Gamesmaster For Hire...

 Afternoon I’m Jonathan Clark and I run Instant Edge – we work with established consultants, coaches, and speakers to help them get found and get hired.  I can do that because I am a Coach, a Consultant, and a Speaker

We specialise in making our clients visible and credible to their target market 

This week we’ve launched something quite unusual

One of my hobbies that I’ve enjoyed since I was 10 years old is tabletop roleplaying games. Most people have heard of Dungeons & Dragons, where a bunch of specky nerds like me get together and go on fantasy adventures killing monsters and finding treasure.  Now it tends to be fat balding blokes in their 50’s [like me] that still want to get together and have a night of fun and escapism.

Now the pandemic has really hurt the hobby – obviously, you haven’t been able to get a bunch of people from different households all together in one house for over a year until recently, so it forced the hobby online.  Much in the same way that business networking went online.  So now people log into a website and go on a group chat like Zoom and play that way.  Much like we are.

Now, these games have players, and they have the referee that runs the game, called a Gamesmaster.  Being the Gamesmaster is a lot of work, so there are way more players than there are Gamesmasters.  What that means is that there are thousands of players out there who need a Gamesmaster to run games for them.  I’ve been the Gamesmaster for 44 years.

What we’re seeing is the rise of Gamesmaster for Hire – a freelance roleplaying game referee who is hired by groups of players to run games for them.  In other words, getting paid to do their hobby.

So yesterday I got all inspired and chose to combine 25 years of marketing experience with 44 years of roleplaying game experience and I launched gamesmasterforhire.com.  I’ve monetised my hobby!  How cool is that?

So I’m looking for introductions to experienced role players who are longing for a game, or newcomers to roleplaying games who’d like to learn how to play.

So that's Jonathan Clark from The Instant Edge.  You really can turn anything into a business.