Your HR advice is valuable. Stop giving it away for free.
The Problem
HR consultants face two brutal realities. First: companies want quick advice on hiring, firing, and compliance issues, but they expect it free. A call asking "Can we discuss our termination process?" or "What's our legal exposure if we restructure?" becomes 45 minutes of your expertise, zero payment. You're training clients to expect unpaid guidance.
Second: even when you land a paid engagement, getting paid is painful. Invoices go unpaid for 60, 90, sometimes 120 days. You chase payment while clients drag their feet. You spend energy managing cash flow instead of building your practice. Money owed is money that doesn't exist yet.
Tinrate fixes both.
What Is Tinrate?
Tinrate is a Belgian expert-booking platform built for exactly this problem. Clients book, pay, and consult with you through a single link. You set your rate, your availability, and the platform handles everything else: scheduling, payment processing, invoicing, and payouts. Clients pay upfront. You get paid within 48 hours. No awkward payment conversations. No chasing invoices.
How It Works
Step 1: Create Your Profile: Add your expertise, specializations (recruitment strategy, employment law, HR compliance, outplacement, employer branding), and bio. Tinrate verifies you're a real expert. Takes 10 minutes.
Step 2: Set Your Availability: Block out times you're available for calls. HR advisors typically offer 30-minute or 60-minute sessions. You control when clients can book.
Step 3: Share Your Link: One link. That's it. Put it on your website, email signature, LinkedIn, or send it directly to prospects. Clients see your rate, availability, and specializations immediately.
Step 4: Clients Book & Pay: Prospects click, select a time slot, and pay upfront via Bancontact, iDEAL, credit card, or Apple Pay. No back-and-forth. No "let me check my budget." Payment happens before the call is scheduled.
Step 5: Video Call: Conduct your consultation via Tinrate's built-in video conferencing. No awkward Zoom links. Sessions are recorded for compliance if you need them.
4 Reasons HR Consultants Choose Tinrate
1. Pre-Payment Stops No-Shows & Non-Payers
Clients who pay upfront show up. They're committed. You never again chase payment or waste time on flakes. Your calendar stays efficient.
2. It's Free for You. Zero Fees to Use Tinrate
No monthly subscription. No "expert licenses." Just set your rate, clients pay, and Tinrate takes 5%. That 5% is only charged to the client, not you. It's the cost of eliminating invoicing, chasing payments, and managing your own scheduling.
3. Client Acquisition Channel
Tinrate runs expert spotlight campaigns reaching 200,000+ people monthly. As an HR consultant, you're automatically featured to companies looking for hiring strategy, compliance, or restructuring advice. You get exposure without buying ads.
4. Separates Serious Clients from Time-Wasters
When advice costs money, people take it seriously. You'll talk to CFOs and founders who are ready to invest in fixing their HR problems—not random managers fishing for free answers. Higher-quality conversations. Better fees.
Traditional HR Advisory vs. Tinrate
Who It's Best For
- Recruitment strategy specialists monetizing hiring frameworks
- Employment law advisors fielding compliance questions from SMEs
- Outplacement experts offering accelerated coaching calls
- HR compliance consultants advising on regulatory changes
- Employer branding strategists coaching companies on talent positioning
How to Get Started
- Sign up on Tinrate (takes 2 minutes, free)
- Create your profile with your specializations and credentials
- Set your rate per 30-min or 60-min session
- Block your availability on your calendar
- Share your link and start receiving bookings
The entire setup takes 15 minutes. You're live and accepting paid bookings the same day.
FAQ
Can I offer different rates for different services?
Yes. You can create multiple profiles for different specializations (e.g., one for recruitment strategy at €150/30min, one for compliance at €100/30min), or adjust pricing based on demand.
What payment methods do clients use?
Bancontact, iDEAL, credit cards, and Apple Pay. All are processed securely. You never handle payment data.
How do I know if a client is serious?
They've already paid. That filters out 80% of time-wasters immediately.
Can I offer longer sessions?
Absolutely. Sessions can run 15 minutes to several hours. You set the duration and rate per session length.
How quickly do I get paid?
Within 48 hours via Mollie to your Belgian bank account.
Start Getting Paid for Your HR Expertise
Every unpaid advisory call is revenue you're leaving on the table. Tinrate turns those conversations into income. Set your rate, share your link, and let clients book with confidence. No invoicing. No chasing payment. No negotiation.
Your expertise is worth money. Tinrate makes sure you get it.
Frequently asked questions
What is problem-market fit?
Problem-market fit means confirming that a problem is both real and acute enough that people will pay to solve it. It comes before product-market fit and before building anything. Without it, you risk spending months building a product for a pain that is not urgent enough to drive purchasing decisions.
How do you validate a business idea before building?
The most effective method is direct conversation — talking to 10 to 15 potential customers, not to pitch your product but to understand how they currently handle the problem, what they have already tried, and what frustrates them most. Those conversations reveal whether the problem is real, how frequent it is, and what language your target audience uses to describe it.
What is the difference between a vitamin and a painkiller in startups?
A vitamin is a product that improves life but is not urgently needed — people might buy it occasionally but will not change their behaviour or prioritise spending on it. A painkiller solves an acute, frequent problem that people are actively seeking a solution to. Successful products start as painkillers. Validation confirms which one you are building.
Why do most startups fail?
Most startups fail not because of poor execution but because they built for a problem that was not painful enough to pay to solve. They skipped or rushed the validation phase and built a product before confirming that the market needed it badly enough to change behaviour and spend money.
How do you find the right expert for market validation?
Look for someone who has built in your space, has experience in strategic positioning, or specialises in identifying whether a business problem is real and solvable. On Tinrate, you can book a paid 1:1 call with market strategists and positioning experts who have worked through exactly this phase at search.tinrate.com.
