From the age of 30-44… I tried 26 different side hustles. Most of them I quit on. But some of them were too complicated. Skool is the simplest business model I’ve ever tried. And you can literally start today. I’m curious to know if you plan on using a Skool community for your online business. Let me know 👇 Bonus points if you vote and tell me the traffic source you’re using or plan to use 🔥

One of the most common questions I get regarding Skool is some version of this. "How do I get people into my community?" And I want to give you a real answer. Not a list. A real answer. First thing I want to say is this. There are so many ways to build an audience. More than you probably think. And I put together a resource that covers basically all of them. Video, writing, participating in other communities, paid ads, all of it. I'll drop the link below. But before you go click that, I want to have a quick honest conversation with you. Trust is at an all time low right now. People are more skeptical than they have ever been. AI is everywhere. Content is everywhere. And because of that, people are paying way more attention to who is behind the thing they're considering spending money on. I'm not saying faceless doesn't work. It does. There are people building real audiences and making real money going that route. If your whole brand is built around that model and that's what you teach, that's a different conversation entirely. What I am saying is that if you have big goals on a short timeline, like you want to replace your income, you want to hit real numbers, and you want to do it this year, you are going to have to give people a reason to trust you faster than your competitors do. And the fastest way to do that is to let people see you. It doesn't have to be perfect. It doesn't have to be produced. It just has to be real. Because at the end of the day I'm not buying anything from somebody I don't know. And neither are most people. Your goals need to match your effort. If the timeline is long and you're okay playing the slow game, cool. Pick a lane from the resource and be consistent with it. If the timeline is short and the goals are big, you are going to have to do something that moves fast. Ads. Video. Both. Something. That's not me being harsh. That's just how this works. Grab the resource here. Pick one thing that actually fits your life. And then treat it like a business.

I got my very first request for my community! I have 3 questions I asked and they just answered with random letters and not words. I was so excited now I'm not. Here are my questions and her answers. What creative mediums have you explored or are curious about? (e.g., painting, jewelry, pottery, fiber arts)vgbn What's the biggest challenge you face as a multi-medium artist or maker?hjh How did you hear about this community?skooler Location: new york (united states) Does anyone have experience with spam on this platform?

After having watched the latest Skool news video one thing stood out for me - join other communities you’re genuinely interested in and engage authentically. Whilst I can see the value in this, I can also see that this could become distracting and take away from the focus on our own communities. As I build my community I want to put all my focus on it as I think this is what members would want - so how do you balance this? Currently I'm only a member of 3 communities, including this one (and they're all from @Brian O'Neill )

Okay, then. Joined PYOB a couple of days ago. I have what I need and now I'm off to @Brian O'Neill's Mindset Skool. This seems fast but I had the idea to start an online business back around 2008(?). Back then I started a blog. When I realized I needed more skills I quit the blog. That was dumb. I'd been growing an audience and had regular readers I was interacting with. But, not having any experience with how much time growing a blog back then could take, I thought I wasn't doing well. Man! When I think what that could have become had I stuck with it. Still shaking my head about that. Glossing over the intervening years: I've been buying courses, starting courses, quitting courses, getting coaching, struggling with the wrong approaches, yada, yada, and so on. As an interesting aside I bought Sam Ovens' original Consulting(dot)com offer back in 2016 but didn't implement fully. Sam has since sold that and started the platform we're on right now. So, plenty of time between my initial fantasy of creating an online empire and today. Definitely not all wasted years (I learned alot about myself and the online world) but more of a cautionary tale than one of inspiration, as far as building an online business. That's the point of this post. Make better choices than I ended up making. Take what Brian is teaching here in PYOB and execute. You can't think your way to the online business you want. Even poorly executed steps are infinitely better than perfectly polished thoughts that move nothing forward. Hope to read about your success very soon. Cheers. PS: After typing all this out I considered hitting <delete>. It's the way my mind works at times. Probably a big part of the reason I haven't managed to move forward in this domain over the years. 🤔 Had the idea to share this, then my brain said, "I'm not so sure this is a good idea." Only by hitting <POST> will I find out. There's a lesson in that and so...