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The tracker I built to answer the big question 📊
For months I was saying "I'll leave when my business makes enough." But I never actually defined enough. So I built a tracker that does it properly. What came out the other side changed how I think about my business. Here's what it calculated for me: 🤝 My TRUE employment value (salary + super + insurance + leave + safety net = the real number your business has to match, not just your take-home) 💵 My REAL business net (after expenses and tax, lower than I thought) 📊 THE GAP (the honest figure between where I am and where I need to be) 🎯 Three specific targets: Floor (bare minimum), Comfortable, and Confident 🧾 Exactly how many sales I need per month at my price point to hit each one 🤦🏼‍♀️ What list size I need to generate that ✅ A month-by-month timeline to get there And then a one-page CEO Commitment page where I wrote it all down and made it real. The number was scary. And also? A massive relief. Because now I know what I'm working toward. Not "more”, a specific figure, with a specific plan. It's $37 and you can get it here: From Salary to Sales If you're in this community because you're building toward leaving your job, this is one of the most important pieces. It takes the "someday maybe" and turns it into a date and a number. Any questions, let me know.
The tracker I built to answer the big question 📊
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I'll go first — here's my intro 👋
Since I'm asking you all to introduce yourselves, feels only fair I go first. I'm Niky. I live in New Zealand (yes, the time zones are genuinely chaotic 😂), I'm 18+ years into a senior leadership career in the public service, and I'm building my own business, right now, while still fully employed and wrangling a young family. Why am I doing this? Because I've always wanted to work for myself. Because I watched my Dad start businesses growing up and it never left me. And because pouring all this energy into a career where extra hours don't translate into extra reward stopped making sense a while ago. So here I am. Building in public. Sharing every experiment, every mistake, and every win, including the ones that are embarrassing to admit. Your turn. 👇 Drop your intro below, you can use this template if you need it: Hi! I'm [NAME], based in [COUNTRY] and I'm currently [JOB/SITUATION e.g. still in 9-to-5 / side hustle started / recently left]. My biggest challenge with building a business alongside work is [CHALLENGE]. I'm excited to [ONE GOAL]. Can’t wait to hear about you all.
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🚀 START HERE: Welcome to From Job to CEO - The Experiment!
👋Welcome to From Job to CEO - The Experiment - where I'm building my business alongside my 9-to-5 job and family. Sharing the wins, mistakes, and breakthroughs with you. Here's how to get the most from this community: ✅ Step 1: Introduce yourself using the template below and the "Introduce Yourself" category ✅ Step 2: Download your FREE "Your Business is You" framework (in the Classroom) ✅ Step 3: Engage with 3 other introductions (comment & like) ✅ Step 4: Check out the free CEO Dashboard walk through video in the classroom, you can get your own here Quick Introduction Template: "Hi! I'm [NAME], based in [COUNTRY] and I'm currently [JOB/SITUATION]. My biggest challenge with building a business alongside work is [CHALLENGE]. I'm excited to [ONE GOAL]. Looking forward to connecting!" Why do this? You'll earn points toward each Level and get closer to unlocking your first reward! 🎯 Can't wait to hear about you all!
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Experiment 3 starts Monday 👀
Experiment 2 wraps on Sunday, that's 30 days over. Full results will follow - the honest numbers, what worked, what didn't, what I'd do differently. Then we go again. Experiment 3: YouTube. One video a week for 30 days. A bit of context: I have a YouTube channel with 406 subscribers. I went quiet there in November last year not because I gave up (well, not in full 🤭) but because it wasn't the direction I was going. When I started the channel it was focused on pure leadership tips and skills. That's not what it is anymore. I've updated the banner and description to reflect what I'm actually doing now: building a business alongside an 18-year leadership career, a young family, and a full life and showing exactly what that looks like. Not the highlight reel. The actual build, tracked with data. 406 subscribers who signed up for leadership content are about to get something different. That'll be interesting. 😂 I'll be tracking views, watch time, and subscriber growth similar approach as the Skool experiment, real numbers reported back here. What else would you want me to track? 👇
Experiment 2: Day 27 Update 📊
Three days to go! 🥳 Here's where we are with the numbers: - Members: 105 (up from 96 at Day 20, net +9 in 7 days) - Best single day: still the +5 members on Day 19 - Discovery rank: fluctuating between 1,529 and 1,687, no clean upward trend, which is a finding in itself - Engagement: sitting at 71–77% (was 78–81% in the first week, suspect the focus on posting across communities has pulled my attention from my own group...) - Sales directly linked to Skool: 4 total - Direct Skool member attributions: 12 - Pinned Posts: 4 The biggest insight so far: The experiment wasn't really about posting frequency. It was about what happens when you show up consistently in other people's rooms as well as your own. And the showed almost all 12 directly attributed Skool members came in during the first two weeks when I was posting 3x a day with intention. When I pulled back to 2 posts, the volume dropped, but so did the quality of what I was posting. A chunk of those posts were contributor calls for my bundle, which is fine for bundle growth and terrible for Skool discovery. I didn't slack off the experiment. I was just trying to do two things at once - Skool growth AND bundle contributor recruitment and the data shows exactly where my attention was. Meanwhile my emails are doing more of the lifting than I expected, my recent email swaps provided more growth and (almost all 🤭) my funnels now send new subscribers straight here. So even when I'm not actively posting in other communities, this group can keep growing. 1 June: full final results including my verdict on whether this was actually worth it and what my posting plan looks like from here. What's been your win this week? Drop it below.
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