it's Wednesday. you know the drill. everyone posts wins. here we post the stuff that didn't work. Seth Godin, on stage at Advertising Week in New York: "i have failed more than most people. and i'm super proud of that." failure is a skill. you can be good at it or bad at it. fail too big and you don't get another go. so fail fast. fail forward. and... the one from me - fail often. that's what this thread is for. to help you LEARN THE SKILL of failure. what flopped for you the last week? what did it teach you?

i think there is a very little chance it will be taken. but, at least i tried. === i have been complaining about Growth Boost: what Skool does, how Skool does it, and everything in between. as you know, i have been now officially called "GB hater". however, i am not that person. i am not a complainer. i know that it is easy to criticize, and hard to build. i proposed that Skool creates a monthly report similar to what Podmatch does for Podcasters. i love that report. from start to end. it's transparent. it's honest. it gives you real data. if Skool could produce something similar on industry or even ONLY for communities on Skool, it would mean: - more transparency - more trust - more loyalty i offered to help create and produce such report monthly. cause i am tired of hearing a sample of "5 communities who crushed it this week". it does not help me at all. i also have a secret thought that when they see the data, they think about the whole GB differently. your bet - will they accept it?

my internet went down Tuesday morning, and still down. waiting for the technician to come & fix 🤞🏻 yet, preparing for the worst you might be wondering how i post this, yes, we still have 5G but... anyway so, i just bought and downloaded 6 books on community building 💪🏻 yes, it's time to get serious bout building communities Skool or no Skool, the fundamentals are the same and this month theme in Community Income Mastermind is content outside and inside community. so, i needed to dive deep anyway. here is the list: - The Business of Belonging by David Spinks - Find Your People by Jennie Allen - People Powered by Jennie Allen - Buzzing communities by Richard Millington - Building Brand Communities by Carrie Melissa Jones, Charles Vogl - Superfans by Pat Flynn anything i've missed worth adding to the list? ps once finished, i will add this to the Vault as "suggested literature" with my commentary

every community has them. it could be people who join and never posted/comments. could be someone who did it once and ghosted you. or even people who were active once, and then disappeared. this weekend - we fix that 👻 GHOST HUNT is going Friday to Sunday (so you have plenty of time) GOAL - send at least 10 real DMs to your quiet members then, come back here and report how many you brought back from the dead 🪦 Best DM script wins 🎁 FIRST, find your ghosts. there are three kinds. 1. BABY BOOS 🐣 - joined in the last 7-14 days. never posted, commented or opened a class. how to find them: Leaderboards → Level 1 → click the percentage link start with the ones who are ONLINE now (green dot on their photo). WHAT TO SEND: a real hello and one question about... 2. POLTERGEISTS 🎃 - joined, made a little noise. an intro, a comment or two. then vanished. how to find them: Leaderboards → Level 2 and Level 3 → click the percentage link again, start with whoever is online now. WHAT TO SEND: mention the thing they posted. say that you miss them. ask a question about... 3. FALLEN ANGELS 😈 - they used to show up. comments, wins, replies. lately - nothing. how to find them: Leaderboards → Level 4 and up → click the percentage link online now first. WHAT TO SEND: tell them you noticed and miss them. no guilt or shame. ask how they’re doing and what's going on in their life === HOW TO CHECK IF THEY GONE QUIET - click their profile. - click Contributions for your community. - check the date of their last post or comment. === THE RULES - real means you wrote it for that person. - no copy-paste welcome blast. no link. no offer. - one human talking to another human. == 10 DMs is maybe 30 minutes. one reply can turn into your next active member, or your next client. if your community is brand new and you don’t have 10 ghosts yet, message 10 people who liked your posts and never joined. same rules. READY TO GO? 😈

everyone celebrates wins. wins are good. we want them. but the road to success is paved with failures, many, many, of them. so, we are here normalizing failures. no. we are not just normalizing, we are celebrating them. what is failure? FAILURE is an action - something you did - and the result was not what you expected/wanted to be. Capiche? we are NOT: - celebrating procrastination - celebrating waiting for someone or smth to save us with that... what's your FAILURE from last week that you should celebrate - and we can celebrate together? as always, i will start