If you're in this community, you are in sales. Not "marketing" or "trauma healing" or "dog training" or "course creation" or "book coaching." SALES. Yes you are. It's why you post about your community. Try to get people to join it. Because you want people to buy into SOMETHING. We're ALL here to make sales of some sort. We built our communities around an idea, a service, a product, a program. And sales is a SKILL, not a natural talent. You weren't born knowing how to fry an egg. Or how to do arithmetic. Or read and write. Or even wipe your bum. You had to learn it. And sales is no different. What's so interesting to me is that so many people who start a business (even if it's impact-first) say two things over and over: 1️⃣ I hate selling 2️⃣ I suck at sales You've just not learned the skill yet. So you do it awkwardly. And I'd bet it's the discomfort you despise, not the act of selling itself. Because we all LOVE when the sale happens. We jump for feckin' joy when we hear the ka-ching, and get all aglow when there's a new person we can help. How can we love the SALE but not the SELLING? If you haven't gotten yourself into @Chris Suckling's community Direct Sales Mastery, please do it. Inside the classroom there are some super easy, simple, quick, practical, enjoyable, mini-courses on the different aspects of sales. This is not bro-selling. No manipulative tactics. No sleazy shit of any kind. Compassionate, caring, considerate sales. A mentor put it this way: If you have a solution to someone else's problem, and you don't offer that solution to them, you're a 🍆. Another put it even more strongly: you have a moral obligation to sell it to them. Because deliberately keeping someone stuck makes you a butthead. Chris has been updating his classroom diligently. And this morning over my coffee in bed I've already gone over how to get more leads in Skool, how to track them, how to make sure my numbers are real and raw, what a sit rate is, and more. Real sales world language and tactics that are 100000% applicable to everything we do on the Skool platform too.