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Forget Facebook groups. This community platform makes people rich

26/2/2024

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​Want to launch a lucrative subscription model business on a platform that combines community with courses and event scheduling, all in one place?

Look no further than Skool.

I’ve chosen Skool as the place to host my new community for fledgling writers, because this is the best platform I’ve found in that area.

Kajabi is arguably too expensive, and certainly too bland, compared to Skool.

Circle, meanwhile, threatens overwhelm with all those fancy features that you almost certainly don’t need.

Created by the razor-sharp business mind of Sam Ovens and more recently invested in heavily by successful businessman and YouTuber Alex Hormozi (the biggest investment of his career, in fact), Skool is proving extremely profitable for many.

As I write this, the most profitable community there, run by Evelyn Weiss, is making $67,656.

That’s per month.

Yeah.

Skool’s user interface benefits from a wonderfully clutter-free design that reflects Ovens’ love of utilitarian simplicity.
It also packs in pretty much everything you need under one roof.

Each community centres around three main sections that you and your community members can hop between. Funnily enough, each one begins with C.

Let me walk you through these:
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COMMUNITY
This is the main feed where your members post and chat… without being distracted by notifications about their friends’ latest existential crises, as they are in those increasingly unbearable Facebook groups.

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CLASSROOM
Here, you can host video courses and other video content for your members to watch. They can also download your supplementary PDFs, etc.
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CALENDAR
This is the place where you and your members can keep track of upcoming events like group Zoom calls. How nice not to have to use a third-party app.
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Skool makes it really easy to hop between these three hubs, which makes everything super smooth and user-friendly.

​The platform distinguishes itself further with a strong element of gamification.

Whenever someone hits Like on a member’s post or comment, that member scores a point. Suitably encouraged to engage and make quality posts in the community, they then progress up through various milestones on your leaderboards.

To give them extra incentives, you can choose to have them unlock various benefits or course material as they rise.

I could tell you lots more — such as how you can initially make your community free to enter, then introduce a monthly subscription fee for newcomers — but by this point you’d probably like to take a look around Skool yourself.

Use my referral link (did I mention that Skool also has a really generous affiliate scheme?) that will allow you to build and test-drive your own community for free over 14 days.

After that, you’ll need to pay only $99 per month if you choose to go all in, like me. Skool is of course free for regular members of groups, but creators pay to host their communities.

If you then need help with setting up your new community, just contact me and I’ll be happy to assist you for free.

Oh and join my Community Starters group for lots of friendly help and support with starting your community, including access to a handy community set-up checklist PDF. Become a founding member now to secure free lifetime access.

See you in Skool!
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The best app for YouTube livestreaming

7/2/2022

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If you livestream on YouTube, or aspire to do so, I thought you might also want to know about Streamyard, the brilliant cloud app that I've been using for my YouTube livestreams. I am loving it!

You can pin live chats onscreen, bring in guests, share your screen, among the many features available - and the free version works perfectly well, with most features available right from the moment you install it. The only real trade-off is that you need to have Steamyard branding in the top right-hand corner of your screen.

Of course, if you're anything like me, you'll soon want your own channel avatar up there and get the paid version, which also unlocks certain features such as uploading your own video content to play during a stream or special branding imagery.

I'm not the most technically minded person, but I've found using Streamyard for YouTube livestreams a breeze. You can even stream to multiple destinations -YouTube and Facebook, for instance - at the same time. Blimey.

Check out Streamyard using this link and get $10 in credit!

You can also explore a playlist of my YouTube livestreams right here.
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Why you did more in 2019 than you think

31/12/2019

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So we're a mere two weeks away from the end of the year.

The end of the decade, actually.

And this whole decade thing is making people judge themselves even more harshly than they normally might. How much have they really achieved over the course of 12 months? Did they manage to carry out even 10% of their plans? God, maybe they're nothing more than USELESS, LAZY CHARLATANS.

I'm as prone to this kind of thinking as anyone else. And so I'd like to make you feel better, the same way I reassured myself this week.

The thing is, we are not properly equipped to judge the amount of stuff we've done in 2019. And certainly not the decade.

Why? Quite simply, we forget.

And we forget, because we've done shitloads.

Grab a piece of paper right now, or open a notepad app on your phone.

Take a deep breath. Do your best to clear your stimuli-bombarded brain.

Write a numbered list of all the new things you did this year, in no particular order.

Work stuff. Creative projects, maybe, if you're that way inclined. Be sure to include anything that was unsuccessful or felt like a dead end, because that was useful in itself. All part of the process, and it surely taught you something new.

Write down all the new TV shows you watched. The movies. The new songs by new bands, or new songs by old bands. The games you played, whether in the form of a video game or one you played with other people's hearts, you BRUTE. 

The changes you made to your lifestyle, big or small.

All the new people you met. The old people you drifted away from or downright decided to jettison. Disconnecting yourself from old possessions and people and habits and belief systems very much count as new things. 

Re-open your mind to the new stuff you did in 2019 and keep writing, writing, writing them down, spurred on as your mind leaps from one thing to the next and remembers so many buried things in the process.

Now, I don't know about you, but I really surprised myself. I won't tell you how many things are currently on the list I'm still working on, because this ain't no competition, but it certainly made me feel better.

For the hell of it, when you finish the list, multiply the total by 10 and you'll have a rough total of the number of new things you did this decade.

Chances are, it won't look too shabby.

If you still don't feel absolved, then consider that the number of things isn't as important as the sheer quality of the best new things you brought to your work and your home and your life.

If you're a creative who'd like to become more conscious of the things you create in any one week, and perhaps add a little accountability to your working routine, check out my free mailing list Jason Arnopp's Sunday Confession Booth. You may well get some value out of this thing. If nothing else, it will add to the list of new things you did in 2019...

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And if you're an author who has a 'first three chapters' proposal package ready to send to an agent or publisher in early 2020, take advantage of my notes for authors service here.

By the way: my mailing list subscribers received this article direct to their inboxes in early December. Join them!

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