🙌 The Value of Community

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I’m in a few different communities these days related to the topics that I’m interested in.

For SEO stuff, you can’t beat Jacky Chou’s Advise community.

For a group full of previous niche site people, you can’t beat the Fat Stacks forum (despite the weird daring me to come after him thing he did a while back).

For newsletters, I’m in a one-time-fee group that is amazing.

I’m in a few other groups too for different things. Some paid, some not.

And I feel like paid groups get a lot of the same pushback as paid courses…

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The Data Doesn’t Lie

I keep seeing people saying there’s no need to pay to be in a community cause you can find free Facebook groups, etc.

Similar type of argument people make about courses.

But it only takes a little bit of research to see what the science says about being a part of a community. And how if people pay for something, then they value it more, etc.

That’s why I put up a small paywall for my Skool community. Cause let’s be serious, it’s not like $10/year is a get rich quick scheme.

Some of the best money I’ve spent has been on courses and communities. Just this year it’s been Jacky Chou’s Advise community and the private newsletter community that I’m in. Insane amount of value for the money.

What I love about communities is that you get a great way to bounce ideas of people who are actually really valuable for that. You also get exposed to other people’s way of thinking, which is great for helping you to level up your game.

In the newsletter community that I’m in, the members are from diverse backgrounds so their ideas for things like monetization are coming from completely different places than mine and I’ve learned so much.

One community I’m in had a couple of people talking about cold email (can’t remember if it was Patey Club or another one), and that sent me down a rabbit hole learning about that and testing it on my own.

This led to me being the only person in my newsletter group who knows about cold email campaigns.

It’s such as weird path, but it works and it’s awesome.

No matter what you’re into, I highly recommend finding a community of people doing the same thing as you or whatever you’re interested in.

Coming up…

Upcoming topics: more tips and ideas on Etsy and KDP, how it’s going with my chatGPT fiction ebook and the AI music thingie, and growing an ecomm site.

If you have a topic you want covered just reply and let me know.

Stay awesome,

Shawna

P.S. If you’re looking for high level discussions or tips on things like local SEO and Rank & Rent, I highly recommend Jacky Chou’s Advise community. I’ve been in it for several months and there’s tons of value in it, including a SOP for local SEO.

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