Elliott Rashed

Your parents told you to save. Work hard, put money in a 401k, and you'll be fine.

They weren't lying to you. But the rules changed in 1971 and nobody told them.

When Nixon ended the gold standard, wages stopped tracking productivity. The median home went from $25,000 to $420,000. The dollar lost over 96% of its purchasing power. The retirement system was built for a world that no longer exists.

If you're anywhere near 50, you've lived through the worst of it without knowing what you were living through. You worked hard. You saved. And somehow the number still doesn't feel like it's going to be enough.

The people building recurring income streams right now are doing it because they watched what happened to their parents and they're not willing to repeat it.

$450 a month in recurring income is $5,400 a year. That's not retirement. But it's a brick in the wall. You add another stream, then another, and the math starts working for you instead of against you.

That's what we're building here: https://skool.com/affiliate/plans

Let's talk about math for a second, because the math here is genuinely exciting.

Marie runs the Bakery School on Skool. She helps bakery owners scale their businesses. We ran a Facebook Ads campaign targeting bakery owners across Australia, Canada, Germany, France, the UK, and the US.

$5 a day in ad spend.

$4.91 per new Skool community member.

24 new members in 30 days.

Facebook is now responsible for 52% of all her member sign-ups and 57% of her about page traffic. Her click-through rate came in at 13%, which in the ad world is what you'd call very, very good.

Five dollars a day. That's a cup of coffee and a muffin. That's what it cost to add 24 members to a paid community in a single month.

The benchmark we shoot for is $3 to $8 per member. Under $8 means you're getting a high-quality lead who actually wants what you're selling. Marie came in at $4.91.

If you're building a Skool community and wondering how to grow it without just hoping people show up, this is what predictable growth looks like.

Come learn how we run this inside the lab: https://skool.com/affiliate/plans

$97 a month. Per client. After Year 1.

That client doesn't need you to do anything new to earn it. The software is running. The pipelines are working. The automations are live. You set it up once, and they pay you every single month.

Most people in the affiliate world are chasing the next sale. The next launch. The next piece of content that might go viral. GHL clients sit in the background and pay you whether you post that day or not.

Inside the Recurring Revenue Lab, GHL is included in your Premium membership for the entire first year. That's 12 months of white-label software to build your first sub-accounts, test the model, and have real clients before you ever pay a separate software bill.

By the time Year 2 starts, the clients you built in Year 1 are covering your costs.

That's the model. Come see it: https://skool.com/affiliate/plans