#152 · Booking 2 sales calls for an AI agency (live)
It’s pretty insane—you can appear to make $500k a month from a school community, but most members join at a much lower rate. I’ve recently raised the price, so the average is lower than the headline figure. The same applies to others: look beyond the raw numbers.
The Make Money with Make School community is now a premier automation community. It provides a zero-to-one daily accountability roadmap with step-by-step day-by-day actions; following it for 90 days guarantees your first client using our methods. It's straightforward and mainly about lead generation and doing the daily tasks. I've positioned it as a community for scaling what works from one to 100. If you already have an established business with some success in AI and automation—say a $5,000/month business—I show you how to scale it to $25,000/month and beyond. To reduce churn (nobody wants to leave, which is a great problem) and attract new members, I've switched the pricing from annual-only back to monthly, but the monthly fee is higher—around $350–$360 per month. I plan to keep increasing it until I balance new signups with churn. I haven't updated the showcase video yet, as you pointed out; I tend to fly by the seat of my pants with these details.
Focus on driving traffic to your page; a portion of visitors will convert if they like you or your offer. Aim for 20‑40k monthly hits (~1k per day). With conversion rates of 0.5‑2%, that yields 5‑20 new members daily. For a low‑ticket product around $25/month, that adds about $500 MRR each month, scaling to roughly $15k MRR over 30 days after accounting for churn. The key is traffic first; everything else is downstream.
This is more or less what I was already thinking. I want a roadmap of ascension: people enter through something like Maker School, then a mid-tier (I need a better name than 'Make Money with Make', open to suggestions), then a high-ticket tier at the top, and ideally people naturally move up as I deliver value. Right now I'm missing that middle-to-high step — I have people who want to give me $10,000/month but I don't have anything to actually offer them at that level, and it doesn't feel scalable with my time since they'd expect a lot more hands-on service.
I’ve thought about creating an info product, but it feels too circular and I don’t want to be part of that AI‑economy‑joke where everyone’s investing in each other’s pockets. High‑ticket products also don’t appeal to me; they’re annoying and would make me unhappy even if they could generate millions. I prefer hands‑on work that directly helps people, especially beginners who are starting from zero. Building something from the ground up and watching newcomers succeed is far more fulfilling than adding a little extra revenue for already wealthy owners. So I’m steering clear of high‑ticket offers and focusing on low‑ticket, high‑impact education that serves a broader audience.