Travis's Paid to Work or Paid to Own post is one I keep coming back to. Owning beats renting out your hours. I'm sold on that. The catch I keep noticing is that a lot of ownership income is really a split. You bring the members, someone else owns the checkout, and you get a percentage. That's still ownership. But it's a lopsided kind if only one side can see the register. Picture owning a coffee shop together, where your partner counts the till every night and texts you a number. You're at dinner and your phone buzzes: "$212 tonight." No receipts. No breakdown. You type "thanks!" because what else do you say? Or you both look at the same till. Every sale rings up where you can see it, and the split is just math. My take is that owning a share includes being able to see it. That's not a fight about trust. It's just both owners looking at the same till. Drop a 1 if your current splits run on "they tell me." Drop a 2 if you can check the numbers yourself.

Think of ownership as a garden with a few small beds instead of one big field. No single bed has to feed you on its own. Together they add up, and a bad season in one doesn't wipe you out. I'm Chris. I run a few small businesses, with AI assistants doing much of the work. The question I keep weighing is which beds are worth the space. Some ideas need constant tending for a tiny harvest. Others nearly grow themselves once they're planted. Drop a 1 if you're still planting your first bed. Drop a 2 if you've got one growing and you're eyeing the next.

Bad news. Good news sitch. Possible drinking contest! We couldn't drum up enough interest in a Leads on Demand Zoom shindig. Less than 100 handraisers out of 1300. But... A few Flames really, REALLY, want the mojo to be able to drive Leads on Demand whenever they want. I don't wanna leave them hanging. Sooooo... GOOD NEWS! I'm gonna hold an: 🏁EVERYONE CAN WIN (ECW) Auction Up for auction: 💥A Zoom FUN-Shop where I will get IOIs and turn them into LEADS on Zoom while you're watching. We'll brainstorm and get IOIs and leads for you if you want! We may even share beer! 🍻DRINKING CONTEST for every lead? 😅 Here's how our ECW Auction works: Bidding starts at $1. Bid amounts can only increase $10 max at a time. 👀There is a SECRET RESERVE AMOUNT👀 If the RESERVE AMOUNT is hit. ✅EVERYONE who bids gets a ticket for the RESERVE AMOUNT (EVEN if the winning bid is MORE!) ❌If the RESERVE AMOUNT is NOT hit, then the highest bidder takes the whole enchilada. (So, they'd get a private 1:1 with me.) 🕐WHEN: START: Tuesday, Oct 28th at 1 PM Central END: ??? (When I think we've topped off.) ⚠️⚠️How will we know you're not gonna change the SECRET RESERVE AMOUNT? I'm glad ya asked! 😀 I've attached a password-protected PDF... ...download it now. Inside the PDF It is a picture of ONE United States currency note. HINT: It's ONLY ONE BILL Is it $1? Is it $5 Is it $10? Is it $20? Is it $50? Is it $100? $2? 😅 Could be any one of those, but it's ONLY ONE! AFTER the last bid in the auction... I will announce the PASSWORD…which will reveal the secret reserve amount. NOTE: I can't change it after you've downloaded the PDF! Make sense? I want this to be SUPER FUN! BTW: This is the first time I've done an ECW Auction online. What could possibly go wrong? 😆 Now... My question for ya right now... 👉Would you bid AT LEAST $1?👈 Sound off 👇 Remember: I have very, very low self-esteem. If only 2 of y'all will bid $1, I'll just flush this auction down the toilet. 🚽😓

@Travis Sago, thanks for the inspiration to share. My jelly is spread between the FLAMES' and the Royalty Rockstars' peanut butter. Allow me to explain. In my introduction post I talked about my mission: To give serious short-term real estate investors an unfair advantage through market intelligence that cuts through noise, reveals true opportunities, and transforms decision-making by turning market complexity into a competitive advantage. I built an app with a mini course for land flippers, SFR flippers, mobile home flips, wholesaler's, etc) who struggle with finding great markets to invest in and avoiding those that could lock up their capital. Delivering monthly market reports for every State down to the zip code level. It’s called AcreEdgePro. The mini course needs a little TLC which I’m updating now. This is my jelly. The FLAMES' peanut butter is my Movement Based Community. A work in progress... I'm open to teaming up on this with a fellow FLAME and running auctions together. The Royalty Rockstars' peanut butter comes from joining forces in white labeling and licensing worldwide for royalty income. Any Royalty Rockstars in here, too? License/white label the app and mini course to coaches, consultants, mastermind owners, large community owners in the same short term residential real estate space. Give them the “rights” to give away the mini course and sell the monthly market reports to their clients and communities. And just because I like Venn diagrams...

Found this in the wild (not mine, just for inspiration); COO Alliance: The Premier Network for Chief Operating Officers COO Alliance is a top-tier online and offline community founded by Cameron Herold, designed exclusively for Chief Operating Officers (COOs) and "second-in-command" executives. Filling the gap for COOs who lack dedicated peer groups, COO Alliance delivers world-class support, networking, and leadership development opportunities. Cameron Herold and the COO Alliance community use a combination of Circle (a modern community management platform) and Slack for ongoing peer communication, private channels, resource sharing, and support between monthly events. - Circle is the main portal for member interaction, resources, and discussions. - Slack is used for fast peer-to-peer communication and ongoing engagement. - Monthly live events and mastermind calls are hosted via Zoom Membership Features - Eligible for COOs or true seconds-in-command (companies with $2M+ revenue—new criteria for online events—and 10+ employees) - Application or member referral required (vetting process applies) - Annual membership: $4,900–$10,000 - 12 monthly online mastermind calls, 12 AI Expert Innovation calls - 2 live in-person events per year (Vancouver, Scottsdale, MIT offsite—$5M+ revenue required to attend) - Private communication channels (Circle, Slack, segmented channels by company size) - CEO-approved global peer network - Regular guest speakers, resource sharing, and ongoing leadership development - Members represent companies like 1-800-GOT-JUNK?, US Fertility, Glen Raven, RPM Pizza Community Metrics & Stats - Estimated membership: 100–1,000 active members​ - Average member company size: $50M+ annual revenue, 75–7,500 employees​ - Events: 12 online monthly calls, 12 expert sessions, 2 annual in-person events​ - Net Promoter Score (NPS): consistently above 70% (“world-class”), with most recent events above 90% positive NPS​ - Member renewal rate: notably high (exact % not public) - Online platforms used: Circle, Slack, segmented by company revenue​ - Online and in-person engagement cited as highly impactful - Recent incentive: lowered online event threshold to $2M revenue; summer price special lowered annual fee to $4,900​