Should Maker School add a job board, and how should we structure job postings?
I’ve actually thought about adding a job board to Maker School because we get a lot of people posting jobs—sometimes $1,750 for a creative project, for example. We see roughly one job post a day. I encourage people to include budgets in their posts because it makes the listing more compelling. Instead of vague “looking for a partner” language, posting something like “Looking to pay $1,500 for a collaborator” is much clearer and attracts the right talent. Standardizing that approach could be a good way to improve the job‑board feature within Maker School.
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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Maker School is a zero‑to‑1 community that helps you get up and running with daily accountability, focusing on lead generation and acquiring your first customers. Once you have a few clients, you can move up to Make Money with Make, which is a higher‑ticket program that concentrates on scaling, productization, and higher‑value services. Make Money with Make is more expensive but includes more facetime with me, two weekly calls—a hot‑seat agency session and an office hour—and generally offers deeper support for growing an agency beyond the initial stage.
That $600 figure depends on how you actually implement it — my recommended approach (e.g. sending 10 Upwork applications a day, roughly 270 by the end of the first month at about $25 in Connects each) is genuinely a lot of money, but in practice very few people actually do that much volume; most people send 2-4 a day, landing around 60-90 for the month. Doing more is still better — Upwork applications don't just help your closing rate, the practice of writing proposals and recording videos also builds real skill, so it's not purely about landing that first client, it's skill-stacking too. But at minimum, if you're doing Upwork, expect to spend something like $150 just on Connects — you will need to budget some money for the platform itself.
Maker School includes a 12‑minute video sales letter that walks you through the entire program top to bottom. The core promise is a 90‑day money‑back guarantee: if you follow the steps, you’ll have your first client by the end of day 90. After that, you get an additional three months of daily step‑by‑step resources, templates, outreach recommendations, and custom videos from me. I personally respond to about 90% of every thread posted inside the community, and you also get weekly calls with me plus weekly or bi‑weekly calls with a sales professional for live, hands‑on sales training. The community’s margins are around 98% because I run everything myself—I’m the only one operating it, leading by example, showing up daily, pitching accountability, and providing everything you need to execute the high‑revenue generating activities I teach. In short, it’s a tight‑knit, high‑touch program built around proven, actionable steps.