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.
