One possible strategy is to identify niche professional forums or groups where they gather online and promote your platform there.

Additionally, consider offering exclusive perks or incentives to attract consultants, making participation more appealing.

Because let’s be real—most of the people that you are looking for are already well sought after or own businesses of their own.

What are you offering them which they’re not already getting paid for (or paying themselves for) somewhere else?

Would it be easier to bring students if you had more/better consultants? Or to bring consultants if you had more students?

Consultants should be more interested in how much traffic you can bring to their doorstep because they already have a platform. A new platform means a new commitment, and if there’s nothing feasible for them then there’s no incentive to do so.

The usual thing is that:

“It’s harder to run a shoe repair business if you can’t repair shoes”

Start by limiting the consulting to services you, your partners, close friends or existing contacts you already have can deliver.

You can get some true external consultants, but that’s a bonus for later when you have a customer base.

It’s a problem like this one: “Should I hire or get customer first ? without customers I can’t hire and without hiring I can’t get customers”
--> Disregarding an important variable might transform an easy answer “work yourself until you have enough work to hire” into a chicken and egg problem.

You need to offer the deliverable internally for very long, it’ll take very long before you can fully externalize. Even then the internalized service might still be the most popular.