so for a good few months, I have been working on my Instagram page. gained over 6k followers. over 1.5 million accounts reached. now I need help to convert this into a full-time business. https://instagram.com/sam_self_mastery?igshid=OGQ5ZDc2ODk2ZA== suggestions? I would really appreciate them

Hey Synthesizers. Problem I want to solve - The world’s knowledge is disorganized, lacks curation from an Islamic perspective, unsynthesized, and is not tailored towards achieving actionable results. Vision I want to actualize - I want Muslims to have a place where they can escape all of the noise and get the best of what is available in all areas of knowledge through the lens of Islam, and have it change their lives spiritually, physically, and monetarily. Mission I want to pursue to actualize my vision - I want to create the leading self-development personal brand for Muslims which will funnel to my Islamic Educational Platform, which will present curated, synthesized, and action-oriented content/courses through the lens of Islam in every useful subject (entrepreneurship, spirituality, fitness/combat sports, marriage, networking, neuro-linguistic programming, etc), along with an interactive community aspect. My current thoughts: In the long run, I want to have the biggest Islamic education platform (not just "religious" knowledge, but all knowledge curated from an Islamic perspective) which has a content and a community aspect. I thought to start by creating a mastermind (telegram groups with themed groups with weekly calls and a content portal) and charge $997/year for it. I managed to funnel 77 people to a free telegram group where I post voice-notes and occasional CTA's and I already made three sales from it. But, now I am thinking that the Telegram community (which is currently part of the paid mastermind) will serve as a good free lead magnet and place to build the community, and maybe I can monetize in some other way. I also am ignorant to how educational businesses operate and monetize, along with the different types of educational models, which has me not exactly clear to the road that lies ahead of me, what I should be monetizing, what I shouldn't, etc. Any suggestions appreciated.

On my youtube channel with 50k subs am reading comments like... "You changed my life. As I result of your videos I achieved XXX" ALL THE TIME I am getting DM's and emails with.. "You changed my life..." ALL THE TIME In my skool community I am giving people extremely in depth courses other content creators would charge $500+ for... WITHIN A 7 day FREE TRIAL (and $20 a month afterwards) People are commenting that they LOVE the courses. But whenever I post.. "Hey you can leave a review here." NOT EVEN ONE PERSON DOES IT With 50k subscribers and a massively underpriced product (that people seem to enjoy)... I CAN'T EVEN GET ONE REVIEW / TESTIMONIAL NOT ONE How is this possible? If you have been successful at collecting reviews, I'd be grateful to hear an AUTISTIC EXPLANATION for how you've done it. "Just give value" doesn't seem to work for me. People already see the value... But they don't leave reviews. So what practical steps can I take to ACTUALLY get reviews? Thanks in advance. P.S: Perhaps the problem might be my industry. I'm teaching men how to become more attractive, and consuming this type of content might be perceived as "low status". So people like to consume it, but don't want to be associated with it. Could that be the problem?

Morning everybody. I'll be writing some posts over the next day or so of ALL my answers to each chapter of Hormozi's book, "$100M Offers". And my friend, I'd advise that you take action on your business books after each chapter before moving onto the next one. I'll repeat: take action on your book after each chapter before moving onto the next one. So today, we're starting off with... NOT Chapter One Rather some pre-requisite questions I think are important before getting into the Thick of the Juice. 1. What is my niche? How do they feel? I help anxious young students and workers aged 17-24 become certain of where they’re going, who they’re becoming, to build faith in themselves to succeed and to be proud of the character that they demonstrate along the way. Their main feeling is helplessness and maybe hopelessness - not depression. 2. For what reason do I help these people? I do this because it helps me achieve the same thing and I find it fun. Maybe one day I can help others do this full-time, while making a living and being the greatest version of Riley Garrett Caldwell. 3. What do they need? Based on what YOU can see. - A future personality to form the basis of every decision they make. - New stimulation/new environment. - Associative Habits. - Regular verbal positive reinforcement. 4. What would they have against these solutions? (𝐎𝐁𝐉𝐄𝐂𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍𝐒) Against forming a future personality to form the basis of every decision they make? - Feels un-actionable. I’ll probably just try not to be a shit human being. How do you respond to this Riley? - Understand my philosophy. - Answer the 10 REFORMED Questions to Find Your Purpose. 5. Solving Financial Objections. I don’t have the money. Response? - Payment plan so no up front cost except a higher monthly payment. Still get the money back offer after 4 months. 6. What would make them realise that these solutions are specifically for them and that they’re at the point that they need to use them?

I was revisiting "Dotcom Secrets" today and a specific story (well, two stories) stuck out to me. The first was about a group of students that had a substitute professor teaching. Before his arrival, students received a short biography to read to get to know the sub. The bio's were completely identical... except half referred to him as a "warm" person, and half referred to him as "cold." The professor arrived, lectured, and left. Students then filled out a survey on the substitute. Keep in mind, every student just witnessed the EXACT same lecture. Half the students said they loved him, half claimed he was "self-centered" and "irritable." The exact same lecture, completely different opinions. This was because of the pre-frame students had in their mind before the professor even stepped foot in the room. Pre-frames matter in sales too. At seminars, Russel Brunson typically converted 15% of the audience to buy his $1,997 course. Typically introduced by nothing more than an emcee reading his name off a card. Lame. To demonstrate to Russel the power of the pre-frame, his friend instead delivered a well-done introduction before Russel stepped foot on stage. Russel converted over 42% of that audience. He then went and created an introduction video that was to be played before each seminar he spoke at. From that point on, he rarely ever dipped below 40% of the audience converting. Moral of the story, take into consideration the traffic before they even click on the landing page. How are they feeling about you? Your video, email, tweet, etc can instill a feeling within the prospect before they even read your page or watch your VSL. Meaning you can win them over, or lose them, all from the pre-frame. Consider where the majority of the traffic is at before you deliver that call to action (to visit your site). Are they fully warmed up? Are they brand new eyes? Are they even aware of their problem? All of these questions and more should inform you on how to setup your pre-frame.

I will release my community and leverage my podcast audience. I think the most difficult part will be to make it engaging. What would you do inside the community to make sure people is active? All crazy ideas are welcomed haha

Instead of leading them down a funnel, I wanted my customers to be able to see the community, before buying access to it. So I made my community public, and put the funnel link in the community bio with the words: "Click Here To Get Access" Obviously all of the 50 people who visited the page didn't see that. They just created a skool account, left their membership requests and are wondering why they didn't get access. I've sent them a DM with an explanation, but they never signed into their skool account again. That's how I lost 50 potential customers. Currently I'm handling my payments with Kajabi. I created a "course" inside Kajabi, which is just a README text in which I explain to them that they will find all of the material in skool and provide them with a link. About 30% of people don't pay attention to this README text and instantly cancel their subscription because they don't see any courses inside Kajabi. And nobody reads their emails. Now unfortunately I already uploaded content pieces in which I announced my community and people are acting confused and title me as a scammer in the comments, because I failed this part. What's a quick way I can fix this?

Does anybody know an agency or has a contact for someone that can help us repurpose our content on Facebook and split profit? We partnered up with an agency that does that for Snapchat and it's bringing in $3,000+ a month without any work. Highly recommend it! Curious if the same exists for Facebook. This is our channel: https://www.youtube.com/@leonjhendrix/videos If not, there's a great business idea for ya!

Hi Guys, so I'm extremely interested in politics. And after reading 15 Books on it, having spent 1000 Bucks on opinion research, having done my own research on how people can be manipulated, having studied a bachelors degree in economics, having spent a decade on working out strategic plans on how to change things politically, I think I now have the best model to explain how the media and subsequently politics work and why the behave like they do. Which is not my accomplishment but basically synthesizing what the really great thinkers and masters on the topic have come up with into one model. But I don't really think this can be monetized? I mean in my home country Germany, there are some political bloggers with a lot of followers, but they don't seem to be super rich. The news is a public good. You just can have that online for free. But I guess no one is willing to pay for it? Or am I wrong?

Hey I recently had the idea of offering one one coaching sessions. I was thinking of using Calendly to allow persons to pick a spot after they've sent me a payment on PayPal. Any coaches here would like to drop some insight or share some knowledge on the topic of coaching sessions ?

Help! I am struggling with what to price my monthly membership group. Classical music is a small niche. Also the last time I launched a group of products I only charged $5 for it, they were guides, mini courses. It bombed terribly. So I am gun shy about charging even $2 a month but that just isn't enough or maybe it is. I am going to have a store set up with much higher ticket items, and also a discount store for those that make it to level 2 in my group. I had 500 subscribers on youtube when I launched the other one, I will have close to 4000 when i launch the next one. All advice welcome and thank you in advance.

I got my first brand deal at 22 subscribers, you could call this luck or whatever. It’s not it, trust me you can repeat my success too. I'm writing this post partly to give advice and also to figure out what the hell to do next. I started a podcast where I interview self-made female entrepreneurs. After only posting 3 videos, I started to reach out to brands (I was overly confident in myself). I started with just one to test the waters and I got a response in 2 days funnily enough, I didn’t see the good news until 1 week later… Buckle up because you’re gonna want to bookmark this. I got in contact with a brand that I know of and that I've been using for a long time and within a day they got back to me...but I literally just wrote a single line and linked my website and that's it. CRAZY, RIGHT? In this post, I’ll tell you how I did in 3 steps… 1) Learn how to leverage your personal experiences and the brands you already use and love. Highlight how the brand solves a pain point and mention any relevant background. 2) Ensure your website and social media presence clearly showcase your unique selling proposition. 3) Know your brand inside and out and target partnerships that align perfectly. It’s time to get personal baby 😘 Leverage your experiences and the brands you already interact with. - What brand do you love? - What pain points does your brand solve? - Did you work in a similar niche/industry at some point? For me, I have been a huge mental health advocate, and I knew the importance of knowing the brand you want to sponsor and I used that brand for 3 years straight. So this was my selling point and the first thing I mentioned when emailing their social media team. Let your words speak from the screen 🗣️ - How’s your website/socials looking?  - Does your UPS scream from the page? - Could you tell me about the content you create in one word? I hope you said HELL YES to all of this because you are doing the right things. I made sure I put 10000x effort into my branding and value proposition. I knew my brand like the back of my hand and I knew what partnership would fit it perfectly, so I simply just added a link to my website in my email.

I'm working on building a paid community in Skool leveraging my podcast audience. I've been researching like crazy haha. Now I have to define some things I wrote down while researching and then, promote it. Is there anyone in the same process? thinking about creating a community? or already started one? We could share knowledge!

Are you working on a product or service to sell? And putting a lot of work into building it but haven't actually shown it to potential users? Then this post is for you! (I promise it'll be fun 😉) I've noticed a lot of people here are working on products to sell which is awesome! But a recurring theme made me perk up: the loooong timelines until you plan to launch. Months or even years in the future! It's an easy trap to fall in. You have an idea, you want to build it and make it absolutely perfect before you show it to anyone. If you make it really good, the people will come. Right? I can hear the voice of my business professor scream in my head: "WROOOONG!" (business school scars you for life lol) Unfortunately, this is a more likely scenario: You put all this effort into a product that doesn't solve a real problem or that people are not willing to spend money on (even if they say they are). I myself have fallen into this trap many times, so I’m writing this for myself as much as anyone else. So, I challenge you - and myself! - to market-test our ideas before we put any more work into building them. Comment below, what your idea is and how you're going to test it! 🔥 Not sure how to market test? Here are a few strategies I’ve been experimenting with: - Strategy calls: Tell your subscribers that you're opening up your calendar to them as a thank you for reaching [insert milestone]. Let them schedule a 15-minutes strategy session where you help them with a pressing problem they have that relates to your content. Turn it into a user interview to really understand their problem (while still helping them solve their problem, of course). Repeat with 20+ users and analyze the types of problems they have and whether you can solve them. - Minimum Viable Product: Build a WAY simpler, non-scalable version of what you’re planning to build (a "minimum viable product") and try to sell it. Yes, MVPs are not just for startups! Building a course? Hold a webinar and see if people show up & what questions they have. Building an app? Dumb it down to a really simple website that solves the same problem

For the first several years of my YouTube journey, I was too prideful to accept sponsorships. I didn’t want to “sell out” and I figured a channel smaller than 100k subs couldn’t make much from sponsors. I thought I’d be lucky to even get $300 for my first brand deal at 75k subs. Luckily, with the right mentorship, I ended up walking away instead with $3,000 from that deal. Combined with a 2nd sponsor + optimized ad revenue, that month brought in $11,000 USD from those 2 revenue streams alone. No memberships, courses, digital products, affiliate links etc. just ad revenue and sponsors. Needless to say, I quit my regular day job not long after. That was over a year ago. Since then, I’ve paid that mentorship forward and helped a good handful of fellow creators follow in my footsteps. Today, I’m here to catch you up to speed and teach you everything you need to know about sponsors. You’re gonna want to bookmark this one. 🌟 --- 𝗪𝗵𝗼 𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝗴𝗲𝘁 𝘀𝗽𝗼𝗻𝘀𝗼𝗿𝘀? --- 🌟 The answer to this question depends on your viewership, niche, and the brand you want to work with. It does 𝙉𝙊𝙏 necessarily depend on your subscriber count. Sub count plays a smaller role than the below attributes. In general, sponsors are looking for: - Appropriate and brand-friendly content - Suitable demographics - Suitable niche/relevant content - Audience engagement. Bonus if you have an active community like Skool or Discord. Viewership requirements will depend on how niche your offering is. For example, a premium headphone company might look ideal for a minimum average of 50k views on a gaming channel, yet would be happy with 5k views on a headphone review channel that has a thriving community of audiophiles who actively buy headphones as a hobby. The more compatible and targeted your offering is, the lower the viewership requirements and the higher CPM you can charge. 🌟 --- 𝗛𝗼𝘄 𝗱𝗼 𝗜 𝗴𝗲𝘁 𝘀𝗽𝗼𝗻𝘀𝗼𝗿𝘀? --- 🌟 Sponsors are acquired in 𝟯 𝗺𝗮𝗶𝗻 𝘄𝗮𝘆𝘀: they reach out to you, you reach out to them, or an agency handles everything on your behalf.

Hey guys! I'd love your thoughts on my current situation with monetisation and making the most of my audience. All ideas are welcome. I'm writing a weekly newsletter to my email list, and the access to the articles is for members only. Currently YouTube is the only source of traffic to the website. They share their email by becoming a member, and in exchange they're getting access to the content. I was wondering, though, if I should make the articles public and the newsletter optional for the website visitors, and come up with an alternative lead magnet. I am not counting on SEO, if I'm honest. YouTube is the beginning of the funnel for me. I am also only in the "thinking" stages of a community/course, so I've no other lead magnet or monetisation source. At the moment I'm earning from AdSense and a few paid supporters. I have two boys and a full-time job, so I'm trying to find the balance by not taking on myself a massive project which would take months to complete. Not sure what's the best move to maximize leverage. Any thoughts on long term planning in terms of funnel infrastructure and/or potential monetisation? Currently 4.2K subs on YouTube, and email list of 250. Thanks, guys! 🙏🏻

What is it that converts people when it comes to having a paid group? I am going to start at $2 a month, but in such a small niche like classical music and focusing on 1 single instrument its hard to convert even that. Thoughts?

Hey everyone, I’m currently building my personal brand on YouTube and that is something that realistically speaking will take a long time to achieve (I’ve been doing it for 8 months) I’m slowly running out of my savings and it really messes up with my intentions with the personal brand, because I’m no longer doing it for my own self, I caught my self doing it for the money and it took a massive hit on my channel. The question is, what do I do now? I got a part time job recently, but it pains me to know that I’m making almost minimum wage and that I’m trading a massive chunk of my time and attention just for some small change of money. Also tried freelancing for a month but couldn’t find any clients. Is there anyone who has been on a similar situation? If so, I would be more than grateful to hear from you!

I'm honored to be here. It's great to be with like-minded people. So in the last two months, I was able to go from 2k followers to 8k by creating content about AI and ChatGPT. I haven't monetized and I don't want to do it just because I wanna make money, well sure I want that but I would like to provide value and solve a problem. And I don't know what would be that. Any thoughts?

Hey there, glad I found this through Andrew. I'm creating a volleyball athlete program for volleyball beginners and want to give them all my knowledge as a volleyball professional in one big program. I'm creating short videos for volleyball beginners since 2 years and grew 1.2m on Tiktok, 100k on IG and 150k on YT. I want to start making long form on Youtube more now but want to create this program first as its really difficult to monetize in my niche. I want to give away all my secrets in this program and want to make it the most valuable thing out there, but one question I have now is, whats the best pricing structure for this. I did one survey on Youtube 2 days ago and got this answer and now I really don't know what could work best for pricing this one. Maybe someone got a similar problem and could help me on this one. Thanks a lot and greetings David

Not at the moment, but soon in the future I would like to monetize my content and am wondering is patreon the way to go? Tell me your thoughts.

Hey everyone, It's great to be here. My name is John Gentry and building our mini-online empire has been a major hobby. I have been building our ExploreTraveler brand for 10 years now. I'm at a point where I need to hit the massive growth button and monetize. I enjoy teaching people how we have traveled the world, and need to take things to the next level.

Hey guys, my name is Landon and I started my own Skool community 5 days ago. I already have over 200 members, and I think I can grow it to over 1000 pretty quickly. I have a youtube channel in the e-commerce space in french, and I didn't sell anything to my audience yet. I'm coming here to ask you suggestions on how to monetize my community. - Do I charge 50 bucks a month for a weekly group calls and extra ressources? - Do I charge 2k for a mentorship program? - Should I close people on the phone or through a landing page? Thank you for your help :)

I think its like this but correct me if i am wrong 1) Research loads and loads and build your own framework 2) Interview others in the niche and add to your framework 3) Start posting extremely quality valuable content + monetise and you could break the content part into the stages of: 1) Research 2) Script 3) Title + Thumbnail + editing 4) marketing to the content But how about actually monetising the content? How do you decide what you should sell and for how much?

I Intend to open a Firm for Video Editing regarding to edit shorts for content creators. This is my first business still looking for clients to make some good money on monthly basis. If you have any ideas or advice to get clients for my growth it will be helpful Thanks

The objective is to fill the sales calendar. I don't want "enrolling in my program" to be the only incentive for someone to get on the phone. Because we want to be speaking with people who aren't fully ready to purchase yet. What are some ways to incentivize the email list to schedule a sales call?

I just joined this incredible cohort from Brand Orchestrate. How many of you have an audience on Twitter and LinkedIn? How many of you still see the sales of your digital products or cohorts lagging behind? Amine Hammou not only has the skills, he has the passion and the business systems to help you gain high paying clients. Every time I have spoken to him, I have gained value that improved my growth. I have already signed up. Registration is closing fast! https://www.linkedin.com/posts/amine-hammou_3kpersonalbrand-activity-7058170620190040064-gENH?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop

Would be grateful for any help with this: I'm trying to find a payment processor with these three features: 1 - Gives the client a 7-day free trial of my product after submitting card details 2 - The option of both paypal and card for payment method 3 - Charges $499 for first two months and then $99 per month after

Hello again 👋 Here's a quick framework to help you launch your first paid coaching call. Start: When I was in college, I earned $19 an hour teaching Chinese kids English online. Last month, I sold 10 coaching calls for $249 an hour. What made the difference? TL;DR I went from teaching something many people can teach (English as a Second Language to Children) to teaching something few people can teach (How to Grow and Monetize your Twitter with a high ticket offer) Here are the exact steps I took: 1. Gave Free Calls to my ideal clients Over the past 6 months, I've spoken to hundreds of people on Twitter. The result was, I knew exactly what beginner one-person biz people were struggling with and how I could help them. And by selling to my shadow, it was fairly easy to help someone 1-2 steps behind me. 2. I launched a simple sales Letter on Google Docs Instead of getting fancy, I just copied Russel Brunson's Hero's Journey Framework and plugged in my own story and experience. The letter helped me: • Highlight who the call was (not) for • Describe my ideal prospect's problem • Tell the reader the tangible outcome of booking a call with me 3 people booked immediately when I tweeted the link. 3. I created (real) Scarcity and Urgency Look, most people are busy. They don't have time to spend all day on calls. Neither do I. So over the month of March, I constantly repeated that I was only taking 15 calls and the calls may never be available at the $249 price point again. If you want action, give people a reason to act. At the end of every call, I asked three questions which helped me book more calls: • Do you have any feedback for the call? • Did you feel like it was worth the $249 price point? • Would you mind taking 3-4 minutes to write a testimonial? Everyone agreed to the testimonial. And they became my best marketing material. The takeaway for you? People will pay you for your expertise, you just need to communicate clearly and show them how.

Hi everyone, I'm building my YT channel and then I want to start my paid community in a few months. Should I start a free telegram group first and then start a paid Skool community? Or should I just create a sales page with ClickFunnels and then direct them to the Skool community? I'm not sure how to approach it. I'd appreciate any help thanks!