My name is Ope and I’m excited to be part of this amazing community. I’m a music artist and interior designer with a passion for creativity, connection, and uplifting others.💪 Wether through music that inspires the soul or desire that bring spaces to life, I believe in using my gifts to create positive experience and meaningful impact💯 @Karin Crawford introduced me to this community and one of the things she said was that this community focus on helping, promoting, and encouraging one another to succeed. I look forward to connecting with you all, learning from your experiences, sharing ideas, supporting your journeys, and building meaningful relationships along the way. Wishing everyone continued growth, success and happiness 🙏🏾😁❤️💙💜

I really appreciate that so many of you are directly asking me for advice and questions in the DMS, which I do actively encourage because conversation leads to opportunities for everyone. HOWEVER, I am only one person with so many hours in each day and I literally cannot keep up. Because I want to help all of you and some of you are waiting weeks for a reply from me. I would really encourage you to make a new post here in the group with your question, and tag the most appropriate resident experts who is most likely to be able to be able to assist. (I'm @Adam McCollough ) That way our conversations are also open and available to help other people who might have similar problems, you will get your problem solved faster, and you will have the help and different viewpoints of 20 experts and 500 community members. There is a category already set up called. "Ask an expert". Please feel free to continue to send me DMS, I love hearing from all of you but I just want to let you know that this could be a much more effective way to find answers. I will also be adding an ask me anything live session every week in the free community tier when the tiers go live in the middle of this month, so watch the calendar for this and be sure to add it to your personal calendar as a recurring event.

There is a lot of noisy, terrible advice out there from so-called “experts.” They will tell you to guard your knowledge, lock your expertise behind an expensive paywall, and only give people a crummy, low-value “lead magnet” to get their email address, so you can send a string of automated sales letters to them. Let me tell you the honest truth: People who give you that advice are usually just doing it because they are more interested in making a quick sale than actually helping you. Giving what you do away for free could be one of the absolute best things you ever do for your business. And I don’t mean a half-baked PDF that barely has any value. 𝗜 𝗺𝗲𝗮𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗳𝘂𝗹𝗹 𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗼𝗳 𝘄𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗱𝗼. 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗹 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴. 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗿 𝘀𝘁𝘂𝗳𝗳. I know we all have bills to pay and money to make. But if you want to build a real, sustainable business using the skills you already have, you need to understand one fundamental rule: 𝗕𝘂𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗲𝘀𝘀, 𝗽𝘂𝘁 𝘀𝗶𝗺𝗽𝗹𝘆, 𝗶𝘀 𝗷𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝗮𝗻 𝗲𝘅𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝘃𝗮𝗹𝘂𝗲. When you chase money, it’s elusive. But when you focus purely on helping people and providing massive value straight away, people will literally queue up to pay you. 𝗛𝗲𝗿𝗲 𝗶𝘀 𝘄𝗵𝘆 𝗴𝗶𝘃𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗯𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝘀𝘁𝘂𝗳𝗳 𝗮𝘄𝗮𝘆 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗳𝗿𝗲𝗲 𝗮𝗰𝘁𝘂𝗮𝗹𝗹𝘆 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸𝘀 1. 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗟𝗮𝘄 𝗼𝗳 𝗥𝗲𝗰𝗶𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 This is a hardwired psychological trigger in all of us. When people feel like they have received a massive amount of value or taken a lot from you, they feel a deep-seated urge to give something back. We all naturally crave balance. If you genuinely help someone solve a problem without holding your hand out for cash immediately, they are going to remember you. They will want to repay that value when the time comes. 2. 𝗕𝘂𝗶𝗹𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗧𝗿𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗛𝗮𝗯𝗶𝘁 People need a chance to see what you are actually like before they commit their hard-earned cash. Giving it away for free gives people a risk-free way to find out about you, see how good you are at what you do, and start to trust you. People are also creatures of habit. Once someone has used your service for three weeks or so, it becomes so much easier for them to stay loyal to you than it is to go off and find a stranger to do the exact same thing. Napoleon Hill used this exact method to fill an entirely empty apartment block. He gave people six months rent-free, while the neighbouring block was struggling to find a single tenant. His competitors thought he’d gone mad, but once his tenants moved in and built a life there, they stayed. He achieved a 100% occupancy, whilst his competitors were still struggling years later.

There are so many communities that I had visited and people would say " drop an introduction about yourself"... and so I would.tell people about where I started from, how we've grown our businesses, and things I'm doing now like the business coaching, but so many of my posts got removed, or I'd get a message saying you're not allowed to tell people about your businesses or what you do... You're just here to support me! Well call me old-fashioned but what kind of community doesn't allow people to speak about themselves? So here's where we're different. We want to learn about what you're doing, we genuinely want to get to know you, What's your passions are and what you are hoping to achieve in life because without that information how can we possibly help you? So if you haven't already, please create a welcome post in the welcome lounge and tell us all about yourself. Don't be shy and feel free to include relevant links to your community if you have one So that your people can support you. BUT Be Respectful Just remember no-one wants to read a page of adverts, but we genuinely do want to get to know YOU.