Is selecting the right niche really that important? Well yea, but let's put some meat on that bone. It is important, I have a niche and it helps a lot. But only a well educated person (and by well educated, I mean educated on market desires, not skills) can just select the right niche and be successful. What I mean is, only someone that knows a niche well, someone that has researched it, and knows the problems well can just select a niche out of the blue and serve them. Only a person that has that type of mindset can just "select" a niche and run with it successfully. There are some people that can do that, they just go talk to people, find a problem, and solve it. That takes a special type of person, one who's only motivated by the "game" of business. They could careless about their passions, what they prefer, they only care about money, they go find a problem, and then they solve it. They could care less if they enjoy the work. If you do that things can happen very fast for you. BUT. Most of us, are driven by our passions. We are not like that, it's not JUST for the money, it's to live a life we love. When you're driven by passion, success requires you to develop a valuable skill within your zone of genius. You'll have to twist, turn, and flop around a bit until you match that with passion with people that want to hire you. That means you just have to get out there and help people, and eventually your niche will pick you. That is, if you're doing the work and pushing forward without the perfect answer. Your niche, your unique selling proposition isn't a course module away, where you fill out yet another GURU's business template. Do you really want to fill out another ICP module?? How many times have you done that now? how many times has it helped? I can't stand those anymore. No! Your niche and unique ability is found in doing work for people, having success, having failures, doing more of this, less of that, and iterating on that until you find your zone.

To hit overdrive you'll need to use 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th gear first, in THAT order, or you'll stall out. Same goes for business. Don't prep for "scaling" when you in 1st gear. You'll burn out spinning your wheels. Get in the weeds. Do it all manually. Get your hands dirty. GET THE WORK DONE. BTW what's your password? ; )

A lot of us are afraid to make mistakes because of what people will say. Or even worse, what clients might say if we mess something up. What if a new course doesn't live up to the promise if we move too fast? What if we release it before it's ready? and people complain? What if they get mad? Well... hope they do. You see its quite normal for people to complain, get short with you. And this is your advantage, not a weakness. It normal for people to jump on your failure, point it out, rub your face in it (not all people but you know who I'm talking about ;) You know what's not normal? moving fast to remedy all those complaints, dropping version 2 a week later to fix everything, setting the bar higher. I call it the "sweep the legs" technique. Moving with speed undercuts everything. People remember you more for how you respond and how fast you bounce back. Why? because that is NOT normal. - Dropping a sub-par course, NORMAL. - Customer complaints, NORMAL - Bouncing back from mental stress, NOT NORMAL!! I hate seeing people complain, or get moody on me. I sulk for 30 seconds and then plan the next release. I just aim higher and surprise them. I sweep the legs out from underneath them. I've learned in business, if you keep people focused toward a better future, you're fine. You're better than fine, you're unstoppable.

Hi Everyone.... I finally got around to building up the courage and develop my first Skool Community and today I posted my very first video following @Stephen G. Pope 's strategy, both on my YouTube Channel and on my TikTok account. I would love some feedback as to the quality of the video and sound. I know there is a lot to improve upon, specially because I am using Focusee and couldn't really figure out the whole automatic zoom feature..... but I'll get there! Don't mind my Brazilian accent and the captions in Portuguese.... that was the way I found to have the video in English while still not alienating my fellow countryman that don't speak the language. I want to give lower income folks in Brazil, who can't afford to learn English, to have a chance at creating automations (my niche) and creatively build and sell apps, to help on their income. Any feedback will be greatly appreciated! Cheers!

Shower thought: I always see everyone talking about 100% AI generated faceless videos, But I genuinely think it wouldn’t be that hard to make a tool, that makes compilation based videos. 100% automatically. You just first have a database of outlier title formats, then you apply your niches context / subjects to those outlier formats and you have a topic. After that you use an AI to look through Google to find stories that could fit in that subject, for example the title would be When police officers arrest a judge. You find the story, then generate YouTube search queries based on the events to find the corresponding footage or images. For each piece of footage and image you generate for every 2-3 seconds a description. You then based on those descriptions and corresponding clips tell an LLM to write a script with the structure of Hook - clip - explain scenario - clip. It would know what clip is what based on the corresponding descriptions. After that you add music or generate music, captions. And optionally you could get AI to generate a thumbnail, but I’d rather just let the user photoshop one and boom. You actually have a useful automatic video generator that doesn’t produce generic content. And yes I know about in video AI, but that won’t get you results.