Quick note: I posted this inside the paid Ronin group and got permission from Travis Sago to post this here too... wanted to make sure people here saw this because if you wanna make money with communities I've found this is the best way. Hey y’all. Been super busy lately and wanted to share a bit about what’s been happening. If you haven’t seen what me and @David Botella did recently for a creator… Check out how we added an extra $136k in revenue running a 3-day event here I love being the growth partner for creators. I focus on bringing in sales. They focus on the content (which they’re usually very good at). We make sales together, BOOM. I’ve run multiple different types of campaigns before: ==> Big Ticket Email Mojo. ==> Virtual Auctions. ==> T3 Campaigns. And although they’re all my babies there’s some drawbacks to each of them. In my opinion, I think it really depends on your personality type and what type of work you enjoy doing. I don’t consider myself the best offer creator or the best copywriter. I don’t even consider myself that creative, honestly. So for me personally I like marketing strategies that work without me having to be a genius. Running these 3 Day Events consistently work for me and have a high success rate. If you’ve been doing this for a long enough time you know how much it sucks when you run a campaign and it flops. Expectations are high and you’re counting the future dollars but it bombs (ask me how I know LOL). Even if you run that test and get 100’s of hand raisers it doesn’t always bring in the money. And this can happen for many reasons. It’s hard to pinpoint the main cause. Sometimes the audience isn’t warmed up enough to buy. Or in other words, the golf balls are so far away that it feels like you’re tapping from the tee. But the thing I’ve been doing that’s getting the best results right now? 3 Day Events.

You can get people reaching out to you pre sold for as little as $5 a day in ad spend. Without blasting through HUGE ad spends. Without complicated targeting. Without waiting 3 months to see if your ads work. Somebody told me recently that they would rather have a caustic enema then spend hours a week reaching out to people who tell them to P%&S off! It’s ZERO fun. Then spending a small fortune on ads to get more leads only to be left staring at the ads manager thinking I’be spent all this money and all I got was dog rough leads?! I’ll never forget when I started running $5 a day video ads, giving away huge value and instead of going straight in for the kill focused on value and calling out the right people… I’d usually get to the computer all excited for another day of work, only to realise before my coffee had even got cold I didn’t have a clue what I was doing. Until I checked the ads that particular morning… Those 8 people changed my freaking life. The problem is most people have been told for ads to work: You have to spend a fortune You have to have fancy targeting You have to have 7387389239 different creatives You have to give it time to work I’m calling Bull on that and if you are also ready to stop being told to piss off then I wanna help ya.

You know that feeling when a community just... hums? People tagging each other. Conversations nobody asked them to start. New members getting pulled in by the energy before you've spent a penny on ads. A guy I'm working with is close to that. But not quite there yet. Ten, sometimes twenty new members a week landing in the group. And yet almost no energy once they arrive. That's the interesting part. Because when most people see a quiet community they assume the problem is traffic. Not enough people. Not enough awareness. Not enough promotion. But sometimes the problem isn't that people aren't arriving. It's that nothing is pulling them deeper once they do. It's the difference between a shop people enter... and a place people gather. One gets footfall. The other gets life. So what actually creates gravity? Not better posts. Not more content. Not another pinned resource nobody reads. An event. Something happening on a specific day that gives people a reason to show up, participate and come back tomorrow to see what happened. The simplest version of this? An auction. Suddenly the community has a pulse. People who haven't posted in weeks are watching. Commenting. Tagging friends. The algorithm notices. New members find the group organically. And the member who won? They're telling people about it. That's gravity. And it doesn't come from content. It comes from giving people something to gather around. Obvious? Maybe. But I've watched too many good communities go quiet because everyone was focused on the wrong problem. Did this post excite the freaking hell outta yah? Or was this a debbie downer that bored ya pants off? I can take it. I grew up a ginger kid.

A DIVORCE is what semi-retired me at age 38. It took me 2 years once I got serious. (I did it in my spare time, after my son was in bed and early in the morning before my job.) This is Sago's #1 Personal Finance Rule. Rooting For Ya, Travis PS I am NOT a financial advisor. I am an impatient freedome junkie who doesn't follow the "rulez!" PPS I am also Southern. I talk slow. Put this baby on double speed!

A partner of mine wanted to move to skool. They set up the group and seeded it with around 700 members nearly a year ago, since then we've grown it the 4,896 members with half of them coming from Skool organic because of the engagement we produced. I'll break that all down in this post for you guys. Ok so a bit of background my partner teaches people in the US who aren't from there to speak better english, to get a better job, get a job, make more friends. He has a podcast, Youtube and we run Facebook ads, we use Laurel Portie's Ads ecosystem (if anybody has any Qs lemme know!) The plan we use is really stupid simple as well to get this amount of people... > Auctions > Posts in the group > Email about the posts He wanted to move everything to Skool. This included killing his highly performing $28 program which was doing very well on ads! After the first auction he noticed that Skool started to send him more people, he messaged me like 'Ryan, that auction most have signalled something to Skool, they are sending us more people...' He was right, his goal was to use this free skool as a holding pen for his higher priced memberships. We put the free lesson he gave away free in this skool. He also has a HUGE back catalog of lessons, so he added a $8 a month level on this skool where you got one every 4/5 days and added a AMA class for paying members every week. We also started to see AFTER the auction people commenting more and more engaged, so I started to turn the comments and DM's to posts, people started engaging even more, guess what? Skool sent us even more traffic... So we just rinse and repeat. Auction. Post. Email to Post. DM everybody. I also DM every new member. Every new member gets this ' here are those free lessons as promised. Quick question…are you looking to just 'get by' with English, or is there a specific goal (like a job or move) that’s making this a priority right now?' I get a gazillion of these everyday, I work through em and am I after shifting and sorting, I want people who want to solve their english now and want to get it better but I have to find out if they have a one of two problems.