Help with my dog's surgery · Community F.I.R.E. Mojo

Juan Pablo Sans

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Help with my dog's surgery

@Travis Sago

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@Tony Teegarden

, I need your brain on this one.

I've been studying the auction model pretty hard.

I get why starting at $1 works.

I get the value of creating bidders, discovering what people are willing to pay, participation prizes, ECW auctions, all of that.

My problem is that I don't have a giant catalog of digital products.

I have a lot of things I can sell, but many of them involve my time.

For example, I've built a pretty obsessive AI-powered social content system that helps take an idea and turn it into stronger content by using proven viral formats, winning hooks, platform context, voice rules, and learning from what actually performs.

I have other assets and offers like that too.

But here's why I'm asking this now.

My dog Joey needs surgery on his dewclaw. I'm looking at roughly $1,000-$2,000.

So my immediate thought was:b"Fuck it. Run an auction."

Then I hit the obvious problem.

If I'm auctioning a digital product and the highest bid is $17... fine.

If I'm auctioning something that takes me 10 or 20 hours to deliver and the highest bid is $17...

I've just invented a very creative way to work for free 😂

So how would YOU structure this?

Would you:

• Turn what I know into something digital first? • Auction access to one of my systems instead of my time?

• Put a hard limit on what the winner gets?

• Use an ECW auction with a secret reserve?

• Auction something service-based but structure the upside/downside differently?

• Do something else entirely?

The goal is pretty simple:

I want to use what I already know and have built to come up with the $1k-$2k for Joey's surgery.

But I also want to actually understand how you'd use the auction model when most of your valuable stuff isn't a neat little course sitting on a shelf.

How would you play this?

@Travis Sago

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Help with my dog's surgery