On April 22, the VIP members of the CLASSIFIEDS will be hosting a series of drop-in coffee chats over the course of 7 hours!!! This event is open to EVERYONE! This is called the WATER COOLER, and you can think about it just like you would the water cooler at an office - drop in when you have a few spare minutes in your day, catch up with what everyone is chatting about, and then come back as many times as you want throughout the day. 🤗 Each hour will have a different theme chosen by the host. Fun, right??? 🎉 Check out the schedule below, mark it on your calendar, and then show up to make connections, have a great conversation, and maybe even start a new friendship. 😉 First Hour: @Traci Poe of the Public Speakers Growth Hub - "It's In The Bag" (show up and have some fun) Second Hour: @Jing Wang of Altus Millionaire Club - Myths vs. Mastery - Self-Directed Roth Third Hour: @Diana Frank of Unfair Advantage - Authority & Visibility Fourth Hour: @Sybil Hall of Income Without Burnout - Meet & Greet Collabing with Skool Owners Fifth Hour: @Kevin Gebert of Moolavie Trio - The 12 - Your Voice Board of Directors Sixth Hour: @Sondra Verva of Amplif-AI Your Business - AI Magic - coffee chat Seventh Hour: @Mimi Ramsey of The Backroom | Say The Thing! - Say the Thing... Voice and Visibility

Sometimes simplicity is the best way to sell. If you can't do it in one sentence, maybe even you don't even understand the value of what you're providing. If you want to access other pitching exercises like this one, sell yourself with 3 words, sell yourself with gifs, sell yourself with a rhyme and also get valuable feedback and promotion opportunities, join Roast & Promote. All of these pitching exercises can be found at the classroom for Roasty High Skool and you can engage anytime you want.

If you're good at something, you can create your community around that to help other people. What is the skill that lead you to build your community? What is your purpose, what is your mission, what is your calling? All the other moving parts, like copywriting, promoting yourself, choosing a good design, making ads on classifieds... they are secondary to your passion. And you shoudn't spend a lot of time and mental energy on those things unless you're a marketing specialist. So you can use Roast & Promote to get feedback on those things without taking the focus away from the soul of what you're building. Also, without spending money on expensive audits and having to hire an agency to tell you what you should be doing. So join us now and get guidance on the marketing (and also tech) part of your business so you can focus your mental energy on the stuff that really matter for you!

If you could choose between promoting your community more or less, as part of building your community. What would be your preferred choice? (especially thinking about the long-term) And could you share why, why you'd like to promote your community more or less?

I started building an ecosystem for community owners to grow together because I personally don't think it's a good idea for community owners with a similar approach, focus, or goal to compete with each other. NOT AT ALL! I see it happening all the time, but whatever the desired outcome is, competing with other community owners more often than not leads to the opposite outcomes! Without going into too much detail, I just wonder, what are your thoughts on this? Your honest take?