I ran my group for several months, it wasn't growing and no one who was in it were participating in the conversation. One guy left the group because I was the only person posting... would have been nice if he had posted anything lol. In any case, I learned a ton from doing this group and more ideas sprung up, despite the group itself being a bust for me. I did however build a pretty active TikTok to fuel the growth of the group and may revisit the group as the TikTok grows. I have a ton of offer ideas now and concepts that I am putting together, like books and I created a good relationship with two big content creators through the efforts I put into this group, as well. I was fascinated to learn that some of the people are actually running auctions in Facebook marketplace too, right on their listings. Not sure what my next community will be yet but I will be starting another soon. It is very fun building these even when they aren't an overall win.

Aleric Heck just posted this screen shot. How fun would it be to do live auctions on YouTube!? I suppose we could have done it in the comments section anyway but this is an interesting feature nonetheless.

Ima bookworm. Do you like book reccos? I tend to explain WHY I love a book. I've got a bunch that are off the beaten path. Most peeps have never heard of. Rooting For Ya, Travis

After the workshop yesterday I went over to my Tik Tok channel and started doing exactly what Travis taught yesterday and within just a few hours I was in multiple conversations with people who wanted to talk. Growing my community is going to be way easier now! Actively in 9 conversations now and only spent about 20 to 30 minutes responding to ioi's

In 2005... I joined a paid forum for affiliate marketers. (A forum was the "community" back in the day.) The owners did something really smart. They had a section of the forum where you could go in and pitch products. It was smart because it kept the pitches out of the rest of the forum. Despite the forum being full of buyers... Most people who posted their pitches made ZERO sales. There were some really talented copywriters in there. I tried my hand at it too. I'd post picture-perfect posts: *Here's what I got *Here's what it will do for you *Here's why you need this now Blah... Blah... I MIGHT make one or two sales. Then... Because I LOVE to experiment. I decided to throw out most of what I knew about copywriting. And do what came naturally... Like in a conversation. Instead of a big long azz sales pitch (which I'm not really against, but the timing needs to be right.) 👉I opened a CONVERSATION for IOIs 👉I looked for IOIs (Indicators of Interest as we've talked about here.) 👉I then CONTINUED the CONVERSATION 👉THEN I would make an INVITATION This was such a HUGE breakthrough... I still remember most of the numbers TWENTY YEARS LATER... The first product I did this with was a Google Ad Spy product, for which I got a $ 30-per-month commission. Here's roughly what happened: 💥I opened convos with roughly 50 people (from ONE post) 💥40 became "leads." 💥THIRTY PEOPLE BOUGHT! I remember the numbers because I remember I got $900 per month from that one convo opener campaign. The PRINCIPLES still work today! Because while Myspace, Tumblr, Squidoo and so many other things are in the rear view. Psychology doesn't change much. When I get an IOI and open a CONVERSATION... I can turn 50% or more of the IOIs into LEADS (Leads on Demand) And at least HALF of the leads turn into customers. (Sales on Demand) CURRENT EXAMPLE: Our first auction here in CFM: 9 out of 10 Flames are buying Leads On Demand and HALF of them are upgrading to Sales On Demand. (I think that'd be higher, but some folks have their sales process down and are pros already.)