No. Lets say some guys wife sees what a crappy player he is on COD 4 and she wants to buy him some help. She comes to gamercoach and buys a gift card with say 30 credits on it for video game help on Call of Duty 4. Now, on Christmas day the guy gets that gift card in his stocking... He logs in to gamercoach, and finds a coach. Assume that Coach has set his rate to say $15 per hour. The player looking for help has 30 credits. Each credit is valued at $1 dollar. So, using that gift card he can hire that coach twice... 15 credits = 1-hour of coaching from you. 2 hours = $60 or 60 credits. We have to do it this way because as we currently stand all coaches set their own hourly rate (that may change) so we can't sell 1-hours worth of training because you may be charging $60 and someone else only $15 per hour.
In an on-going effort to help you promote your own video game coaching business we have partnered with VistaPrint to provide you with basic self promotion tools.
We are starting with BUSINESS CARDS and T-shirts. We have waived any profit on these and make them available to you ONLY if you want them. The pricing is our cost we are passing to you.
They are pretty cool and can be TOTALLY customized by you to direct Players to YOUR GamerCoach.com profile (www.gamercoach.com/profile/YOUR username) not some other coach who might steal your gig!
You don't have to be a "Pro" gamer to earn a living playing video games. You just have to be really good... Get paid up to $30 an hour to teach others to play online multi-player games. No bull.
Hello and welcome to our pre-BETA site where great gamers will teach less-great players and noobs how to play the games you love, intruduce them to the concepts of online gaming and generally act as professional video game big brothers!
You can sign-up as a video game coach for EVERY Wii, Playstation 3, and Xbox title out there. (PC titles soon to follow)
Google says launching in BETA is OK...So it's going to be good enough for us too.
Sorry for any rough edges or incomplete thoughts - but we are soon to be live and needed your feedback on our registration system and overall concept.
Many of you will simply use this site to make a little extra dough from time to time. That’s great and we welcome you.
However, for those of you teens and 20's facing the depressing idea of working in retail or fast food for $8 - $10 an hour while you go to school or figure out your next life moves, you may want to consider GamerCoach an opportunity to OWN YOUR OWN BUSINESS.
Our video game Coaches can earn 2 to 3 times the hourly rate paid at fast food joints - doing what they love.
Earning up to $30 an hour for helping less experienced players learn how to play the video games you love is a pretty cool .
The Deal: To be a Professional GamerCoach, you bring…
Your gaming knowledge and passion for the games you play every day
Available hours for coaching
We provide for you:
100% of Marketing and Promotions for you (search engines, trade mags, retail promotions, etc.)
Billing and Payment (We take responsibility for collecting from the players who hire you. We transfer the money securely to you via your own PayPal account.)
Web Tools (We provide you with a complete Coach Profile page (similar to MySpace) where you can communicate information about you as a coach to help persuade users to hire you.)
Scheduling (We provide a complete, web based scheduling tool that makes accepting a training gig as easy as responding to an email alert)
E Business Cards and E-Flyers (Promoting yourself as a professional gamer is cool and effective. We have developed an entire suite of promotional tools for you to use with the clients you work with as well as new clients you’d like to.
Email marketing (Soon we will offer the ability for you to send email marketing newsletters to the players you train. Keeping them updated on new levels new game versions etc. Reminding them that you are there and available is key to generating more business.)
Our Fees:
There are no costs to launch your GamerCoach Coach account.
We will set you up with everything you need to provide professional video game coaching services today. We simply charge a 15% commission on your sessions.
You are paid as a contractor and we do not withhold any taxes from this amount. Earnings are not capped. You can earn as much as you’d like based on your efforts to develop new players. (With our help of course)
We use the earth's most secure money system - PayPal. You don't need a PayPal account to pay for video game instruction, they allow you to also use most major credit cards.
Pretty simple really. You know how when you are playing with your Xbox or Playstation 3 online against other real players? Well we take advantage of that by having players looking to get better at the games they love playing log in with our coaches for live, one to one video game lessons. You can use a telephone or headsets to talk to one and other in real time and work on the stuff you want to get better at.
This video is a simple overview of what you might expect when hiring a GamerCoach video game instructor to help you with any of our over 3,000 video game titles listed. (Palystation 3 help, Xbox help, Wii help)
You sure do and we like to play with you! ;-) Check these stats out..."Women over age 18 represent a greater portion of the videogame playing population than boys age 17 or younger (33% vs. 18%), according to the Entertainment Software Association." Watch out gamer dudes - you could be playing with someones mom and if she's had video game lessons from us, she will probably win!
No problem. Our coaches all have access to alternative communications with you including traditional phone, (they call you anywhere in the US at no cost to you) text chat or one-way audio - meaning the coach speaks to you during game play, you hear him through the platform communication system.
