FAQs
So how do we work together?
SoulBuffet.com is a whole new concept for intuitive readers, spiritual healers and all others who help us tap into alternative spiritual energies beyond the five senses. A few simple steps:
1) You list yourself for free in our directory.
2) We do the marketing and publicity to get people to visit soulbuffet.com, and we keep the site fresh with new content.
3) We make it really easy for customers to work with you, by allowing them to immediately book a session with you (only with your permission, using your fee structure).
4) Once that session is booked, the two of you get to decide when, where and how you’ll carry it out.
So how do I, a reader, make money?
When you decide to list yourself in our free directory, we’ll ask you a bunch of questions about yourself and how you work. One of those questions will be about how YOU choose to work with clients, and what you charge. So, you might say that you do hour-long phone sessions for $150, and half-hour phone sessions for $80, and that you also answer single questions in email for $20 each. It’s totally up to you what you want to charge, and for what.
We’ll make those options available to your new potential clients as PayPal buttons on your directory listing. Because we make our money from people charging sessions through our website … and we have costs associated with that … we tack on a surcharge for us that doesn’t affect what you get paid.
Then, let’s say someone chooses to buy a half-hour session with you. Your fee is $80, so we’ll charge your new client $90. $10 will go to us, and $80 will go to you … completely in keeping with your stated wishes.
If you decide to change your prices … or want to quit letting people charge sessions with you online … just let us know ASAP and we’ll make it happen.
All charges through SoulBuffet.com will go through our PayPal account. We’ll take our surcharge and pass the rest on to you within thirty days, or sooner.
We’re not the control freak type, so if it’s really important to you, you can still invite people to come to YOUR website to contact you about a session. We’re in this for the long term, and want (first and foremost) to have a good working relationship with you.
How do YOU make money?
Whenever anyone books a session with someone in our directory, we hope they’ll charge it through our site, so that we get the surcharge we put on top of the practitioner’s fee. We also, from time to time, might offer other related goods for sale (books, DVDs, and the like).
Why are you doing this?
Chris Miller, Soul Buffet’s managing partner, is a marketing, publicity and promotion pro, having begun this site after starting and turning around radio stations in several large cities around the US. One of Chris’s beliefs is that people would be happier and healthier if they took responsibility for their own spirituality, and did more to get in touch with the spiritual world around and inside themselves. Plus, it seemed like a cool way to earn a living. Don’t ask him for an intuitive reading, however!
I’m trying to get established as an intuitive reader. How do I list myself on your site?
First, fill out our questionnaire where we’ll ask you several questions that get us some info about you, and some clues about how you work to help craft your directory listing.
You see, what you write won’t just automatically go online. We’ll communicate about it and you’ll get to see it before it’s done and posted online. We know that this sort of work is incredibly personal. As marketing and promotion folks, we’ll work to make sure your message is as accurate and as on-target as possible.
Once your listing is up and active, and you need to make a change in it … let us know and we’ll work to fix it.
How are you going to market this site?
Marketing this site is going to be the most important job for us; we want to attract a steady flow of new and repeat fans to SoulBuffet.com. Here are some of the things we’ll be doing:
1. Using the smartest online advertising … we’ll be trying a number of different ways to use ads on the web, and we’ll stick with what works the best. We know how to dig into the data to see what advertising methods will pay off the best for us.
2. Classic public relations and publicity. It’s still very much about talking one-on-one with folks, so we’ll be working to keep ourselves top-of-mind for timely, topical TV, radio and newspaper interviews, and contact with other related websites, too.
3. We’ll actively look for promotional partners and hot-button ways to attract interest to SoulBuffet.com.
4. We’ll tap the talents and abilities of our intuitive partners … folks like you, who list themselves in our directory … for ways to draw interest to SoulBuffet.com.
Basically, we’ll wake up each day and think, “What NEW way can we spread the word TODAY?”
For answers to other questions, email me.
To complete our reader questionnaire to be listed for free, click here.