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Friday Night Community Crawl Checkpoint 2
“Corporate Escape Fantasy” 👉 Question: “If your boss said ‘you’re free, go build your dream’… what would you do for the first 3 days (be honest 👀)?” Next stop: The GPT Club
Friday Night Community Crawl Checkpoint 2
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I'll go first — here's my intro 👋
Since I'm asking you all to introduce yourselves, feels only fair I go first. I'm Niky. I live in New Zealand (yes, the time zones are genuinely chaotic 😂), I'm 18+ years into a senior leadership career in the public service, and I'm building my own business, right now, while still fully employed and wrangling a young family. Why am I doing this? Because I've always wanted to work for myself. Because I watched my Dad start businesses growing up and it never left me. And because pouring all this energy into a career where extra hours don't translate into extra reward stopped making sense a while ago. So here I am. Building in public. Sharing every experiment, every mistake, and every win, including the ones that are embarrassing to admit. Your turn. 👇 Drop your intro below, you can use this template if you need it: Hi! I'm [NAME], based in [COUNTRY] and I'm currently [JOB/SITUATION e.g. still in 9-to-5 / side hustle started / recently left]. My biggest challenge with building a business alongside work is [CHALLENGE]. I'm excited to [ONE GOAL]. Can’t wait to hear about you all.
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🚀 START HERE: Welcome to From Job to CEO - The Experiment!
👋Welcome to From Job to CEO - The Experiment - where I'm building my business alongside my 9-to-5 job and family. Sharing the wins, mistakes, and breakthroughs with you. Here's how to get the most from this community: ✅ Step 1: Introduce yourself using the template below and the "Introduce Yourself" category ✅ Step 2: Download your FREE "Your Business is You" framework (in the Classroom) ✅ Step 3: Engage with 3 other introductions (comment & like) ✅ Step 4: Continue to input and engage! Quick Introduction Template: "Hi! I'm [NAME], based in [COUNTRY] and I'm currently [JOB/SITUATION]. My biggest challenge with building a business alongside work is [CHALLENGE]. I'm excited to [ONE GOAL]. Looking forward to connecting!" Why do this? You'll earn points toward each Level and get closer to unlocking your first reward! 🎯 Can't wait to hear about you all!
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Experiment #1 Update 8
Day 14. We're at 55. 🎉 (Earlier today I thought it had been 12 days 🫣 I'm losing track of time!) On Friday night I participated in a Friday Community Crawl (thank you for hosting @Lidia Axe ) - 8 communities, 8 questions, a swag bag of free gifts for anyone who completed the full crawl. My community was one of the stops. 11 new members joined through it. In one evening. This experiment worked. Welcome to everyone who found their way here through the crawl, anyone keen for a challenge is welcome here! 😊 Numbers: Members: 55 | Engagement: 76% | Discovery rank: 2,548 | Conversion rate: 13.2% | Days left: 16 | Still needed: 45 The discovery rank has jumped from 3,009 to 2,548 in 4 days. The engagement going up to 76% while we added new members is great but also due to that post urgency of the community crawl challenge so something for me to take away there about that initial engagement on joining... Update on the Meta ad: It flopped. 233 landing page views, approximately 2 signups. And since I added the "where did you hear about us?" question, zero ad-sourced members have come through. My theory: the ad drove cold traffic and to my about page which obviously wasn't enticing enough and its really driven down my conversion rate (originally it was 47.5% now 13.2%). If I run ads again I'd spend more time on the ad creative and the landing page before putting money behind it. Lesson learnt. 📝 I have updated my about page. I posted a request for a roasting in skool and got polite but very helpful feedback so lets see if that helps with conversions. What's working: Showing up in other Skool groups and participating. The challenge now: The crawl created a spike in engagement and interaction on the post which was brilliant. Now I need to think about how I make this community feel that alive on a regular basis? That's the next experiment. Days left: 16 Members needed: 45. Thinking cap on. 🧪 What are you working on this week to grow your business?👇
You're taking action every day. So why aren't the numbers moving? 📊
Posting. Showing up. Emailing your list. Joining communities. Busy every single day. And then you look at your numbers at the end of the week and think... where did all that effort go? 👀 That was me. And it's why I'm sharing this today because until 11pm Monday 20 April, every CEO Dashboard purchase includes a free spot on a live group onboarding call as part of the Bundle promotion where I walk you through it with my real numbers and make sure you actually leave set up and using it. After Monday the call offer is gone. So if you've been sitting on this now is the time. 👉 The CEO Dashboard Here's what the dashboard actually did for me: Three weeks. Zero sales. No idea why. Not because I wasn't working because I couldn't see what was actually happening. So I built something to fix it. The CEO Dashboard is a 60-day Google Sheets tracking system that takes 2 minutes a day and shows you exactly which actions are growing your list, what's converting to sales, and what's just keeping you busy. Since I started using it I went from 283 subscribers to over 800. I can tell you exactly which weeks I was consistent and what happened to my numbers as a result. Six tabs. All connected. All auto-calculating as you track daily: CEO Big Picture: your goal, 60-day targets, Growth Forecast and Revenue Projection Simulator Daily Tracker: one row, 2 minutes, Y/N drop-downs, subscribers, sales, revenue, daily score Weekly Dashboard: auto-pulls from daily data, patterns become obvious Daily Action Guide: growth, sales, authority and optimisation actions so you always know what to do today Future Ideas Parking Lot: park new ideas without derailing your focus Until 11pm Monday 20 April: Every purchase includes a free spot on a live group onboarding call Tuesday evening 21 April UST (12 noon Wednesday 22 April (NZ). I'll walk you through it with my real numbers and make sure you leave actually set up and using it. $47 Call included until Monday night.
You're taking action every day. So why aren't the numbers moving? 📊
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