I'm Tired · Skool Community

Aug 20 in Other

I'm Tired

I joined Skool at the end of February this year, February 21st to be exact.

I discovered it thanks to a small YouTuber, now friend, and joined his free community where I met this other guy, who introduced me to the SMMA business model and to Max Perzon's SMMA course(prior to all of this I had no business experience).

So, jumped straight into it to learn, had everything set up to start doing outreach but at the end of March I decided to pivot towards something that I could do directly on Skool which was growth operating, and told myself I would make sure to stick to it until it worked(although I wouldn't really call myself a growth operator).

I spent from then until the end of May just learning stuff, working on small random projects as a way to make myself feel busy, trying to figure things out, but I wasn't really getting anywhere or making any money.

At that time I was still living in France where I was studying at, but I had quit my part-time job at a restaurant and I dropped out of college because I felt like I was completely wasting my time and going in no direction. And over those past few months I had completely changed, I barely left my room, stopped hanging out with old friends and overall gone down a self development spiral.

At the end of May, I was lucky enough to find someone who decided to serve as a mentor/accountability partner for me to take the steps I needed to in order to get to where I wanted to be: $10k/month, as many of us just starting out do.

Despite the fact that I was moving countries to come back to my parent's house to focus more on "the business", saying bye to friends I had made during my 2 years in France, had a two-week trip in between the move. I did my best to essentially stay consistent to land my first actual client.

On the first week being back in my parents house in mid-June, I landed my first couple of clients. I felt happier than I've probably ever felt, seeing how proud my parents were was the best part about it.

I had tiny setup fees since I had no testimonials, one was $100 and the other was set at $500 once I got them results and then on top of that I would take a 25% and a 40% rev share respectively.

I was excited to get to work but realized I lacked some knowledge on the process I'd specifically be taking them down, which was combined with the fact that they both had several trips planned throughout July which led to us not making that much progress until recently.

During August, we've finally set everything up for their programs(they're both language teachers) and did some early access launches the past couple of weeks and I have gotten both of them a combined 1 student.

Just 1.

I have gotten one of them more followers, and so they're still happy, so far, plus they're the one I got the student for but haven't had much luck yet with the second one.

It's frustrating to see people who got to Skool and growth operating way after me, get great results faster than me, some people I know in theory have less knowledge on these topics than me as far as I can tell, yet things seem to just click for them.

I feel mediocre, I have to be doing something wrong.

I've seen my expectations go lower and lower as time goes on. At the end of March, even end of June, I would've sworn that today I would already be making $10k per month, but instead I'm facing the harsh reality of my situation.

Seeing my parent's faces go from proud to worried and surely wondering what I'm even thinking, having to cut back on things I wanted to do for them and with them while I'm here because I don't have the financial means to.

My eyes are literally watering as I type this.

I move back out in the first days of October, and now my main worry is seeing if I'll even be making enough to cover the cheap rent I'll be paying once I move out.

I know that if I just keep going, things should work out eventually.

I know that I'm going to make it and that one day, I'll be able to look back on this post with tears of happiness of how far I've come, instead of the tears of pain that I'm facing right now.

I have no plan B, I've burned all of my boats a long time ago.

I'm all in and there is no alternative.

It's just that I needed to vent I guess.

I'm just a little bit...

tired.

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