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.

I talk out loud a lot. If I’m trying to explain something properly, give feedback, reply to someone, or just get a thought out of my head, I usually find it much easier to say it than type it. Now I can do that directly on Skool with VoiceDrop. You can drop a voice message in a post, comment or private chat. It gives conversations a bit more of that personal touch without needing to jump on camera. You can stay completely faceless, skip typing out an essay, and people still get to hear your voice, your tone and how you actually meant something. That can be useful whether you’re just chatting with people on Skool or you run a community and want a more personal way to reply, answer questions or give feedback. Each VoiceDrop can be up to 10 minutes, which is plenty for quick back-and-forth conversations. If you’ve got more to say, just drop another one. I’ve attached one to this post so you can see exactly what it looks like. The full rundown is at VoiceDropHQ.com

I want OCL to feel a lot more like a community and a lot less like a place where I post things and everyone else quietly reads them. I'm giving you permission to take up space and start conversations, rather than OCL being “Glenn’s feed.” The classroom is there to give you the step-by-step stuff. But the community itself is where I want the actual building to happen. So if you’re working on your community, 𝗽𝗹𝗲𝗮𝘀𝗲 𝗽𝗼𝘀𝘁 𝗮𝗯𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝗶𝘁. Tell us what you’re building, or intend to build. Tell us who it’s for. Share screenshots of what you’re working on. Show us the image you’re thinking about using. Post the wording from your About page and ask whether the offer makes sense. Tell us the price you’re considering. Ask for opinions on your community name. Share something you’ve just changed. Ask a question when you get stuck. And if you’re still at the very beginning, tell us what’s stopping you from starting. Don't wait for me to make a post before you can start a conversation in here. I’d much rather see five members talking about what they’re actually building than five comments underneath one of my posts saying “great idea.” There is one rule I want to keep really simple though: 𝗡𝗼 𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗸𝘀. I want us talking about communities in 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗺𝘂𝗻𝗶𝘁𝘆-𝗯𝘂𝗶𝗹𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗺𝗼𝗱𝗲, not sales mode. Create an actual discussion where people can help each other. I just don’t want OCL gradually turning into a feed of people dropping links and hoping for clicks, it's not the space for that. If you want feedback on your community, show us what you’re working on and talk about it. A screenshot, a description, your offer, your pricing, your positioning, your classroom structure, your branding, your idea, your problem. That’s the stuff we can actually have a useful conversation about. If someone reads your post, likes what you’re building and genuinely wants to know more, they’re perfectly capable of clicking your profile and finding it themselves.

When I was managing Subway, there was one thing I used to tell my team all the time. 𝐈𝐭'𝐬 𝐦𝐮𝐜𝐡 𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐢𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐨 𝐠𝐞𝐭 𝐬𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐛𝐚𝐜𝐤 𝐭𝐨𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐫𝐨𝐰 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐧 𝐢𝐭 𝐢𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐯𝐢𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐚 𝐛𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐧𝐞𝐰 𝐜𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐨 𝐰𝐚𝐥𝐤 𝐭𝐡𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐝𝐨𝐨𝐫. That's why every customer mattered. If someone walked out smiling, they were much more likely to become a regular. And regular customers were a huge reason we consistently hit our sales targets. I've been thinking about that lesson a lot recently. I think it applies just as much to online businesses. A lot of entrepreneurs spend all their time trying to attract new followers, new leads and new customers. But what if you focused just as much on giving your existing customers a reason to come back tomorrow? That's where community becomes really interesting. A community gives people a reason to return, even when they're not buying something. They come back for conversations. They come back to learn. They come back to celebrate wins. They come back because they feel like they belong. Every time they return, you strengthen the relationship. And stronger relationships usually lead to more referrals, more repeat purchases, and more recurring revenue. Maybe the biggest opportunity isn't finding more customers. Maybe it's giving your best customers a reason to keep coming back. If you run a business, what do you currently do to encourage people to come back after their first purchase? --- If you're ready to give your customers a reason to come back tomorrow, maybe it's time to start building your own community. You can get started here: 👉🏻 www.onlinecommunitylaunch.com/ready

They are built to generate recurring income that grows over time as more members join and stay. It's about building an asset. 3 simple steps: 1. Set up a basic community Pick a niche, create a clear outcome, and launch on the Hobby plan. It is $9 per month, so the barrier to entry is low and you can focus on getting traction instead of overthinking. 2. Get your first 10 members quickly Beginners should aim to bring in their first 10 members within the first couple of weeks. This proves the idea works and gives you real people to build around. 3. Keep it simple and grow Even at $5 per month per member, you are in profit mode with just two people. From there, you build and grow. More members, better engagement, stronger offer. That is the model. Build something that compounds. Ready to start your own?