We did it!! We officially crossed 2,000 members in this community! 🚀 This was a HUGE goal of mine for this month, and we made it happen. A massive thank you to everyone who has been showing up, participating, sharing your wins, referring your friends, and helping make this community what it is. It’s been a wild ride already, and I’m so excited to see what the next chapter brings for us. 2,000 strong and we’re just getting started. 💕📚 Let’s keep this momentum going!!

I'm just going to RIP the band-aid off... I will be converting the community to a PAID community with a low ticket of $9 starting on September 1st. (yeah it's a little ways away...) This is going to help gain more members who are focused, cut the SPAMMERs out and help with growth boost 🚀 which is the way skool is helping communities grow. Anyone who is in the community right now will remain in here for FREE so you're not getting kicked out. I actually want to give you dedicated members more for LESS. With this announcement, I am also dropping the price of the PUBLISHING PLAYBOOKS that I usually sell for $27 all the way down to $15. This is my self-publishing brain dump of how I have earned over six figures in royalties, publishing part-time. 👉 SELF PUBLISHING PLAYBOOKS ON SALE NOW $15 📚 With this announcement, I wanted to give a BIG SHOUTOUT to @Gina Trigo from GENX Creator Lab where she is a TOP community builder and teaches GENX women how to build with AI and earn MONEY! 💰 She also gave me an AMAZING IDEA to run a ⭐REFERRAL CONTEST⭐ this month, and the WINNER will earn a 🚀 PINNED POST IN THE COMMUNITY FOR 1 WEEK!! Let's take a moment to meet some of the new ladies coming into the community that Gina sent over @Kelly V - Meet KoKo - my AI Twin. Live life unfazed. @unfazedsidehustle @Brandi Mangus - Mom/ wife/ grandma / working my a$$ off to become the best creator and income earner I can be!!! @Jeannie Nowarita - Working mom of 4 @FrancE Desrosiers - retired & searching MY HAPPY, elusive as it is🤣‼️ @Carrie Crews - Looking to make extra income to replace my 9-5

I've been sharing that I've been investing in myself lately ... and one of those investments is a cohort with @Matt Radkiewicz focused on Amazon ads. I've been learning how to tweak my campaigns for better results, but my biggest takeaway so far? Always keep experimenting.📊 Being part of this cohort has opened my eyes to things I never would have thought to try on my own. That's the real value of working with someone or investing in a program. And here's something I look for: it's a GOOD SIGN when the people teaching you are still out there learning themselves — because they pass those wins straight to you. One of my biggest realizations is that my niche is competitive. When you're running ads, you have to bid high just to get impressions. I know that sounds scary — but you need that data to find out what's actually working and what's NOT. Here's what clicked for me: I need to 💰PRICE my book higher so I have more room to bid competitively and still stay profitable. I started testing this with a book that hadn't seen much activity in a while, and then I thought... wait, what if I apply this to my books that are already performing well? So now I'm experimenting. I'm raising the price on one of my $16 books to $18. I'll monitor the sales data closely — but here's the math: if I'm moving 100 copies a month and the price goes up $2, that's an extra $200/month. Doesn't sound like much, but that's $2,400 💸 more per year from one small change. Small optimizations compound. Keep finding them. ➡️ What are YOU doing to keep improving your books? Drop it in the comments — I'd love to know.

I wanted to share a little update on something I’ve been working on behind the scenes… As some of you know, I joined an Amazon Ads cohort with @Matt Radkiewicz . Even though I’ve been running ads on my books for years, I’ve never really labeled myself as an “expert” in this area and honestly, I wanted to tighten things up and learn some new strategies. One of the biggest reasons I joined was because I have several older books that I’ve kind of neglected over time. With everything going on in the community, I haven’t had as much time to publish new books lately… so instead, I decided to shift my focus to optimizing what I already have. ➡️ Check out Matt's Amazon Ads Skool Publisher Sea And I’ll say this just putting attention back into those books and turning ads back on has already started bringing in some sales again 👀 Since setting up these ads, it has helped me get about 10 sales on old books that were previously doing nothing, which I would say is a win, but it still takes time to optimize and improve. It’s a really good reminder that you don’t always need something brand new… sometimes there’s opportunity sitting in assets you’ve already created. That said, one thing I’m definitely being reminded of (and @Sybil Hall has said this too) is that Amazon Ads are NOT a “set it and forget it” situation. You have to check in, monitor performance, and make adjustments consistently if you want to see results. Curious—have you started running Amazon Ads on your books yet?

I just want to give a huge shoutout to my friends who have really been helping me grow this community. Earlier today I asked in a few groups for a *Birthday Wish* for people to send over a few community members. Now we are just 5 members away from hitting the 800-member goal for Q1, and I am feeling like we are 100% going to hit the target. @Liisa Reimann Thanks for sending over @Chelena Peart who has been a real rockstar ✨ from the moment she came into the community today and brought over a bunch of her friends. 💖 Also big hugs to @Rasheed Hooda for also giving me a birthday shoutout and bringing over some of his connections too. Also appreciate @Sybil Hall for also featuring me today. 👉 AFFILIATE IS ON: Everyone is welcome to invite their friends. If you have someone who would love to learn self-publishing, send them over. 💖 Thanks to everyone else who has been supportive here. I'm grateful to have you all!