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MBTI personality typing/consulting/therapy as a business service

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I was thinking about starting a personality identifying service here in town. Where I would do the MBTI test in person with anyone who was interested to know more about themselves. I would charge a flat rate per session which would be at least 2 hours and go over the questions. I would frame the questions in a way that feels natural to them and makes it easy for them to think for themselves in that scenario and give a correct answer. I think this makes it more realistic for them than if they're just filling out a form on their own?


I would be filling out the form on a laptop while asking my prepared questions and describing scenarios. After the last question I'd give them their result. I would have organized data for each personality type listing their strengths, weaknesses, relationship information, career information, hobbies, goals, etc and ask them what they personally want to know most about and then delve into those specific sections with them.


I could have prepared a booklet for them to keep and read on their own and give them resources to other recommended books on amazon and forums where they can socialize with other people of their type. I think this would be really beneficial for people who are interested in improving themselves. The type of crowd that falls into the astrological signs would eat this type of thing up I think.


But also a lot of intelligent more logical thinking people could also see the benefits of learning about themselves. This is the sort of thing I think happens in high schools? I never graduated so I'm not sure. I think parents would be interested in something like this for their children so that they can better understand them and connect better with them. Parents are having an awfully hard time connecting with their children these days.


Do you think there would be some interest in this? I wouldn't advertise it as something like "Learn about your MBTI personality from the 16 archetypes!!" but a more personal approach like "Learn your skills, advantages, strengths, weaknesses and the ideal career and hobbies of your personality by taking an interesting test from a psychological professional"


"Oh you are a thinking personality, have you ever found yourself acting like x in y situation? Yeah me too, well here's some of our strengths. Are you doing x in your life? Research states that this is a great outlet for your personality type. I can recommend some of these activities. Etc etc." Sort of like a therapy session.


What do you think of this service idea?


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pod'lair should be a good enough case study in why this is a bad idea, no?

Or another approach: What can you give them that they can't get themselves from an annoying facebook quiz that all their friends are sharing?
 

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Do you intend to obtain an MBTI license? Don't want to get lawsuits. :phear:

Or just change the terms with inventions of your own like many other new age practitioners have done.
 

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Well at a certain intelligence level they won't go to someone like you, it's more likely the less intelligent but still curious types.
 

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Do you intend to obtain an MBTI license? Don't want to get lawsuits. :phear:

Or just change the terms with inventions of your own like many other new age practitioners have done.
I don't think this is a problem considering the hundreds of websites that delve into the topic and probably have no such license. Will research the legalities more.
 

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What is your B plan?
I'm not going to be making a career out of it. If I make some money for the effort then it's all good. Not trying to be a professional psychologist.

It would allow me to improve some things I'm interested in. Such as learning more about psychology and practising my people skills. Also it will feel good to help people understand themselves. I could improve relationships and mental health with such a service. At the very least getting people interested in something scientific about their brains.

I would advertise on craigslist, facebook groups, meetup.com and post various signs around local hotspots and on bulletin boards.

To practice and tune my interview skills and get the flow of things down I could offer the service for free at the local highschool to any interested students.

Who knows it could turn out to be really successful. It really all depends on myself and how hard I try.
 

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something scientific

Nope.

This seems like something that could be good for you, but might be irresponsible if you are assuming a duty of care for your clients (which you should be doing in such a business). You may as well read their palms.
 

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Nope.

This seems like something that could be good for you, but might be irresponsible if you are assuming a duty of care for your clients (which you should be doing in such a business). You may as well read their palms.
Well if it resonates with the clients then I don't see how it can be harmful to them. It's their responsibility to answer correctly and tell me if the results are correct or not.

I'm just providing information and bouncing back thoughts. Therapists aren't as helpful as learning about what your MBTI can be. From what I've heard they're like paying for a friend to talk to.

Most people don't have any idea how helpful this type of thing can be. They wouldn't think it would be worth it to take an online test. But if I put my name out there and can guarantee they will learn something about themselves people are more inclined to try it.
 

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You may as well read their palms.
+ hand them an MBTI pamphlet.

Waiiiiit...

They wouldn't bother taking a 2min online test but they would bother paying you and giving two hours?
 

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You overestimate most peoples interest for sitting in front of a computer and trying to learn about themselves. To any extroverted personality I'm willing to bet that will seem like a dreadful chore.

This is not how most people do things. INTP's are more inclined to it of course, we are always self seeking knowledge and introspection about ourselves. Other personality types aren't as likely to see the benefits of reading paragraphs about themselves. They would prefer a hand holding, face to face, spoon feeding approach. Where conversation comes out of the result and where I provide quick digestible information that prevents them from having to scour the internet on their own.
 

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It could work if you picked up many trades and offered them at one place.

Iridology, cheiromancy, other forms of fortune telling, mbti, socionics, basic psychology sold in one package as some sort of personal future predictions and it could also take two hours and be fairly interesting and entertaining to many.
 

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There is a market for people who prefer to take the "non licensed" approach when seeking particular services if it will save them money. And there is a lot of confusion that arises in many people who take online test and cant reconcile the results to who they think they are. I think this confusion could be a boom to knowledgeable individuals who could offer online test takers their services to help them figure it all out. I think some clients of licensed professionals are people who stumbled upon MBTI on the internet and ended up having more questions than answers. As Blarraun suggested, the more you know about the various typology methods the better.
I guess I am a little pessimistic about your proposed endeavor because you seem to be going into it....... excuse the expression..... "half assed". It seems to me that if you want people to take you seriously, you have to be the part. I don't doubt that you may make some money. And I think maybe doing some Skype video sessions, and advertising your services on the net will help. And I don't know how much "investment" you plan to make, or what kind of income you expect to generate, so it is hard for me to judge it really. But your plan reminded me if this....
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Well that's why I made the thread. I just came up with the idea while drinking some coffee at mcdonalds a couple hours before. I was sitting there reading a book about INTPs. I thought it would be a viable business opportunity because like you I can see there would be a market here.

Excuse my half assed post; I'm just trying to flesh the idea out with you people here. There's nothing concrete. I don't plan on making this a full time job. A side project if anything and a way to earn some cash while improving my psychology knowledge.

I appreciate the advice people have given me and the negative reactions which have made me strengthen the ideas. Also by making it public I put some pressure on myself to follow through and if there's enough interest I'll detail the process and success or failures here in the thread.
 

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Just to be clear, your post are not half assed. I just thought the "part time" and "non licensed" approach was a little concerning. I still think its possible, but in my experience, I have known a number of people who have taken that approach in a variety of occupations and met with limited sucesse. It always looked to me that the problem was lack of commitment, perseverance and self disciple. Which seemed evident from their avoidance of getting proper certifications, and trying to work around the established system. But I also know a few people who were able to sucessfully pull it off.
 

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How about you collect bottles and pick up trash to beautify your community in the spare time?
 
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