not after a pitch. not off a sales call. there wasn't one. one of them wasn't paying me anything at the time. she was in the free community, she'd been there a while, and at some point she went looking for the payment link herself. that's the part nobody teaches, because it doesn't work as a tactic. yesterday i said September's theme is nobody's buying. this is the other half of it. when what you give someone actually changes something for them, paying you stops feeling like a cost. it starts feeling like the obvious next move. WHY MOST OF YOU DON'T ASK - you've done the hard bit. you started the community, you post, people show up, some of them even reply. - then someone asks how you make money from this, and you change the subject. - i know why. the selling you've seen modelled is horrible. WHAT YOU'VE BEEN SHOWN - fake countdown timers. - "only 3 spots left" when there are clearly not 3 spots left. - DMs that open with a compliment and pivot to a pitch in the second message. you don't want to be that. so you've decided you'd rather not sell at all. that's not a confidence problem. it's a model problem. selling means being clear about what you do, who it's for, and what it costs. and saying it out loud more than once. the discomfort comes from thinking you have to perform, and you don't. so that's September in Community Income Mastermind. offers that sound like you, prices you can say without flinching, and building the kind of room where people ask how they can pay you. ➡️ join Community Income Mastermind for $37/m until 1st Sep (going to be $97/m) with 7-day free trial. cancel anytime. p.s. this is post 5 in a series of 8. p.p.s. glad to have @Zena Ryder part of the CIM crew

Find your person. Excitement is high in the beginning. It won’t be in a week. By the end of Week 1, motivation drops. That’s normal. The hardest parts come first: - Choosing your niche - Defining your offer - Committing to one direction Even with the custom GPTs and structure, this is where 80% will quietly drop. Here’s what I know: Public commitment is powerful. But personal commitment is stronger. When you commit to everyone, you commit to no one. When you commit to one person, it becomes real. You don’t need 10 accountability partners. You ONLY need one. One person who: - Checks in daily - Asks if you did the work - Pushes you when you hesitate - Doesn’t let you disappear And you do the same for them. That’s how you get through the dip. Do you already have that person? - A friend who wants to build the same - Someone you’ve been chatting with in Skool or another community - Invite them to this group (it's free) and do the work together (make sure you use your referral code, cause it will become paid soon) No? Ask here. 👇🏻 Post below: “I’m looking for an accountability buddy.” All you need is one person who will carry you through the hard days, and you carry them back.

that's the sentence i hear most from people who've done everything right. the community exists. people joined. some of them even post and comment. and then nothing happens, and you start wondering "what's the problem?" that's September's theme inside Community Income Mastermind, and it isn't a random topic i picked. in Community Income Mastermind we focus on TRAFFIC, ENGAGEMENT, and MONETIZATION: - you can't monetize a room nobody's in. that's Traffic. - you can't monetize a room that's silent. that's Engagement. - and when both of those are working and still nobody's buying, that's Monetization. September is that third one. SEPTEMBER in Community Income Mastermind: - week 1, the webinar. TOO GOOD TO BE FREE. - week 2, two workshops. we build it together. run twice, timezone friendly. - week 3, no events. you're building it. i keep you accountable. - week 4, two hot seat / Q&A calls. also run twice to accommodate for time zones. plus some productivity sessions i'm adding, to help you actually execute. join if you can, no drama if you can't. ➡️ join Community Income Mastermind for $37/m until 1st Sep (going to be $97/m) with 7-day free trial first. cancel anytime. p.s. this is post 4 in a series of 8. p.p.s. glad to have @Vladimir Belokapov part of the CIM crew.

it is Friday, i know. but, if you are serious about building your business - buckle up, my friends! 🚀 GROW FAST. WHY&HOW today at 3pm UK / 5 pm Jerusalem / 10am New York in @Justin Yip community - Aligned Entrepreneur Network a Live workshop on growing your free Skool community faster, what actually works, and what quietly wastes your time. 🚀 LAUNCH vs EVERGREEN DEBATE today at 5pm UK/ 7pm Jerusalem / 12pm New York in here, we'll debate (just talk) with @Carol Tice about two different models. both models work. the argument is about when, and for who. join us here to listen and ask questions. Carol is the owner of 90 Day Community (Re)Launch. she has ton of experience running a successful and profitable community. who is coming?

i'm capping CIM at 100 members. and once we're there, doors are closed. WHY 100: - i can't do this well past a certain number. i read what you post. i answer the awkward questions properly. i notice who's gone quiet. - at 300 people i'd stop doing all of that and start posting content into a feed (that's what majority of ppl do and call it coaching 🙄) - a room where 100 people are genuinely doing things beats a room of 1,000 where 40 are. not only that, i am also limiting the entry window to last four days a month. WHY LIMIT? - when people trickle in constantly, i have to switch between delivery and onboarding. and task switching causes 40% loss of productivity (believe me, as a productivity coach) - also, someone joins on the 14th, lands in the middle of a conversation they've missed half of, the month - doesn't want to ask, and quietly never posts, then leavers quietly - finally, big way, if the doors are open all month, i'm selling all month. again, task switching. instead i want to focus on serving you better. i am raising a standard not just for my ppl, but also for me. ⭐️ open four days, everyone arrives together, gets onboarded together. the next 3 weeks i focus on delivering the best service for people inside. this is really the evergreen vs launch model argument that we are debating on Friday with @Carol Tice join us to hear us talking about it. funny enough, i am defending evergreen. THIS WEEK I'M INVITING PEOPLE TO LEAVE CIM generally, ppl do not recommend to remove inactive members. and it's true for a community (free or paid). however, i am building a true mastermind - a place where ppl take action! it creates an environment where everybody thrive. ➡️ join Community Income Mastermind for $37/m until 1st Sep (going to be $97/m).