If you had to pick between the two - which would you launch first? I'm curious as AppSumo exploded their email list many years ago by doing a DropBox (lifetime access) giveaway (i.e. anchoring a market leader and then offering non-winners a discounted coupon). However, I see auctions as a way to go "straight to the money" (for lack of a better term) to get bidders first as opposed to freebie seekers first (Giveaways). Thoughts? 😊

What keeps poor people poor? It's not... 👉Beliefs 👉Luck 👉Smarts 👉Lack of Money 👉Oppression 👉Lack of good looks It's CONSISTENTLY POOR DECISION MAKING! We all make poor decisions from time to time. A poor decision here or there won't put you in the poorhouse UNLESS the DOWNSIDE of the decision is catastrophic. (Drunk Driving, for example) Now... Ronin are here MOSTLY to make an income without masters. So...let's apply this to $$$ Let's talk about ONE decision-making PRINCIPLE which took me from poor to rich so fast it made my head spin. There are whole books on personal finance and business and such. But... This ONE PRINCIPLE is like putting on GOOD DECISION glasses when it comes to money getting. It comes down to this: ✅Rich people have CONTROL. ❌Poor people do NOT have CONTROL. 👀I call it the CONTROL PRINCIPLE. 👉Will this decision give me MORE OR LESS control? It doesn't matter if I "like" it, or not. It doesn't matter if it's "easy" or not. It doesn't matter if it's "popular" or not. It doesn't matter if it "costs" me money or not. All that matters... Does this decision give me MORE CONTROL? ...OR LESS? Case in point: A fine chap I have known for over 5 years... And he's been "broke" for 5 years... Routinely makes decisions NOT based on control, but based on what the decision will cost him. For example: He has a YT channel. Which he has almost NO CONTROL over traffic-wise. Sending his YT traffic to an email list or community or ANYTHING he DOES have control over is a much better decision than letting YT have ALL THE CONTROL. But he refuses to TAKE/GET CONTROL... Why? $9 a month. POOR DECISION! (Google is RICH because they CONTROL STUFF! The same applies to Microsoft, Amazon, etc. Rich people spend BILLIONS to merely GET CONTROL. Google spent billions to get control of YT. They spent what most peeps thought was a stoooooopid amount of money because YT was losing money. But Google uses the CONTROL PRINCIPLE when making decisions. My poor friend does not. Google didn't get rich by getting all the FREE STUFF they could.)

For the Mojos who have been in the business world for a long time, would you say that the Community Fire Mojo model is the best freedom based and leveraged business model out there? If not, what else is equally freedom-based and lifestyle focused?

I have a partner who hates, HATES, Skool. Now I was thinking, that we maybe start the auction in a WhatsApp Group? I see some pro's and cons. But would love to hear your take on it. Maybe someone already tried it?

If I waited for certainty to show up before I went after what I wanted I still wouldn’t know how to tie my shoes, ride a bike or French Kiss. Certainty is what I waited, waited and waited for as a young chump who had time to wait. I was always WAITING! Waiting for… More money More time More credibility More strength More skills More network More abs More! More! More CERTAINTY! I was waiting my life away! Then one day… I got a phone call. My dad died. Somehow… This turned out to be the moment I was waiting for to STOP WAITING! Because my dad’s death DEMONSTRATED to me in full color… There is ONE CERTAINTY I can count on: DEATH! One day… It will be MY turn. I will be lowered 6 feet into the ground and someone will shovel dirt on my casket. So I stopped waiting… I started. I failed. I started again. I failed again. I started over and over until one day I finished something! And you know what? That day some certainty FOUND ME! 3 years after my father’s death, I had just about everything I REALLY wanted. It happened that fast after I stopped waiting for certainty. Waiting is where dreams go to die. Certainty only came AFTER I’d DONE something fifty eleven times…NEVER before. Get ‘er DONE! Rooting for Ya, Travis