activation step, or the tracking. A mentor can walk your funnel with you and find the one bottleneck worth fixing first, instead of changing everything at once.
Measure outcomes like signups, qualified leads, activation and revenue, not vanity numbers like impressions and likes. Pick one metric to move this quarter and get attribution good enough to know which channel deserves more. A mentor can help you set this up quickly.
It depends on your margins, your sales cycle and how much you can spend. For many early businesses, paid is the wrong first move. A mentor can give you a straight read on whether to spend, and what to build instead if the numbers do not work yet.
Free-to-paid conversion is usually an activation problem, not a pricing one. If users never reach the moment your product proves its worth, the paywall will not work. A mentor who has run trials and freemium can tell you whether to fix onboarding, the trial structure, or the offer.
This is exactly who most people on this page are. A mentor gives you the senior second opinion you do not have in-house: someone to sanity-check your plan, prioritize your week, and tell you what to ignore.
Yes. You do not need a marketing title to get value from a call. Most people who book are founders and operators doing growth without a dedicated team. Bring a specific problem and you will leave with a plan.
An agency runs the work and a course teaches the theory. A mentor gives you a practitioner's straight opinion on your specific situation, in real time, with no upsell. It is the fastest way to get unstuck on one decision.
One specific problem and any context that helps: your numbers, your funnel, the decision you are weighing. The more concrete the question, the more useful the 30 minutes. You do not need a polished brief.
Acquisition (paid, organic, content, outbound), conversion and CRO, retention and lifecycle, positioning and go-to-market, measurement, and pricing. Bring a specific problem and you will leave with a plan.
Yes. Every GrowthMentor mentor is vetted before they are accepted, and fewer than 5% of applicants get in. The mentors on this page have built and scaled real growth, and have the reviews to back it up.
GrowthMentor is a membership. Once you are a member, calls are included and most mentors offer their time for free. Browse the mentors above, read their profiles and reviews, and book a 30-minute video call directly on their calendar.
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