Selling Advice Online

Words of Advice
photo credit: Joshua Rappeneker

More and more people are offering their skills online by providing expert advice or performing specific tasks for a fee. The WSJ has more about this interesting new idea and trend:

Teresa Estes, a licensed mental-health counselor, watched as business at her private practice dwindled last year. Then the single mother turned to her keyboard to boost her income.

Ms. Estes applied to become an “expert” on (this language is not supported, see … for more info), a Web site where clients pay for online chat time with professionals and advisers of all stripes. For $1.89 a minute — a rate she set — the 39-year-old from Marianna, Fla., dispenses advice to clients around the globe. She spends about four hours a day logged on to the service, often at night, when her daughter has gone to bed.

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