Just partnered with a new creator in the poker space in Latin America ♠️ He’s an established coach with a solid audience, and I’m building a new Skool community (in Spanish!) called FIESTA — plus I designed the new logo and we’re shaping the VISION: FIESTA ♠️ Find Clarity, Flow, and Freedom Through Poker FIESTA is more than a poker community — it’s a movement for players who want to live with clarity, flow, and purpose, both on and off the felt. I’ll be creating a full vending machine with his content 🔥🔥 + auctions (still overthinking lots of it, haha). During our coffee date, I asked: “What else do you want to do — or love to do — that I could help bring to life?” He told me he has 15 years of expertise in cannabis and LOVES that space 🌿 So if this new poker group launch goes well… my next community might be around CANNABIS — with its own VISION coming soon 👀

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.)

A community for nerdy introverted Imers and copywriters who want to build a business that supports their nerdom, fandom, freedom lifestyle. I think this would work well for me considering I'm more open with my nerdom and the things I like in that side than most of the folks I know that are copywriters or Imers online. Especially since I get to work on that side of fan convention and entertainment companies. I do this to support my video game and Lego habit. I do enjoy mixing business and these fandoms. Maybe a place were I show my retirement plan to support my life and my Lego/book/comic book/video game habit would be interested to some folks.

We broke 100 on Skool discovery! Outta 1000s of Skool communities! Thank you for supporting our alternative FIRE movement. The world needs a new model for financial independence! Rooting for Ya, Travis

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