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1. Business networking parties with business owners, entrepeneurs, and corporate team leaders. Professionals with money and companies looking for relatively inexpensive team-building exercises. 2. People said they might pay. That doesn't mean they will pay. I'm not counting on that. 3. I've...

Which extremely valid questions are you referring to? 1. People who are having problems finding the right group and DMs who want to play but want to play with their current group where no one else wants to DM have told me they might pay for a session depending on the price. I've researched...

TODAY'S UPDATE 1. I'm officially a Herald level event organizer for the RPGA. Huzzah! :cool: 2. I'm trying to finalize my pricing today. :eek: This is what I'm leaning on after some thought and getting feedback. $105 total for a standard 5-6 hour original or published adventure - published...

Actually, I will be likely marketing more to people unfamilar with White Wolf than those who are. I may actually add standard storytelling for children to my offered services. My background and references might actually be enough for standard storytelling work. I've looked over the RPGA rules -...

It's not an extra cost. It's a different service altogether. That fee would be for helping out someone else's campaign. I'm not just selling one type of service with the business. Most of my potential clients will likely be people who've probably never played DnD before or don't have the time...

Well it's not just about client satisfaction. If for some reason everyone had to leave prematurely (a pregnant woman giving birth for example), I would be screwed if we finished most of the session and I only wound up with 20%. The incremental % mandatory fee over the course of the session...

Hahaha. But just in case people take that reply seriously, the increments are added up whenever the session ends. Payment is not demanded every hour. It's a set amount so the client knows exactly how much must be paid for the full session and increments so that clients can't short-change me...

You know this is a brainstorming thread for ideas and not an advertising thread, right? Hereticus is right about placing samples of writing on the business site. I'll definitely do that. As for references and having a reputation, that's what meetup.com brings to the table. My moniker makes...

If the adventures are a hit, then I'll definitely consider selling them. The online thing sounds interesting. That might be something to look into later on. UPDATE I'm thinking about going with the name "Storyteller Solutions" for the business. I'm leaning towards "game coordinator" for my...

When I saw this I started thinking "Advanced Storytelling Solutions" but then I realized what that abbreviates to... :hmm:

To the threads still being posted on: I'm going to need a title for the business website and something to call myself. I'm open to suggestions. I was thinking something along the lines of 'social game coordinator' instead of 'dungeon master for hire' or 'game master for hire'. I need something...

It's not a fall back. It's a side business while I'm looking for a job. The numbers I gave are the amount of success that would bring things to a stable situation if a job doesn't become available in that time. I expect half of those numbers when everything is up. That's maybe 1 or 2 days a...

Meetup.com and meetups though meetup.com are how I'm going to be concentrating most of my marketing (not all but most) this time around. Business networking, sci fi fantasy, anime, DnD, old gamers, etc. You can see for yourself how many thousands of people are members of groups in NYC. If I...

I choose the third. I've got advantages most other first time authors do not. I spent years working on this book not just to figure out a good story but how to design it as a marketing goldmine. I wrote it from both an artistic perspective and a practical perspective. Getting my publisher...

I have a bunch of bookbags. I can borrow RPG books. I've got leftover office supplies that were my father's. Also, I'm eating off of food stamps at home. When I go out to a session or a job place is when I might have to spend money on food. The prep percentage of my time will be much less in...

The potential promise of money gives me courage. Anyway, such groups are a minority among those I'm going to be marketing to. Chaot at RPGnet got my foot in the door with a temp agency. God bless whoever Chaot is. It's not a 100% guarantee for a job so I'll keep checking job ads and setting...

Thanks. From the pics I saw I'll definitely give them a try. I'm thinking of ideas on how to further build up a good reputation as a game master. One idea is a DnD tournament. I could design a series of encounters/dungeon levels based on the battle challenge concept I'd been fiddling with...

If you run a charity game, I'd like to suggest donating to the St. Jude Children's Research Hospital. Thank you. Considering the extremely rare nature of what I'm doing and the fact that there is indeed precedence (also extremely rare), it might be a toss up. Maybe the old gamers will take pity...

The hiring process will include a survey of the client's preferences to help me adapt the session to the group's enjoyment. I'll have rules errata with me and for anything else I can come up with a semi-plausible solution that the group can accept. I'm actually good at improvising that sort of...

I'll see about adding RPGA game days to the business. I RSVPed for an LFR session this wednesday and hopefully the DM will have a membership application and card waiting for me. The Herald test is supposed to give quicker certification now so I should be able to run RPGA modules soon. Thanks...