Would Internet Marketers Pay for One-on-One Tutoring?

Here's how I got lucky: (this starts out negative but turns out positive)

18 months ago a friend of mine told me he'd teach me IM. This was a real world friend I'd known for a decade who got into IM after we met. He was making six figures a year online via article marketing and I was in a rut, so I decided to go for it. That was Jan 2011.

Panda hit 30 days later. His business went from six figures down into just decimal points. My first mentor was scratched from the list. He also disappeared off the face of the Earth, so I lost a friend, too.

So I joined The Keyword Academy and went through their training. It's a fantastic program, but it's not fast enough for me. Then I found this course that I won't mention by name because it's run by a complete sleezeball. The course looked great and it had a hyperactive forum, so I joined in and quickly realized that I knew more than the "dee-da-dee guru" did. He completely abandoned his course and I started answering questions in the forum for everyone else.

About that time, another guy in the forum started doing the same thing and I realized he knew more than I did, so I PM'ed him and we started talking behind the scenes. Turned out that he bought the course to see if there was anything new that he didn't already know. He was a former search engine programmer and left a rather large company that we're all familiar with due to health concerns 5-10 years ago and has quietly built up 200+ AdSense sites and pulls in 5 figures a month from it.

I didn't get all that in the first conversation...it took 2-3 months to piece it together.

Anyways...I started writing articles for the other forum members for small change, and my mentor and I started putting together a program that would Silo a website automatically. I took his concept and had it programmed and we create the Simple Silo program and made a nice little profit. Then we put together a full mentoring program for others, and then a mini niche course, and now we're prepping a full authority site course for later this month.

I had to prove myself to him, though. I worked hard, learned hard, and helped him to get into teach and make a decent bit of money in order to get him to teach me. We're (obviously) still friends now, and he still teaches me all the time.

Chances like that are few and far between though. Most mentors charges hundreds and even thousands of dollars for what I've gotten. Can you see why I say I "got lucky" now?

-- j

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stlmrk

12 years ago

Originally Posted by JaRyCu

Here's how I got lucky: (this starts out negative but turns out positive)

18 months ago a friend of mine told me he'd teach me IM. This was a real world friend I'd known for a decade who got into IM after we met. He was making six figures a year online via article marketing and I was in a rut, so I decided to go for it. That was Jan 2011.

Panda hit 30 days later. His business went from six figures down into just decimal points. My first mentor was scratched from the list. He also disappeared off the face of the Earth, so I lost a friend, too.

So I joined The Keyword Academy and went through their training. It's a fantastic program, but it's not fast enough for me. Then I found this course that I won't mention by name because it's run by a complete sleezeball. The course looked great and it had a hyperactive forum, so I joined in and quickly realized that I knew more than the "dee-da-dee guru" did. He completely abandoned his course and I started answering questions in the forum for everyone else.

About that time, another guy in the forum started doing the same thing and I realized he knew more than I did, so I PM'ed him and we started talking behind the scenes. Turned out that he bought the course to see if there was anything new that he didn't already know. He was a former search engine programmer and left a rather large company that we're all familiar with due to health concerns 5-10 years ago and has quietly built up 200+ AdSense sites and pulls in 5 figures a month from it.

I didn't get all that in the first conversation...it took 2-3 months to piece it together.

Anyways...I started writing articles for the other forum members for small change, and my mentor and I started putting together a program that would Silo a website automatically. I took his concept and had it programmed and we create the Simple Silo program and made a nice little profit. Then we put together a full mentoring program for others, and then a mini niche course, and now we're prepping a full authority site course for later this month.

I had to prove myself to him, though. I worked hard, learned hard, and helped him to get into teach and make a decent bit of money in order to get him to teach me. We're (obviously) still friends now, and he still teaches me all the time.

Chances like that are few and far between though. Most mentors charges hundreds and even thousands of dollars for what I've gotten. Can you see why I say I "got lucky" now?

-- j

J,

I can't pm yet, how can I contact you and ask you about your TKA experience and where to get started? Don't mean to highjack the thread, thats why I'm asking.

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pro31lady 12 years ago

Yes they would. I know I would if it was something I wanted to learn - especially if the price was right.
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- Winston McFail 12 years ago
  
  Absolutely. They already do...the question is do you have the ability to market it to them.
  
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Robert Michael 12 years ago

Of course they would (and do)

I refer to it as 'consulting' tho.

Right now I have 4 people paying me to work on their stuff with them, 1 of them is getting a cheaper rate than the other 3 just because of their history with me.

But their discounted rate is still a pretty good amount, especially when compared to what a "traditional job" would bring in.

So ya, it definitely sells (if you know what you're talking about for whatever they need help with)

PS: Hi Gail!!! lol hit me up on skype sometime, I'm available for some small jobs if you need anything done, I'll give you some awesome rates at the moment too since I got a bunch of stuff going on!
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Brian Tayler

12 years ago

Originally Posted by JaRyCu

Here's how I got lucky: (this starts out negative but turns out positive)

18 months ago a friend of mine told me he'd teach me IM. This was a real world friend I'd known for a decade who got into IM after we met. He was making six figures a year online via article marketing and I was in a rut, so I decided to go for it. That was Jan 2011.

Panda hit 30 days later. His business went from six figures down into just decimal points. My first mentor was scratched from the list. He also disappeared off the face of the Earth, so I lost a friend, too.

So I joined The Keyword Academy and went through their training. It's a fantastic program, but it's not fast enough for me. Then I found this course that I won't mention by name because it's run by a complete sleezeball. The course looked great and it had a hyperactive forum, so I joined in and quickly realized that I knew more than the "dee-da-dee guru" did. He completely abandoned his course and I started answering questions in the forum for everyone else.

About that time, another guy in the forum started doing the same thing and I realized he knew more than I did, so I PM'ed him and we started talking behind the scenes. Turned out that he bought the course to see if there was anything new that he didn't already know. He was a former search engine programmer and left a rather large company that we're all familiar with due to health concerns 5-10 years ago and has quietly built up 200+ AdSense sites and pulls in 5 figures a month from it.

I didn't get all that in the first conversation...it took 2-3 months to piece it together.

Anyways...I started writing articles for the other forum members for small change, and my mentor and I started putting together a program that would Silo a website automatically. I took his concept and had it programmed and we create the Simple Silo program and made a nice little profit. Then we put together a full mentoring program for others, and then a mini niche course, and now we're prepping a full authority site course for later this month.

I had to prove myself to him, though. I worked hard, learned hard, and helped him to get into teach and make a decent bit of money in order to get him to teach me. We're (obviously) still friends now, and he still teaches me all the time.

Chances like that are few and far between though. Most mentors charges hundreds and even thousands of dollars for what I've gotten. Can you see why I say I "got lucky" now?

-- j

Great story Jay. I'm interested in seeing the course you have coming out later this month.

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Joseph Robinson

Banned 12 years ago

They can and they do. We see quite a few threads from time to time where Warriors try to get the same thing for free, and you see members telling them that what they are asking for often comes in paid form.

The market is definitely out there, and if you can limit the class size, make it live, and be effective with your teaching, then things can definitely take off. I intend to start a class for writers sometime soon myself. The teaching itch is getting to me.

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honestim 12 years ago

People pay for these one-on-one training sessions all the while. By the way that short crisp answer from Will (PPC-Coach) comes with a lot of experience on the subject I have been a paying student of his (though it wasn't one-on-one).
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MacMiller

12 years ago

Like everyone else is saying, it is actually very popular on the forum. You have to make sure you have reputation first before you offer your services. If you don't have rep, less people will be interested in learning from you. Establish yourself, then establish your coaching.

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Gail_Curran 12 years ago

Good responses so far! I don't really see this as coaching, or mentoring - it just strikes me as "tutoring." I know something, I teach you, end of story.

And it wouldn't be expensive, because it's not coaching or mentoring.
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- Alexa Smith Banned 12 years ago
  
  I think there's quite a bit overlap between what people mean by "tutoring" and "coaching" (not so much "mentoring", certainly).
  
  Specifically, I suspect that quite a lot of what's called "tutoring" in the UK and in Canada (and maybe in some other English-speaking countries) is known as "coaching" in the US.
  
  To me, they're not the same: I see "tutoring" as being more of an ad hoc item, and "coaching" more as being part of an implicitly ongoing process, but that's just me.
  
  Anyway, the answer is "yes": people will and do pay for this service.
  
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fated82

12 years ago

Yes they do. I have people paying $600 a pop for a one on one session with me. If they are overseas, we will do Skype calls. It can be done as long as you build your credibility and give the audience a reason to want to learn from you.

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BlackIrish

12 years ago

Of course they would - but you have to establish some kind of status before they buy. No one would buy mentoring from a guy that they don't know a single thing about (past successes, etc.).

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alamest

12 years ago

if you can make quality and specially a live case study than why will not people pay for it.. if you think your tutorial is quality and valuable for you and people than they will definitely pay.

Don't think about competition like Why they will pay you.. I have an example for it..

In my school days I used to go for private tut-ions for my school subjects and still now that teacher is doing the same job.. so their endless amount of student to be taught may be the syllabus is changed but principle is same..

Same over here if you can provide quality and valuable tutorial, like you think that watching your tutorial some one will be beneficial than I will say go for it.. as there is endless about of student to be helped..

First build the product and than learn how to market.. don't learn first how to market than build your product.. don't worry about marketing..first concentrate on building long term quality product than you can learn about marketing online

I hope this helps..

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Gail_Curran 12 years ago

Some good insights and lots to think about here - thanks, guys and gals. It sounds like there would be potential students if I could get the marketing part right.
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nicholasb

12 years ago

yes they do for sure, when I finally moved from just doing affiliate marketing to teaching it, that's what I did.

I had a 30 coaching program that I sold for $500 I sold 25 seats a month and it sold out every month starting it's first month for a long long time.

I also sell coaching classes in other niches non IM or make money related that people are happy to join, as long as you can get them the result they are after they will be happy to pay and attend.

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12 years ago

I have and it was a great investment

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Marty M

12 years ago

Yes they would pay for it and you could even do it online.

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WinstonTian

12 years ago

I charge anywhere between 8k to 10k
for high level coaching.. But a majority
goes around 1k to 5k if I'm coaching
newbies breaking into the market.

That's because the skills you learn are
going to be extremely valuable, and
take up a good portion of the
marketing coach's time, which can be
used to leverage more profit.

Copywriting, economics, marketing,
and all of those other essential skills
easily add up to an expensive
education... Some really good 7-figure
coaches go up to 10k+.

Winston Tian

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sanjx01

12 years ago

Hey Gail,

Of course they will!

I have a friend who's whole business is running webinar series teaching his list how to do x .

It can be done, and it can be very rewarding.

Hope that helps!
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Rojak Moon

12 years ago

I've been fortunate to have mentors in my life that either gave freely of their selves and/or their advise. However, in those cases where that advice was beneficial in a monetary format I put a check in the mail along with a gift and thank you card or I offered them an opportunity to become further involved in the business... some as partners, some as investors and a few as both.

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karlmay1980

12 years ago

It is big business if you give good unique value and keep numbers down so it is a premium service to exclusive customers.

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JeremTheMarketer

12 years ago

They always do.

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Toplink

12 years ago

Originally Posted by Gail_Curran

I'm really curious to hear opinions. Will people pay to learn something in an online class situation? Let's say that there is a specific skill that is useful to marketers. The basics could be taught in an hour. People would attend a webinar that is one-on-one with the instructor or limited to, say, 6 students.

They watch a live walk-through of the process, ask questions, perhaps get to practise the skill themselves. They also get documents or resources related to the task, plus a cheat sheet to use in the future when they perform the task on their own.

There's a specific learning objective, the lesson is well planned, and once it's over, that's it. This is not a coaching situation or a presell to a product. The lesson is the product.

Would anyone pay for that sort of thing?

Yes they would. And I already do. But you need to make sure the content is top class. I won't tell you how much i have spent on this type of stuff............when it adds value. But it's a lot!

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romanos8

Banned 12 years ago

well in all I think they would pay for extra help but depends on the cost ex if for an hour it cost $ 5000 no one would but if it does not cost a lot anyone would pay for it

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