Is the Make Money with Make School community still annual payment or monthly after the price increase?
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.
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.
Maker School is my 0‑to‑1 program: its goal is to help you land your first, second, or maybe third automation customer. Make Money with Make is my higher‑level community; it costs considerably more—about $140 for Maker School versus roughly $370 for Make Money with Make now. The whole point of Make Money with Make is to take something that’s already working and scale it up. In other words, Maker School gets you from 0 to 1 customer, while Make Money with Make takes you from 1 to 100 (or more). I also have a new program in the works called 25k per month Agency, which will show how to take a proven automation service—say, one that’s already making $5,000 a month—and grow it to $25,000‑$30,000 a month.
If you only have $100, you can't join my school community ($166/month). Instead, use free tactics first, then join after your first sale or $500. First step: get the Instantly Growth Plan at $37/month (instead of $97). Scrape leads using Apollo and Apify, which may cost another $30‑$40 depending on the actor you rent. This gives you cheap leads. Get a couple of mailboxes—use Zapmail for the cheapest option. With the Instantly growth plan and Zapmail, you’ll spend about $75 of your $100. Use the remaining $25 for a Loom subscription. Send 10 cold DMs with Loom videos explaining how you’ll fix a problem costing them a little money. That method is free. You can also join communities teaching similar Loom‑based outreach, record custom content, add value, and start there.
I would absolutely just keep doing what you're doing—it's clearly working, so just do more and better of it. But I wouldn't allow that to stop you from experimenting with other approaches. Spend 80% of your time on the two models that have been working for you so far, and 20% on something else, like cold outreach or email. I would also significantly improve my prices: in Maker School, people sign $1,500 for one project in their first two weeks, then the next product is $3,000, then $5,000. So, just price more with every deal.