Run Paid Executive Roundtables in a Niche

1. 1

   Pick a niche where you already have a foothold

   An industry you worked in, sold into, or served. You need enough credibility to get twelve first conversations, not expertise to lecture anyone. The narrower the niche, the stronger the pull, because members join to sit with people who share their exact problems.

2. 2

   Decide the table rules before recruiting

   Eight to twelve members, no direct competitors at the same table, strict confidentiality in writing, and attendance expectations. These rules are the product. A roundtable where people hold back is worthless, and everyone who has sat in one knows it within two meetings.

3. 3

   Design a meeting worth paying for

   A repeatable monthly format: a quick numbers-and-news round, one deep dive where a member puts a real decision on the table and the group works it, and clear commitments captured at the end. Your job is airtime discipline and honest follow-up, not having the answers.

4. 4

   Price as membership, not per meeting

   Monthly dues in the low hundreds per member is a common shape for local and virtual groups, with higher tiers as the value proves out. Ten members at a few hundred a month is a meaningful recurring base from one table, and a second table roughly doubles it without doubling your hours.

5. 5

   Recruit one founding table by hand

   Personal invitations to owners and executives you can reach, framed honestly: a confidential table of peers, monthly, at founding-member dues in exchange for helping shape it. The first table is sold on trust in you; every later table is sold on the stories members tell.

6. 6

   Systemize, then add tables carefully

   Written agendas, a member intake process, and a rhythm of one-on-one check-ins between meetings. Add a second table only when the first one renews. Retention is the scoreboard in this business; a table that keeps its members for years is worth more than three tables that churn.

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Best for: Trusted-connector types who run a tight meeting and keep secrets like a vault

Not for: Anyone without facilitation skill or the ability to curate the right members, or anyone who would breach confidentiality. It does not fit someone expecting passive income without skilled facilitation.