A free online group for people already running something. One of you takes live questions every week. You leave knowing who answered.
You joined for the network. You've been reading it ever since. Most “networking communities” are just a paid tier with a free chat.
Same posts. Same screenshots. Same links. The only thing that changes is whether anyone in there knows your name.
You turn up, you put your hand up, you get an answer. There's nothing to fill in first.
Three examples of what gets asked and answered on a call. Asked: how do I price a retainer? Answered: charge for the outcome, not the hours. Asked: what do I say when they ghost? Answered: one line, no pitch, just "still worth doing?" Asked: when do I hire my first closer? Answered: when you're turning calls away, not before.
You just saw what the room looks like. If you've got answers worth that seat, six quick questions tell us whether a call's worth booking, for you and for us.
A room for people already building something. Our infamous guest events bring on value that shouldn't be free, but is.
Got a question about joining, an opportunity, or something the group helped with? Tell Stan directly.
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I started Totem because most networking groups are a paid tier bolted onto a dead group chat, and I wanted the opposite: a room where asking a real question gets you a real answer. I host the calls myself, I'm learning to sell for real right alongside everyone in here, and I read every email that lands at the address below.
Not an industry list. Three things that are true of the people who get something out of it.
A business, an offer, a service, a desk you sit at on commission. Something with real numbers attached, however small. People still deciding what to do find it slow going. Everything here assumes you've already started.
Not "how do I grow": the actual thing. The step in the process that keeps breaking, the conversation that keeps going the same way. Specific questions are the only ones a live room can answer properly.
The whole mechanism is you asking and someone answering you by name. Lurking works, and plenty of people do it, but it's the people who speak who walk away knowing somebody.
Still deciding what to build. Looking for a course or a curriculum to follow. Want to sit in the chat and never put your mic on? That's allowed, but you won't get much out of it.
Everything runs through the Main Group. The other two are there when you want a narrower room, and all three are free.
The room everything runs through. The announcements, the conversations and the people. If you join one thing, join this.
For closers & settersNarrower and sharper. Scripts, objection handling, offers and live deal talk between people actively on the phones.
Smaller & quieterAlso free, despite the name. Smaller and quieter: the conversations that don't happen in a room of two thousand five hundred.
We built these three. Got an audience of your own? We’ll build yours with you →
