If you coach people through interviews, you already know the pattern. Someone finds you on LinkedIn, opens with "quick question," and forty minutes later you have given away a full strategy session for free. Interview coaching is one of the most in-demand skills on the internet — layoffs, career pivots, and brutal hiring loops keep it that way — but most coaches still monetize it with a clunky stack: a scheduling tool, a separate invoice, a Zoom link, and a prayer that the client shows up. Every extra step between "I need help" and "I paid you" loses people, and the people it loses are usually the most urgent ones.
Cheddify collapses that stack into a single link. You put it in your LinkedIn bio, your TikTok, your newsletter footer — anywhere your audience already finds you. Someone taps it, lands on your page, sees your rate, and pays as a guest right in the browser, no account required. You take the call on the Cheddify app for iOS or Android, the per-minute meter runs, and payment is collected before you say a word. No invoicing, no unpaid discovery calls, no chasing. If you currently juggle Calendly plus Stripe invoices plus Zoom, see how Cheddify compares to Calendly — the short version is that Cheddify owns the call and the billing, not just the booking.
What interview coaches sell on Cheddify
- Mock interviews. A booked 45-60 minute session where you run a realistic behavioral or technical loop, then debrief with concrete fixes. This is the flagship offer for most interview coaches.
- Rapid-fire drills. Per-minute live calls where a candidate practices the questions that scare them — "tell me about yourself," the failure question, salary expectations — and gets corrected in real time. No scheduling; they call when the panic hits.
- Offer-negotiation prep. A candidate holding an offer is the highest-urgency buyer you will ever meet. A 30-minute call the night before they respond to the recruiter is easily worth your top rate.
- Resume and LinkedIn teardowns. Fixed-price time blocks work well here — a defined 20 or 30 minutes with a defined outcome.
- Paid DMs. Set a price on direct messages and those "quick question" messages become revenue instead of unpaid labor. Here is how paid DMs work.
How to price interview coaching by the minute
Career and interview coaches on per-minute platforms commonly charge between $3 and $10 per minute, with established coaches most often landing around $5. Where you sit in that range depends on stakes and specialization: generalist practice sessions price toward the low end, while niche expertise — FAANG loops, consulting case interviews, executive-level negotiation — commands the high end, because a client negotiating a $20,000 raise is not shopping on price. Set a minimum duration (15-20 minutes is typical) so a call is always worth answering, and keep one cheaper, low-commitment offer such as a paid DM so hesitant followers have an easy first purchase. For a deeper framework, read how to price your 1:1 calls.
The math on a real session
Say you run a 45-minute mock interview at $5 per minute. Your client pays $225 for the session, plus roughly 3% in card processing that is added on their side rather than deducted from yours. Cheddify's fee is 20% plus $2 per call: you keep 80% of $225, which is $180, minus the $2 call fee — $178 from one session, paid out through Stripe. Two mock interviews a week at that rate is over $1,400 a month from work you are already doing for free in your DMs. Full fee details are on the pricing page.
The honest part
Cheddify will not send you a single client. There is no marketplace, no browse page, no algorithm surfacing your profile to strangers. It is a conversion tool, not a demand source: it takes the audience you have already built — LinkedIn followers, TikTok viewers, newsletter readers, past clients who refer friends — and gives them a frictionless way to pay for your time. If you have an audience, even a small one, Cheddify turns attention into sessions. If you do not have one yet, build that first; this guide for coaches covers how the transition usually works.