Paid Workshops - Anyone done this recently?

The concept is old-school combining easy cash direct with marketing opportunity for your business.

Setup a workshop on a subject you know and have a full day workshop that includes food and coffee with sweets.

Example: Sell 25 tickets/seats to businesses for $250 = $6250 and your cost is $70 per ticket in food and conference room = $1750 that is a healthy $4500 in pure profit for one day of work, if you are 2 persons that run this together you make $2250 each for a fun day of work. You could do this 2-3 days per month if you live in a city with a lot of companies and make good money just doing this. (numbers are 2025 in my country as for cost, may differ where you live, just an example)

So, as I said earlier it is a old-school money and marketing way.

Anyone done this in recent 2-3 years, feel free to chip in with ideas.

No not done that at all really. Besides running seminars back in the day to do with karate / kickboxing that's it.

This sort of thing I've seen a surge in "craft" type events like pottery and clay work mainly people charging £30-45 per person for a 2-3 hour session and they sell 30-50 slots + cost of materials that's probably as close as I've seen to the model you mentioned in recent times.

An acquaintance's friend does that with real estate coaching.

Coaches mid-level real estate agents. Outreaches directly to bigger real estate agencies to offer coaching/workshops to their employees. Charges a fuck ton of money per person.

Was one of the biggest real estate agents in a part of Finland I won't disclose, but nowadays just does coaching full-time.

Last time I saw him he was wearing a 40k watch and was talking to a big-name politician so I figure he is doing just fine with his workshops.

Other acquaintance of myself pretty much does the same but with IT security, specializing in preparing big firms' IT security guys on what to do if they get ransomware blackmailed. Very niche, but the money is insane.

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Both guys have one thing in common. Both were extremely successful 'normal workers' before becoming full-time consults, and both were extremely well connected to executives of big firms.

Tip for the newbies - lick ass full-time for free until you get into the high-leagues. It's smooth sailing after you get in lol.

I did something similar with a client. It was a 100 ILS per ticket (about $30) with refund guarantee at the end of the event.
It's a music school that sells courses. This was a crash course about a music production software - 2 hours more or less.
At the end, the guy doing the course said that whoever want their refund can come and get it now, or convert it into a 1500ILS (about $450 - 15x what they paid) voucher for any course they choose.

The lowest CAC we've ever had. Pretty cool.

The only technical problem was issuing the refunds because the processor didn't like it as all.

It wasn't as effective through Zoom but still very efficient in onboarding students.