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Historical Fiction Club

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A community for readers who love historical fiction and are curious about the real history behind their favourite historical novels.

130 contributions to Community Builders HQ on Skool
Lost my flame ๐Ÿ”ฅ
I only just realized that I lost my flame and it happened 10 days ago ๐Ÿ˜‚ I didn't do enough Skool that day because I had an 8+ hour driving day. I thought I might feel bad about losing it, but I'm glad to say I don't and that makes me feel very grown up ๐Ÿ˜‰ No biggie. I'll get it back.
Lost my flame ๐Ÿ”ฅ
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@Vladimir Belokapov @Lidia Axe
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@Krisztiรกn Nagy might be useful to others, but I donโ€™t care enough ๐Ÿ˜‚
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๐Ÿฟ Movie Club
๐Ÿฟ NEW Category. Movie Saturday
you probably donโ€™t know that i am a certified movie coach. i got through that courses, cause i was trying to marry the thing that i loved โ€œmoviesโ€ with the thing that i loved and wanted to make money from โ€œcoachingโ€. anywhoโ€ฆ introducing new topic, every Saturday i'll share a movie with a bit of comments and questions that could help with your life and business. sounds good? let me know โฌ‡๏ธ today, i share a short series - Mare from Easttown. you can find it on Apple TV+. 95% on Rotten Tomatoes pretty good, right? why i like it? - i love detective stories. but itโ€™s not the point. - it is very realistic. it shows how f*king hard life is. and how messy, f*cked up we are. - but it is not doomed. it gives hope. and it shows that there is light at the end of the tunnel. bonus points to Kate Winslet - she is amazing as a person and she is good as an actress. i just love her. if you decide to watch, ask yourself these questions to turn this into โ€œtherapy/coaching sessionโ€: - what impossible standard of perfection am i trying to meet? - how does my need for control prevent me from accepting life or business as it is? - do i reject support from others because i think i must handle everything alone in life or business? - how is it holding me back or my business, because of past events or my bad decisions? - am i able to love myself even on the bad days? just re-watched it this week. so, i thought it's a good start. yes/no/maybe/don't understand? share your thoughts โฌ‡๏ธ
๐Ÿฟ NEW Category. Movie Saturday
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@Lidia Axe oh wow! I did think you were joking ๐Ÿ˜‚
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Also love Kate Winslet. Luckily, Iโ€™m not too much of a perfectionist. But I do have control issues ๐Ÿ˜‚ Certainty helps me feel in control. But the problem is, in real life, decisions often need to be made from a position of uncertainty. That sometimes holds me back from making a decision and moving forward. (Apart from The Gilmore Girls with my daughter, I donโ€™t really watch movies or TV these days.)
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the AMA on Meta Ads is live ๐Ÿ”ฅ
i have been studying and using Meta ads for last 3+ years, spending time and money to learn how to use them in an online biz. what i notice, ppl have lots of misconceptions about them (ads in general, but i know Meta, so i will only speak about it). but instead of speaking at you, i want to talk to you - and answer all your questions. for the next 24 hours, you can Ask Me Anything about Meta ads: - when is the right time? - how much money to spend on it? - how expensive it is? - who should do it and who should not? - where to start? and anything else. whatever keeps you up at night โ€” drop it here โฌ‡๏ธ how it works: โ†’ post your question as a comment below โ†’ don't forget to post a link to your community or any other relevant info โ†’ i'll answer every single one โ†’ you can ask more than once โ†’ upvote questions you want answered first there are no stupid questions. stupid questions are those not asked. let's go ๐Ÿš€
the AMA on Meta Ads is live ๐Ÿ”ฅ
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My question about Meta ads is: Do you know anyone who's an expert on LinkedIn ads? ๐Ÿ˜‰
Failure Wednesday Celebration
it's already Wednesday here in Israel, but somewhere in the world it is still Wednesday (23:39 in California ๐Ÿ˜œ). every Wednesday we celebrate failures. what is FAILURE? - something you DID, but did not get the result (sent a proposal, run an ad, launched a community) - it is the way, it is the path - it is not an anomaly! hence, something that we must normalize and actually celebrate - failure = progress towards your goal. failure = being brave to do the unknown. i'll start: - early July i decided to use Upwork to offer Skool community building services + some digital marketing consulting and coaching - i have sent 72 proposals. got 4 interviews. and 0 job. fun ๐Ÿคฉ - i probably gonna call it a day. i have 35 connects left. so i will use them, but no longer buy new connects. - i will keep the profile - hopefully, it will help with SEO/AIO discoverability. over to you โฌ‡๏ธ
Failure Wednesday Celebration
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Upwork didn't work for me either. I sent about 6 responses to jobs and they were really f*cking good responses. I put real effort into them. And none of them were even *opened* by the people posting the jobs. So the response to this is "It's a numbers games". Well, I decided I wasn't willing to play that game. I'm not going to fire off crap in huge quantities with the hope of getting one person to open and read and say yes.
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@Lidia Axe Yeah, although that happened a while ago now. More recently... I had someone who was interested in a new website. I would do the strategy and the copy, and Sumit would build it. He said he wanted to build it himself and asked how much it would be without that. I told him and he hasn't gotten back to me. Shocker ๐Ÿ˜‚(This isn't normally how I proceed with clients, but this one was an unusual situation.) Also, one of my ongoing freelance writing clients now has TWO invoices overdue ๐Ÿ™„ It's actually been rare for me to have problems with invoices. But I didn't even think of this one because it's so normal and happens every week... I have to follow up so often with potential sources for magazine articles who don't respond and sometimes NONE of the people I contact end up becoming interviewees. It's such a frustrating waste of time. Is that enough failures? ๐Ÿ˜‚
Do What Others Won't: How to Make Your Community Unignorable
if you're copying someone else's formula, there is no way you stand out. templates are great. "what works" is great. but when your community looks like everyone else's, you compete on price. and competing on price is a race to the bottom. not the race you want to be in. John Hegarty wrote it on a Levi's ad in 1982: "when the world zigs, zag." a black sheep walking against a flock of white ones. that's the whole strategy. especially when you're starting out โ€” focus on what other people don't do. automations save you time. i use them. but they suck the soul out of interactions. they'll save you hours and keep you dry. your goal in the beginning isn't efficiency. it's to get people to love you. to turn them into ambassadors. the famous 100-1000 true fans. the key word is FANS, not the number. you don't get fans by being optimized. you get fans by doing the crazy stuff nobody else will bother with. here's what that looks like for me: - everyone celebrates wins. i celebrate failures. - people run calls in their own time zone. i run mine to catch my APAC friends and my US/Canada friends. even if one person shows up in the Community Income Mastermind. - i send personal welcome messages, not automated ones. and when i do send an automated message, i tell you it's automated. - i offer 1:1 welcome calls in a free community. makes zero sense on a spreadsheet. makes total sense to the person on the call. - i publish my real numbers - conversion rates, retention, the maths - including the unflattering ones. - i answer questions with a recorded video when a text reply would take two minutes. because you hearing my voice is worth more than my two minutes. none of this my competitors do. that's the point. when you do what others won't or don't, you stop competing on price. you become UNIGNORABLE. you stand the f*ck out. what do you already do differently?
Do What Others Won't: How to Make Your Community Unignorable
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@Andy Grant Do you use Loom for this?
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@Andy Grant Thanks. That's nice and easy!
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