Not sure what category to put this in, but here goes... I've narrowed potential names for my auto repair community to a few. I know what I'm leaning towards, but I would like to know what y'all think. After all, every one of you are potential members. Here they are: Project Garage Knuckle Dusters Skool Garage Wrench Turner Garage Wrench Turners Trained Monkey Garage Trained Monkeys

I have 650,000 YouTube subscribers, and 11,000 members in my Skool. Here's step by step how I’d grow my Skool if I had to start again: 1. Warm Outreach 2. 2-Step Post 3. $1.80 Strategy 4. Content // 𝐒𝐭𝐞𝐩 𝟏: 𝐖𝐚𝐫𝐦 𝐎𝐮𝐭𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐜𝐡 (𝟎 - 𝟏𝟎 𝐦𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫𝐬) Do this 1st because it’s the fastest and easiest way to get your first members. Here’s a full guide from Hormozi on how to do it. ☐ 𝐴𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑠𝑡𝑒𝑝: Reach out to 10 people // 𝐒𝐭𝐞𝐩 𝟐: 𝟐-𝐒𝐭𝐞𝐩 𝐏𝐨𝐬𝐭 (𝟏𝟎 - 𝟓𝟎 𝐦𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫𝐬) This is a simple strategy that leverages a loophole in social media algorithms to generate a tonne of attention even without thousands of followers. Do this 2nd because it only takes a few minutes, but can quickly grow your group (if done well). Here’s a full guide I wrote on how to do it. ☐ 𝐴𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑠𝑡𝑒𝑝: Make a 2-step post on all your socials // 𝐒𝐭𝐞𝐩 𝟑: $𝟏.𝟖𝟎 𝐒𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐠𝐲 (𝟓𝟎 - 𝟓𝟎𝟎 𝐦𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫𝐬) The $1.80 strategy is very effective at growing your group. This tactic got me my first 1,000 subscribers, made @Hamza Ahmed his first $1,000 online, and was the strategy @Goose Dunlavey and @Zain Miah used to win The Skool Games. It’s free, it works even if you have no audience, and it can be used on all of your favourite social sites (Instagram, Linkedin, Twitter, Reddit, and even Skool). Do this 3rd because it’s simple, you learn a lot, and it works almost all the time. It just requires work. ☐ 𝐴𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑠𝑡𝑒𝑝 1: Find 5 places online where your target audience spends their attention. It could be online communities, or influencers they follow. ☐ 𝐴𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑠𝑡𝑒𝑝 2: Join the communities, and follow those influencers on all their socials. Turn on notifications. ☐ 𝐴𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑠𝑡𝑒𝑝 3: Comment your 2 cents of value 90 times a day. That’s where the $1.80 comes from. Creating your own social posts relies on algorithms for reach. If you’re just getting started, it’s hard to make your content good enough to get attention. Start with comments.

I keep seeing posts questioning if $99 for a community is worth it and if you shouldn't go with a free Facebook group instead. I didn't see/understand this when I started on Skool, but if you want actually to build a community of a meaningful size, you need to hear this. I have deep regrets. If you don't want to read... watch this video instead: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXUH7yVgdAs Yesterday I was listening to @Matthew Thompson latest podcast and one thing really struck me that I want to share with you: It's insane how much community management costs you save when you use Skool vs. a Facebook group. For context: In my own communities, we manage over 11,000 paying monthly members. Combined with Jessa and other partners over 20,000. Because there is a.) No payment integration and b.) Facebook is restricting our paid reach down to an average 300 out of 6500 members in our biggest group, the Coach Growth Hub inner circle. We have to pay a team of people to a.) Find and remove people who don't pay because FB doesn't do that automatically like skool b.) Provide 24-hour workday written support because in skool members actually see each other's posts and want to help each other out because of the gamification element and the connection that comes from having started to engage Honestly, this is so genius. The digital offer builders is now one of our most profitable communities because: #1: We don't run ads to it at the moment: 234 members NET GROWTH in the first month after playing the skool games. All organically from the skool discovery page and this community #2: We haven't promised 24h written support and don't deliver it. Members helping members works amazingly in here (I am really mind-blown; this would have never been possible with a Facebook group) It might be the amazing community, the lower cost, or the fact that I can finally reach my own community again, but I am becoming a super fan.

Well, I think I'm finally getting things figured out. After getting some opinions on here, I'm putting the Harley and Guitar stuff to the side for now and am going to start a car/pickup/truck community. I'm in the process of rearranging my garage so that I can spend the winter working on a 1990 IROC-Z I've had for years. It has rust, mechanical and electrical issues, so it should be a good crash course for folks. I'll be pulling the interior out, taking the hatch off repairing the trunk and floor pans, working the brakes over (that was one specific request I had), exploring options for the engine, ect. So bear with me, it'll take a few weeks to get finished setting up since I'm busy with work, family, and now that Off the Grid is on pre-release...

Alex told us that the entrepreneur can only progress to the point of incompetence (Paraphrasing) One will build a business, and make 10k but doesn't have the skill to progress past that mark So they start another business and another and keep getting capped at the same mark and then are left with a whole mess of business they need to clean up Sam Ovens told us that we need to remove more than we produce and take away things, seeing if anyone notices to reveal a feature's true value. If no one notices the feature was taken away (e.g., the audio room), and no one cares, then there isn't any point in having it. The biggest takeaway from this weekend is to do less better. Work on the incompetency that holds you back. When you think you've capped out your market or your business isn't scale-able that is when you look at the skills you need to learn to break through that cap and not start another business. For anyone who doesn't think they can win or don't want to win the skool games you are missing out on life-changing information The information I learned by being around the top community owners on skool has saved me years of struggle You can do it you can win and you just might be the one that wins a cyber truck or 100k