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    Setting Up Your Host Profile

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    • Your Profile Is Your Storefront
    • The Four-Step Setup
    • Profile Photo
    • Title, Bio, and Motto
    • Discipline, Specialty, and Location
    • Social Links
    • What Visitors See
    • Get to Ten Products

    A guided walk through the four-step profile setup and what makes a profile people trust

    Getting Started
    4 min read

    Your Profile Is Your Storefront

    Your profile is the first thing shoppers and brands see. A complete profile builds the trust that turns visitors into followers and buyers, and it is what brands browse when deciding who to invite to paid campaigns. The good news: Rendezvu walks you through all of it in one guided flow.

    The Four-Step Setup

    Head to rendezvu.co/onboarding (or hit Start onboarding on your profile) for the four steps: About you, Profile photo, Your details, and Your socials. It takes about five minutes, progress saves automatically after every step, and you can finish later at any time without losing anything. When the four steps are done, your profile hands you the next move: building your first gear list and adding your first product.

    rendezvu.co/onboarding
    Rendezvu
    Finish later
    About you
    Tell people who you are in a line or two.
    First name
    Alex
    Last name
    Rivers
    Title
    Mountain Ultra Runner
    Bio
    Tell people who you are and what you're about.
    Continue · 1 of 4
    Progress saves automatically
    Profile photo
    A real photo builds instant trust.
    Looking good
    Choose a different photo
    JPG or PNG, at least 400 × 400
    Continue · 2 of 4
    This becomes your profile photo
    Your socials
    Link where people already follow you.
    Instagram
    @alexrivers
    YouTube
    Channel link
    Strava
    strava.com/athletes/alex
    TikTok
    @you
    Continue · 4 of 4
    One link is enough

    Three of the four onboarding steps. Each one saves as you go, and the counter lives in the button.

    Profile Photo

    A real photo of you builds instant trust. Use a clear, recent shot, at least 400 by 400 pixels (JPG, PNG, or WebP). After you choose one you can drag and scale it inside the circular crop so it sits exactly right. Action shots work great for adventure sports. Your profile photo is the first photo in your gallery, so you can swap or reorder it any time from Edit Photos on your profile.

    Title, Bio, and Motto

    Your title is the one-liner under your name, so make it concrete: "Mountain Guide" or "Desert Ultrarunner" beats "Outdoor Enthusiast". Use the bio to say why your recommendations are worth trusting: your experience, certifications, expeditions, or years of testing gear the hard way. The optional motto is a single line you live by; it shows up under your photo and as the quote on your generated share slides.

    Discipline, Specialty, and Location

    These three fields are how shoppers and brands find you. Be specific: "Trail running" and "Ultra distance" connect you with the right audience faster than "Sports" ever will. Location gives your recommendations context, since mountain gear advice from Colorado reads differently than coastal gear advice from California.

    Social Links

    Link where people already follow you: Instagram, YouTube, TikTok, Strava, X, Facebook, LinkedIn, or your website. One link is enough to finish the step, but each one you add reinforces that you are a real, active person. Runners can also connect UltraSignup, which verifies your race results on your profile.

    What Visitors See

    A visitor gets your photo, motto, name, title, and social links at a glance, plus a live stat showing how many people have geared up through you. Tapping About expands your bio, your details, and your highlights (up to three achievements or certifications you add from your profile). Below all of that sit your lists, which do the actual selling. Each section has its own Edit button when you view your own profile, so you never have to redo the whole setup to change one thing.

    rendezvu.co/alex-rivers
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    Log in
    "Everything I recommend, I've raced in."
    Alex Rivers
    Mountain Ultra Runner
    About
    Follow
    27 people have geared up through Alex this week
    About Alex
    Fifteen years of mountain racing, from the Rockies to UTMB. I test everything on real vert before it earns a spot on my lists.
    Expert Details
    Discipline
    Trail running
    Speciality
    Ultra distance
    Location
    Boulder, CO
    Joined Rendezvu
    Mar 2026

    The visitor view: header at a glance, then About and details expand on demand.

    Get to Ten Products

    Ten products is the bar that puts your profile in front of shoppers browsing the hosts directory, and your profile shows a progress meter until you reach it. After that, keep things fresh: update photos seasonally, add new gear as you adopt it, and refresh your bio as your experience grows. A profile that looks maintained earns more trust than one that looks parked.

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