Hello and a very warm welcome to the premiere destination for Creators monetizing their online businesses through Content, Community and Courses! This is the place to talk about all things content creation, community growth, online courses, creative digital products, sales and marketing, and all the “real life” stuff that comes along with being a full-time online course and content creator. Mariah and the team host virtual events, workshops, and exclusive fun stuff in here to help you grow your content creator brand and creative course businesses! ➡️ How To Earn Points, Level Up, and Unlock Premium Content: When you post a win, a question, or a value bomb, you earn points when someone likes your post and/or comments. The more you engage with this group (posting, commenting, sharing, liking, etc), you gain more points, level up and are rewarded with premium content, courses, templates and more! As you level up, the rewards become more valuable. You can see the rewards for each level in the Classroom, here.  Start climbing the leaderboard, where our top contributors will win surprises too! 🏆 You can give value and level up by answering people’s questions, sharing interesting strategies or tools that are working well for you right now (not self-promotion!), and starting thought-provoking discussions. ➡️ How To Invite Friends To Join Do you know other creators who want to be part of the club? Just go to Settings > Invite > and grab your unique link. You can share your unique invite link with your email list, social media followers and audience. The more the merrier! We sometimes have special surprise gifts for those who refer the most new members. ➡️ Check out the “Search” bar at the top of the group The search function in this group will help you navigate the goldmine of content within this community. Use it to search for topics you’re interested in like “mindset”, “evergreen”, or “launching”. You can also check out our “Best Of” in the Start Here course, where we curate and save the most valuable posts in the community.

This is the introductions thread. Say hi, tell us what your business is all about! In your introduction, answer these 3 questions: ➡️ What is your name? (feel free to share pronouns if you’d like!) ➡️ What is your business or platform? Who do you serve, what do you sell, etc ➡️ If you were to host your dream party, and the sky was the limit, what would the theme be? We can’t wait to meet you!

​Monetize With Mariah is officially open - and you can join us here!​ Me and Skool have teamed up to create this new experience for creators who are monetizing through community, content, courses and digital products, with a focus on recurring revenue. Monetize is just $99/month (it's a subscription, so you can cancel anytime, but I know once you're inside you will want to stay!). It includes a Skool software account for free as long as you're a member. (Skool is normally $99/month on it's own, so this is just a no-brainer). ✅ What's included: - My new course, "Monetize" (new content), templates and resources - Bonuses like Champagne Client Content Kit, Map Your Model, Fearless CEO Mindset Course and more - Q&A Private Podcast - members can submit questions & topics, the private feed already has over 50+ episodes with more added regularly - Private community for members - A *FREE* Skool software subscription account is included in your membership (usually $99/month, but you get it included!) ​Monetize With Mariah is open - join us here! ➡️ Please ask your questions about MONETIZE in the comments below ❤️ Huge thank you to our partner and sponsor Skool for making this bundle possible!

I have a unique weekly planning and "to-do" system I've been using every single week since March (which is a big deal because I usually can't stick to ANYTHING). It's all built in Google Docs, super simple to use. We don't use asana/trello/clickup/etc. I want to record a video walkthrough and podcast for you about it next week, and want to make sure I answer all of your questions! Ask me anything about - 3 day workweek - how I structure my days and tasks - how I balance getting things done with my ebbs/flows of energy - my ideal schedule - what I do on a regular basis - whatever else you wanna know! Excited to share more, I know this has been a recurring question for a while!

Anyone using creative ideas to connect with your audience or high touch members with Voxer? If so, how are YOU using it, and how is it working for your members?

I previously posted about having “version 1 mentality” when embarking on a new venture and that has been ESSENTIAL to keeping my perfectionist from coming in and messing up the launch of my Skool membership. We’ve got place holders. We’ve got a video walkthrough that I’m HOPING makes sense. And you know what— it’s good enough! This is just the first version. Tomorrow my private clients will saunter into my Skool community and feel it out as the new community home to our coaching program, and then on October 10th the doors open up to the public. It feels a bit messy and imperfect and that’s okay. Here we go!

Podcast Chats are where we keep the conversation going and dive deeper into the topics on our podcast episodes! This thread is for the episode, "My Plan For Creating Ongoing Sales Through Content: Behind The Scenes Update" 🎧 You can find this episode by searching for The Mariah Coz Show on your favorite podcast app! ➡️ I'd love to know - what did you think? Any insights, questions or takeaways you'd like to share in the comments? In this episode, I’m sharing my overall brand + biz plan for this upcoming season - with a focus on regular recurring activities for sales, content marketing, and a simple weekly cadence. Now that the initial Monetize pilot launch is wrapped up and Monetize is now open for people to join every day, my focus is shifting to the ongoing marketing plan for welcoming new members to our paid community consistently. My big focus is on a very simple “system” sharing high value content 1-2x per week, linking to my paid products from there, and selling organically. In this episode: - The 3 pillars I’m focusing my marketing energy on now (podcast, newsletter + community) - Why I want to create a newly revamped, branded newsletter to round out my content strategy - The community flywheel feedback loop and how I have endless content ideas - Building out my updated Hologram database (my content repurposing system)  - Designing a sustainable “content > sales” system that fits within my 3-day workweek  - My approach to getting organized  - I constantly go back and forth about the naming of the components of my brand - Why you don’t have to do any of this perfectly to be successful (seriously, I fly by the seat of my pants most of the time!) 🎧 Find the Mariah Coz Show podcast on your favorite app to listen! Amazon Music/Audible Apple

If you’re running a Skool membership, something that was a block for me actually turned out to be a kind of good thing after I found the workaround, It’s to do with automations. So when something unlocks for a member as they level- up, I wanted to be able to tag them, and then be able to add them to an appropriate funnel/sequence, to send emails, to a related offer, onboard etc. That zap doesn’t exist though, so what I did was really quite simple. Instead of adding all my unlocked items into Skool, I keep them in my ThriveCart learn, (no need to move things over or duplicate it in places - Hello time saver!!) Then inside the unlocked course, I include a link to the checkout of in thrivecart, and a 100% off discount code for them to use (as well as thank you’s and other information about what they’ve unlocked.) My ThriveCart has been setup to tag people in my ConvertKit depending on what they buy, which triggers sequences etc. So now, as people get rewarded with things, I can choose what happens. Doing it this way gives me heaps more control too. I can put time limits on access (eg one of my unlocked courses has a 1 month container). So even though they’ll still have ongoing access to the unlocked level in Skool even after the 1 month is up… automatically their access to the course is removed via ThriveCart. This was also a win for me because my signature offer is in TC and I don’t plan to move in Skool. So apart from convenience and automations now being able to be used, it also means if someone logs into my thrivecart, everything they have access to is in one place and they can go in and out of everything in one spot without confusion about where anything is. I hope this helps someone looking for workarounds too ❤️ (PS: I officially soft-launched my Skool today 🎉 🙌🏻 this currently me ➡️🍷)

Anyone happen to have an extra (free or discounted) ticket to VidSummit? I know some conferences, vendors, sponsors, or speakers are allowed so many free or discounted tickets. So just wondering if anyone has an extra ticket they'd like to get off their hands?

Hey Creators! I'm putting my self out there lol, I've put the final touches to my sales page for my affiliate marketing course: Your First $100 as an Affiliate Marketer. I already got some pre-sales but this will be the final "sales page" that will be part of my tripwire funnel. What are your thoughts on the copy? What FAQ's come to mind? Open to any and all feedback! Also pro tip: Etsy has been the best place for me to grab done for you sales page templates, all you have to do afterwards is just plug in your copy! Here's the page (test mode - not live): https://tinalopezcoaching.thrivecart.com/your-first-100-as-an-affiliate-marketer/ Appreciate any and all feedback and your help! Thanks in advance!

I'm curious, what is your favorite source for sales page templates for leadpages?

Would love to hear what price points you are using for your paid communities and how that’s working for you!

Hi lovelies, I'm creating a sales funnel to add more accessibility to my 1:1 coaching services, which I sell as a 6 month package. I'm not sure about pricing or how to structure my low ticket offers (numbers tend to make my head spin). Would love to source all y'all's genius to help me pin down a direction to take! I am creating a quiz for the start of the funnel that leads into a 7 day mini email course (free) which then leads to my low-ticket offer... Access to a community, monthly video lesson, monthly group coaching call, workbook pdf & pleasure practices around the monthly theme ($297/mo or $3000/yr) The focus is about how to harness the power of relationship transitions (breakups, divorces, relationship structures, etc) and turn pain into deep healing and personal transformation. Because of the topic, I think community support would be invaluable. My coaching packages are $3777 or $600/mo for 6 months. Is $297/mo too low for this amount of labor on my end? Does this sound like a solid structure? I'm also worried about offering too much in the low ticket offer for people to want to bump to the 1:1 sessions. Anxiety is getting in the way of my ability to reason. 😆

Hiii. I have a favour/idea? I have access to the champagne client kit and map your model, which are mostly lots of shorter videos in different lessons, and was wondering if the ‘all in one’ long video could be added in there as well, as an alternative style of listening? Context: I drive many hours as I live in rurally, so everything’s far. So I always put long things on to listen to, as I can’t touch my phone while driving. I’m keen to re-listen for some planning before I get back into marketing again, and would love to utilise those trips for this, but the shorter clips in separate lessons mean I can’t. I thought I’d share this here rather than in a DM as I’m also keen to hear if people consume like this too, as it’s got me thinking about my own delivery and whether I should include a long version of my mini offers in addition to the broken up lesson edits as it could be added value for different types of content consumers? Would you use both? Or one or the other? Or is it extra work that wouldn’t really matter either way to you, but you’d take it if it was there? Keen to hear your thoughts.

Not to toot my own horn, but now is a *really* good time to join Monetize (it's always a good time, but especially this week!) In the last week we added new private podcast episodes, launch templates, and fresh bonuses! 🎧 New Private Podcast Episodes just dropped: - "How can I sell an outcome that I can't control because of external factors (getting a book deal, getting a job, winning an audition, etc)?" - "Is there such a thing as a "complete" program? Are you always updating and evolving the content?" - "How should I structure a pitch-free webinar?" - "How do you set expectations for a curated Q&A private podcast?" - "How long should the pre-launch content phase be before my launch?" - "How can I pitch myself to be on other podcasts?" 🚀 New Launch Debrief Bonus: "$40k+ Launch from a $199 Product" (from our Content Kit launch last year) - also added to the Monetize private podcast feed ➡️ New Lessons + Resources: - Simple Launch Plan (day-by-day calendar spreadsheet and one-sheet you can copy and customize) - Set Up Your Paid Group (checklists, templates, and adding payments) - Create Your Landing Page (how to create an enticing About Page on Skool, make the most of your About Page with copy, images and video) Remember, if you already have a Skool group account, you can join Monetize today and apply the free Skool group to your existing account! It's super easy to do once you're inside. ⚡ Get instant access to everything inside today - join Monetize here!

Hi All! In the past I would automatically unsubscribe individuals who would never open 30+ emails. But there was a post mentioned here in the past that with the new email updates that may not me a good option. I was thinking to then perhaps put them in a 3 email re-engagement funnel? Something like "click here if you still want to be active" and if none of the emails are clicked automatically unsubscribe them. I'm curious what you all do? As I've been growing my email list my costs have gone up so I don't want to pay for inactive subscribers.

Hey Mariah and all. Former Sam Ovens quantum member here. I'm an ecom seller and coach. looking to spend more time on skool and see whats cooking in this Creator party.

Creators tend to have a ton of ideas all the time— especially if you’re multi-passionate! What’s your favorite way of keeping track of them so they don’t all live in your head?

What is the ideal deadline funnel length of the sales campaign for a $1000 - $2000 automated webinar campaign, with no sales calls, and no social, everything done with the webinar, a sales page, and an email campaign? What optimizes conversion? 3 days? 5 days? longer? Thanks!

Sorry if this is an outdated question 😅 I am new to your work @Mariah Coz and as I listen to your old podcast episodes I’m really intrigued by evergreen engines but I can’t seem to find it anywhere on your website?

By popular demand, I just published a training in the "⭐ Start Here: Free Training Vault" course in the Classroom, called Run Your Business Without Social Media. In this training, you'll learn how you can become less dependent on social media and instead build databases that you own and find alternative avenues for communicating with your clients and audience. Our goal is to not be dependent on social media, and to “build our house on our own land” which means building an audience, community and communication channels that we can control (to the extent possible). Social media isn’t bad! For some people, it is a magical creative outlet. If that’s you, you should keep creating there and ride that wave. But I know many people have felt their effort and time spent on social media isn’t bringing them joy, and are looking to divest from social platforms and invest where they can really grow on their terms. The goal is to get your followers and audience on other platforms to come over to the channels that you have more control over. Watch the training here and then ask your questions in the comments on this post!

I’ve seen multiple articles and social media posts saying website owners can rely entirely on AI tools for content creation and optimization. It’s not true! Don’t trust everyone and everything you see on the web. There are many speculations around AI since this is a new topic. Therefore, I encourage you to think critically when someone gives you unsolicited advice. Before publicly sharing my opinion on AI and its impact on SEO, I experimented with Bard and ChatGPT-generated articles on my website. I’ve also tracked AI content performance on my client’s website — a B2B agency. In a nutshell, there are pros and cons of using AI for website growth. If used carefully, it can help you speed up your work. However, you should also be ready to face the consequences if you use it for rankings manipulation. The following are my proven-to-work methods that will help you increase your site’s traffic with AI.👇 1️⃣ Content generation Here is how I implement AI-generated content in every article on my website: ✔️ Write definitions. ✔️ Tool descriptions for product reviews. I write many creator tool reviews, where every article starts with an SEO question: “What is X tool?” Instead of looking for facts and writing descriptions myself, I use AI tools to do it. ✔️Pros and cons. If you need to write pros and cons but don’t have enough expertise to do it yourself, you can use AI for it. Based on my experience, the answers are accurate most of the time. ✔️Write FAQs. If you add a frequently asked section to the article (I highly recommend it), you can generate 150–300 words responses. This is what I delegate to AI. What’s left? I add my expert opinion, quote reliable external sources, and share my expertise and case studies. This adds value to my content and makes it unique. Moreover, it helps align my content with Google’s E-E-A-T (expertise, experience, authority, trust) content quality rater guidelines. 👉 See attachment #1 to check my website's performance and how it changed after the recent Google algorithm updates.

Hi 👋 Wondering if any other members here use Thrive Cart + Skool or are planning to? I have built my interface to launch my new membership on TC before coming here and checking out Skool! Now very confused! 😬

As I’ve been listening to @Mariah Coz ’s latest podcast episodes and reflecting on the way I feel most lit up and natural delivering content I realized I want to lean more into audio. I’m not quite ready to set up a podcast (private or public) although I’m sure the time will come for that soon. I had an idea that for the self study course version of my program I’m rolling out soon, rather than include ongoing support features like a community or calls, I can incorporate a Q&A Airtable form, curate the questions I get, then add audio responses to the top questions to the modules themselves. Similar to Mariah’s private podcast except just build the answers into the course curriculum itself for now - I kind of want this to be a less emphasized feature for now, so I’m not tied to a specific delivery timeline for that but just use it as a way to plug in gaps in the curriculum which is still relatively new. I also want to update my curriculum over time and deliver more of it via audio lessons vs videos, except when video is absolutely necessary for screen share demos etc. I was wondering for people who do this already if there is a software/platform you use to host the audio files and put them in your course? Similar to Vimeo but for audios? Or do you just add straight mp4 files to your course materials? Forgive me if this question is basic I’m just trying to wrap my mind around the tech. I’ve been delivering some custom feedback to my current clients via audio recordings I do on the Voice Memos app on my iPhone or iPad then uploading those mp4s to google drive and sending clients the shared G Drive link, but I’m not sure if google drive is the best long term solution to host mp4 files or if that will get out of hand with storage requirements and also I believe it allows clients to download a copy of the mp4 which may or may not be ideal for course materials.

For those of you that have a new Skool community, are you driving traffic to a long form sales page first, or directly to the Skool about page for your subscription?

Hello everybody, what are your webinar conversions? How many tickets do you usually sell through a webinar? 10%? 15%? 20%? Mine depend on the topic, sometimes it's as low as 2%, sometimes it is as high as 16%. My products are not high ticket, price is usually around 200€ and I also sell through emails, Ig stories and posts, so it is hard to see how many sales are coming directly from the webinar. In my next webinar I have already 1600 registrants and hope to get to 2000 by Wednesday, the day of the webinar.. Would be curious to know what your conversions are..

I’ve already gotten a presales for my affiliate marketing course. But I always get stumped when it comes to writing sales pages. I’m in the middle of wanting to go supa simple with the sales page. Similar to the monetize option Mariah did vs. full out. I would love some insights/thoughts, if I could please ask for help. Here are some of my Q’S: 1. What are your thoughts on affiliate marketing? 2. What do you currently hate about the affiliate marketing courses out there? 3. What would having an additional stream of affiliate marketing revenue do/allow you to do more/less of in your business? I’ve filmed my course and did the presell to my email list so I know the course is validated. And honestly on a side note I’m super happy with it. I’ve made it fluff free and shared case studies, strategies, and templates that I’ve never seen included in traditional affiliate marketing courses. I’m super excited for the students to take it and have them get results. But you know there’s always the challenge of having your sales copy attract/bring in those dream students. You know? 🫣🧐 Appreciate any and all help 🤗

Let's review some important housekeeping reminders as this group continues to grow 🧹🧽 First off, I want to thank every member of Creator Party for your contributions and comments. We truly appreciate you being here! We want to make this the BEST community for creators monetizing their businesses. As the group has grown over the last few weeks, I am noticing a few things we need to reiterate policies for, and request that members review the Start Here post for guidelines on being part of this community. One of my top priorities in this group is maintaining a very high quality of content shared here (that and the making sure this is a safe and inclusive space - please review our inclusive language guidelines here if you haven't already). As such, please review the following: ❌ Do not post copy-pasted content templates in this community. I have seen separate accounts posting almost identical content in different groups. These posts will be removed. ❌ Do not copy-paste the same post you've shared in 5+ other Skool groups into this group. I'm seeing a lot of this because I am in multiple Skool groups. These posts will be removed. ❌ Do not post "thinly veiled promotion" content and then ask people to follow you or DM you. These will be removed or you'll be asked to remove the CTA. ⚠️ The Value Bomb category is for posts and case studies that really give value, details, and how-to. We may put posts in another category if it doesn't fall into this Value Bomb criteria. This part of the Start Here post fits in here: ❌ This group is NOT for self-promotion. We can tell when you’re trying to be sneaky and promote yourself. Do not DM other members about your products and services. Trust me, if you provide tons of *real* value in this group by sharing helpful stuff without an ulterior motive, by commenting and answering questions, people will notice you organically! Self promo and spam will be deleted and you will be removed.

If you had to restart completely your business (audience from zero), what will be your strategy in 2023?

I'm thinking of going super simple: Freebie Tripwire 3 part email sequence What do you usually talk about in your "email follow up"? Any email templates that you've used that you love?

Just wanted to make sure you knew... If you are already paying for a Skool group account (hosting your own group)... Or you signed up for one through my affiliate link before Monetize was released... ➡️ You can join Monetize now, and you will be able to "apply" the FREE Skool account bonus from Monetize to your *existing* group you're paying for (making it free as long as you are a Monetize member) The process is super simple and takes about 2 clicks once you're in Monetize, and won't effect the existing group you've already created. If you're already paying for a Skool account... this is a no-brainer! Just make sure to join Monetize here to get a FREE Skool account 😍 Let me know if you have questions!

How are you handling sales tax/VAT for your online courses? Especially curious to hear from those who are using Stripe and PayPal as their payment providers. Do you have an accountant to help you with quarterly filings?