A Virtual Collective to Support  Business Owners

The Business Book Collective is for growth-oriented solo or small business owners of service-based businesses who want to grow their business. 

They are looking for accountability, community and inspiration to help them get into action. 

They appreciate the value of having people with different sizes of companies, with different experience and different perspectives in the group for powerful idea sharing.

Are you a "Best of Intentions but Never Quite Finishes a Book" kind of reader?

Sometimes a book catches your attention and then about midway through gets put aside when more pressing matters come up. The Business Book Collective will help you stay committed to reading more business books and will keep you on track.

Or are you a "Avid Reader that Blows through Books but Never Quite Applies the Learnings" kind of reader?

I'm guilty of this one. I'm the first one to rush out to get a book that catches my attention and I usually devour it quickly. But I don't always apply the learnings before moving onto the next book. For readers like me, the Business Book Collective will provide the support of an inspiring community to kick you into action.

Every two months we will choose a business-focused book to read. The book will be read over the span of two months with a monthly mastermind meeting each month. This gives you plenty of time to read the book at a comfortable pace and implement your ideas.

The books will cover a variety of areas of business from marketing to operations. 

The week before each month:

You will be provided with the name of the next month's book and links to purchase your digital or hard copy on your own. 

Every Sunday:

You will be sent a Reading Prompt email on Sundays to help you plan out your reading for the week. 

Every Friday:

You will be sent a Weekly Review email to capture your weekly learnings and ideas. 

On the last Thursday of the month at 7:00 pm EST:

You will join a 90-minute ZOOM call where we will bring all members of the Collective together.

For the first portion of the call we engage in a facilitated group discussion.

We then break out in groups of four into individual breakout rooms for small group Masterminding discussions using a structured format.

In between:

You are provided with a Business Book Collective Workbook to capture your learnings, have access to a portal where all the recordings and materials will be kept, and have an opportunity to participate in a private Facebook group to keep the discussions going all month long! The group is very active in supporting each other.

Your monthly membership includes:

• Access to an incredible community of like-minded business owners
• Weekly Reading Prompt emails to keep you on track and accountable to finishing the book
• Weekly Reading Review Prompt emails to capture your learning and ideas to share with the Collective
• Access to a private Facebook group of Business Book Collective members to keep the discussion going all month long
• Participation in an interactive 90-minute ZOOM call on the last Thursday of every month at 7:00 pm EST
• A Business Book Collective Workbook to keep all of your learnings for the year in one place
• Monthly meeting recording sent to your inbox
• Resources, support and surprises along the way!

Yes, you are responsible for purchasing your own books in whatever format you prefer - hard copy, digital or audio. 

Even though I love reading personal books on my eReader, I generally prefer reading business books in hard copy format because it is easier to refer back when putting ideas into action. 

Each month you will be prompted to purchase the upcoming book with links for Amazon and Indigo to make it quick and easy for you. 

We use a crowd-sourced, member- selected Book List to choose our reading. 

Everyone contributes book ideas to a central list and every three months we vote on our next three books. 

The goal is to choose action-oriented books that cover different areas of running a business as a solo or small business owner.

New members have access to the reading prompts, summary of the Collective Wisdom and call recordings from previously read books. 

Books we have read to date include:

Clockwork: Design Your Business to Run Itself by Mike Michalowicz

Building a StoryBrand: Clarify Your Message So Customers Will Listen
by Donald Miller

The Language of Trust by Michael Maslansky

No BS Time Management for Entrepreneurs by Dan S. Kennedy

Business Made Simple by Donald Miller

There can be incredible power in a Collective.

The intention of a Mastermind is to leverage the power of multiple minds that have come together focused on the same goal - like growing your business. 

A traditional Mastermind offers a combination of brainstorming, peer accountability and support in a group setting.

A facilitator helps guide the discussion and each member has the opportunity to share and ask for feedback.

As a participant in a Mastermind myself, I've seen the huge value of having a group to share ideas and challenges with to get perspectives and feedback. 

This concept will be woven through the structure of the Business Book Collective on larger scale than a traditional group that is smaller.

From how the weekly Reading Review prompts collect ideas and questions, to the discussions in the Facebook Group, to the format for the monthly ZOOM calls, the focus will be on drawing on the collective wisdom for the learning and development of each member.

A Mastermind is not a class. The main focus of a mastermind group is the brainstorming and accountability support among the group members.

A Mastermind is also not group coaching. It's about the members sharing with each other, not about the facilitator coaching individuals in a group setting. You get everyone’s feedback, advice and support.

That's great! You'll be ahead of the game. Even if you've already read a book, re-reading a book can provide a whole new experience. There is power in repetition.

When you re-read a book, you read it from where you are at today and you may find that different concepts or ideas will jump out at you. 

And re-reading the book along with the Collective will give you a whole new experience of consuming it within a community.

This will be the time that you put all the highlights and dog-earred pages into action!

There are a few commitments that you will need to make to join the Collective. 

To Yourself

This is not a passive book club experience. The more you commit and engage with the group, the more you will get out of it.

You need to commit to yourself that you will read each of the subscribed books from cover to cover and whole-heartedly participate in each step of the process.

Your monthly investment will provide some skin in the game, but you need to make the commitment to yourself to get everything you can out of the experience.

To the Members of the Business Book Collective

You need to be willing to be open and fully commit to contributing your ideas and sharing your wisdom with the other members of the Mastermind with the full belief that they will also contribute their ideas for your success. 

To Me

My intention is to create a highly valuable experience for you.

If you are not finding the Business Book Collective to be of value, you can provide 30 days notice to discontinue your membership. If your next payment falls within the 30 days, you will be invoiced for the payment and your payment plan will be discontinued after that. 

You can choose to pay your membership on a monthly basis for $59 CDN per month.

If you join with a friend, both you and the friend will be given a special price of $49 CDN per month for 2021.

Invoicing

You will be charged the first month's payment when you join and then every 30 days after the date you joined.

You can join the Business Book Collective at any point during the year. 

Send me an email at [email protected] and I'd be happy to answer it!