Are the private board meetings all over the streets a way of cutting leeks?

The importance of circles to career development is self-evident. Private board meetings are now very popular. Are they really a tool that is beneficial to careers or are they just a knife for cutting leeks?

It is really profitable to hold a private board meeting! The cheaper ones cost 7,000 to 8,000 yuan, 10,000 to 20,000 yuan, and the more expensive ones cost 30,000 to 50,000 yuan, or even more than 100,000 yuan.

In the past year or two, there have been many people running paid communities, including self-employed individuals who have emerged from large companies to create independent IPs, as well as membership upgrade services provided by traditional industry media.

Especially the many commercial IPs on Douyin have made more people aware of private board meetings.

So, can you make money by being a private director?

Is holding a private board meeting a way of cutting leeks?

Can anyone be a private board member?

1. For private board meetings, high prices must be set

When you hear the name of private board meeting, you feel that it is different from ordinary members or elite members.

From the perspective of the group leader, the purpose of holding a private board meeting is to make more money.

From the members' perspective, it means providing them with more accurate and higher-quality services.

Therefore, by setting a high price, we can achieve accurate screening of the population and needs.

Different prices can help us screen out similar people more accurately.

For example, if the income of your circle is 29 or 39, then most of the circle members are ordinary people, college students, and white-collar workers in the workplace.

The fee for a circle is 399 or 599, and most of the people who join are small managers in the workplace, small individuals, or people who have a strong desire for self-growth.

Those who join the club, which charges 3,980 or 5,980 yuan, will become middle or senior management of the company, such as directors, department heads, or business owners.

Second, private board meetings themselves have a market

For many people, private board meetings are a way to find connections, resources, and markets.

99% of people join private board meetings not for the purpose of learning.

By the time you think about learning to join a private board of directors, it is already too late.

There are three main purposes for joining a private board of directors:

1. Get first-hand information, especially from a boss's own mouth.
2. Gain first-hand connections. As I said earlier, more than 80% of the people joining private board meetings are corporate executives and founders.
3. To get business opportunities, ordinary salespeople sell to ordinary customers, while business owners sell to big customers.

For those who organize private board meetings, one thing they do is to gather targeted customers together.

In the past, a business owner had to travel to each company one by one, and he might not even be able to meet their employees in person.

By spending 10,000 to 20,000 yuan, or 30,000 to 50,000 yuan to hold a private board meeting, you can find a gathering of precise groups of people.

Therefore, there is such a demand for entrepreneurs.

3. A private board meeting costs tens of thousands of yuan, which is not expensive at all

Many people will complain about others spending thirty to fifty thousand or even eighty to ninety thousand to attend some private board meetings. On the one hand, they complain that the group leaders are cutting leeks, and on the other hand, they say that the members are stupid.

First of all, I don’t recommend ordinary users to attend any private board meetings.

Because after you pay, it really doesn't help you much.

If you are an ordinary junior specialist or a fresh graduate, and you empty your savings of three to five months to join a private board meeting, do you think the people there who earn three or five million yuan a year will care about you? Or do you think your resources can help others?

Definitely not. Since you don’t have the resources that others want, it would be a waste of money if you joined, which is what you call cutting leeks.

But why do those who actually pay rarely say that they have been ripped off?

Because from the boss's perspective, this is a business and an investment.

1. If a business needs sales to generate revenue, do you think it is more likely for the boss to talk to the boss, or for a specialist to talk to the boss? Normally, it is definitely the former. So for the boss, spending 30,000 to 50,000 yuan can give him the opportunity to connect with dozens or hundreds of bosses or even talk face to face. This money is equivalent to treating them to a meal or giving them gifts.
2. An ordinary salesperson's monthly salary is about 6,000 to 7,000 yuan. The boss can spend 30,000 to 50,000 yuan to join a private board meeting and directly meet 100 bosses. If the business is successful, this investment is not expensive at all.
3. On the contrary, there are dozens or hundreds of people in a private board meeting, and when promoting, they are all bosses' groups, specializing in Douyin, video accounts, Taobao, food, building materials, etc., which match your target customers.

But after you paid tens of thousands of dollars and stayed there for a year, you found that you could not establish any business relationship with these 100 bosses.

You have the WeChat accounts of their executives and bosses, and have the opportunity to meet them at offline events, but as a boss you cannot find target customers and make deals.

Do you think you can handle it by hiring a salesperson?

At the same time, doesn’t this also prove one thing, that these 100 bosses are not the ones you want to find or want to cooperate with, so the money is worth spending.

Therefore, everyone should think about the problem from the boss's perspective. Many bosses will constantly join various private board meetings, which is essentially to find accurate customers and then continue to screen them.

The so-called private board membership fee is just the marketing cost.

But for the boss, it is a marketing fee, which will definitely be wasted someday, but for many ordinary people, it is their hard-earned savings, so of course they will say that they are being ripped off.

4. Private board meeting means a senior secretary of the boss

In addition, for the boss, it cost thirty to fifty thousand yuan to attend a private board meeting.

That money is actually not a registration fee, but a labor fee.

It is equivalent to spending your own money to hire an employee.

This employee helped the boss do many things:

Helped the boss recruit 100 or 200 entrepreneurs like him.

Help the boss collect various information, reports, policies and cases in this industry.

Help bosses organize learning, sharing, study tours and gatherings among entrepreneurs.

Helped the boss proactively connect with some channels, contacts and exposure

Think about it, if you spend 30,000 yuan, can you let an ordinary employee help you get to know 100 bosses?

It must be difficult?

Can you ask your employees to help you organize a meeting with dozens of bosses every month? That's also difficult.

Therefore, for the boss who joins a private board of directors, spending his own money is equivalent to hiring an employee to help him do his work.

The simple thing is that this money is a one-time payment and no refund is supported. The final effect can only be seen after three months or half a year.

If the results are good, your boss will renew your employment for another year. If the service is not good, your boss will change your circle and join the private board meeting next year.

So everyone, if you are not the boss and have not experienced it yourself, don’t talk about cutting leeks.

At the same time, as an ordinary person, manage your own wallet, work and accumulate money first, and don’t join the so-called private board of directors, which is of no use to you.

When you have no ability and no recognition, even if you add 100 bosses on WeChat, you still won’t have a chance to talk to them.

Author: Shili Village

Source: WeChat public account "Shili Village (ID: shilipxl)"