This post from @Karina's Community resonated with me

One of our members,

, shared something this week that really resonated with me.

As I was reading her post, I found myself nodding along because I've been there too... and if I'm honest, there are still days when I feel like I'm there.

She talked about something that doesn't get discussed enough:

"𝐇𝐞𝐫𝐞'𝐬 𝐬𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐈 𝐰𝐢𝐬𝐡 𝐬𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐡𝐚𝐝 𝐭𝐨𝐥𝐝 𝐦𝐞 𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐥𝐢𝐞𝐫." 😐

I hear people all the time talking about buying their product & grabbing the affiliate link & promoting it for XYZ%.... My thing is.. who to? Who do I promote it to when I only have 200 followers & we know actually only 10% of those people will see it & of those 10% who actually trusts you enough to buy from you? 🤔

I've been racking my brain to try grasp this concept or is it their strategy? I know there will be the random buyer that just happened to be looking for something at that exact moment & buys from you 🥳

but is that enough to keep a beginner's hopes up enough to keep going?

It's like the bathtub effect.. positive - negative - positive. You get a random sale, then nothing for weeks, then you buy another course (thing) to try fix what didn't work from the first thing you bought & you're off on a high till the next slump.

.. anyway.. my point is.. as I get closer to 5k (& above) followers, the engagement has been crazy, like I can't physically reply to everyone like I have been. So, all the stressing about finding people has been in vain.

I don't think anyone has actually said - IT WILL TAKE YOU 6 MONTHS TO GET ROLLING. So for the first 6 months just grow your page, grow your thing, don't worry about making, selling, all the things.. don't stress about it!

Now, I have asked some skool owners directly how long it's taken them to get to 5k followers & when they honestly started making consistent sales. Some are very happy to tell me & some not so happy.🤨

I am also aware that there are some people that just get lucky so sure, its not a one size fits all. I just wish when I started my journey someone said to me : Karina, don't get to excited about making money, having a business plan or retiring for at least 6months. Geez it may have saved a few melt downs & moments of closing my laptop for good, screaming this isn't for me? Because now that i'm nearly 6 months in & finally getting people, people on my pages engaging, communicating with me & asking questions, like i'm an expert.. I can see the picture. Still have a long way to go because I have nothing to offer.. but I can see something!

So, if you made it this far and you're starting out like me, here's my one bit of advice.. learn how to grow your page, learn how to get eyeballs on your page long enough for them to hit the follow button. You can not sell anything to no one.. 😎

You can talk all the talk that you've learned in that course & you can cut n paste all the custom chatGPT captions that you get from that product you purchased cause its going to save you time.. but if nobody knows who you are yet, who are you selling to??? You can be incredibly knowledgeable and still have zero sales because nobody knows you exist.

So, save your tears & tantrums & possibly some money by concentrating on growth. Grow an awesome page, learn how to do that first! I wish someone told me that in the beginning, I feel i would be sitting differently in my journey. ❤️

This isn't advice from someone who's made any money

It's advice from someone who nearly quit before the audience finally started showing up.

PS: this is just my opinion of course.

𝐓𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐤 𝐲𝐨𝐮, 𝐊𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐚, 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐬𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐣𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐧𝐞𝐲 𝐬𝐨 𝐡𝐨𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐥𝐲. 𝐈 𝐤𝐧𝐨𝐰 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐩𝐞𝐨𝐩𝐥𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐰𝐡𝐨 𝐧𝐞𝐞𝐝𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐭𝐨𝐝𝐚𝐲. ❤️

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