Start Your First Online Community Business From Scratch (54% Win Rate)
In my video, I break down exactly how to start your first online community business from scratch—even if you have zero experience, no audience, and no idea where to begin. This is the exact roadmap that has helped more than half of all people who start a paid community on Skool make money.
I explain how the Skool Games make building an online business as simple as playing a video game with step-by-step instructions.
Watch my full breakdown below:
Why Most People Feel Stuck When Starting Online
If you’ve ever looked at yourself in the mirror and thought you should be further ahead by now, you’re not alone. In my video, I address this incredibly common feeling that overwhelms people who are trying to make money online or start their first business. Every day you see other people succeeding, and you wonder why you’re not succeeding too. Maybe you don’t like your job, or you feel unfulfilled and want to do something you love while making money, but you feel stuck, bored, confused, or maybe all three.
I spent years in the exact same spot. I was afraid to fail but ashamed of being afraid. It wasn’t until I paid another business owner to teach me how to run a local business that I felt comfortable starting my own. He showed me the ropes and gave me the confidence to start, and after scaling my local gym chain from learning this stuff from him, I started a company called Gym Launch which I sold years later for $46.2 million.
What I’m Offering You for Free
What I want to do now is repay the favor. I want to show you the ropes the exact way that business owner did for me. As the person with the largest community on Skool, I can show you exactly what to do so you can start your own online community business today with all the things I didn’t know when I started my first business—completely free with the Skool Games.
Imagine building a business being as easy as playing a video game with step-by-step instructions, live workshops, real-time leaderboards, and new friends to make it fun. If all that were true, would you at least be interested? In my video, I break down exactly how this works and why it has such an insanely high success rate.
What Is Skool and How Do the Games Work?
The Skool Games is a fun, easy way to build your online business with no experience or followers needed. You simply choose a painful experience you overcame, something you find interesting or you’re passionate about, or some skill you learned throughout your career—no matter how small. It could be as simple as a better way to organize folders, meal prepping for kids with food allergies, or travel hacks.
Then all you have to do is invite people to a community about overcoming that pain, following that passion, or learning that skill, and I show you exactly how to build it and monetize it on your first try. If that sounds insanely simple, that’s because it is. I explain in my video that you make money on Skool by getting people to join your paid Skool group. Your job is to get people to find your group and make it good so people want to join it.
Real Success Stories from Real People
In my video, I share several incredible success stories to show you what’s possible. Hakeem, a former barber, now teaches barbers how to cut hair and makes over $16,000 a month in recurring revenue. He was able to retire his mom from his online community. Levi and his partner run Music Money VIP, helping musicians and creatives learn the business of making money, and they take home over $30,000 a month from that community.
Evelyn gained 234 members in her first month in the Skool Games organically just from the millions of users already on Skool. Christian simply teaches people how to flip phones and was able to make a phone flipping community. Kai created a YouTube community helping other YouTubers make better thumbnails and headlines, and this was the first time he ever made an offer—he’s earning over $57,000 a month after his first Skool Games.
Nate and his brother are really into anime and fitness, so they created a community to help people do anime fitness together and become their own heroes. They did $91,000 in recurring revenue their first month. Kenneth started CreditPreneur, a community that helps people improve their credit scores, and makes over $70,000 a month in recurring revenue.
It Doesn’t Have to Be About Making Money
The thing is, it doesn’t have to be about making the money—it could just be doing the things that you love. Jed teaches people how to paint with acrylic. Antonio teaches men how to pick the right cologne. Ryan has a paid community just for fun with funny GIFs, and he has hundreds of people paying him a dollar a month. The possibilities really are endless.
Here’s the thing: you can become one of these success stories. I say that so confidently because 54.1% of people who start a paid community on Skool make money. Yes, you heard that right—more than one out of two people who start a paid community on Skool make money. That means by your next reunion, instead of answering “what are you up to these days,” you could be answering “how’d you do that” and “could you help me.”
Think of a Paid Community Like an Online Party
In my video, I explain that you should think about a paid community like an online party. When people go to a party, it’s not the host that makes the party—it’s the other people at the party. The host just invites the guests, provides the place to meet, and sets the rules for the party. Since it’s your party, you can make the theme whatever you want and invite whoever you want. When the party rocks, you get all the credit even though you just put it together, and when the doorman collects the money to let people in, it all goes to you.
Right now, people are paying hundreds, sometimes thousands, to get into digital communities the same way they do nightclubs or cafes. Just think about it as a place where lots of people who want to talk about the same stuff can gather together, and people pay to get in. The crazy thing is, people are selling courses and coaching programs for thousands and tens of thousands on how to build a business like this because it’s so profitable. But what if there were a faster, easier, zero-risk way to learn how to do this for yourself?
Why an Online Community Is the Fastest Way to Get Started
For those of you who want more out of life, an online community takes the least amount of time to get started. You can literally make money in hours. It requires the least skill—if you can invite people to a party, you can make this business work. You don’t need to be an expert; you just invite those people and let them do the heavy lifting for you. It’s kind of like Wikipedia: Wikipedia is not the expert at anything, they just bring the people together and then they are the online de facto experts.
It’s even faster than building a course or starting a coaching program because you don’t need to have all the answers for that exact reason. In my video, I emphasize that the Skool Games was designed to smash through every obstacle that once stood in the way of starting an online business. It’s why we have such an insanely high success rate. We’ve obsessed for years about removing everything that stops people from succeeding.
You Don’t Need an Audience or Expertise
That’s why with the Skool Games, you can succeed without an audience or expertise—because let’s face it, most people don’t have either. Of the five to seven communities I talked about earlier who won the Skool Games in their first month, only two of them had organic followings before they started. You don’t need any fancy software—calendars, payment processing, everything you need is already built into Skool. You don’t even have to know what your community is going to be about yet. I show you how to pick it in my video, and it’s simple—you can do it in less than 20 minutes.
If you’re wondering how to get people invited to your community, don’t worry—you don’t have to ask people you know. We’ve made it simple to crowdsource community just like Evelyn did through Skool itself from the millions of users we already have on the platform. As for tech skills, you don’t need any. If you have the technology to watch my video right now, you already have all the tech you need to start, scale, and succeed.
The Leaderboard and Prizes
The Skool Games has a leaderboard ranked by New Monthly Recurring Revenue (New MRR). Because it’s “New MRR,” not just “MRR,” everyone starts on $0 every month. This means if you don’t win this month, you could win next month with lessons learned this month. If you become one of the top 10 communities on the leaderboard, you’ll join me and other successful community owners here in Vegas. Even if you don’t win the first month, you get to keep competing every month until you win, and then you can join all the alumni and all the past winners to get to the next level.
Worst case scenario, you join, do nothing, decide to quit, and walk away with thousands of dollars worth of knowledge that you can take with you on whatever business venture you want next. Best case scenario, you take a zero-risk move and change your life forever. Or maybe you’re just like Kyle, who never won the games, never got in the top 10, and just built a community that makes him $466 a month in recurring revenue. He didn’t win any awards, but would three, four, five grand a month change things for you?
The Money-Back Guarantee
Remember, the only guarantee is that if you don’t take the shot, you’ll stay exactly where you are. But if you do, you could be the next one coming out to Vegas celebrating how quickly you built an online business with consistent monthly recurring revenue. In my video, I mention that if you join this month, I’ll personally onboard you live. Sign up and I’ll see you on our onboarding call on Monday where you can ask me whatever you want.
If you’re worried about starting a free trial, we offer an unconditional money-back guarantee. So if you finish your trial and you forget to cancel, just let us know and we’ll refund you. We just want people to win. I’m going to say this one more time because it’s important: one out of two people who start a paid community on Skool make money, with the average paid community owner earning $1,360 per month. You really can do this.
