My Creative Story Part 10: Get Messy Becomes A Business

Read Why I Am Telling My Creative Story and see each part of the story here. I told you how Get Messy got it's start here. I shared how it grew to be too big for an email thread and then for a facebook group. Here is what happened next.Around this time Caylee and I have realized that Get Messy has taken on a life of its own and it needs a LOT of admin work and that people want MORE. We realize for this to be long-term, sustainable project for us to manage that we need this to become a monetary investment for the participants. We are officially terrified. But we know we have to do it and that Get Messians are the most loyal humans on the internet and we know they will come with us.And spoiler alert: almost every single one of them did.We started dreaming, made the announcement and starting working. Hard. At this point Caylee and I are a machine that works together seamlessly. I am writing prompts and taking promo pics. She is building the site and working on branding. We are making crazy progress and yet cannot figure out a price point. Neither of us have ever done this kind of thing before and it doesn’t really exist, so we can’t just use someone else’s model. We don't feel comfortable charging a lot because we honestly don't have a clue of what we are doing. But we need to charge something. Finally we decide on 25$ as the final price. 15$ for current members and 20$ for early adopters. My goal, which Caylee thinks is crazy, is that I will be happy if 100 people sign up within the first two months.Needless to say, we were fools. HUNDREDS of people signed up. IMMEDIATELY. We made more money than we did at our day jobs when we first opened registration. And as the price rose, we saw no drop in registration. We learned SO much from this experience.This was my first real go at earning money online and I was blown away. But I know that this was only successful due to, first, my partner Caylee, second, the Get Messy community, and third an ENTIRE YEAR of working really hard for free. At times, Get Messy is so big and such a living breathing entity all on its own, that I forget it is my baby that I created through a text message.Now, almost a year later, we are only days away from announcing yet another new year plan for Get Messy! That is how much this amazing community has grown. So in just a few months I went from no real online business to running a thriving, 500+ member community. It feels overnight and yet at the same time it feels like it has always been here and a part of who I am and what I do everyday. This creative journey is a fun one...Read Why I Am Telling My Creative Story and see each part of the story here.