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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
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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
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Supriya Agarwal
Co-founder · BiosectRx
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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."
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CEO & Co-founder · Review Robin
"You should cut out 99% of the things that you're thinking about."
The mentors, in their own words.
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Content marketing is my core focus and social media is a big part of that. I mainly focus on LinkedIn for the purposes of personal branding and B2B sales. I can help you plan organic content for B2C and DTC brands, too. However, I wouldn't be the best fit if paid social is what you're after.
Marketing on social media is a form of interruption marketing, hence the importance of mastering the art of having persuasive content and ads that convince and capture people's attention.
Ekaterina Gamsriegler
App Growth advisor. Product 50's Top Growth Product Leader 2024. Reforge practitioner
Have vast experience in setting up and optimizing paid campaigns on social media like Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, TikTok, Twitter, etc. Can share experience and advice for both, digital and mobile products.
8+ years of experience running organic and paid social media strategies for B2C and B2B brands, primarily focusing on Facebook, Instagram, and LinkedIn.
Serhat Hocazade
Hands-on GTM Leader ex Amazon, Facebook, LinkedIn and Start-ups raised over $100M
At Meta, managed strategic accounts with YoY revenue growth. Leveraged platforms like LinkedIn for lead generation, social selling and customer mapping at Massive Bio. Built engagement frameworks, podcasts, and influencer marketing strategies that drove CPL down and boosted ROAS.
Christoph Schachner
Owner at Demandgap 🔥 | DACH Region Expert | Lecturer 👨🏫 | B2B SaaS ❤️ | 9+ years in SEO 🚀
I have built up my own Facebook and Instagram pages to 50k likes/followers and monetized them with drop shipping/sponsored gigs. Besides that, I see great success with LinkedIn for generating leads for myself. Automating the process and writing the right message is the nitty-gritty of Social Media and I want to help you take your Social Media to the next level.
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"Views high, followers flat."
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What a social media mentor does
A social media mentor is a practitioner who has already grown an audience, run the ads, or built the content engine for a company at your stage. On a 1:1 call they tell you which moves are worth your time and which platforms to drop.
The deliverable is rarely "post more." It is direction and a concrete plan. Most calls do some version of five things:
- Audit your accounts. They look at what you are already posting and name the format, cadence, or channel that is wasting your effort.
- Narrow the audience. Posting for everyone is the most common mistake. A mentor helps you pick the audience worth winning and write to them.
- Give you a content plan. Not just ideas. A specific format and a posting cadence: what to post, in what order, at what volume.
- Pick the channel. Instead of running a little of everything, you decide where to go deep, and which platforms to drop.
- Find the one bottleneck. Followers but no leads, traffic but no sales: a mentor spots the single thing holding it back and fixes that first.
You also leave with a record. After each call, the takeaways are written down for you, ready to keep or skip:
Hannah ParvazSocial channel auditDrop three of your five platforms and put everything into the one your buyers actually use.
Pick one post format and run it three times a week before you decide it does not work.
KeepSkipWrite to founders doing their own marketing, not to everyone, the broad posts are why nothing lands.
KeepSkipStop watching follower count, track profile visits to booked calls, that is where the drop-off hides.
KeepSkipWhat people get stuck on
Most people book a call stuck on something specific. These are the questions that come up most for the founders and operators who book social calls:
- LinkedIn carrying everything. you are trying to make LinkedIn do outbound, content, and lead gen at once, and you cannot tell what is working.
- Content with no system. you are producing posts and articles, but there is no plan behind them, so nothing compounds.
- First influencer program. you are running creator or UGC deals for the first time and have no idea how to find, vet, or pay people.
- Short-form video, no traction. you post daily on TikTok, Reels, or YouTube and the follower count barely moves.
- Brand from zero. you are building an audience and a personal brand before there is a product or a track record to point to.
- Spread too thin. a little of everything across six platforms, none of it compounding, because attention and time are split too many ways.
Most people here are not full-time social media managers
The reader here is usually a founder or solo operator posting their own content with no social team behind them, sometimes already burning a creator or paid-social budget that has not paid back. No social media title required. Bring the specific thing you are stuck on.
Picking the right channel
Channel choice is one of the most common reasons people book a social media call. The instinct is to add more: another platform, another format, another account to keep alive. The fix is almost always the opposite.
A good mentor helps you look at your product, your buyers, and your stage, then answer the questions that decide where you spend your time:
- Instagram or TikTok. which platform your buyers use, and which format suits what you sell, instead of chasing whatever is trending.
- Organic or paid. whether to earn attention slowly or buy it now, given your margins and how fast you need results.
- Channels beyond ads. where creator-led, community, and partnership growth fit, so paid is not your only lever.
- Network or cold. whether to start with the audience and relationships you already have before going wide.
Mentors start diagnosing before the call. A typical first exchange after you book:
Peter Murphy LewisBuilding a content engine
One of the most valuable things mentors fix on these calls is the content plan. Plenty of people are already posting. What they are missing is a system: a format that fits the platform, an order that builds on itself, and a volume they can sustain.
A mentor who has run a content engine helps you turn scattered posting into something repeatable:
- Format and sequencing. Which post types to run, in what order, so each one builds the next instead of starting from zero.
- Volume and consistency. How much to post to give a channel a fair test, without burning out trying to do it all.
- Repurposing. Turn one piece of work into many formats across platforms, so distribution stops being a daily scramble.
- Content that builds trust. Posts that earn authority and pull the right people in, not just chase reach for its own sake.
AI can help you produce more, faster. A mentor helps you decide what is worth producing in the first place, so volume points in the right direction.
two moves, in order
Commit to one format
a new content idea every day
one format you run every week
Put the posts in order
every post starts from a blank page
each post sets up the next one
A library instead of a treadmill
One format, repurposed across platforms, building week over week instead of restarting every Monday.
The order matters: pick the format before you fill the calendar.
Influencer and creator deals
Running an influencer or UGC program for the first time comes up on these calls often. The hard parts are not the posting. They are finding the right people, agreeing on terms, and knowing whether any of it worked.
A mentor who has run creator programs can walk you through the parts that go wrong:
- Finding and vetting creators. how to spot people whose audience matches your buyers, instead of chasing follower counts that do not convert.
- Structuring the deal. how to set up compensation and contracts (flat fee, affiliate, hybrid) so the incentives line up with results.
- Running the campaign end to end. the brief, the creative, the rights, and the cadence, so a one-off post becomes a channel you can repeat.
- Knowing if it worked. how to attribute influencer and UGC spend well enough to decide whether to do more or walk away.
The goal is a creator channel that pays back, not a pile of paid posts you cannot measure.
a creator deal, x-rayed
Three micro creators whose followers are your buyers1. A flat fee plus an affiliate code, usage rights written in2. One brief, two posts, and a link only they can share3. The goal: fifteen tracked signups before you renew anyone4.
The right creators
Picked for audience fit, not follower count. Their people are the ones you want.
The terms
Flat fee, affiliate, or both, with usage rights so you can reuse the creative in ads.
The campaign
A brief, the posts, and a trackable link, so a one-off becomes something you can repeat.
The number
Tracked signups, not likes, so you know which creator to run again.
Four decisions on one page. The one that sinks a creator deal is usually who you picked.
LinkedIn for B2B leads
LinkedIn is the single biggest topic people book about, because for B2B it carries outbound, content, and lead gen all at once. That is also why it is so easy to do badly: most people run three jobs through one profile with no plan for any of them.
A mentor who has built a working LinkedIn pipeline helps you separate the threads:
- What to post for leads. the content that pulls inbound from the right people, not just likes from your peers.
- Outreach that lands. how to run cold and warm outreach without the spray-and-pray that gets you ignored or blocked.
- Ads on a small budget. whether LinkedIn ads are worth it for you, and how to test them without lighting money on fire.
- From dormant to active. how to restart an inactive profile and turn it into a channel that brings you business.
When content isn't ranking
A frequent frustration on these calls is spending months on SEO and content and watching nothing rank. The long-game channel that promised compounding returns delivered silence, and it is hard to diagnose your own site.
A mentor who has built organic traffic before usually finds one of these is the issue:
- Backwards architecture. the site was built without a structure search engines or readers can follow, so good content has nowhere to sit.
- Standalone blog posts. posts were treated as one-offs instead of clusters that support each other and a clear topic.
- The wrong keywords. effort went toward terms that are too broad, too competitive, or that your buyers never search.
- No distribution. the content was published and left to fend for itself, with nothing pushing it to the right people.
Fixing the one that matters is worth more than producing another month of posts that no one finds.
two moves, in order
Build a cluster, not one-offs
posts on whatever topic that week
a set that circles one buyer question
Give each post somewhere to sit
publish it and move on
internal links pointing at one main page
A structure search can follow
Related posts reinforce each other around one topic, so the strong ones finally have somewhere to rank from.
The order matters: fix the structure before you write the next post.
Followers but no conversions
"We get views but nobody buys" comes up on social calls constantly. The reach is rarely the problem. Something between the swipe and the signup is leaking, and it is hard to see when you are the one posting every day.
A mentor traces the path from a scroll-stopping post to a paying customer and finds where it breaks:
- The link in bio. you send followers to a generic homepage or a packed link-in-bio menu instead of the one page that matches the post that hooked them.
- Post-to-page match. the reel or carousel sells one thing and the page they land on talks about another, so the momentum dies on arrival.
- No nurture. you capture a follow but nothing moves them from casual viewer to email, DM, or trial while the interest is hot.
- Funnel-stage content. your feed is all top-of-funnel reach with nothing that gives a warm follower a reason to buy now.
- The tracking. social attribution is messy; it might be converting fine and your last-click numbers are just hiding it.
Fixing the right leak is worth more than optimizing all of them at once.
The fix is rarely more reach. It is one matched page and a single next step for the follower who is already warm.
When to book a call
You do not need a giant question. Bring the thing you would ask a smart friend who has done it five times before. The most useful moments to book:
- You are doing it all alone. you run content and social by yourself, often self-taught, and you are starting to burn out with no one to sanity-check you.
- You cannot tell if it worked. months of posting or SEO went by and you do not know whether any of it moved the needle.
- You are about to pick a channel. you are deciding where to commit real time, and you want a second opinion before you go all in.
- You are about to spend on creators or ads. you are weighing influencer or paid social spend and want a straight read before the money goes out.
- You keep thinking instead of doing. you know roughly what to do and keep circling it, and a focused call gets you committed to a next step.
A focused 30 minutes with the right mentor is usually faster than another month of guessing.
What a mentor can help with
Social media is broad, and so is the network. You are not limited to one platform specialist. You can find someone who has done the specific thing you are stuck on:
- Content marketing. A content engine and the formats that build an audience and pull in the right buyers.
- LinkedIn and personal branding. Organic content, outreach, and a profile that turns into a lead pipeline.
- Influencer and creator marketing. Finding, vetting, and structuring deals with creators and UGC that pay back.
- Short-form and video. TikTok, Reels, and YouTube as a growth channel, from first post to traction.
- Paid social. Meta, TikTok, and LinkedIn ads, from first budget and creative to scaling.
- SEO and content distribution. Search strategy, keyword plans, and getting your content in front of people.
- Conversion and landing pages. The path from a post or click to a signup, lead, or sale.
- Positioning and go-to-market. Who you are for, why you win, and how to take it to your audience.
Most of the top mentors here are not single-platform specialists. They see the whole funnel and can tell you whether social is even the right bet, and which part of it to focus on.
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.
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What people book social media calls about
Rarely what they end up solving. The ask on the booking form is usually a symptom, and a mentor who has grown 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 volume problem
We just need to post more.
Walked out as
A focus problem
One channel done well beats six.
Walked in as
A reach problem
Our views are too low.
Walked out as
A conversion problem
Views were fine. The click never comes.
Walked in as
An influencer problem
Which creator has the biggest following?
Walked out as
A fit problem
Not the biggest. The one your buyers follow.
Three calls, one mechanic. The problem that leaves the room is never the one that walked in.
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What people ask before their first call.
Start from your product, your buyers, and your stage, not from what is trendy. The most common mistake is spreading across too many platforms at once. A mentor who has grown an audience like yours can help you pick one channel to go deep on, and tell you which accounts to stop maintaining.
Look for creators whose audience matches your buyers, not just big follower counts. A mentor who has run creator programs can show you how to vet engagement and fit, where to find people, and how to spot the ones whose followers will never convert before you pay them.
It depends on your goals and budget: flat fee, affiliate, usage rights, or a hybrid. A mentor can help you set up compensation and contracts so the incentives line up with results, and so you keep the rights to creative you can reuse in ads later.
The content that pulls inbound from the right people, not just likes from your peers. A mentor who has built a LinkedIn pipeline can help you separate content, outreach, and ads, then give you a weekly plan that turns a dormant profile into a source of leads.
The usual culprits are a backwards site structure, blog posts treated as one-offs, the wrong keywords, or no distribution. A mentor who has built organic traffic can find the one issue worth fixing first, instead of having you produce another month of posts no one finds.
This is one of the most common things mentors fix. The answer is a specific format that fits the platform, an order that builds on itself, and a volume you can sustain. A mentor helps you turn scattered posting into a plan you can keep up.
The reach is rarely the problem. It is usually where you send the click, the gap between the post and the page, no nurture for new followers, or the tracking. A mentor traces the path from post to purchase with you and finds the one leak worth fixing first.
It depends on your margins and how fast you need results. 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 organically instead if the numbers do not work yet.
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 so you stop burning out doing it all alone.
Yes. You do not need a social media title to get value from a call. Most people who book are founders and operators running their own content without a dedicated team. Bring a specific problem and you will leave with a plan.
An agency runs the posts and a course teaches the theory. A mentor gives you a practitioner's opinion on your specific situation, in real time, with no upsell. It is the fastest way to get unstuck on one decision.
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