I invited several people to either join my Skool community or to follow my Substack newsletter. I have the option to do paid or free on my Substack and one of the people chose the paid option a few days ago. I was a bit confused because I didn't think it was actually paid until today when I got a stripe notification that the money was delivered to my account. It ain't much but it is certainly encouraging.

If Flames had a theme song? What would it be? Gonna Fly Now? Eye of the Tiger? 😆(I'm an 80s child!) Lawd, please HELP ME!

I am setting up my new community. Created my icon and banner image. Now I am ready to create my welcome post and open the doors 😊

How can you KNOW if a community is shaping up to be FIRE material? If you want to run your "un-business" from your cell phone in an hour a day... ...without NEEDING employees ...without you NEEDING to run ads ...without FUNNELS and sales people and such There is one FACTOR that's more important than any other. If you've started your group and have 56 members... The first thing you should do is NOT necessarily run an auction...or any type of campaign. It's okay to do that, but it doesn't guarantee that your community will ultimately grow without you doing all the work. What does? 👉SHAREABLITY FACTOR When you get your "seed members" that could be 50, 100 or more... You want to FIND OUT if your members will SHARE the MOVEMENT/MISSION of your community. It's pretty straightforward. I tested here in CFM when we were about to cross 500 Flames. ===>Here was the post Take a look at how many members we have NOW! (11 days later) I've got more advanced ways to get members to share (Audience Multiplier Campaign, but that's for another day.) If they SHARE your community. That means your MOVEMENT and/or MISSION are on target. If they don't... You need to dig into convos, polls, and posts to find a CHANGE IN THE WORLD they are more passionate about. Remember... YOU don't have to be the EXPERT. You are the CURATOR/PRODUCER! Like a movie producer, your job isn't to act in the movie, hold the camera, work the lighting or even FUND the movie. You need to have a GREAT SCRIPT, that gets the ACTORS excited to be a part of the movie, once you have the GREAT ACTORS, then investors are excited to FUND the movie. Now... Please don't try to do ALL OF THIS IN YOUR HEAD. Yes, you want to have a THEORY of your MOVEMENT and MISSION... But I am NEVER SMART ENOUGH to know with certainty if it will align.

@Travis Sago got me hooked on building Skools, and I now have 4. 1 Pro because there was no other choice at the time, and 3 now that Hobby is available. 3 are profitable and the other one is on the back burner.