Paid communities are the rage. But just because your favourite YouTuber is making bank with a paid community or course, doesn't mean it's the fastest path for you to get to $10k/month. As a synthesizer, there's only 4 ways for you to monetize: Let's break them down, then help you figure out which is best for you. This is a crucial decision if you want to make a full-time income online doing what you love. // 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐅𝐎𝐔𝐑 𝐌𝐎𝐍𝐄𝐓𝐈𝐙𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍 𝐏𝐀𝐓𝐇𝐒 1. DO IT YOURSELF (Courses) What is it: The buyer receives information. They have to consume it, and execute on it themselves. Pros: It's infinitely scalable. 1,000,000 people can go through a course at the same time. Cons: It's very hard to sell. The buyer knows it's going to be a lot of work to consume the information then implement it. // 2. DONE WITH YOU AND OTHERS (Paid Communities, Group Coaching, Cohort Based Courses) What is it: The buyer does the work with you helping in a group setting. Pros: It's pretty scalable. You can help hundreds of people at the same time. Cons: It's hard to sell. The buyer does all the work, and doesn't get much direct help from you. // 3. DONE WITH YOU (1 on 1 Coaching) What is it: You help the buyer privately to achieve the outcome. Pros: It's easy to sell. People value 1 to 1 connection, and direct help is very valuable. Cons: It's not infinitely scalable. It's hard to scale beyond $30,000/month. // 4. DONE FOR YOU (Services) What is it: You do work for the buyer. Pros: It's super easy to sell. The buyer hardly has to do any work, but still gets the outcome. Cons: It's not infinitely scalable. It's hard to scale beyond $30,000/month. // 𝐌𝐘 𝐒𝐓𝐎𝐑𝐘 When I started trying to monetize, I thought the best thing to do was build an audience. I spent a year doing this, and made $0. This post explains why you should not make content until you figure out monetization. Please do not make the mistake I made.

I'm aware there's the approach of having a free Skool community as a limited offering to upsell a paid one. Curious to know more in depth on how effective this strategy is as opposed to just going all in on the Paid community from the jump. Does anyone also have examples of what's worked for people here on Skool too?

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I love 'Build in public' content so I'll share the business I'll be building for the next 90 days. Language learning is one of my greatest interests in life, so I'd like to seriously develop in this pursuit. Below is how I'll monetise this particular interest with the aim of rapidly developing the skill, whilst being able to make an income from it. A plan without dates is just a dream so I've attached a deadline to each step for everyone to see. Step 1: Upload my first YouTube video, 'How I Plan to Learn Spanish in 45 days' = (Sunday 9th June) Step 2: Upload weekly to follow up on series; 'Learning Spanish in 45 days (Week 1)' = (Sunday 16th June) 'Learning Spanish in 45 days (Week 2)' = (Sunday 23th June) 'Learning Spanish in 45 days (Week 3)' = (Sunday 30th June) 'Learning Spanish in 45 days (Week 4)' = (Sunday 7th July) 'Learning Spanish in 45 days (Week 5)' = (Sunday 14th July) 'Learning Spanish in 45 days (Week 6)' = (Sunday 21st July) 'Learning Spanish in 45 days (Final week)' = (Sunday 28th July) Step 3: Create free Skool community where I'll upload all the resources I've curated along the way and invite my viewers to join me in challenging themselves to learn Spanish. (Sunday 30th June) Step 4: Create online Spanish school (Paid Skool Community) (Saturday 27th July) Step 5: Upload an in-depth guide based on all the intensive learnings 'How I became fluent in Spanish in 45 days' = (Sunday 28th July) Hope you enjoy & lmk your thoughts+suggestions

I am testing a metaverse for Synthesizer School. I will be in the Metaverse for the next 30 minutes. This test server only has capacity for 50 spaces. Come chat with me! LINK: https://app.gather.town/app/EOPyxsLShvsaZXF8/akirby EDIT: LOOOOL that was so fun. Thanks to everyone who showed up. The link should still be active. So anyone who wants to connect, learn, and have fun can click it ^