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Welcome to Start a Woodworking Business!
Hey everyone — I’m excited you’re here. This group is different from most business communities, so let me tell you exactly what to expect. 🔹 This is a live, real-time journey. I’m building a brand-new business from the ground up — documenting every step as I go. You’ll see the real decisions I make, the problems I hit, and how each challenge gets solved. Nothing here is retrofitted or rewritten after the fact. You’re learning from the actual process. 🔹 The Framework: Alex Hormozi’s 10-Phase Scaling Roadmap We’ll move through each phase in order, starting with: 1. Choosing the right market 2. Creating your first offer 3. Building your delivery system 4. Acquiring customers 5. Mastering sales 6. Developing operations 7. Hiring 8. Leadership 9. Scaling 10. Multiplying As I complete each phase in real life, new lessons, templates, and tools will be added. 🔹 How to Use This Group - Start with the Free Modules, especially “Foundations.” - Introduce yourself in the Community feed — tell us your goals. - Ask questions — the more interaction, the more help you’ll get. - Check the Classroom regularly — new lessons release as I hit milestones. - Use the Downloads — they’ll help you take action immediately. If you want deeper guidance, more tools, and a start-to-finish roadmap, consider joining the Paid tier. If your dream is to grow a scalable business — maybe even become part of a future franchise network — the VIP tier is where you’ll eventually want to aim. 🔹 What I Promise You - 100% transparency - No gatekeeping - No pretending - No guru nonsense Just a real founder doing real work in real time…and letting you learn from all of it. 🔹 What You Should Do Next 1. Go to the Classroom 2. Open “Start Here” 3. Watch the Welcome video 4. Introduce yourself in the Community 5. Grab the Starter Toolkit inside the Free section You’re officially part of the journey. Let’s build your business — while I build mine right beside you. Let’s get to work.
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Introduce Yourself to the Group!
Hi, and welcome to our group of business-minded woodworkers. I'm glad you're here, and would love to get to know you better. Please take a moment to introduce yourself to the group. - What you hope to gain as a member of this group? - What type of business are you hoping to start? - What sorts of projects do you like to build? The most successful skool group members are those that share the most. The better we get to know each other, the more likely we will find others who are walking closely down the same road. Share your struggles and victories and others will too. Remember: "The rising tide lifts all boats." Be a part of a swelling community that lifts each individual member up.
Progress over Perfection
This Skool journey is really helping me with something I've struggled with a lot in the past. I'm something of a perfectionist. This sounds cool, like I have high expectations for myself (which I do), but what it actually means is that I am often the victim of self-sabotage because I'll make every excuse not to release something because it is not yet "perfect." Well in Module 1 in the Classroom, I have talked about just getting started rather than worrying about making your very best builds your first business product offering. It is much better to get something built and sold, generating both revenue, and importantly, feedback. This has been the case with the videos I have recorded for this group. I cringe at how amateurish they are. Low production value. Bad lighting. Goofy looking guy. You get it. But hopefully some valuable content that can help you with your new woodworking business. Rather than re-recording and over-editing my videos a thousand times until they would make professionals in the field drool, I just want to get them out there. Get started. I know I will get better at scripting, performing, lighting, recording, editing, etc. over time. And I may even choose to one day go back and re-record these early videos after I've got more of a clue what I'm doing. But that's not why you are here. The business of woodworking is much more important than putting out polished videos at this point. And helping others get a start with a solid foundation is THE point, right? So I'm happy to announce that I am (with great struggle) taking my own advice, and prioritizing progress over perfection. It is helping me get started here, just as it can help you get started wherever you are at.
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Lesson Learned
I thought I would be slick and try to save myself a few bucks by shopping different registrars in order to reserve the domain for my new business website. I have been hosting on Squarespace for a few years and already know their platform, so that's where I intend to host this site as well. However, I decided to see if prices were the same across different companies, just for the domain purchase. I looked through several different sites and then found that GoDaddy had the cheapest domain price for my domain (different domain names can cost different amounts, depending on how popular or in-demand they might be.). Well I though I was being a savvy shopper by doing this, so I bought the domain through GoDaddy. Then I tried to transfer it over to Squarespace. That's when I learned the first important lesson of this story... You have to wait 60 days before you can transfer a domain. Doh! Well here we are, 60 days later, and I went ahead with the transfer, only to find out that Squarespace is going to charge me for the transfer! $14! So in an effort to save $6 on a domain, I ended up having to wait 2 months before I could even use it, and then it cost me another $14 on top of that. So, saving $6 actually cost me about $54 (the $8 difference, plus about $23/month in hosting that I couldn't use). Takeaway: Don't be as cheap as I tried to be. Just take the easy way and don't overcomplicate things.
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Call for Engagement
For those of you who are new to Skool, you may have noticed that you have started out with a Level 1 badge by your name. This has nothing to do with your business level or woodworking skill, but your engagement in the community. Every time someone reacts to a comment you've left or a post you've made, you get a point. As you accumulate points, you will level up. Currently, there are no real differences in levels, but as we grow, and as I get the time to more fully populate the curriculum, downloadable resources and course content, certain bonuses will be gated at certain levels. This is in an effort to encourage members to post meaningful content, ask questions, give thoughtful responses to others' posts, etc. The more engaged you are in the community, the more everyone grows. Takeaway: Get involved. Ask questions. Respond to others' posts. Be a real part of this startup community. I promise, the rewards will be worth it.
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