Every week I get at least 2-3 emails from people who want me to drop everything on my schedule and mentor them for free.
Here’s an example…
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My name is Nitin Patel and I am from India. I am 20 years old and just got into the field of internet marketing and copywriting.I really love your idea of writing emails everyday… so that you can improve and actually be a good writer… it really makes sense. Not many people are giving this type of advice… which I don’t know why.But I’m really grateful that I came upon your emails at the beginning of my career.Thank you so much for your guidance, Justin.Though i would like to request you for help Justin. I’ve already started writing emails everyday… But i dont know where to improve. With due respect… could you please give feedback… on the emails which i write daily… that way I’ll be able to improve fast. I know you are really busy and i respect your time Justin. If you want… i can write 10 emails a day… or even 15… as much as you ask me to do. I’ll do everything you say Justin. Please help me out on this… I’ll be forever grateful to you… and your contribution in my journey. Eagerly waiting to hear from you.———-
Ok, so if you’re trying to get someone to mentor you for free, this is NOT the way to do it.
Why?
Because what’s in this for me?
This guy is telling me he’ll write 15 or 20 emails a day and I can give him feedback on those.
That’s like 4 hours a day of feedback.
Why would I want to do that?
What am I getting out of it?
Nothing.
He’s the only one benefitting from this.
And if I’m going to spend a good amount of time mentoring someone, there better be something in it for me (i.e. you’re gonna do work for me, or I’m getting paid etc…)
So mistake #1 when it comes to asking someone to mentor you is making it all about you.
If you’re looking for a mentor, what you should be asking is “what can I offer this person that they’d really want?”.
I’ll give ya an example of this…
There was a guy in Austin last year who offered to clean my house every week, do my dishes daily and clean my pool if I mentored him 2x a month.
That was a good offer.
And had I not already had an assistant to do all of this, I probably would have said yes (as long as the guy wasn’t a weirdo).
I’ll give you another example…
I have a friend in Miami who crushes in the Ecomm space, and he gets similar emails from people begging him to mentor them.
He usually ignores all these emails…
However, one recently caught his eye…
And he actually took the guy up on his offer.
So what was his offer?
The guy who emailed him said he’s really good at Tinder, and knows how to optimize every aspect of a Tinder profile from the pictures to the bio to what messages to send to women.
So he offered to run my friend’s Tinder account for him, and set him up on dates with beautiful women.
“If I can get you setup on dates with the kind of women you want to meet (without you doing any of the work) would that be appealing to you?”
Boom!
That’s a great offer.
Who’s gonna say no to that?
Instead of begging to be mentored, this guy went about it the right way and focused on “how can I help this person in a way that they’d be interested in?”.
That’s the way to do it.
You have to remember big name people get hit up ALL the time with people asking for free shit.
So you immediately stand out if you switch that up…
And focus on how you can help THEM.
So there ya go…
If you want to get mentored by someone for free, use this as your guide.
And make sure your focus is on how you can help them in a way that they’re interested in.
Enjoy your Saturday…
– Justin
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