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Originally Posted by roxyruby  If I was paid to give people my honest feedback and help I would do it more |
Hmm, I have a couple of ideas that might help.
Many people have successful careers as coaches etc. being paid to give people good advice. One way to do that is to give away good free advice to build up a reputation, and then leverage that into a paid consultancy.
The easiest way right now to give advice is on the forums (easier than, for example, starting a blog and then getting people to come to your blog etc.) However, right now there's no easy way for you to show prospective customers the good advice you've given. You could point them to the link here in the forums that shows all the posts you've made, but that has the questions that you've asked yourself and the discussions that you've participated in all mixed in with the advice you've given.
What if the site had a link you could send people that would show on one page the contributions you had made, the solutions you had added?
If I wanted to hire a coach, what I'd want to know is that you give good advice. You could send me your link, and I could see the actual advice and solutions that you've done, with no extra work on your part. That would be a quite compelling to get me to hire you.
My other idea is that the same software that will be used for the collaborative Guide site could also be used by people to sell their own guides if they wanted to. So you could come up with your own guide for a particular issue and sell it to people, like how Steve Pavlina has his free blog posts and also sells his Personal Development for Smart People book.