In this episode of the podcast, we're talking all things
Facebook group with my special guest, Christina Gendali.
Let's get into it.
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show. Hey. Thanks for having me. Yeah. I'm excited to talk to you. I always
like talking to fellow Canadians too. I feel like there's not enough of us
here. A lot of our a lot of our stuff tends to be US centric,
which I love. I love the US. I'm from there. But I love talking to
fellow Canadian. And I think that's important too based on your story. So I wanna
start at the the origin story of your business because
you started it during your mat leave. Tell us about it.
Yes. So I was working in corporate. I was working in finance,
actually, managing wealthy people's money. So I would invest in
stock market, bond market, mutual funds. And
the challenge with that, however, is that being on the West Coast, being in
Vancouver, everything is run on eastern time zones. So the
stock market opens at 6:30 in the morning
Pacific time. So I would have to be in the office before 6:30,
so 6 AM. And after having
children and just realizing this life style and this life,
first of all, is not conducive to being a mom, and there's it's pretty
hard to find any childcare that's available for such, like, hours of
the morning plus your you don't wanna wake your kids up so early in the
morning as well too. But more so than that, really,
when my daughter was born, I remember just feeling like I had all the boxes
checked. I had a job. I had a husband. I had this brand new baby.
I had money in the bank. All the things that you think that it could
have wanted. And yet there was still, like, a piece of me that felt like
there was something more for me to have experience be do,
and I didn't know what it was. And even though when I was looking at
my daughter, just thinking, oh my gosh. Like, you have this brand new baby. You
just want them to live their best life and have everything.
And I realized, well, how can I be an example for her if I'm not
demonstrating what that looks like and not really sunk in with me? So
I knew that I wanted to be an example for her. We learned so much
more from what we people with our behavior than what it is that we
say to, you know, to our children. And so I knew from there that I
was I was I was determined. I made a promise to her and me when
she was a little baby that I was gonna figure it out and go after
my dreams and and create a life that I actually was that I
loved Yeah. Instead of just checking the boxes.
That's so sweet. I love that. Because you know these kids watch everything we do
anyways. Right? Like, they're trying to do everything we do. So it makes a
lot of sense to make that decision for, not just you, but for
your family as well. Okay. So you started the business. Why did you
decide to focus in on Facebook groups? Yeah. So it's not like
I put up a sign saying, hey. I'm gonna I'm gonna teach Facebook
groups. This is this is my thing. It actually came on the back end of
so many things not working in my business. And so I
when I started my business, I was going to networking events.
I get dressed up, I have to get a babysitter, drive all the
way into the city. It would take hours. I'd come home with a couple business
cards, and I'd enter them into my autoresponder 1 by 1 and
have, like, this very slow trickle of leads. And I
tried doing all sorts of different things. I was speaking. I started a meetup group.
No one came. Like, I was doing all these things. I was slowly starting to
build my list and build some interest, but I was so
far off from hitting, like, the revenue goals that I had
set for myself and my business. And I just couldn't shake the feeling
like something's missing. Like, what am I not getting here? Like, it can't be.
Like, it feels so much harder than it needs to be, and it's so much
slower. And you look at all these people's stories online, and they go from,
like, 0 to a 100 and, you know, 2.2 nanoseconds. And
they're therefore, I'm looking at myself thinking, what the heck is going on? I'm missing
something. And it was actually in one of those, like,
kinda hard moments where you're questioning, is this really worth it?
Like, am I really cut out for this? Thinking about maybe it's just easier to,
you know, go back to a job. And then one of those moments I remembered
a moment where I was meeting for lunch with a
mentor of mine when I was working in finance. And her name was Bev.
And I was asking her. She'd been super successful. She was nearing retirement. I'm like,
what's the secret to success? And she's like, Christina, it's
really simple. I'm like, okay. This is gonna be good. Weaning in. You know? Okay.
Waiting for this big answer. And she said to me, she says it's just about
relationships, Christina. It's just about creating connection.
And when I had this moment where things weren't working, I remember that time I
went out for lunch with her. And I think I just got so obsessed with
looking at numbers or are people watching my stuff? Are they clicking? How many
sign ups? And I was looking at the metrics and the numbers, but I forgot
the human factor to really thinking about how am I developing
relationships and connection. And I thought, well, how can I do that
online? I know how to do that off line, but I wanna build an online
business. What's the most effective way I could do that online? And that's really
when I realized through the power of community and a Facebook group would give me
the opportunity to do that. So I went from, like, struggling, falling short of my
financial, like, monthly revenue goals month after month after month. I've
never had a a 10 k month. I really went down a 10 k month.
That was like my marker. And the very first month I started my Facebook group
focusing on connection, I had a $30,000 month,
and my mind was totally blown. And it was
through that that people started asking me, well, what are you doing over there? What's
going on over there? Things are working for you. So that's how it became when
I started teaching about Facebook groups. Yes. And I love that
this focus on community as well. I think that
as business owners, we do get focused in on, like, the numbers
and the leads and the list, and ultimately it does come
down to connection and community. And I do think Facebook
groups are a great place to foster those. But I
do think that and I don't know if you've seen this, but I think that
the general sentiment about Facebook groups has
started to skew a little bit negative. Have you started to see
this a little bit in our in our online marketing space?
So everybody always has an opinion about something.
And I look at the market place online as
going through an evolution. And so
as, as businesses or
industries get more mature, what
was easy and simple when you're new to market and everyone's like, oh,
wow. You've got this thing. I've never seen this before. Yes. I'm in.
Everyone's excited about it, and it makes it really easy.
As as a, like, an industry
starts to mature, which the online education coaching space is starting
to mature, people are getting more sophisticated. It's
not new to market anymore. There's multiple people that are
offering the same solutions, which means there's more noise, which means
how we market ourselves, how we stand out, how we serve people
really is going to require next level,
communication, connection that lands with people. And
so I look at, you know,
Facebook is still, like, the number one platform for, like, world population.
People, it's, like, proven that people will buy they'll they'll spend
19% more, when they're part of a community, when they make
their buying decision. People are still looking online to be to be
looking at communities for helping them make the the their buying decisions.
But has it changed? Absolutely. And I think if we're not staying
current and up to speed with what changes, then we get left behind, and then
we're banging our head against the wall saying, you know, things aren't working just
like funnels or ads. You know, when I started my business, you know, with
Facebook ads as an example, I was getting a dollar leads. Well, you know, sometimes
I'll spend $20 on a lead to get a high value lead. So is it
that Facebook ads don't work anymore? Is it just the game's changed a little bit,
and there's more buy in to create the same outcome and the results. So I
think that's the most important thing of looking at it. It's like, okay. It's
shifting. How is it shifting, and how am I staying ahead of the shifts to
be able to still take advantage of it and recognizing that it's a more mature
market? A 100% agree. I mean, I see this with my
clients in social media as well. When I started my business 10
years ago, it was a different conversation we were having about the the potential
of social media. It was so new. It was shiny. But now,
10 years later, it it has matured. And so it's just different
conversations are had, different strategies need to be,
implemented. So I'm excited to talk about that specifically with your Facebook groups. But my
question is about Facebook pages. So a lot of times, business
owners go, should I focus on my page or should I focus on a group
or should I do both? What's your opinion on that? So I
think looking at the distinction between the 2, I think
is super valuable. So the way I look at, like, social media, whether it's
your business page or Instagram or TikTok or somewhere.
The way I look at it is, like, it's like a storefront. And it's giving
someone, like, window dressing. It's like they're walking by. They're seeing the mannequin
with the clothing on, and they're deciding, like, do I wanna go into the store?
Am I interested? Does this pique my interest? Do I want do I want more?
So I look at, like, external social media platforms as, like, the
storefront. Whereas a Facebook group is like, well, come on
inside. Like, come on and try that. You know, try on the
outfit. Let's, like, come come on in into my digital living room.
So it has a different feel. And so to me, it's not
like one versus the other, but how like, to me, the
community is like the center hub and where people are visible or
where they have public pages. It's like the storefront where they're inviting people to come
in to their space and into their community. So
business pages, you know, there's they're they're public.
Everyone can see it. Whereas a Facebook group, it's private if you have it set
up private. So you can have intimate private conversations where people
will share more openly than they ever would on a public page.
Yeah. Yeah. And I know that firsthand as well. I love
being members of Facebook groups. Business wise,
I find the best connections. And then recently, I've been having a lot of
fun with the with the personal Facebook groups. You
know, toddler life, connecting with other moms,
finding recipes. I'm even failing at
gardening. So I'm in I'm in those Facebook groups. So there's, like, so much
dynamic to those communities. Plus, I don't have to download another
app. Like, it's already on Facebook. I'm already there.
It's true. Because I think a lot of the other things, like, you know, people
talk about circle or school or places that are offering,
like, different community bases like or Telegram, but now you're
competing with where people aren't spending their time, and you're hoping that they're
gonna catch and see something and it just hasn't had the same it hasn't had
the same pull versus where people are already spending time. Yeah.
Yeah. I love that. I will say personally too, I do
find myself logging in more to Facebook than the other, like,
communities like Circle or, school or whatever. I
I I have my own community on circle. But I do
find that Facebook groups, it depends on the
engagement in the group. And I know you talk a lot about engagement bubble.
So can you talk a little bit about that as well? Yes.
So, engagement I mean, here's just
reach across all social media platforms changes and
comes down over time as the platform gets more mature just as
first to market, same thing that we're talking about too. Like, it it's it's it's
there's there it diminishes over time. And
so when we think about engagement,
most people are thinking, I just need to add more value. If I add more
value, if I give more how tos, if I give more stuff, now people are
going to want to engage, and they're gonna wanna communicate.
But in a community, people are there
to, to to create connection with you.
And if we're just piling up a lot of how to content. So if people
are experiencing, they feel like they're running out of content ideas or they're putting so
much content out. Like, what else is there left to say? Like, are people gonna
wanna buy my offer? And they feel like they're pouring so much out, and they're
trying really hard to get people to respond, to get people to comment, to get
people to engage. They're often focused
on this push of trying to stockpile
more stuff, more post, more this to get engagement.
And that keeps them in this cycle. It was the engagement bubble, which
is almost like like you're on a rocking chair, and you're walking
back and forth, right back and forth, back and forth. But you're not going
anywhere. Like, there's nothing happening. Like, there's a lot of doing, doing, doing,
but there's you're not getting anywhere. Yeah. Versus when we look
at creating purposeful engagement.
Purposeful engagement is actually creating connection and conversations
that relate to your body of work or how you help people. So I'll give
you an example of that. I could go into my group and I could say,
okay. How do you feel about the
engagement inside of your Facebook group? How do you feel about it? So some
people will say, oh my gosh. It's like crickets. Like, shoot me now. No
one's talking to me. You know, you're gonna have the other people that say, oh,
it's on fire. People are alive. They're so excited. You're gonna have some
people like engagement? Like, what engagement? Right? So you're
gonna have all these people that have different responses. But the beautiful part
about a question like that, it's still related to what I would be helping
people with. So it's creating conversation around my body of work
related to Facebook groups, but it gives people an opportunity to express
their interest. And post like this, purposeful engagement are like
one liner super short post that create easy
responses in conversation that you can then
use their languaging and what they share to now communicate back
to them in your Facebook lives or even in your emails or your
post, your headlines. So it's using
it's it's being able to create purposeful engagement rather than just
saying, hey. Are you coffee drinker or tea drinker? Like, if
you answer that and you're not selling coffee or tea, you're not getting
anyone closer to making a buying decision from you. But if someone's
expressing how they're experiencing the challenges that they're facing or the thing that
you teach, you're now giving them an opportunity to feel seen, feel heard,
open up, and you're doing it in a very simple, easy way. So
it's actually about simplifying the way you're doing content versus spending more time on
content. It's actually spending less time on content, but creating more
conversational content. Oh, I wanna get more into this strategy
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And we're back. I wanna dive more into the strategy
around Facebook groups, specifically making sure that it
really matches your business and your business model. So at
what point in someone's business should they decide
to start a group? Is there, like, a minimum number of of people that they
should have in the group when they start? What's the strategy around that?
Oh, that's a great question. I think that when it comes I
think there's 3 different types of people that a group is is right
for. To me, a group is great for someone
when they're they have an idea of who they
wanna serve, but they don't know what their offer is gonna be yet. And they
haven't really refined that yet, but they have an idea of who they wanna serve
because they can use their group to build community and then
be able to survey and ask questions and get
clarity on what their people are looking for to be able to create their offer.
But a group and those beginner stages, sometimes when people haven't practiced using
their voice, they might be scared of public visibility. A group gives
them an opportunity to have, like, a safety closed
network where they can practice communicating and speaking where
the external world doesn't see them per se, and
it gives them the opportunity to be able to get started with that.
However, to me, you've gotta get your first 100 members
as fast as possible because nothing's gonna be going on happening in your
group without at least that first 100. And so,
like, the first 100 Facebook group members as fast as you
can ideally, like, within a week. It might take some people a little bit
more than that, but you can get your first 100 members which gives you a
bit of a start. For more advanced businesses,
like, as we think was, like, sort of the beginner people, then
more advanced businesses can use a Facebook group
to increase their conversion. So whatever they're experiencing in their sales
campaigns, having a Facebook group will increase their
the return that they see with the audience they have as a result of
seeing that that increase of connection. But it's like, okay. How
many how big should my following be before I get started in the group? And
to me, your group can actually grow your email list and help the with
building of the group can grow your audience and allows it to be searchable. So
I don't think there's, like, an entry point. I just don't the only thing I'd
say is if you don't know who you wanna serve and you have no idea
what you wanna do, well, then a group's not gonna be for you because you're
gonna be so vague in what you're gonna start with your group that no one's
gonna tune in. No one's gonna pay attention, and you're gonna be
you're gonna be wondering what happened. So you gotta at least know who you wanna
serve. Yeah. And I've I I've been seeing more of these, like,
customer loyalty groups as well with more advanced businesses.
One of the ones that I just joined so So I have alopecia, and I
wear wigs. And so the wig company that I order from has a
Facebook group, and I just joined it. And it was, like, all of these people
who purchased the products, like, sharing their experience and asking questions
about different products. And I thought that was also an interesting use of the group
because it's not just for, I guess it is
for conversion at some point because I I think would be more
willing to purchase from this company because I'm seeing everyone else kind of talk about
it. But there's there's like this loyalty piece as well by having the
closed community that can really help kind of keep
feeding into your funnel. Because now you have these folks
who have raised their hand and say, yeah, I'm interested in what you have to
offer. So I think that's interesting as well with Facebook groups. I I'm glad you
mentioned that about more advanced, like, farther along, more mature
businesses as well because, they serve different purposes
along the business growth journey. So
when we're thinking about Facebook groups and we've started the
group, we've got our first 100 members. Talk to
me more about those conversations that we should be having in the group. Because I
think the inclination, for a lot of business owners is to
go in the group and immediately start selling our stats saying, hey, I
have this offer. You should buy it. But that's not really the right
strategy with Facebook groups. So tell us about some of those early day conversations that
we can start having with those first 100 members.
So before someone comes into your group,
you can ask 3 pre join questions. So you have 3 questions
that you can ask. And that is, like, the beginning of
where you have the opportunity to create conversation. So
one of those questions I always recommend asking is,
like, what's the number one question you have as it relates to whatever
your you help people with? What's the number one question you have as it relates
to parenting? What's the number one question you have as it relates
to your Facebook group? What's the number one question you have as,
as it relates to finding a good quality man.
What's whatever the thing is that you're helping people with. So you just ask them
what's the number one question. Now the question that they have is
going to be telling you insight as to, like, what's
top of mind for them, what's their biggest challenge. But don't ever use the language,
what's your biggest challenge, because it gets people on the defense. So you ask
them what's the number one question you have. Now you can literally take the answers
to those, and those become headlines for your post. They become
subject lines for your emails. They become the titles
for your Facebook lives. So now you're speaking in the way that creates
conversation in their language that they're using. So just a really great
way to keep people in conversation. And as you build up a
library of content in your group through these examples,
it's easy to send someone a message saying, let's say their number one question was
let's so we're talking about Facebook groups right now. How do you boost engagement in
your group? Well, if I did a Facebook live on them, like, hey. When you
join the group, you said you'd wanted to know, like, what's the best way to
do this? I actually have a trading. Here it is. Go check it out. So
now I'm creating value for them specific to what they've asked.
So I love that for the pre join question. A second pre join question is
also saying, hey. We're known as, we
help, you know, x y z people get results. So
we help, you know, Facebook group host
grow and engage in profitable Facebook group. Would you like to hear from us
how? And that gives you permission to reach out to that
person and to be able to carry that conversation. We find
about 50% of your new members will say, yes. They do wanna hear from you,
and 50% will say no. So 50% that say no. It's like, okay. Well, let's
not call DM someone just to say, hey. You know, let's just leave and
say, okay. We have the opportunity to connect with them in conversation in the group.
So those are 2 of the questions that I always like using. A third one
would be to get on your email list and get access to a freebie.
Then when we're in conversation in the group, creating those
purposeful engagement posts gives you an in or an
opening. So let's say let's say I asked a question in a
group and I was gonna say, when I
lose x pounds, then I would. So let's say I'm helping people with weight
loss. When I lose and I put in blank pounds, then I would. And I
have people fill in the blank on that. So people are saying, hey. When I
lose £10, then I'll finally, you know, put on a bikini.
Or when I lose £50, then I'll finally be
able to, you know, go play soccer with my kids. Whatever
it is that the people are putting in. When they're answering those
questions and and and you it allows you to filter
through and qualify who's the who's fits the mold
for who you wanna serve. And now we get to be in conversation with those
people. Right? So it's like, let's say, I ask them,
when I make blank dollars. Right? When I make blank dollars, then I
will okay. So let's say I really wanna help people make
their first $3,000 just making this up. And then I
have a bunch of people that are saying that that that that's the target they
wanna meet. Well, now I know that's my ideal person. I get to reach out
and create a conversation with them. And I get to be in,
I get to be relevant, essentially. So we're creating conversational posts that we
get to be create relevancy and have follow-up. We can be in the
comments with them, and we can send them direct messages to continue on those
conversations throughout. Yeah. One of the things,
with these kind of, like, engagement questions that I hear
sometimes, people shy away from is they're
not sure if their people will engage. Right?
There there's this nervousness around posting on social media, but
even more in Facebook groups where, you know, I'm put I'm asking
this question, will people comment on it? So
now that Facebook has that everything, everyone tag,
should we use that tag to to help people see it? It seems like a
more of a divisive strategy. I wanted to get your thoughts on it.
So we found through testing when people
use the at everyone tag, it actually limits the
reach that they have when they do their regular posting.
And so it's I think people overuse it. I don't know about you, but
I'm like, stop tagging me on something that's totally irrelevant that I didn't say that
I'm interested in. I'm more about, like, how do we build an
attraction strategy? We're getting people to raise their hands saying,
yes. I want this. And, yes, I'm interested in that. And when you
create relevancy with your content in your group
and you're building your active members in your group, you will get more
reach. More people will see your post and more people will have
access to it. So I would say use it very, very, very,
very sparingly. Don't use that at everyone. I think
it gets massively overused, and it does impact your reach. But a quick
tip, if you wanna get more reach on a post, do a
high, what I call like a mindless engagement post
an hour or 2 before you do a post that you want people to see.
So mindless engagement post might be, something like,
hey. I'm looking for a new Netflix series. What you
got? Like, what do you recommend? What's the one that you're gonna do? Or you
ask the post that's totally unrelated. It doesn't have anything to do with what you
do for business, but it's just something that everybody wants to answer.
Right? So, like, oh my gosh. I have a baby. Like, you have a baby.
Right? And it's like, oh my gosh. I've got newborn baby. Give me your best
tips on getting your baby to sleep. Totally unrelated,
but all the moms are gonna be in there, and it's going to get
responses. If you do that type of post before you do a
promotional post or a post that you really want people to see, you will
get more reach because it's gonna, like, trigger the algorithms to say, oh,
people are engaging and responding to that. Let's show more people that post. So that's
a little hack. Yeah. Yeah. And I think there's something just
about connecting on the human level. I'm finding this a lot on
threads right now, which, y'all listening to the podcast, we're
we're gonna talk all about threads next month. But the thing I'm finding
about threads is those kind of, like, human connection pieces. It's like,
yes, we're business owners, and, yes, we're running a business. But,
there's a human behind the accounts on every platform.
So connecting at the human level can really,
be a lot easier for us, honestly, just just like talking to someone in
a coffee shop, which I love. Okay. So let's say we have a
group and we've we've had it for a while and it's just it's dead.
It's inactive. The there's people in there. You know, we've definitely got our
100 people, but we haven't posted in a while maybe. Or even
if we have, there's not any engagement. Is there anything we can do to, like,
boost, engagement or to revive those inactive
groups? Yes. So it does depend
on how inactive inactive is. So
there there's definitely a point there there's a point at which it does not
make sense to try and revive a group. But the challenge is most
people look at engagement thinking it's like the number of people that commented
or liked. But we wanna look in your group insights and find
out what is your percent of active members. And your active members are
people that are actually reading your post, they're watching your videos, or
they're overtly engaging, liking, commenting, or
posting. But we in our mind think, oh, they're not commenting.
If they're not posting, they're not engaging. But the fact is if they're consuming our
content, they actually are engaging, and we just don't actually see it.
So it's really important to go in your group insights and be clear as to,
like, hey. What's your actual percentage of active members? And
if your percentage of active members is less than 25%,
it's gonna be a really long push of a road to try and bring the
group back to life. So if that's
the case, sometimes it's easier to create a new group and invite people into the
new group from the existing group. But if you have more than
that, then then to me, it's like I would go on a, like, 30
day, bring back to life revival campaign,
reengagement campaign, where you're just giving
tremendous amount of value, running some fun things. You can do
interviews with people, like, just giveaways, like, contest content.
Like, the only purpose not to sell, not to do anything is just
to bring to life and pulling out the stops of creating that. And
typically, we see with a 30 day reengagement campaign,
engagement starts to come back to life, things start to shift, things start to move,
and then you can kinda carry on with a a a regular consist more
consistent strategy. But it typically takes about 30 days to kinda
bring things back to life if it's been dormant for some time. Yeah.
So as we head into the rest of the year,
thinking about the changes that Facebook has made to groups, like, they've kinda pulled back
on some of the automations and things like that, what should we be thinking about
as business owners when it comes to Facebook group strategy?
Yeah. So I look at it as, like, looking at Facebook groups
just as a tool to enhance, like, the things that you're
doing and create connection with people. And so Facebook always
changes. I mean, all the socials are always changing things. Right? Removing the
tools. Saying that that, you know, they were moving the 3rd party services, which
they've done them before, and then they bring them back. So my estimation is
they'll probably bring something back that's gonna be equivalent that just hasn't been
announced as of the point of time of recording this. Maybe by the time it
goes live, it may already be public and may already come out.
And so to me, it's really looking at, k, Facebook group as a
strategy is number 1, is creating maintenance
ongoing connection based relationship building building content. And then number
2 is using Facebook groups to,
to level up your your sales campaign. So, like, running your sales
system through there. And if we're looking at it from those two
strategies, if we're keeping which is like you're talking about for the
the the loyalty group. It's like keeping people warm. It's keeping people
engaged. It's keeping people interested in the brand, interested in
conversation, connecting with other people, and creating that sense of community.
If we have that as a baseline and we're using our group for
that, then in addition to that, we're running our
sales campaigns and bring your people through our group to come participate through
those, and that's really the most effective thing. So treat our day to day
connection in the group and maintenance content as what it
is. It's not meant to sell. And then we have our sales
campaigns, which are typically, like, value based to
that leads to an offer that's separate. Let's look at them as 2
separate entities, 2 separate things that are happening alongside each
other in the group. And I think if you focus on your group that way,
maintaining that baseline connection and running your sales campaigns,
you will see, a great increase in in
regards to conversions. And you look at, you know, you look at, like, a
Tony Robbins, Dean Graziosi, or, you know, Russell
Brunson, James Wedmore. You look at a lot of, like, industry leaders that
are doing multiple $1,000,000 launch campaigns, and they're still using groups
even though they're teaching something else. They're still using Facebook Groups in
as part of their launch strategy to create that connection with those
people as they're moving them towards a buying decision. So they
work, and they do increase conversions, and we see it all the
time through industry leaders. Yeah. So if any if you're listening to
this and you wanna build a community, I do think Facebook is one of the
the easiest ways to get started with that. I started
my community on Facebook. Now we're on circle. But, you
know, it it there's it's a low barrier to entry. It's really easy to
get started, and it's easy because a lot of people are there. So I love
that. So for those people who are listening and they're like, I need more Christina
in my life. What's a what's a free thing that you can offer to them
that can be, like, a little step into your world? Yes.
So we have a free resource that
is 7 days, 7 ways to get your
first or next 100 Facebook group members. So, like,
that's like the the minimum milestone marker, but it's also
like a a movement for those that already have established groups. So
that's what we're gonna give your listeners, 7 days, 7 ways
to create, your first or next 100 Facebook group members. I
love it. Okay. Get that, y'all. It's gonna be juicy. In the show
notes, onlinedre.com/312. That's 300
and 12 this episode, and all of the links to
Christina's stuff. Tell us about your business and where we can find you
online. So you can find me on facebook
at deliver your genius or instagram@christinothach.jandowbey.
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