How to Set Up Paid Advice Calls on LinkedIn

Set up a paid "advice call" on LinkedIn by replacing the call itself with an async Paid Question: a connection pays to ask, you reply in writing on your own schedule, and the paid link sits in your LinkedIn Featured section or Contact info field instead of a calendar invite. Paid Questions let a follower pay upfront to ask one private question, and you send one written reply on your own time — no live call or scheduling. No monthly fee, you only pay a small platform fee when you get paid. 8% platform fee when a follower pays for work, 5% platform fee on tips and goals. Card processing is separate.

What does a "paid advice call" mean on LinkedIn?

On LinkedIn, a paid advice call rarely means a video meeting you get paid for inside the platform. LinkedIn's only documented native booking control is a Premium-gated custom button that schedules a Calendly meeting without collecting payment, while Brillay turns the request into a priced written exchange instead. One written answer inside the window you set — no call, no calendar, no time zone.

LinkedIn Help lists seven preset options for that profile custom button — including "Book an appointment" — and restricts who can add one:

"This feature is available only to a select group of LinkedIn Premium Business, Sales Navigator, and Recruiter Lite subscribers." — LinkedIn Help — Add or remove a custom button from your profile

Brillay's published documentation explains that a creator delivers asynchronously — replying or sending the work on their own time, inside the delivery window they set, with no live call or scheduling to arrange (Brillay, how it works). On Brillay, a "paid advice call" therefore maps to a Paid Question: one private question, one written answer — the follower pays upfront, and you reply in writing on your own time.

That reframing changes what you are actually selling. A live call sells your real-time attention and back-and-forth; an async question sells your judgment on one bounded thing. LinkedIn's newsroom reports a community of more than 1.3 billion members, including 290 million-plus in North America (LinkedIn — About us), and plenty of those members would rather send one specific, well-formed question than schedule a meeting.

Where do I put a paid advice link on my LinkedIn profile?

Put a paid-advice link in your LinkedIn Featured section for on-profile visibility, or in the Contact info Website field as a quieter backup. LinkedIn Help documents both as standard profile sections with no stated Premium requirement, unlike the profile custom button, which LinkedIn Help limits to select Premium Business, Sales Navigator, and Recruiter Lite subscribers.

LinkedIn Help states that a member "can display up to three website links" in the Contact info section of the profile introduction (LinkedIn Help — Add or remove a website from your profile). For the Featured section, LinkedIn's help documentation gives a much larger ceiling:

"There is no limit on the number of items you can feature, however, only 400 items will be displayed." — LinkedIn Help — Featured section FAQs

Neither Featured nor Contact info embeds a live "book a call" widget, and LinkedIn removed the free-form profile hyperlink when it retired Creator Mode: "We have removed the option to add a hyperlink to your profile, which was previously supported through Creator Mode and is no longer available today" (LinkedIn Help). A Featured link card or the Contact info website field is the workaround; how to add a link to your LinkedIn profile walks through both step by step.

How do I turn a LinkedIn post into a Paid Questions funnel?

Turn a LinkedIn post into a paid Q&A funnel by closing posts that generate DM questions with a line pointing to your priced link, instead of answering the first few for free. The post surfaces demand; the link prices it. You route each request manually from LinkedIn DMs to Brillay, where the request and payment happen on the page.

A pattern that keeps the ask specific: write the post as you normally would, then close with something like "I answer questions like this for [price] — link below" or "Sending this exact breakdown as a paid reply here: [link]." Avoid vague CTAs like "DM me anytime," which reopens the free-advice channel the offer is meant to close. If a comment thread turns into a real back-and-forth, reply once in public with a short answer and route anything requiring more depth to the paid link.

What should a LinkedIn paid-advice offer include?

A LinkedIn paid-advice offer should state the exact scope, the price, and the reply time before anyone pays. For Paid Questions, you set the price, reply window, title, and description. A follower asks one private question and you send one written reply, so use the description to make the scope clear.

A workable listing description covers:

• Input: what the asker should include (their situation, one specific question, relevant context).
• Scope: one bounded question.
• Reply format: one written reply.
• Reply time: the window you commit to, set at the offer level.

If the advice genuinely requires reviewing a document, that is a different offer, covered below.

How much should I charge for LinkedIn advice?

Price a LinkedIn advice question by the judgment it demands and the time a good answer takes, not by what a live call would have cost per minute. A narrow, well-scoped question you can answer thoughtfully in ten focused minutes should sit below a broad "how should I think about my career" ask that needs real consideration.

Paid one-to-one advice is an established, growing market: the International Coaching Federation's 2025 Global Coaching Study counted a record 122,974 coach practitioners worldwide generating an estimated $5.34 billion in revenue over the prior year, nearly double the $2.849 billion recorded in the 2023 study (ICF Global Coaching Study).

As contextual background rather than direct evidence about LinkedIn buyers, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reports a median annual wage of $101,860 for management analysts as of May 2025 and projects 10% employment growth from 2025 to 2035 (BLS Occupational Outlook Handbook) — a benchmark for what paid outside business judgment costs generally, not a measure of what a LinkedIn connection will pay for one question.

Any specific price mentioned below is illustrative, not a guarantee of what buyers will pay or what you should charge:

On Brillay, "ongoing access" means pricing and answering each question individually, one time rather than as a membership.

Should LinkedIn advice be a paid question or a full service?

Use Paid Questions when the advice fits in one private question and one written reply, and use Custom Work when a client needs to send a deck, resume, or plan and receive text plus files and/or a link. The dividing line is whether a file changes hands in either direction.

Brillay Custom Work delivers text plus up to 5 files of any allowed type and/or a private link within the delivery time you set, up to 5 days. That fits pitch-deck teardowns, business-plan reviews, or anything that needs a document back rather than a short written answer. Paid direct messages vs. coaching calls breaks down the same async-vs-live tradeoff in more depth.

How do I stop paid-advice requests turning into free consulting?

Keep a paid LinkedIn advice offer from sliding into free consulting by scoping it narrowly in the listing itself and declining or redirecting anything beyond that scope, rather than answering follow-up questions for free to be polite.

Brillay's product documentation states that escape hatch plainly: "You can decline it. You're always in control of what you take on."

Common scope creep on LinkedIn: a "quick question" that's actually three, a request that assumes ongoing follow-up access, or a comment thread expecting the same depth as a paid reply. Set the boundary in the listing itself — “one question, one written reply” — and keep that scope clear in the paid request, especially if the buyer later disputes the charge. Someone who needs more than one question answered is a signal to point toward a custom request or a higher price, not to keep answering for free because you already started.

LinkedIn's Help center documents no program that pays members for advice given away in posts, comments, or DMs, and its custom-button documentation covers scheduling rather than payment. What LinkedIn has published, and what has only been reported, is compared on a separate page about whether LinkedIn pays creators — treat that as the current state of LinkedIn's documentation rather than a prediction about unannounced features.

Frequently asked questions

Can I actually book a live paid call through LinkedIn or Brillay?

Not as a paid call. LinkedIn Help documents one native booking control — a Calendly-powered profile button available only to a select group of Premium Business, Sales Navigator, and Recruiter Lite subscribers — and that button schedules a meeting rather than collecting payment. Brillay delivers each reply asynchronously, on your own time, within the delivery time you set. The workable substitute is the Paid Questions offer: one question, one written answer, paid upfront.

Where's the best place to put a paid-advice link on my LinkedIn profile?

The Featured section is the more visible placement, sitting directly on the profile rather than behind a click, and LinkedIn Help states that only 400 featured items will be displayed. The Contact info Website field works too and allows up to three website links (LinkedIn Help).

Do I need a large LinkedIn following to charge for advice?

No. Brillay has no follower minimum and nothing to apply for, so the offer works whether your network is a few hundred connections or much larger. LinkedIn’s help documentation for the Featured section and the Contact info website field lists no follower requirement for either placement.

What if someone wants a review of a document, not a quick answer?

Route that to a custom request instead of a Paid Question. Paid Questions are one typed question and one written reply, while Custom Work accepts up to 5 attached files from the client and delivers text plus files and/or a private link within a creator-set delivery time of up to 5 days.

What does Brillay charge to run this?

Brillay's own fee is the platform fee stated earlier on this page. Stripe's typical US domestic online-card processing rate of 2.9% + $0.30 applies on top, separate from Brillay's fee; international cards and currency conversion cost more.

Create your free Brillay page and turn the next "got 15 minutes?" message into a priced, async advice offer instead of a favor.