Hey Tony and @Travis Sago ! Could use your advice. @Tony Teegarden you told me I wasn't taking action. Well, I DID. 😂 I ran my first $1 auction in Duros del Marketing, MY OWN WhatsApp marketing group. Four people bid. The winning bid was $150. Not exactly what I was hoping for, but it was my first attempt. And I'm not stopping. On Monday, I'm running another auction for a dog-training client, targeting a Spanish-speaking audience. But I also want to make this work for MYSELF because, quite frankly, I need the cash! I'm testing an auction for my Social Media OS, the system I've used to generate millions of views, lots of business enquiries and downloads, and 4 job interviews. Here are my results so far: • My own Spanish-speaking marketing group: 1,000 impressions and 10–12 interested responses. • My personal Facebook feed: another 7–8 responses, although I know at least two probably won't bid. I'd love to generate $2,000–$3,000. So here's my question: Is that enough interest to launch? How do you distinguish real bidders from people who just want something for $1? And what would you change so I don't end up with another $150 auction? I'm sharing my original post below. Any feedback would be GREATLY appreciated. I'm taking action, Tony. Now I need to get better at turning that action into CASH! 😂

@Travis Sago and @Tony Teegarden , I need your brain on this one. I've been studying the auction model pretty hard. I get why starting at $1 works. I get the value of creating bidders, discovering what people are willing to pay, participation prizes, ECW auctions, all of that. My problem is that I don't have a giant catalog of digital products. I have a lot of things I can sell, but many of them involve my time. For example, I've built a pretty obsessive AI-powered social content system that helps take an idea and turn it into stronger content by using proven viral formats, winning hooks, platform context, voice rules, and learning from what actually performs. I have other assets and offers like that too. But here's why I'm asking this now. My dog Joey needs surgery on his dewclaw. I'm looking at roughly $1,000-$2,000. So my immediate thought was:b"Fuck it. Run an auction." Then I hit the obvious problem. If I'm auctioning a digital product and the highest bid is $17... fine. If I'm auctioning something that takes me 10 or 20 hours to deliver and the highest bid is $17... I've just invented a very creative way to work for free 😂 So how would YOU structure this? Would you: • Turn what I know into something digital first? • Auction access to one of my systems instead of my time? • Put a hard limit on what the winner gets? • Use an ECW auction with a secret reserve? • Auction something service-based but structure the upside/downside differently? • Do something else entirely? The goal is pretty simple: I want to use what I already know and have built to come up with the $1k-$2k for Joey's surgery. But I also want to actually understand how you'd use the auction model when most of your valuable stuff isn't a neat little course sitting on a shelf. How would you play this? @Travis Sago

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To recap...I buy $100 gift cards to local restaurants and auction them off on my local Facebook page with 5020 followers. The idea is this gets me in conversations with business owners I want to work with. In this example I paid $100 for the gift card...it sold for $73...which means it cost me $27 to get a conversation with someone I can help. You can see how it worked in Round 1 here This time I had the full participation of the owner. She promoted the auction on her page and allowed me to offer the winning bid price to all the bidders. The bidding started at 7PM on Sept 10 and ended at 7PM on Sept 11. 7:03PM $1 Casey 7:03PM $5 Lynne (Winner of Auction 1) 7:09PM $15 Loreen 7:25PM $50 Andrea 8:28PM $51 Donna 8:38PM $55 Colleen 8:39PM $60 Mary 8:48PM $65 Sheryl 10:26PM $71 Casey 10:33PM $72 Sean September 11 3:25PM $73 Andrea The winning bidder paid me immediately. I sent the follow up offer to the other bidders with an expiration date of September 19th. They'll have to show the personalized certificate I DM'd them to claim it. Just had one say she's going to go buy one this week....another one said "will do". Unfortunately, this restaurant doesn't have a way to send a link where people can buy a gift card online. I spoke with a Toast rep yesterday and he doesn't believe they can create a link which would allow a restaurant to sell a $100 face value gift card for less than face value... $73 or whatever. I told him to put that in the suggestion box. It would allow their clients to create their own groupon-style promos and keep all the money themselves. So, I love this method of getting in conversations with business owners. I'd pay $27 all day for those conversations. Step 2 is getting them signed up as a client. Any questions or suggestions welcome. You can see the auction here: https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1Ejy8Qqx4V/

One of the sneakier ways to grow a Skool community might have nothing to do with getting more members. Someone shared that they started using Skoot about two weeks ago. They set up one pretty boring automation: When a member’s payment fails, remind them. That’s it. In two weeks, it helped recover 10 members. About $240 in MRR. And I think the interesting part is why those members were about to disappear. They didn’t necessarily want to cancel. Sometimes the card expired. Sometimes there was a small payment issue. Which means those 10 people weren’t really “churn.” They were customers who wanted to stay… but needed a nudge to fix something. Makes me wonder how many Skool owners are spending all their energy trying to add $240 in new MRR while quietly losing the same amount through stuff like this. More content, outreach, ads, and sales calls. Meanwhile, some of the easiest revenue may already belong to you. You just haven’t collected it yet. That’s one use of Skoot I hadn’t really thought much about before. Worth checking your failed payments and seeing how many of those members could still be saved.