If your goal is to eventually go full-time with your Skool community, there’s one number I think you should know: 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙢𝙞𝙣𝙞𝙢𝙪𝙢 𝙖𝙢𝙤𝙪𝙣𝙩 𝙮𝙤𝙪𝙧 𝙘𝙤𝙢𝙢𝙪𝙣𝙞𝙩𝙮 𝙣𝙚𝙚𝙙𝙨 𝙩𝙤 𝙢𝙖𝙠𝙚 𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙧𝙮 𝙢𝙤𝙣𝙩𝙝 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙩𝙤 𝙜𝙤 𝙛𝙪𝙡𝙡-𝙩𝙞𝙢𝙚. Not your dream income. The actual number where you could say, “Okay, if my community consistently makes this, I can do this full-time.” Work out everything it would need to cover: Your rent or mortgage. Food. Power. Internet. Phone. Transport. Insurance. Subscriptions. Skool. Any other software you need to run the business. Taxes you need to put aside. And all the other boring little expenses that keep life running. Then give yourself a bit of breathing room too. You probably don’t want your number to be so tight that one unexpected bill puts you in trouble. Once you know that number, your goal becomes a lot more real. If your number is $5,000/month and your community is $25/month, suddenly you know you’re working towards roughly 200 paying members. If it’s $3,000/month at $100/month, that’s roughly 30 members. That feels a lot more tangible than just saying, “I want my community to be successful.” So... 👇 What’s your number? If you don’t know yet, work it out today and drop it below. You might be surprised by how achievable it actually looks once you turn it into a number.

This one feels like a pretty big milestone, because this hasn’t been a quick little tool I threw together over a weekend. I’ve been building and refining this for well over six months now. A huge amount of that time has gone into researching niches, adding them individually, organising them into the right categories, rewriting and refining descriptions, cleaning up overlaps, improving the structure of the library, and gradually making the whole thing easier to actually use. And as the library has grown, I’ve had to improve the way people can find what they’re looking for too. The search is now much smarter than it was originally. It does a better job of understanding what someone is actually searching for, ranking more relevant ideas higher, and helping surface niches that might otherwise be buried among thousands of options. It can even still help you find what you’re looking for if you make a typo or don’t type the exact wording used in the niche. I’m also working on the discovery side of the tool now. The goal is to make the Niche Finder gradually get better at curating ideas based on the categories you browse and explore inside the tool itself, so over time it can start surfacing more ideas from areas you seem interested in rather than showing everyone the exact same suggestions. Go have a look. ────────────────────────────────── It’s pretty funny looking back at where this actually started. The first version was basically just a collection of cards with niche names on them. Things like cooking, crochet, kitesurfing and other broad ideas. That was it. The cards didn’t open. There wasn’t any extra information. There was nothing about starting a community, who the niche might be for, how you could approach it or what you could actually build around it. It has evolved a lot since then. I’ve still got more than another thousand niches sitting there that I want to work through and add at some point, so I’ll definitely end up passing 5,000 niches before I’m finished adding to the library.

Well, this is a pretty ridiculous milestone. Logan Sendle and Blue-Collar Biz Accelerator have officially crossed $1,000,000 in monthly recurring revenue on Skool, making Logan the first person to ever hit seven figures in MRR on the platform. And just to make sure that number actually sinks in, we're not talking about a million-dollar launch, a million dollars in lifetime sales, or one unusually good month. The leaderboard is showing $1,000,380 in MRR. Recurring. Every month. Even more absurdly, the community added another $166,102 in MRR in the last 30 days alone. Regardless of what niche you're in or what size community you're trying to build, I think this is a pretty significant moment for Skool. A few years ago, the idea of building a community on a relatively simple platform and taking it all the way to a $12 million+ annual recurring revenue run rate would have sounded completely insane. Now there's a giant $1,000,380 sitting on the leaderboard proving it can be done. Congrats to Logan Sendle and the team. Someone had to be the first. Now the race starts to see who becomes number two. Now, obviously, I'm not posting this because I think everyone here is going to build a million-dollar-a-month community. That's not the point. The point is that communities have become a legitimate business model in their own right. You can start with a handful of people, solve one specific problem, improve the offer as you go, and build recurring revenue around something you already know how to help people with. Every community starts at zero members. Logan's did too. You don't need the perfect name, 50 lessons recorded, a giant audience or some complicated funnel before you begin. You need a clear person you want to help, a reason for them to join, and somewhere for the first few members to actually gather. If you've been sitting on the idea of starting your own community, this is probably a pretty good reminder to stop waiting for it to feel finished. If you want to build yours properly from the beginning, go through the Classroom here in OCL step by step, in order. It will take you through the process from choosing your idea through to actually getting your community live.

It’s been a long time since I’ve run a proper challenge in here, so I think it’s time. OCL is currently sitting at #4,736 in Skool Discovery, but we’ve actually had the community ranked somewhere around the #700s before, and that was with significantly fewer members than we have now. So I know we can climb. The question is how far we can take it this time. Starting today, we’re doing the 𝗢𝗖𝗟 2-7-1 𝗖𝗵𝗮𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗻𝗴𝗲. 2 𝗽𝗼𝘀𝘁𝘀: Start two useful discussions during the week. Ask a question, share something you’re working on, report a result, get feedback, test an idea, or talk about something that worked or didn’t. The main thing is to give people something worth responding to. 7 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀: Have or join at least seven real conversations throughout the week. Comment on other people’s posts and comments, reply when someone responds to you, ask follow-up questions, and jump into conversations that are already happening. This isn’t about dropping seven comments and disappearing. The goal is to actually talk to each other and create some proper back-and-forth. 1 𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗹 𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻: Do one thing that genuinely moves your own community forward, then tell us about it. That could be starting your community, inviting someone, improving your offer, writing a post, finishing part of your Classroom, talking to a potential member, testing a marketing idea, or fixing something that isn’t working. --- I’m going to keep everyone updated on where OCL sits in the Discovery rankings so we can watch the experiment unfold. Our official starting point is #4,736. The goal isn’t to game the rankings with meaningless activity. I want OCL to climb because it becomes a genuinely active community where people talk to each other, help each other, test things and actually make progress. Inviting people isn’t officially part of the 2-7-1 Challenge, but if you know someone who is building a community, thinking about starting one, or would genuinely benefit from being here, bringing them into OCL definitely helps too.

What would you still happily build a community if it took 12 months+ to become successful?