10 Weeks in 👉 $2.3k MRR & 490+ Members (Valley of Despair)

Afonso Marcal

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9d ago in 🐺 General

So here's my weekly update on what I've been doing, what's worked and what hasn't worked!!!

Here are some stats first:

MRR = $2.3k
Free Members = 374
Paid Members = 119 (8 on Free Trial)
YouTube Subs = 71
YouTube Videos = 16
Skool Followers = 904

What's working:

I've been following up at least 3 times a week with members inside my free community. I'm mainly using "bumps" ("Just bumping this up in case you missed it ^^") and GIFs to get people to reply. I'm getting quite a few people answer as they like my determination in getting a reply or because they found the GIF funny! This is translating to more bookings which is great! I will occasionally send a "shocker" message to those stubborn members who are active but ignore my messages. Had a few of them answer which was good ahahahah.

Been getting higher quality people on my calls since I've started being even more specific about my target avatar! Been making changes to my messaging and everything else to reflect this which has helped a bunch!

Free Trials have been working somewhat... As per usual, my expectations didn't meet reality as I thought I would have a loooot more people signing up for it but I was wrong. Nevertheless, now that I've been brought back down to earth, it really isn't that bad... I've only been running it for a week and so far I've had 1 person convert into a paying member which is great! Gonna keep pushing this and see how it goes. It's not my favourite to run with ads but time will give me a better strategy as I keep testing out new things.

Consistency... These first 10 days of November have been tough... Until today I hadn't made any sales besides new free trials starting. That hasn't stopped me from pushing on and testing new strategies!!! As I see it, this is a small wall that I'm breaking away to get to the next wall a few hundred miles away so no biggie!

What hasn't been working:

Free Trials - Yes, I know that I just said it's working but not all of it. I'm noticing that a lot of people I'm getting do 1 of 2 things... They either join and don't do anything OR they join, cancel the membership immediately so they don't get automatically billed at the end of the 7 days and also don't do anything. I can't be the only one experiencing this?? 🤔

Still struggling to get my schedule down... Specifically with getting content ready. It's getting better, but I still find myself scrambling to get my Youtube videos ready to post on the day they're meant to go up!! Closed my calendar on weekends to work on this so I'll keep you guys posted on how this change goes! (I did this last week after my last update but this weekend I only managed to plan my videos... This weekend I will plan + record them!)

Overall, I'm happy with the last week... although I didn't make as much progress as I would have hoped for, I'm still motivated and determined! Not letting this stop me as I know it's just a temporary stop before the next ascent!

Feel free to ask me any questions in the comments below! Always happy to help as much as possible 😁

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