I made this post yesterday talking about why you should not be afraid to be controvertial. And after some great points from @Alexandra Alexa @Eric William @Gavin Stevens @Aimee Jardon and @Warrick Duncan I think the simple lesson is not being afraid to be outspoken on your hot takes. I believe you should talk about stuff that everyone is talking about and jumping in the hype train to get use of some visibility boosts. But if you do it in the same way, with the same opinions as everyone else you will never stand out. And you problably don't need to think too much about it. If you're passionate about what you're building, you problably have an opinion on what most people are doing differently than what you're doing. Like in my case, I believe most people are either too hyped up about how to use AI, thinking it makes things easier when I see it making a lot of things harder actually. Or they are not using in ways that are creative and innovative enough, they are just copy pasting the same solutions that other influencers tell them to do and putting a wraper on LLMs that replaces prompts for buttons. So I'm trying to do something different. What about you, what is your hot take? What is the thing that you see and do differently than the majority?

@Lidia Axe just won the monthly referral contest for september. I just checked the referral dashboard from Panda and easily got the information of who invited the most people to my communtiy. And by far it was @Lidia Axe due to her including me at her community crawl event. And as a thank you she is moving up from standard to premium. She will now be tagged at relevant posts to roast, can access the weekly events, can do CTAs to her offers and share affiliate links for her recomendations. Next month I'll be picking a new member to win based on how many people they invited on september. If Lidia wins again, her premium perks stay. If anyone else wins, they get a free upgrade. Standard members get upgraded to premium, premium members get VIP for the price of premium and VIP members get 2 hours of DFY services from me. Check all the benefits here

I do have some. Both on income and membership count. For membership count I want to get to 1000. We just crossed 250 members and are a quarter of the way there. I know that in many cases quality is much more important than quantity and group loose quality when they grow too big. But I don't think this is the case here, because the purpose of Roast & Promote is largely to give exposure to our members, that's why it's a public group. The more we grow the more feedback you can get and the more eyes you get at your promotional posts that you earn competing. That's I also award members who invite others, as you can . Click here to learn more about our competitions and how you can grow by being active and inviting members. What about you? What milestone are you trying to achieve?

For those who don't know, @Matthew Burns created a rating system for skool, long before the owners of skool did: Proveworth! You can click here to rate me there and it's not exclusive to paid members. And you can also click on my about page to rate me inside skool if you're paid member! Thank you @Lidia Axe @Dr. Severine Bryan @Toivo Mattila @Aimee Jardon and @Lydia Lowery Busler for the stars!

🎤 NEWS #1: We're going live now! I'll test it out doing it every friday at first. What can you do at live roast and promote? Mainly the same stuff you could do already. Roast and Promote, but LIVE! Let's talk about what is working and not working on your message, let's brainstorm ideas to improve on people's stuff, let's talk ads, copies, tech stack, niches and nerd stuff. And also find different ways for you to pitch and promote your stuff to the community! This will be exclusive for premium and VIP members. Click here to see all the other benefits you can get! BUT... 🎤NEWS #2 There is a new competition on R&P. Thanks to Panda, I can easily see who referred who in my community in the last 30 days, 7 days and all time. Why is that so cool? Because I can easily do a referral contest. So every month, I'll simply see who is the top referrer for the last 30 days and award him/her. What will be the reward? A free upgrade for 1 month! So if you're standard, you get to be premium for a month. If you're premium, you get to be VIP for 1 month. And if you're VIP: you get 2 hours of a DFY service from me. It can be me configuring something for you, working on your copies, setting up some sort of automation or teaching you something I know. We can have a quick chat before everything so I can come prepared. It's not restricted to a 1:1 talk, we can get busy! And you can compete every month in order to extend your benefits for free, just keep being the top referrer. A big shoutout to @Lidia Axe who is both the all time referrer and the last 30 days referrer. @Nick Nebelsky comes in second for all time and @Ivan Ivanov for last 30 days. And once again it took me no time to find this out thanks to Panda! Thanks @Claudio Campobassi !