A few months ago, Flame @Simon Campbell mentioned auctions to me but I didn't get it. Two weeks ago, Flame @Honey Syed hit me up cold in the DMs and gave me a smooth pitch about getting tons of engagement on a post, and offered a Loom. Between that and a short call afterward, he really opened my mind to what was possible. Thanks, Honey! I considered hiring him to help, but I've been around the block enough to know the bulk of the learning experience is best done by just jumping in, failing fast, learning, and going again. So I'm sharing a breakdown of my first auction, in hopes the good, bad, and ugly of what I tried (and why) is instructive for others in the community. I coach intermediate-level screenwriters to hit the pro level ASAP. I can generally increase screenplay development speed by 10x and had a client get nominated for an Oscar this year. I've sold 35+ coaching packages from $10K-$20K, 20+ masterminds at $1,500, and I'm running a low-ticket Skool community with about 75 members: Screenwriter Marketing I have 68K followers on X (it was 75K until Musk came along) 11K on LinkedIn 20K on IG for my community. I have almost 2K on my email list with an average of 250 opens. But they've been milked too much recently, so trust is a bit down. I first ran a test campaign with the list ("Crazy idea. Would you bid or watch an auction for my $10K coaching package, with bids starting at $1K?") and only 3 said they'd watch, one of whom said he MIGHT bid. With that tepid response, I first thought I'd call it off. BUT... then figured it was probably worth a shot - if I also reached out to about 30 warmer leads I'd spoken to earlier in the summer, and I lean in to my socials, and most importantly - if I could land at least one promotion partner. And... who knows? One partner signed on. I gave him the option of sending 1, 2, or 3 emails to his list for the 24-hour auction. I wrote the emails for him. He has maybe 1K good fit screenwriters on his list and holds a pretty engaged monthly meetup online for them. That community already knows me, and I've previously had a premium client come from it.

As you may know... @Tan Hopper won our last auction... And we started our new community yesterday. Called Leads On Demand - Never Go a Day Without Ready-to-Buy-Now Leads! We are #1 in Skool Discovery Check out the short video. Rooting For Ya, Travis PS We are still under construction, but if you'd like to join to see the process. It's free. PPS If you'd like to know how we did it? Comment 👇

I'm curious what other people in the group are building or acquiring for their groups. So whatcha all doing?

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…anybody has tried. And how did it go?