Hey all, I'm an American that's been traveling the past few years internationally. I'm currently in Taiwan after venturing around Latin America for a couple years.
As a single guy looking for a serious relationship and to live/invest abroad, I found some online forums that catered to this, but they all sucked, quite frankly. Members that: never traveled; were losers; had no ambitions. So I decided to create one. I've networked with plenty of successful guys, many of which were also in my position, and didn't really have a way to discuss these things (mainly dating but business too).
I have a lot of experience in different parts of the world and want to finally create content about it, but more importantly grow this business to help guys like me. So I decided to scratch my own itch.
Here's my Welcome article for those interested. Open to feedback on it.
What I'm struggling a bit with is the most effective and efficient path to grow.
I've been on X for a couple weeks now. I paid for the Premium+ version so I get the biggest boost in replies (shows higher on posts and I can create long-form content similar to Substack) and have a few subscriptions to large accounts with some crossover into my niche. I set notifications to each and send out a ton of quality replies daily. I've been DMing similar accounts and seeing if we can help each other out - I'm not selling my content yet. So far I'm up to 209 followers.
I use the X article feature to post my longer-form written content, which I duplicate over on Substack. The reason being is that Substack makes it easier to collect emails for direct selling among other benefits. I discovered the X article feature after setting up my Substack, by the way. I also wanted to have a landing page outside of X.
I'm also active on a couple of forums and discords catering to 'passport bros.' Despite my hatred of that phrasing - I'm working on something similar but more akin to much higher caliber expats / single guys, not 20-something losers - there are a couple that I've connected with that have shown interest in joining my platform. Maybe 10% of guys on these forums are what I'm looking for.
I also have a few guys from my travels that I've pitched this idea to, and they're also interested.
What I want to do is have a paywall (say, $5 USD) to gatekeep the losers and broke members (to put it bluntly). This just provides access to the private forum, which I imagine for now would just be on Discord. There's a service called Subscribe Star that has tiered membership options, including integration with Discord that I could do this via. I think Patreon could do something similar, but they're known for censorship and just kicking people off. I worry that I don't have a large enough community to do this with just yet. I also consider doing a dedicated forum (similar to this, honestly) that could set me apart from others that may only just have Discord. I could throw in some kind of lead magnet like a quick guide on the best places to visit first or similar. Here's one example a guy doing it via Patreon, but he's also got 50k subs on YouTube and another 50k on X.
A couple friends are interested in mastermind groups, such as weekly calls and such. For this I could set up a separate tier, maybe $10-20/month and get access to this with me and other members.
One way to differentiate my content, aside from writing which I enjoy doing, is video. I bought a Sony ZV-E10 and want to utilize it. I took a solo hike recently and filmed some content from atop a mountain peak, discussing topics in my niche. I suck at being on camera though...but I want to do more of that kind of content, and setting it up in an office environment as well.
Sorry for the verbose post.
Would love to get feedback on this. Thanks.
As a single guy looking for a serious relationship and to live/invest abroad, I found some online forums that catered to this, but they all sucked, quite frankly. Members that: never traveled; were losers; had no ambitions. So I decided to create one. I've networked with plenty of successful guys, many of which were also in my position, and didn't really have a way to discuss these things (mainly dating but business too).
I have a lot of experience in different parts of the world and want to finally create content about it, but more importantly grow this business to help guys like me. So I decided to scratch my own itch.
Here's my Welcome article for those interested. Open to feedback on it.
Welcome to the Borderless Collective
About me, about the Borderless Collective, and what to expect
borderlesscollective.substack.com
What I'm struggling a bit with is the most effective and efficient path to grow.
I've been on X for a couple weeks now. I paid for the Premium+ version so I get the biggest boost in replies (shows higher on posts and I can create long-form content similar to Substack) and have a few subscriptions to large accounts with some crossover into my niche. I set notifications to each and send out a ton of quality replies daily. I've been DMing similar accounts and seeing if we can help each other out - I'm not selling my content yet. So far I'm up to 209 followers.
I use the X article feature to post my longer-form written content, which I duplicate over on Substack. The reason being is that Substack makes it easier to collect emails for direct selling among other benefits. I discovered the X article feature after setting up my Substack, by the way. I also wanted to have a landing page outside of X.
I'm also active on a couple of forums and discords catering to 'passport bros.' Despite my hatred of that phrasing - I'm working on something similar but more akin to much higher caliber expats / single guys, not 20-something losers - there are a couple that I've connected with that have shown interest in joining my platform. Maybe 10% of guys on these forums are what I'm looking for.
I also have a few guys from my travels that I've pitched this idea to, and they're also interested.
What I want to do is have a paywall (say, $5 USD) to gatekeep the losers and broke members (to put it bluntly). This just provides access to the private forum, which I imagine for now would just be on Discord. There's a service called Subscribe Star that has tiered membership options, including integration with Discord that I could do this via. I think Patreon could do something similar, but they're known for censorship and just kicking people off. I worry that I don't have a large enough community to do this with just yet. I also consider doing a dedicated forum (similar to this, honestly) that could set me apart from others that may only just have Discord. I could throw in some kind of lead magnet like a quick guide on the best places to visit first or similar. Here's one example a guy doing it via Patreon, but he's also got 50k subs on YouTube and another 50k on X.
A couple friends are interested in mastermind groups, such as weekly calls and such. For this I could set up a separate tier, maybe $10-20/month and get access to this with me and other members.
One way to differentiate my content, aside from writing which I enjoy doing, is video. I bought a Sony ZV-E10 and want to utilize it. I took a solo hike recently and filmed some content from atop a mountain peak, discussing topics in my niche. I suck at being on camera though...but I want to do more of that kind of content, and setting it up in an office environment as well.
Sorry for the verbose post.
Would love to get feedback on this. Thanks.
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