Building your Profitable Internet Empire
I’m launching something big today. It’s called Community Empire, it’s a membership to get you to create profitable companies powered by community. It includes:
If you care about building cash-flowing companies powered by community, stop what you’re doing and sign up now before we raise the prices like crazy. Obviously, it’s worth 10x the price and we can’t let everyone in at current prices. Join before Sept 18th to lock in lifetime launch pricing and access to a live kickoff event with me. Should you raise venture capital or not? Here’s my story….I’ll never forget the moment I saw the Social Network movie in 2010. I watched it and immediately felt I had found my life’s purpose. Zuckerberg looked like a hero. Even with all his quirks, made it seem like he was on top of the world. Inspired by that, I dropped out of university, packed up and left the familiar cold vibes of Quebec for the unfamiliar Mecca of tech of Silicon Valley. My whole thing in my 20s was to build apps around social networking and communities. Fast forward a bit, and by the time I hit 30:
Sounds pretty cool, right? But I was pretty miserable. Even though on the surface it looked like I was killing it, the returns I gave my investors weren’t skyrocketing. Plus, the pressure? Man, it felt like my heart rate was at a BPM of an Avicii song. Here's what hit me:
But the good news is I did find a gold mine. I learned heaps about how powerful a community can be when you’re trying to kick off startup ideas and get the word out there. I learned there were startup ideas hiding in plain sight on platforms like Reddit. I started compiling playbooks and building my holding company around it. I’ll share it with you (save this, print this out, forward this to a friend) The playbook for building internet businesses: 1. Find an underserved niche 2. Find out what they love 3. Find out what they hate 4. Create content they’ll share with each other 5. Create an identity to foster community 6. Create a low cost product they’ll pay high costs for 7. Hire when it hurts 8.Don’t raise venture capital 9. Repeat If The Social Network movie was the golden era for social networks, this is the golden era for profitable community empires. I’ll die on this hill… Distribution might be king, but community is the kingdom. Join Community Empire to take the plunge with us. ❤️ Greg’s bookmarks:
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