Honestly, Ron, I’d love to have the “problem” of how to scale it in the future! In that regard, if I did branch out to involve employees/contractors etc. then I could see a model similar to a gal I know in NY who is an awesome hair stylist. She started out on her own, but then built up her own salon. She’s been doing this so long that now customers CAN have her cut their hair, but it costs significantly more than any of the other employees of the salon…and she’s booked solid!

Regarding the different groups and my own comfort zone, I don’t see attending the events as something I would do “cold”. I see 1-2 hours of upfront coaching to prepare for the event…for both myself and the client. The client needs to identify key goals etc, much of which depend on the potential attendees at the event. This would, by default I think, get me up to speed on the event as well since we will have to review the known details of the event in order to prepare successfully. Make sense?

This has been great because you are making me think through the idea a little further. Thanks SO MUCH for your input and for stopping by!

Otoh, being you are using such 1:1 counseling/coaching/mentoring as a resource for your book, it is possible that book revenue provides scaling, or at least the potential for such.

I do think the idea has significant merit, esp in todays economic climate. The key imho is monetization of some fashion such that it gets you out of the 1:1 time-money model. (it may well be you dont run leveraged scalable deals on day 1… just set your systems up in such a fashion, that a transfer to something that scales is easy and fairly quick to accomplish at a later date).

Lastly, networking is an ongoing thing… and while your sevices of a wingman provide a ton of value, each network type of event has a unique persona. When you go outside of your comfort zone to coach a client at a 1 time event… not sure how much value that can provide. Its seems it would be difficult to read into the dynamics of such, until you yourself are an ongoing participant in such groups. (As a previous corp R-D guy from years back, I often times went outside my element, the personal networking dynamics vary a lot more than one might expect).

The mystery questions are whether someone will actually pay you for such coaching (and how to price it), whether, given that you have a day job, whether you actually have time to take on clients should they present themselves and still have a life beyond work.

Me? With an active search practice, marketing my two ebooks and finishing another, everything takes time. I made a promise to myself–three busy years and then scale back on some of the extra “stuff.”

I don’t know beyond the enthusiasm you write with.

Have a great day!

P.S. I have a number of websites. I just included my candidate facing one here.

Jeff