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Nerd Upgrades offers a robust and easy-to-use platform for coaches and ex-professionals to provide online lessons to aspiring pro gamers and players dedicated to improvement. We created this platform because we felt there was some lag in the area of multiplayer gaming and most importantly, e-sports. We officially went live March 21st 2013 and were in development since May 2012.
We are a great resource for students and players because booking lessons from your favorite pro or coach has never been safer or easier. We are also a valuable resource to coaches who are looking to take competitive-gaming education to the next level. At the same time, we are helping coaches to secure a stable source of income. Already convinced? You can create an account and get started within minutes!
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Nerd Upgrades is bad ass. We don't have enough time to go over every sweet feature, but read on for some of the key aspects that makes Nerd Upgrades the best source for booking lessons.
For starters, we provide a safe and secure system for handling your payments. For the safety of the student and the coach, funds from every lesson are held by Nerd Upgrades until the lesson has been marked as completed by the student. If an issue with a lesson arises, an investigation will be launched in order to resolve the issue fairly.
Secondly, Nerd Upgrades will rock your socks off with our rating and review system. Book with confidence by reading reviews from past students. You can also see how long a coach has been a member of Nerd Upgrades which places some of the power back into your hands and gives you more confidence when selecting a coach.
Over time, the exceptional coaches will build a solid clientele, allowing for great relationships to be formed. We believe that students and coaches can benefit from each other, in this way, for several reasons. One being that motivation is very important - students and coaches can draw inspiration from each other benefiting both parties. Want to browse coaches? Look no further!
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Offering coaching lessons without Nerd Upgrades can be an absolute nightmare. Before Nerd Upgrades, potential coaches may have avoided offering such services altogether because of the work involved in managing each and every lesson. With Nerd Upgrades, coaches can set their availability schedule in a very easy-to-use interface. In the account management page, select the "time slots" for which you wish to allow a student to book a lesson. A student can order any number of available time slots, provided they have met all other lesson requirements. Coaches and students can each set their own respective timezones. Nerd Upgrades seamlessly coordinates lesson times and dates without the worry of conflicting timezones or DST.
Once a lesson has been scheduled, it will be marked as "reserved" in your calendar. You can then interact with your students either by using our built-in messaging system or within the lesson management interface. The lesson management system allows you to comment on each lesson, manage expectations with students and report issues. Send other information like Skype, Ventrilo or replays to students in advance, instead of wasting valuable lesson time.
Once a lesson has been conducted, the student can then confirm that the lesson was completed. After that, the price of that lesson will be credited to your account balance. An order may contain more than one lesson, so we have allowed each lesson "session" to be handled separately. We found that doing this keeps management easier, while also allowing you to receive funds as fast as possible.
When a lesson has been marked as "completed" by a student, you may then wish to withdraw your new balance. You can request a withdrawal for any amount at any time. A withdrawal can currently be processed with Paypal or by check. We aim to give a coach everything they need in order to handle business as easily as possible. When new features are requested by coaches, we will be working hard to satisfy those requests.
Another awesome feature is the coaches' profile page. Every coach has one and they are a very integral part of a students' decision to book a lesson! Your profile can be filled with tons of information for your current and potential students. Embed your Twitch.tv stream, live twitter feed and other social media platforms. Enjoy an entire profile page tab dedicated to frequently asked questions. Still interested? Sign up now, Batman!
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Games will be added upon request! We will always have the most popular games ready to start offering coaching on. Currently coaches can offer Starcraft II: Wings of Liberty, Starcraft II: Heart of the Swarm, Dota 2, League of legends and Counter-Strike Global Offensive.
Once you have signed up for an account as a coach, you will be directed to the "my games" section of Nerd Upgrades. Here you can add these games as services you would like to offer to students. Within each game, a coach can add additional information about that game. Provide information like in-game ELO, ladder rank and tournament accomplishments.
Pretty awesome eh? Register an account, Read our FAQ or Browse Coaches.
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Very nice, thank you for making this awesome site for the community :D I can imagine a lot of games that it would be really cool to find coaches in. Mainly iracing, so hard to get help from good drivers on there lol. Awesome site, awesome work.
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How do you know the coaches that apply have the quality needed to actually give someone lessons? Do you test them in anyway?
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On March 22 2013 11:49 evilfatsh1t wrote:
How do you know the coaches that apply have the quality needed to actually give someone lessons? Do you test them in anyway?
Coaches are reviewed by players who have purchased lessons. Coaching, as in life should be open to anyone with a knack for helping others.
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tried registering to see what it was like. gave up when i saw the ridiculous password requirement lol
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On March 22 2013 12:13 evilfatsh1t wrote:
tried registering to see what it was like. gave up when i saw the ridiculous password requirement lol
Thank you for your feedback! These password strength limitations were put in for the safety of the coaches and students, but due to your complaint it has already been adjusted!
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If you're looking at expanding your game selection, you might want to ask around in the FGC. I've seen a couple posts in Street Fighter forums about people offering to coach, although I doubt they would charge as much as PC gamers.
Also, no offense, but I think the name is quite terrible. It actually sounds like a makeover show on Bravo, and doesn't immediately identify at all with the service provided.
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Interesting, at least the interface looks snappy. Now if only I could see what the coach search interface looked like...
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On March 22 2013 13:04 Cel.erity wrote:
If you're looking at expanding your game selection, you might want to ask around in the FGC. I've seen a couple posts in Street Fighter forums about people offering to coach, although I doubt they would charge as much as PC gamers.
Also, no offense, but I think the name is quite terrible. It actually sounds like a makeover show on Bravo, and doesn't immediately identify at all with the service provided.
i actually think the name is quite clever. after all, gamers are often associated as nerds, and what better way to improve than get upgrades?
out of curiosity, how long has this site been up? approximate number of students?
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No offense, but seems kind of silly to post this when the coach finder function isn't available? Who is currently coaching? I mean I guess you're looking for coaches here to actually build up the function, but it's not exactly a great first impression for people looking for coaching at the moment.
I like the description of your calendar function, but I personally wouldn't bother taking the time to register at the moment to witness it without seeing some coaches that catch my eye.
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For coaches, what percentage of profits does your company take for services? I tried looking very briefly and found no information about it.
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this is really nice. great work 
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This looks really cool.
I am also wondering what cut you guys take, that would change what I charge.
I signed up as a coach though ^_^
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out of curiosity, how long has this site been up? approximate number of students?
The site just went live today actually.
No offense, but seems kind of silly to post this when the coach finder function isn't available? Who is currently coaching? I mean I guess you're looking for coaches here to actually build up the function, but it's not exactly a great first impression for people looking for coaching at the moment.
I apologize for the inconvenience. This is mainly because of how new the site is. The other reason the site was launched without it is because our thought was that, in the mean time, coaches would promote their profile page, similar to Twitter.
This is a now a number one priority and because of your feedback, expect this to be working with a few hours. EDIT: Now working, in an admittedly archaic form. This feature will be improving drastically over the next few days, but students can now browse coaches. View it here http://nerdupgrades.com/p/coach-finder/
For coaches, what percentage of profits does your company take for services? I tried looking very briefly and found no information about it.
Check out our FAQ at http://nerdupgrades.com/p/frequently-asked-questions/. Let me know if you have any more questions.
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im still confused regarding how much coaches are "payed". maybe because im unfamiliar with paypal
i noticed theres an hourly rate option on the page for coaches. if you set it to 10/hr, are you supposed to receive 10/hr or is there something else going on?
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I tried to register, but wasn't allowed to do so. My browser said it was due to something with the webpage?
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On March 22 2013 16:12 evilfatsh1t wrote:
im still confused regarding how much coaches are "payed". maybe because im unfamiliar with paypal
i noticed theres an hourly rate option on the page for coaches. if you set it to 10/hr, are you supposed to receive 10/hr or is there something else going on?
When you read the FAQ the website takes 7% and paypal takes about 2.5-3% so in total if you put your hourly rate at 10$ you will end up with a net 9$ ( aprox )
I think the concept is amazing but the % margin that you take to maintain a basically user content and no-update website is very high. Normal profit margins from websites like Amazon or whatever are lower and offer more customer friendly tools.
For me to actually keep my same money i would need to raise my 10/hour to 11.5/hour and that's a huge incrase in price.
So i wish you good luck with your endeavors and hope coming weeks will give you lots of insight in how to improve.
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When you read the FAQ the website takes 7% and paypal takes about 2.5-3% so in total if you put your hourly rate at 10$ you will end up with a net 9$ ( aprox )
I think the concept is amazing but the % margin that you take to maintain a basically user content and no-update website is very high. Normal profit margins from websites like Amazon or whatever are lower and offer more customer friendly tools.
Thank you for your feedback. Our site was not created to profit, so we absolutely want coaches to be as satisfied as possible, while also being able to continue site operation. The costs involved in running Nerdupgrades comes down to hosting, customer support (handling of lesson issues ect), further development and advertisements.
So far, the professional gamers that we have consulted with on the cost have had only positive feedback. We will continue to evaluate everything as we receive more feedback from coaches.
sixpoolgaming remade!
Six Pool Gaming is an awesome site, but they are very different from Nerd Upgrades. There is no site quite like ours right now.
I tried to register, but wasn't allowed to do so. My browser said it was due to something with the webpage?
Make sure you have the latest browser version. If you have any more issues, please PM me and I will work with you directly.
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