Would you be open to doing a workshop for my viewers/community in exchange for value, without any compensation?
I think the idea is reasonable, but I’m cautious about adding new workshop partners. The people I currently work with at Maker School are folks I’ve known for years and trust deeply. Even if you’re more credentialed, I have to protect my audience’s experience—one bad workshop could cost me $20‑30 k in lifetime revenue from unsubscribes. If you’re still interested, we could try it in Maker Zero, my free community that just hit 557 members. It could serve as a proving ground; if it delivers value we could expand the partnership and eventually bring you into Maker School, but I’d need to meet you and get to know you first.
I've come to realize Maker School has way more value than just the community content itself — I hire from it now. It's thousands of people who've specifically learned how to be effective at generating revenue. I'm not saying you have to hire from there, but people from my daily updates channel and Maker School are a great place to hire from — and when someone makes a hiring post in the community, it adds value back to the group too, so the incentives line up well.
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If you don't have an audience for your SaaS, I would not spend a bunch of time building an audience. By the time you build the audience, I don't think SaaS as an industry will really make much sense anymore, just given that AI can virtually rebuild anything and everything today for tokens on the dollar, so to speak. What I would do instead is build a two-step process. Rather than building your SaaS, building an audience, and then selling it, I would just build a SaaS and then sell it. You do this by going outbound, not inbound. You don't need to build an audience in order to go outbound — you literally just find people that would get a lot of value out of the product you're selling and go talk to them. There are a variety of different ways to do that; obviously Maker School is a big chunk of the outbound approach. You just reach out to people that have some sort of buying signal and then put your product in front of them in a highly curated way.
I don't really know what the next goal should be after hitting 500K, but I want to make more money, so I'm considering setting it at a million dollars a month. I'm also planning an AR direction school and thanked for the tip on the Boolean offer. Regarding whether it's better to have a free community with one paid school versus many freebies, I've found that many people can't afford the $184/month paid school and drop off because there's no intermediate capture mechanism. So I set up a free community, which I've discussed in earlier videos. Since then we've grown to 14,000 members, with about 200 online at any time, indicating good engagement. About 0.4-0.5% of the community upsells to the paid Maker Maker School, which translates to roughly 50 members per month. I recommend creating a free group, but you must manage it carefully—I don't allow AI posts, and I review flagged content daily to ban offenders. This approach requires being strong-willed.
No, I'm not looking to hire anyone. Training someone to deliver value would take too much time given my high hourly rate; the sunk cost would outweigh any benefit unless you're truly exceptional. Seeing your outreach as a positive sign, focus on providing value first: research top creators you admire, identify their struggles, and offer quick fixes like content ideas, thumbnail tweaks, or bio improvements before asking for a role. Position your outreach as offering value upfront, not as a request. This demonstrates business experience, empathy, and respect for their time, making you stand out. As a next step, you could record custom Loom videos solving specific problems for big creators in 30 seconds or less.