Okay, @Faith Adebayo inspired me again. This is a post for premium tier members. I'll be sending notifications here. If you're on the premium tier or just curious about what this is all about, please click the 🔔 icon in the top right of this post. This is a workaround, so that I can communicate with the members on the premium plan without spamming the members on the free plan 🙏 Because personally I don't like when someone talks about something, sends me a link and then it turns out it's behind a paywall. With the tools I have available, I'll try to minimize those kinds of situations.

I made this post a few days ago about referral rush contests, but after some feedback I realize that is not the best case for every community. So here is a more complete reflection on how to make people want to invite new members for your community after everything that I learned at my previous posts. First of all, it all depends on the phase your community is. I separated the life of a community in 3 stages: Beggining Communities, Growing Communities and Large Communities. Those 3 stages have more to do with the level of engagement and the pace of growth the community has and not in the ammount of members. As in my experience communities with a lot of members are not always the most engaged. I saw communities with hundreds of members that had less engagement than mine. So let's go over what is the best strategy for each community stage, according to the feedback I got. ----> 👶Beggining Communities CHARACTERISTICS: - You're still figuring out the identity of it - You're the one making all of the posts with little to no replies - You need to put a lot of effort to get new members STRATEGIES TO MAKE PEOPLE INVITE NEW MEMBERS - Offer prizes to people who invite an X ammount of members. Like access to a private course once you invite 5 new members, for example. - Establish a goal with your community and award every current member once you reach that goal. So something like "I'll do a live masterclass once we reach 30 members, and the one who referred the most will win the free ebook". ----> 📈Growing Communities CHARACTERISTICS - You got your brand figured out and slowly people are joining because they identify with it - People besides you make posts and you get a decent ammount of responses on your posts. There are back and forth discussions sometimes and you have a few people who are very active inside it. - A few people discover your community on their own, but you still have to reach out to get most of the new members

Which sucks because I'd like to not spam free members with premium gated content. So I'll try to send as little premium notifications as possible. After the Skool news call I'll be doing a live call for the premium tier, just to talk shop. But like I said, I won't be creating a post every time. I'll also do a why I love tiers and why I hate tiers video to try to lobby them adding the tiered category functionality. @Faith Adebayo thank you for the tip!

For all the members that decided to upgrade to premium: Thank you for supporting this community! ❤️

They're finally adding the feature where you can add ads into your videos... Video summary of Neil Patel's "The YouTube Update That Changes Everything": YouTube just dropped an update that's going to fundamentally change how creators monetize and how brands buy advertising. It's called dynamic ad insertion and here's why it matters: ⚫ THE OLD BROKEN SYSTEM You make a video. It gets 2 million views. A brand pays you $20,000 for a sponsorship. That sponsor is burned into the video forever. The brand keeps getting exposure for years while you got paid once. You can't resell that slot. Your only additional revenue is AdSense trickle. Meanwhile the brand has no idea if their sponsorship actually worked and audiences get stuck watching outdated ads for products that might not even exist anymore. Lose-lose-lose. ⚫ THE NEW MODEL Dynamic ad insertion lets you operate exactly like TV networks have for 70+ years. You can now: - Place swappable ad slots in your videos - Insert, remove, and replace sponsors whenever you want - Sell the same slot to different advertisers throughout the year - Test different brands to see which converts better - Charge based on actual impressions delivered Your entire back catalog just became advertising inventory. ⚫ FOR CREATORS That productivity video from 2022 still getting 10,000 views per month? That's 120,000 annual impressions you can sell. You're not just running a channel anymore. You're running a media network with quantifiable, sellable inventory. Start thinking about natural sponsor integration points when you plan content. Structure videos with seamless advertising moments like TV shows do. ⚫ FOR BRANDS Stop rolling the dice on lump sum deals hoping videos deliver. You can now: - Pay based on exact performance (set CPM rates) - Spread budget across 20+ creators and optimize - Test different messages in the same video slots - Build ongoing partnerships instead of one-off deals - Get guaranteed delivery with transparent tracking