it's time to choose the winner. it's an annual membership to Community Income Mastermind ($497 value). so, i must get my list right. here is everyone who was active during the Community Clinic 2.0 (participated live, left a comment, been on hot seat): @Ettjen Jansingh @Eugene Huliakevich @David Oliveira @Sandra Martinez @Nikesh Amit @Bethany Elle @Shelby Kretz @Sharon Horne-Ellstrom one winner. but the rest get async community audit from me. anyone is missing? let me know till tomorrow morning when i'll run the wheel of names. ps special thanks to @Vladimir Belokapov @Krisztián Nagy @Alexa Leitner @Kate DuBois who were super active but already members of Community Income Mastermind!

since there are bunch of new ppl, let me explain: - everybody celebrates wins. but not many i have seen celebrate failures. yet, failures are not optional, they are a MUST if you want to achieve any sort of business success. - also, you hear a lot of successes - in Skoolers, in other communities. ppl are eager to share amazing things that happened. so, you might fall into the trap of "survival bias". if only thing you hear is wins, you might believe it is a norm. it is not. win is an outlier. - finally, people love to share a hero journey story. because it's good script. it's likable. "things were bad, i took a chance, things became great - i am winner now". nothing wrong with it. or? so, we are here share raw, pure FAILURES - not covered with the success story. as is. === now, let's get clear - what is FAILURE in our playbook? - it's an action you did and the result was not what you expected/wanted to be and what failure is NOT? - when you don't take action - post, call, launch - that's not failure. that's STALLING in our playbook. and that needs to be fixed, not celebrated. finally, why do we CELEBRATE failure? failure means you took action. - action deserves celebration. - courage to take action deserves celebration. - courage to share your failure deserves celebration. === time to share ⬇️ ps please, please, please share your wins in Wins&Failures category any day, every day. we need to hear wins as well.

we just finalised yet another Community Crawl. every time i try to make it better. so, this time, it was a Surprise One. overall, i am happy with the results. both, for hosts and visitors. Let's celebrate participating community hosts: - Door 1. AI pathway club, by Pacita Florida - Door 2. Inner Healer Skool, by Baba Sam Shelley - Door 3. Expert Society | Side Hustle, by Ian Bosler - Door 4. Healthy People Have Gardens, by Kate DuBois - Door 5. Historical Fiction Club, by Zena Ryder - Door 6. Podcaster in 7 Days, by Carin Chantel - Door 7. The Success Forge, by Dino Tartaglia - Door 8. Kommuity Kids, by Paul Sirvinskas - Door 9. Roast & Promote, by Paulo Costa, The Roaster - Extra Door. ADHD unmasked, by Steve Cobble i hope you guys got new members and amazing feedback from crawl participants that can help you improve your processes. now, the WINNERS (harder choice, cause i appreciate everyone who participate): - @Steve Cobble was the first and the fastest to finish all the doors 🎁 - @Roberto Srpak gets an appreciation award for being the most thorough about reviews 🎁 - @Aimee Jardon gets an appreciation award for being HONEST with her feedback 🎁 - @Jill Hart gets an appreciation award for being BRUTALLY honest & super FAST with feedback 🎁 - @Vladimír Bohm gets an appreciation award for participation 🎁 - @Vladimir Belokapov gets an appreciation award for being BANNED/Not accepted 🎁

the latest Skool updates. the honest, unfiltered verdict from me. i will focus on what's already available and how to use it. i will skip the roadmap (what's coming) and the nonsense examples of ppl and communities that you have nothing to learn from (cause you cannot compare you to them). 🔔 reminder: you can find this week's Skool news and previous news in the Vault. this week's verdict: - freemium got another upgrade. last week, Skool introduced a new feature: when ppl join freemium community, and they click join, they are presented with the plans page right away. this week, they've added "Upgrade" button just above settings for folks who are already inside to let them know that there are more levels. VERDICT = if you have freemium community, both features should improve conversion rates. let's test & see - free trial has been upgraded as well. you can lock classes and even individual modules/lessons and even chat for FREE trial ppl. when they try to access, they are offered to skip trial and start paying. VERDICT = if you are using free trial, it should help eliminate free seekers and spammers faster and facilitate conversions to paid. let's test & see - closed doors functionality. one more new feature - you can turn your community to "close doors" in Settings/Pricing. the community will still be working good and well for existing members. but the status will be "closed" and outside ppl won't be able to join. the benefit = it will not be downgraded in the Discovery, just unlisted. so, when you open doors again, you jump right back - no need to climb back up from the bottom. 🚨 UPDATED VERDICT = "closed doors" is good for the following cases: - while you are away or sick or maybe doing re-construction of the community and don't want new member just yet. - when you run cohorts, or otherwise want to double-down on exclusivity/urgency, and only open community for a certain periods of time.

not feeling well. so, taking a day off today cancelled an event scheduled for today weekly newsletter will be tomorrow that's life.