Coaching Guides
The business of coaching, free.
You know poker. The part that trips up most coaches is the business: pricing, packaging, building a course, running a community, getting students. These guides fix that. No fluff, no upsell, no course to buy.
Written for coaches by people who've done it. Given away because coaches who run real businesses make Unsolvd better.
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How to Get Poker Coaching Students Without Becoming a Content Creator
You don't need an audience to fill a coaching roster. You need to be findable and credible to about a hundred of the right people a year.
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How to Price Your Poker Coaching
Pricing isn't a confidence test or a popularity contest. Price against the value you create for students, not against what other coaches charge.
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How to Make Your First Poker Course (Phone, $0 Budget)
The gear was never the thing standing between you and a course. Make a small, specific course with the phone in your pocket and free tools.
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How to Run a Hand-History Review That Actually Fixes Leaks
Most hand reviews are entertainment disguised as coaching. Review the boring, frequent leaks the data points to, not the dramatic hands students want to show.
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How to Run a Poker Coaching Discord
A coaching Discord retains students, multiplies your time, and converts lurkers into clients, if you start small, seed it yourself, and protect the culture.
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How to Write a Coaching Offer That Sells Itself
Students don't buy your credentials. They buy a specific outcome they can picture. Describe the destination, not your resume.
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How to Get Paid for Poker Coaching Without Getting Burned
The awkwardness around money is why coaches undercharge and get stiffed. Systematize the payment, deposits, and no-shows, and the awkwardness disappears.
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Why Your Poker Students Quit (and How to Keep Them Longer)
Most coaches obsess over getting students and ignore retention, which is far cheaper. Students rarely quit because the coaching is bad. They quit because they can't see themselves improving.
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How to Give a Student Homework They'll Actually Do
The real improvement happens in the hours between sessions, not on the call. Most coaches assign nothing, or assign so much it gets ignored. Here's the middle.
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Group Coaching vs 1-on-1: When to Switch and How
One-on-one caps your income at your available hours. Group coaching is better for students more often than coaches assume, and it's the cleanest way to break the hours-for-dollars ceiling.
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How to Build a Coaching Reputation Without Fake Testimonials
The industry runs on cherry-picked screenshots and testimonials anyone could write. Verifiable results and honest reviews aren't a risk to hide behind hype. They're the only moat left.
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Should You Take Action Instead of Cash for Coaching?
Coaching-for-action sounds aligned: you both win if the student wins. In practice it usually transfers your hard-won edge to someone who won't do the work. Charge cash; stake separately if at all.
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