How to Start a Psychic Business

Part 1 - How to start a Psychic business - Background

A psychic business offers personal advice and prediction services for its customers at an hourly or flat rate. These services can include palm reading, tarot card readings, trance-channeling sessions, seances, and other metaphysical services. Readings may be done in person or over the telephone. Business owners charge either a rate per minute or a flat rate for each call.

Our guide is in 3 parts:

• Part 1 - How to start a Psychic business - Background
• Part 2 - Our planner tool to see if this idea is the right fit for you
• Part 3 - Action plan to get started

What are the costs involved in opening a psychic business?

This business can be started in the home. Natural psychics may not necessarily want to create a business, and may feel compelled from within to use their gift to help others. They may do this for free or for voluntary donations. As their help for others becomes obvious, the people they help automatically tell other people about the help they received.

An example of this is the most famous American psychic Edgar Cayce. Initially, he gave his work away for free. It was a gift that he was able to use to help people. He became very popular and then later in his career in order to sustain himself and his family he charged modest fees for his readings. He never became rich, nor did he want to get rich. He was compelled to use his gift to help as many people as possible. His work is extremely well documented and sets the example of the life of a true psychic for all else to follow.

If you want to set up a regular type of psychic business, you will need to market your services as you would market the services of any other business. Basic startup costs would be a website for about $2,000, flyers for about $500, and a business license for around $300 depending on your location. You will probably want to form an LLC for about $500 to protect you from liability and you may need signage for about $1,500 in front of your office or home office. You can easily start this business for less than $5,000.

What are the ongoing expenses for a psychic business?

The expenses depend on the size of the operation. A simple home-based business will have very little expenses. An office-based business might pay a modest rent of $500 per month. A psychic telephone call center will have enormous marketing expenses of thousands of dollars per month and equipment leases in the thousands per month as well.

Who is the target market?

The best customers are the ones who have a belief that psychic services help them and they come back again and again. They also tell their friends about the successful predictions made by a psychic they work with, who gives them accurate help and is able to predict future events.

How does a psychic business make money?

There are several methods use to generate revenues, which include asking for donations, charging per minute, charging per session, and the sale of items.

Some psychics have even found such success that they are able to get customers to subscribe to their services.

How much can you charge customers?

The basic fees start at $25 per hour and go up to thousands of dollars per hour.

How much profit can a psychic business make?

This is limited by the about of billable time and the revenues from items for sale. A really successful psychic can make millions of dollars if they market themselves effectively to the masses and sell books and/or self-help programs.

How can you make your business more profitable?

Offering free services may be an effective way to bring in customers, but it may be the case that customers who are seeking free psychic readings are not your intended market. Many gifted psychics have led workshops or other training programs to pass on their knowledge of the supernatural to others. Producing DVD videos for sale and/or writing books and publishing them is potentially a source of additional income.

Day-to-Day and Growth

What happens during a typical day at a psychic business?

If you work out of your home, you simply wait for people to come to you. If you have a public store or office, you need to make sure it is clean and comfortable for your clients. You may spend some time organizing marketing efforts.

If you work on the telephone you need to log on to the system, when you are ready to take calls.

Once you’re sitting across from clients (or on the other end of the telephone line), you will need to demonstrate excellent listening skills and make predictions/give advice relevant to the client’s situation.

What are some skills and experiences that will help you build a successful psychic business?

The main skills are having extraordinary intuition and the ability to listen to people, make them feel comfortable, and give them emotional support if they are going through trying times. It is not necessary to have a previous clairvoyant ability. There are schools which claim to develop psychic abilities.

What is the growth potential for a psychic business?

This business starts out small and has a limit on the earning potential based on the number of hours available for doing the psychic work. As the reputation of a psychic increases it is possible to create television programs and websites that promote the materials offered by the psychic and book private “readings” for extraordinary prices.

The most famous psychics charge $250 up to $2,000 per hour for private readings and have wait-lists that have clients lined up for many years. These clients are willing to pay exorbitant fees for psychics that are publicly perceived as being the “real deal.” However, not all professed psychics are actually gifted mystics. Some of the greatest psychics alive right now shun public admiration and attention. The people that find them have to actively hunt for them.

What are some insider tips for jump starting a psychic business?

One of the most significant ways to create a following and extreme public awareness is to make future predictions that have an amazing level of accuracy. Nobody gets everything 100% correct; however, if you get some of the major events correct your reputation as a psychic will soar.

A retail type psychic business has the problem of building credibility. Putting up a sign in the front yard of your approved home office that says “psychic,” is just as likely to create ridicule as to create customers. Using the pay-per-minute systems for telephone readings is just as problematic. However, these methods do create customers.

Psychics may face some sort of liability as a result of advice given during readings. As such, it is essential to require customers to sign some form of paperwork and/or to post some form of disclaimer in order to decrease liability in the case of any injury or harm resulting from customers following the psychic’s advice.

How and when to build a team

The psychic business is not really about building a team unless you want to run a phone bank of psychics that get paid by working on telephone calls for a per-minute charge. If you are running a phone bank you will constantly be looking for persons who have a wonderful sounding phone voice and who have the skills to keep the callers on the line.

Part 2 - Is a Psychic business the right fit for you?

Part 3 - Action plan to launch your Psychic business in 90 days