Featured Highlights
- Significant Win: Successfully re-launched their online training portal with a strategic, effective growth plan.
- Key Insight: Gained realistic expectations on how to grow, mentor, market, and advance the online portal through partnerships and a greater group.
- Core Value: Moved from the “bleeding edge” to the “cutting edge” by leaning on the overall experience of the MFSB group.
- Community Impact: Found a supportive network where he’s a solopreneur but “not alone,” working on his business, not just in it.
- Top Recommendation: Calls the MFSB Pro membership the “very best investment I’ve made in myself and my future”.
Introduction: Chris McGown’s Journey to Strategic Growth
Chris McGown, an expert in fundraising and legacy giving at Peak9860, was committed to community and business growth through ongoing training. Despite his extensive experience, he recognized the need for a supportive network of like-minded entrepreneurs and a structured environment to invest in his own future success.
He discovered Jimmy Newson, the founder of MFSB, as a featured speaker at the Innovate Summit. Listening to Jimmy share his business model and drive, Chris felt an immediate resonance with the community being offered. By the end of that day, Chris was convinced he had to join.
Problem: Seeking Expertise and a Path to Strategic Relaunch
Before joining MFSB, Chris faced a common challenge for successful solopreneurs: how to move beyond working in the business and effectively scale his efforts.
- The Need for Honest Expertise: Chris sought a community where the learning was mutual, sharing mistakes, and applying successful strategies without an “us and them” mentality.
- The Solopreneur Challenge: Although a solopreneur, he needed to stop feeling isolated and find a community to help him work on his business for greater potential growth.
- The Relaunch Dilemma: He was preparing to relaunch his online training portal but needed a strategic roadmap and realistic expectations for effective growth, mentoring, and marketing through partnerships.
Solution: Investing in the MFSB Pro Community
Chris made the decision to join Moving Forward Small Business (MFSB) as a Pro Member, recognizing the significant value.
- The Pro Membership Value Proposition: Chris quickly realized that the cost of the overall investment was justified by the archive trainings alone, noting that a couple of the trainings could be found online for the cost of the entire membership.
- Ongoing Training and Implementation: The Pro status offered more than just an archive; it provided ongoing trainings where he became “part of the process” to learn, work, and implement strategies, which completely changed his dynamic of what training should be.
- Community of Action: He joined for the community of professionals who want to get better and actively help others, emphasizing that one must be an active part of the community to reap the benefits.
Results: Achieving Real-World Wins and Strategic Direction
Chris’s active participation and investment in the MFSB Pro Membership led to tangible success and a fundamental shift in his business approach.
- Successful Online Portal Relaunch: The most significant win was the successful relaunch of the online training portal.
- Strategic Growth Framework: He gained a valuable path that provided “legs to those big dreams” by learning:
- How to grow the portal effectively.
- How to mentor and shepherd those groups.
- How to market and advance it through partnerships and a greater group.
- Access to Expertise: He found the “honest expertise” of like-minded entrepreneurs to be a powerful element, providing insights into potential growth areas that he wouldn’t have otherwise seen as effectively or quickly.
- Cutting Edge Position: By leaning on the collective experience of the group, Chris can now operate on the “cutting edge rather than bleeding edge” as he grows his path.
Conclusion: The Best Investment in Yourself and Your Future
Chris McGown is a testament to the fact that while the MFSB community isn’t “magic,” it provides a “kind of magic whenever you’re being active and engaged in it”. The community requires work—it’s an investment of time, energy, and effort—but the return is invaluable. Chris regards his Pro Membership as the “very best investment I’ve made in myself and my future”.
Next Steps
Stop Waiting. Start Growing. Join the MFSB Community Today!
If you’re on the fence about joining, Chris’s advice is clear: “do it! What are you waiting on? Get out there, get it done”.
- Ready to stop feeling like a solopreneur and start collaborating?
- Want a proven path to grow your business effectively?
- Are you ready to make the best investment in your future?
Join Chris and other like-minded professionals:
