If Pinterest has been sitting on your “I really need to figure this out” list, I’d seriously look at joining Jess’s community before the end of September. Right now, the Standard membership is only **$11/month**, but that price increases to $33/month on October 1. So if you’ve been thinking about joining, getting in 𝗯𝗲𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗲 the end of the month is a bit of a no-brainer. I’ve known Jess through Skool for a while now, and I’m very happy to shout this one out. 𝗦𝗵𝗲 𝗸𝗻𝗼𝘄𝘀 𝗵𝗲𝗿 𝘀𝘁𝘂𝗳𝗳, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘀𝗵𝗲 𝗴𝗲𝗻𝘂𝗶𝗻𝗲𝗹𝘆 𝗵𝗲𝗹𝗽𝘀 𝗽𝗲𝗼𝗽𝗹𝗲. Pinterest can become a genuine traffic source for your business, putting your content and offers in front of people who are already actively searching for what you do, and potentially turning that attention into a highly profitable income stream over time. And the timing couldn’t be much better. We’re about to head into Q4, which means there are still three full months left in 2026 to learn the platform, start building momentum and turn Pinterest into another source of traffic, leads and sales before 2027. There’s also a pretty awesome affiliate opportunity inside the paid community. Members can earn **𝟰𝟬% 𝙘𝙤𝙢𝙢𝙞𝙨𝙨𝙞𝙤𝙣** for referring new members. So while you’re learning how to use Pinterest to grow your own business, you can also earn recurring commission from the people you send Jess’s way. **𝙂𝙚𝙩 𝙞𝙣 𝙗𝙚𝙛𝙤𝙧𝙚 𝙎𝙚𝙥𝙩𝙚𝙢𝙗𝙚𝙧 𝙚𝙣𝙙𝙨 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙡𝙤𝙘𝙠 𝙞𝙣 𝙩𝙝𝙚 $𝟭𝟭 𝙢𝙚𝙢𝙗𝙚𝙧𝙨𝙝𝙞𝙥. 📌**

The Online Community Niche Finder now has more than 3,000 different community niches inside it, which feels slightly ridiculous considering this started as a much smaller tool to help people answer one annoying question: “What could I actually build a community around?” There are now niche ideas covering businesses, hobbies, careers, health, parenting, creative interests, personal development, lifestyle topics and plenty of things I’d never have thought to search for myself. You can browse by category, compare the demand and income potential, save your favourites, and turn your shortlist into a PDF starter plan. I’ve tried to make it useful for both kinds of people. The person who has absolutely no idea what their community should be about, and the person who already has twelve ideas and needs help choosing one before they accidentally start all twelve. Crossing 3,000 feels like a pretty exciting milestone, but I’m definitely not finished. I’ll keep adding new niches, improving the recommendations and making the tool more useful. Have a play around, search for something you’re interested in, and let me know what niche you find. You can also suggest something I should add next. Try it here: nichefinder.onlinecommunitylaunch.com

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One thing in the latest Skool News livestream really caught my attention. Freemium communities with a 7-day free trial are performing really well. Would a free trial make you more likely to join a paid community, or would it make no difference to your decision? 🤔 Another interesting update to the platform based on this data is that Skool has added an Upgrade button to freemium communities. If you're a member of any freemium communities, you might start noticing it appear. One thing I really appreciate about Skool is that they're constantly improving the platform based on real data from the highest-converting communities. When they find something that's working, they don't keep it to themselves. They build features around it and share those insights so all of us have a better chance of succeeding.

Accidentally Wrote a Novel About My Niche Finder Update... Please Enjoy This Completely Reasonable 9,000-Word Post I’ve been doing a huge amount of work behind the scenes on the Online Community Niche Finder tool, and honestly, I’m still kind of blown away by how much easier this process has become using ChatGPT’s thinking model. What started as a fairly cluttered list of random niche ideas has slowly turned into something much more structured, useful, and intentional. 𝗔𝘁 𝗳𝗶𝗿𝘀𝘁, 𝗶𝘁 𝘄𝗮𝘀 𝗯𝗮𝘀𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹𝗹𝘆 𝗮 𝗯𝗶𝗴 𝗺𝗲𝘀𝘀𝘆 𝗰𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗼𝗳 𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗮𝘀. Some were really good. Some were too generic. Some were too similar to ideas that already existed. Some were sitting in the wrong categories. Some had potential but needed to be cleaned up, expanded, sorted, or grouped in a smarter way. Doing all of that by hand would have taken me hours and hours, probably days, of manual work. But instead, I was able to work through it step by step with ChatGPT, slowly turning the list into something that is actually usable for the tool. First, we separated the stronger niche ideas from the weaker ones. Then we removed obvious duplicates. Then we reorganised the niches into the proper categories for the tool. Then we looked at which categories were too light and expanded them so the overall tool would feel more balanced. Then we removed any ideas that overlapped with the original 845 high-quality niches already inside the tool. Then we added brand new ideas for weaker categories. Then we ranked every niche by uniqueness, so the most interesting, unusual, specific, and less obvious ideas would rise to the top. And now, I have a ranked master list of over 3,000 niche ideas that I can start adding into the Online Community Niche Finder tool over the next few days. 𝗧𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗶𝘀 𝘄𝗶𝗹𝗱 𝘁𝗼 𝗺𝗲. Because this is not just about having “more niches” for the sake of it. 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙬𝙝𝙤𝙡𝙚 𝙥𝙤𝙞𝙣𝙩 is to make the tool better for people who are brand new to the idea of starting an online community and have no idea what they could actually build.