I heavily agree with so many folks here that building a community on FB is not a great place to expend our precious energy. But I'm wondering if it could be useful in limited applications. I'm planning on doing a 3-day live event to start to build towards my course. My goal is to launch by the end of the year but still want to pre-sell and validate it more. With such a short window (maybe 2 weeks max), it seems like creating a community on Skool or somewhere else won't make a lot of sense unless it remains open. I'm open to that idea, but wondering if you see there being a use for FB groups when the timeframe is shorter and overcoming friction is a bit more of an issue. I'm also thinking of a Slack channel as an alternative, for people to workshop their pitches privately. In fact, I'm leaning that way, but also know that keeping a more permanent community there might be more of a headache.

What I am going to share may feel contrarian. If you are in a phase of rest or recuperation, it's not a good fit. But sometimes, a shot in the arm of productivity can be a good thing. Think about your big goal for next week. . . the one thing, which if you accomplished, would make you feel like you had a good week. You worked all week, helped clients, made money . . .and did this one big thing, and you rated the week a win. Now, imagine that you got a phone call inviting you speak on a big stage later in the week and you could ONLY work ONE DAY this week . . . Monday. You have 2 choices: decide to put your one big thing off until next week. OR you can choose to DO the one big thing Monday. Now, if you chose to do it Monday . . . so that by the end of Monday you have completed you one major big goal for the week . . . How would that feel? What could you do with the extra time during the week (since you have already accomplished the big thing that would make you feel like you had a good week)?

I just feel compelled to write this, and I hope everyone reading this will second this . . . I've followed Mariah since the Evergreen Engines days (I missed the early days) and when I purchased Evergreen Engines what, 5 years ago, the concepts I learned from Mariah allowed me to take my then-current live webinar business and put so much of it on accelerated autopilot. Evergreen Engines' concepts have personally been worth hundreds of thousands to me in estimated revenue And although I didn't personally invest in Profit Architecture (timing was never quite right for me, I often was working on something else at the time), I observed what Mariah did there, combined what she had taught me in Evergreen Engines, and I've used the concept of high ticket selling with webinars, combined with a Google Doc selling campaign, and I've run campaigns from $3997 to ~$6000 without a sales call, and that's accounted for another several hundred thousand dollars. And Mariah's influence was the core "belief mechanism" that allowed me to first believe I could sell high ticket without a sales call, that led me to create the actual campaigns, so I'm so very grateful. A few weeks ago I identified Skool and the very unique timing here during which so many of the Influencers and Gurus who have traditionally used fb groups, and have recently been experimenting with Discord or Telegram groups just to get away from Facebook . . these influencers and gurus are now flocking to Skool, and bringing their communities and followers with them. And so when I saw Mariah leading the way with a Community Concept, I felt validated . . .but also I thought, wow! when Mariah puts her classic sequential and orderly spin on the process . . . it's going to be phenomenal. So I jumped in here last week just to play . . . and it's been fun and rewarding! And now as Mariah's new community is going to hit 1000 members very very soon . . . Is there anyone here who would post a gif or an image that reflects your own appreciation for Mariah's work not just in this Community the last few weeks . . . but on your life over the last few years?

I've written an intensely logical and print based webinar script and I struggle to convert text to visual concepts So I'm looking for someone who is good with ppt, can easily visualize a look and feel, and convert a paragraph of text into an image idea or a few words? So that the presentation is visually appealing If that's you . . . please reach out!

What tools have you you all used? What results have you seen and what works the best? I know more folks are using this, and for me it helps to remind me of the events I want to go to that I might have forgotten about. But getting started feels overwhelming.