Hi dear tutors! I'm new here. It has been a week and no student booked a session. As per your experience, how much time does it take to get the first student. Thank you.

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Hello!

A few things: 
1. Your profile only lists one type of lesson: a trial lesson. Trial lessons are a different category and you do not need to make a trial lesson option, iTalki does that for you. You should create two or three lesson types (beginners, intermediate, business, conversation, etc.).

2. Your video doesn't focus enough on what your lessons will be like. You do not need to teach things in your video—it should be a discussion of what you will do in your lessons and who you are, that is all.

3. If you want people to book with you, you must actively post in the community forum here on iTalki. It is also useful to see how active the community of learners is for the language which you teach. I see that you mainly teach Pashto. So go to the "community" tab (you will need to switch to "student mode" to see it), and then "questions" and then select the language you want from the "language" tab. This is the place where you can interact with potential students.

4. Post a link to your iTalki teacher page on other social media to raise awareness about iTalki and advertise yourself.

These are my thoughts! I hope they help.

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