What is the best way to position my group to maximise relationships with experts?

So my community for laser business owners is now at 174 members. Based on the wisdom in this post https://www.skool.com/community-fire-mojo-6715/movement-mojo?p=99e971b7 I have started to reach out to creators in my niche to see if I can interview them for my group. To leverage their knowledge.

I reached out to a micro influencer that has a YT channel with about 8k subscribers.

She has agreed to do an interview - so that is the first small win 😀

But on top of the content that this will create I also want to leverage this new relationship. From her channel I can see that some of her material would make good courses for my classroom.

How would you go about pitching this? Do I leave it for now - do the interview and then ask her afterwards?

I'm also wondering about leveraging her audience - what would be the best way to do that? Maybe offer something of value in the classroom and have her add it to a link on her videos?

The other thing I'm wondering as my group approaches 200 members is should I start charging for the group even if it was just $5 - 10 a month for future members? I've seen other groups doing this and it all adds up, or do you think its better to keep the group free? I'm thinking charging a small amount would weed out any complete feeloaders while still making it very accessible. Or is it best to keep it free, maximise the members joining and then monetise from auctions, polls and classroom courses?

I also think by charging for the group I could offer affiliate income to these external influencers/content creators so they can monetise their audience by sending them to my group.

I'd appreciate the thoughts of all you Flames and of course

@Travis Sago

aka the 'Firestarter'

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