The best free method i could share to you is to share your knowledge and experience here on SFI. Give them the best tips you, yourself were doing. In return, it will boost them up like the way it did to you and they could experiment more if they have experienced something better the way you have told them to do so. Plus, it will help you too if they become EA2 the following months. Motivation is the key to success and if you help them through that, it will lead them both of you on top.