OK... GOSH, I hope this will be fun! On Fridays in this group (which will really be about 36-48 hours long to more or less honor when it's Friday SOMEWHERE)... you can promote but only through a story! THIS REALLY SHOULD BE FUN!! (I hope) GUIDELINES: - No story = no promo - If you want to promote your group or anything else, it's got to be wrapped inside of a story. - The offer is related to the story in some way but wouldn't be the headline. - This should genuinely be fun --> tell a story with that usually story arch where you set up the background, lay on the tension or the turning point, then share the breakthrough, and finally let all that goodness be a bridge to your offer - LINK IS ALLOWED at the end of your post - Please no bullet-point sales pages or CTAs with the "buy now" "last chance" "doors closing in two seconds" FOMO triggers. - Don't add it here, make your OWN POST! And Stick it in the category called "🎁 Story Selling Friday!" - IF YOU WANT, you can add a link to your to that post in a comment on this post and even share the BTS to your story (BTBTS behind the behind the scenes! lol) That's it! ================== This is a post from my group "Connect & Collab". I want to be really clear that I love and adore the Classifieds and am glad it exists. I come here to check stuff out and to share it. I expect it to FEEL like the Classifieds (although I'd love to see some "Romeo Looking for Juliet" and vice versa here and there for fun...?! Or some variation of that). So I've been working to find the balance of allowing some promo BUT not turning my group into the Classifieds. What I'm doing NOW is that we have a whole bunch of ways that members can promote but there are some limitations too: - some posts are there specifically for advertising your group or offer(s), - you can introduce your group to us, - it's A-OK to share a link when it comes up organically in conversation, - premium/VIP members can promote anytime, - collabs that benefit members of our group are OK to share with permission, etc. - (NOW the Story Selling Friday)

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For a long time, I only talked about YouTube growth. Titles. Thumbnails. Consistency. Strategy. And yes — all of that matters. But something kept happening over and over again. I’d work with a business owner who wanted to use YouTube for traffic… …but they didn’t really understand how YouTube works or how to turn viewers into actual leads. Or I’d meet a creator who did understand YouTube… …but had no real business built around their channel and was relying on AdSense to carry everything. Two very different people. Same stuck feeling. And it usually sounded like this: “I need to finally start a YouTube channel.” “I need a better monetization path.” “I need better systems.” All true. But saying it and building it are two very different things. After years of building online, one thing became impossible to ignore: YouTube on its own isn’t a full growth plan. And posting all the time doesn’t automatically mean you’re building a business. Here’s what that actually looks like in real life: ✅ You can be getting views — but have no clear offer ✅ You can be posting weekly — but not capturing leads ✅ You can be growing an audience — but not building real connection ✅ You can be “consistent” — and still unsure where next month’s income is coming from That’s the gap. Not effort. Not motivation. Systems. So instead of niching down into only YouTube growth, I niched up into what actually supports long-term traction: Traffic. Community. Income. Because: - Traffic without community doesn’t convert well - Community without income isn’t sustainable - Income without traffic eventually stalls Once I started teaching all three together, something clicked. People stopped spinning. They started building with intention instead of just posting and hoping. And here’s the part most people don’t hear enough: You don’t fix multi-layered problems with surface-level advice. You can’t solve a full business puzzle by only looking at one piece of it. And real traction rarely comes from generic guidance alone.