Quick Checklist – Get Your First Gaming Coaching Client

Ready to stop planning and start looking for your first client?

Use this checklist to get your coaching offer live, start reaching players and build your reputation from the ground up.

🎯 Define Your Coaching Offer

✅ Choose the game you want to coach

✅ Decide which types of players you can help

✅ Identify the main skills or problems you’ll coach

✅ Choose your coaching format – live coaching, VOD review or both

✅ Decide how long each session will run

✅ Make your offer specific and easy to understand

📝 Create Your Coaching Listing

✅ Write a clear, benefit-focused title

✅ Explain your gaming experience and qualifications

✅ Tell players exactly what they’ll get

✅ Explain who your coaching is best suited for

✅ Add a strong featured image

✅ Complete your seller profile

✅ Add relevant screenshots, stats or achievements where appropriate

✅ Check your listing before publishing

💰 Set Your Starter Price

✅ Research what similar coaches are charging

✅ Choose a competitive introductory price

✅ Make sure the price still respects your time

✅ Consider offering a shorter introductory session

✅ Add useful extras instead of competing only on price

✅ Review your pricing once you’ve earned your first reviews

📅 Set Your Availability

✅ Decide when you’re realistically available to coach

✅ Add your available days and times

✅ Leave enough time between bookings

✅ Keep your availability up to date

✅ Make sure clients know what happens after booking

The easier you make it for someone to find a suitable time, the fewer barriers there are between viewing your coaching and booking it.

👥 Find Potential Clients

✅ Join communities related to the game you coach

✅ Find Discord servers where players discuss improvement

✅ Participate in relevant Reddit communities

✅ Check gaming forums and social communities

✅ Look for players actively asking for help

✅ Read community rules before promoting your coaching

✅ Avoid spamming your listing

Remember:

Help first. Promote second.

🧠 Show What You Know

✅ Answer player questions

✅ Share useful gameplay tips

✅ Analyse common mistakes

✅ Post short gameplay breakdowns

✅ Explain why certain strategies work

✅ Share helpful content consistently

✅ Give players a preview of your coaching style

You don’t have to tell everyone you’re an expert.

Show them.

🎮 Deliver a Great First Session

Once someone books, it’s time to turn that first client into your first success story.

✅ Ask the client what they want to improve

✅ Prepare before the session

✅ Arrive on time

✅ Listen before jumping into advice

✅ Identify their biggest improvement opportunities

✅ Explain concepts clearly

✅ Give practical advice they can use immediately

✅ Leave time for questions

✅ Finish with clear next steps

Your client should leave knowing what they’re doing wrong, how to fix it and what to practise next.

⭐ Build Your Reputation

Your first few clients can provide the proof that makes attracting future clients easier.

✅ Follow up after the session

✅ Provide a short summary or improvement plan

✅ Ask for an honest review

✅ Keep track of client progress

✅ Save useful feedback

✅ Share success stories with permission

✅ Encourage referrals naturally

Your first few clients aren’t just bookings.

They’re the beginning of your reputation.

🔁 Turn One Client Into More

Once you’ve landed your first client, don’t immediately go back to square one looking for another.

Make the most of the relationship you’ve already built.

✅ Give clients a reason to book another session

✅ Suggest a logical next area to work on

✅ Offer multi-session coaching where appropriate

✅ Personalise future sessions around their progress

✅ Keep improving your coaching based on feedback

✅ Gradually adjust your pricing as demand grows

🚀 Your First Mission: 0 → 1

Forget about becoming the biggest gaming coach overnight.

Your first target is much smaller:

Get one client.

Then follow the cycle:

🎮 Deliver Great Coaching → ⭐ Earn a Review → 🔁 Get Another Booking → 📣 Build Referrals → 🚀 Grow

Once you’ve done that, you’re no longer wondering whether someone will pay for your gaming knowledge.

You’ve proved they will.

Now take what worked, improve what didn’t and do it again. 🎮🚀