The average entrepreneur spends $300–$800 per month on separate subscriptions: funnel builder, email service, course host, community platform, live stream tool, video hosting, CRM, and website hosting. That’s thousands of dollars a year just to run your business before you make a single sale.

Each tool comes with its own learning curve.

Its own dashboard.

Its own set of “must-watch” tutorial videos.

It’s no wonder so many creators spend more time learning software than learning sales or strategy.

You lose hours every week switching between platforms, logging in and out, fixing integrations, copying links, and re-uploading assets.

That’s time you could have spent creating content, connecting with your audience, or making offers.

Eventually the setup gets so messy that you have to hire someone just to keep it running. Now you’re paying even more to maintain the complexity that was supposed to make life easier. And when you zoom out, it’s hard not to ask:

“Why does building freedom require so much friction?”

No one started their business to spend their life in tech tutorials or subscription dashboards.

We all want the same thing — simplicity that scales.

A system that just works.

A setup that gives back time, energy, and clarity instead of draining it.

Something so seamless that you can finally focus on what actually matters: creating, connecting, and growing your business.

That’s what caught my attention about ESTAGE.

It wasn’t promising “another marketing app.”

It was promising a simplified infrastructure — one hub, one login, one ecosystem that runs your entire business.

The entrepreneurs who scale fastest aren’t adding tools; they’re subtracting friction.

That’s the essence of the Hub-Centric Model.

In the traditional setup, your business is scattered across rented platforms.

In the hub-centric model, everything lives under one roof — on your domain, under your brand, powered by one system.

Your hub becomes your digital headquarters:

🌐 Website & blog

💬 Community

🎥 Native live streaming

📚 Courses & memberships

🧭 Funnels & CRM

🤝 Your own affiliate center to build and manage partners under your brand

🎞️ Unlimited video hosting for your content and courses

📧 Native email manager (coming soon)

📱 Your own branded mobile app

When you post or go live, members get push notifications directly from you. No algorithms. No noise. Your brand becomes its own ecosystem — your private island in the digital ocean.

Why It Matters Focus returns. One login. One workspace. Time & money saved. Fewer subscriptions, fewer headaches. You own the asset. Your domain, your data, your app. Simplicity isn’t a downgrade — it’s a power move.

Focus returns - One login. One workspace.

Time & money saved. Fewer subscriptions, fewer headaches.

You own the asset. Your domain, your data, your app.

Simplicity isn’t a downgrade — it’s a power move.

In the traditional model, your business is scattered across platforms.

You rent space everywhere — community on one app, courses on another, funnels on a third, website somewhere else.

In the hub-centric model, everything lives under one roof — on your domain, under your brand, powered by a single system that connects it all.

Your hub becomes the home base for your brand. Every piece of your business — website, funnels, content, courses, community, events — flows naturally inside that ecosystem.

Your customers no longer have to jump between platforms. They log in once. They see your world, your content, your offers — everything — in one seamless experience.

It’s the difference between trying to manage a dozen rented apartments versus owning a well-designed home where every room serves a purpose.

Vick didn’t build ESTAGE for the market first — he built it for himself.

As a top affiliate and educator, he lived through the same duct-tape nightmare as the rest of us.

Every launch meant connecting five systems, checking for breakpoints, and praying nothing crashed mid-campaign.

So he set out to create the platform he always wished existed — something that handled:

He wanted it to look beautiful, perform flawlessly, and remove every unnecessary step between idea and execution.

And that’s exactly what ESTAGE has evolved into today — a refined, fully-integrated hub that feels less like juggling apps and more like operating your business from a cockpit.

Here’s something that genuinely surprised me once I started using it: ESTAGE comes with a native mobile app — branded to your hub.

That means when you create your community, your members can download your app. Your name. Your icon. Your space.

When you go live or make an announcement, they get a push notification directly on their phone.

No algorithms. No buried posts. No competition for attention.

Imagine this:

You go live in your community.

Within seconds, every member gets a notification — not from Facebook or YouTube — but from you.

They tap.

They join.

They engage.

That’s not just marketing — that’s relationship infrastructure.

It’s like having your own private island in the digital ocean — a place where your tribe gathers, interacts, and grows together under your brand.

No distractions. No ads. No noise.

Just you and your people, connected through your hub.

When your tools are unified, three powerful things happen:

1. You focus again - No more context-switching between apps. Everything you need is one click away.

2. You save time and money - Replacing multiple subscriptions can save hundreds each month, but more importantly — it gives you back your hours and energy.

3. You build faster - because you have simplicity again.

4. You build something that lasts - Because your hub lives on your domain and your app, you’re not building someone else’s platform — you’re building an asset that grows in value the longer you use it.

That’s the brilliance of the hub-centric model.

It simplifies the chaos, restores focus, and gives entrepreneurs back what they’ve been missing: control.

When I finally stepped into ESTAGE, something shifted.

It didn’t feel like another tool to learn — it felt like a breath of fresh air.

After years of piecing things together, logging in here was like walking into a spotless new office where everything was already in its place.

The dashboard greets you with calm.

No noise.

No pop-ups.

No confusion.

Just your brand, your data, your people — all flowing together.

With the very professional hub templates, there are 7 to choose from, I was able to get setup in 1 day. The instructions were clear and step by step, which I loved. Many platforms leave you with more questions than answers when trying to get setup. Not the case with ESTAGE.

This blew me away because something like this would realistically took months just to get something like this all working.

Not only that, but it looked like something that would have cost 10's of thousands of dollars to build!

I’ll be honest — after years of “integration PTSD,” I expected setup to take days. It didn’t.

Within the first hour, I had my domain connected, my homepage live, and my community shell created. The interface feels intuitive — almost like the simplicity of Skool, but with the power of ClickFunnels and Kajabi built in.

The drag-and-drop builder is visual, clean, and forgiving.

You can move fast without feeling like you’re about to break something.

I started with a basic funnel and a welcome page for my community. No external tools, no juggling links — it was all within the hub.

If you’ve ever used Skool, Facebook Groups, or Circle, you’ll recognize the familiar flow: posts, comments, notifications, member profiles.

But ESTAGE takes it one step further — it’s yours.

Your logo.

Your domain.

Your app.

There’s something powerful about opening your community and seeing your brand everywhere — not another platform’s logo or ads.

Members can post, comment, and DM.

You can categorize discussions, pin announcements, and go live right inside the hub.

No Zoom links, no separate webinar app — just a “Go Live” button, and you’re broadcasting directly to your community.

During my first test live, members received instant notifications on their phones through the branded ESTAGE app — and they joined immediately. Comments were in real time just live if you were on Tiktok.

That level of connection is something I’ve never had on any other platform. It feels like finally owning the conversation.

Next, I built out a simple funnel — a free guide opt-in leading to a thank-you page that invites people into my community.

Normally, that process means juggling three tools: one for the funnel, one for email automation, and one for community onboarding.

Inside ESTAGE, it’s one continuous flow. Visitors land on my opt-in page → join my list (via integration) → and are instantly invited to the community.

It’s clean. Seamless. And the analytics are built right into the dashboard.

Instead of exporting data from five places, I can see how my entire ecosystem is performing from one screen.

By the way, at the time of writing this, Vick is in the process of adding our own native list manager and autoresponder so there is no more integrating with expensive autoresponders.

I will update this section as soon as it is shipped and I have a chance to use it.

I moved one of my smaller digital courses into ESTAGE just to test the experience.

Uploading lessons was quick — video hosting is native, so there’s no need for Vimeo or YouTube links.

You can add text, resources, and track completion, all without leaving your hub.

The real advantage?

Your students don’t have to switch platforms. They can go from watching a lesson → to joining the community discussion → to attending your next live session — all within the same environment.

No new logins.

No lost momentum.

It’s frictionless learning — and that’s what keeps people engaged.

By the way, for founding members of Mission1000, you get some really good products integrated inside your community from day 1.

This is cool because you will have tremendous value to offer from the very first day.

These products are not some PLR garbage or something created with chatgbt.

These are products were personally created by Vick and some have have sold upwards of $2000!

While I recommend creating your own, this instantly makes your members area extremely valuable from the start.

This is where ESTAGE really starts to feel futuristic and something that has never been done.

Every member of your community can download your own branded app — available on iOS and Android.

It’s not “the ESTAGE app.” It’s your app.

When you make a post or go live, your members get a push notification directly from you.

They’re not scrolling through a newsfeed filled with noise.

They’re landing in your world — your hub, your ecosystem, your brand experience. I can’t overstate how valuable that is.

It’s like owning a private communication channel with your audience — one that cuts through the clutter of social media and email algorithms.

Your community literally carries your brand in their pocket.

One of my biggest fears with any “new” platform is stability.

But ESTAGE is solid. The infrastructure has clearly matured — it’s fast, secure, and handles live sessions without lag or dropouts. Even under heavy load, everything stayed smooth. After the platform endured massive DDOS attacks earlier in its history, the team rebuilt the security and server structure from the ground up using AWS which only used by multimillion and billion dollar enterprises such as Amazon, Netflix and US government.

That’s given me a lot of confidence in its longevity.

Vick's commitment to making this the best shows with this move.

What struck me most after a few weeks wasn’t just how well it worked — it was how much mental bandwidth it freed up.

No more remembering which platform hosts what.

No more 30-minute setup rituals to prepare for a live stream.

No more hunting for scattered analytics.

Everything lives where it should. Everything feels cohesive.

And when your tools stop fighting each other, your creativity comes back online.

That’s when business starts feeling fun again.

I always like to include where I see room for growth:

These are small trade-offs for what you gain: control, simplicity, and ownership.

With that said, it is far superior than most in other areas that count.

Using ESTAGE feels like finally having a real headquarters for your business — not just a collection of rented rooms.

It’s focused, clean, and centered on what actually grows your brand: connection, content, and consistency.

For years, I dreamed of a system that made my business feel lighter — one that helped me run everything without feeling like I was running everything.

That’s exactly what ESTAGE has delivered so far.

After spending years inside the “tool maze,” and now running my business from a unified hub, it’s impossible not to see what’s happening across the industry.

The old way of building an online business is collapsing under its own complexity.

For the past decade, digital entrepreneurs were told the secret was in tools.

Get the right funnel builder.

Get the right email system.

Add a community platform,

a webinar platform,

a course platform,

a chat app.

Stack them, automate them, and somehow it will all work. And for a while, it did — kind of.

But as the market matured, the cracks started showing: rising costs, lower attention spans, algorithm dependency, constant retooling.

We ended up spending more time managing our tools than managing our business.

Funnels still have their place — but they’re no longer enough. People don’t just want to opt in; they want to belong.

They don’t want to be pushed through an automated sequence — they want to connect, interact, and be part of a brand they trust.

That’s the new game: relationship-centric business. And it demands a new kind of infrastructure — one that unites marketing, content, community, and experience under one roof.

That’s what the Hub-Centric Model delivers.

Believe me, Trust and Community will be more important than ever as AI continues to evolve because people will crave real connections.

The deeper truth behind this shift is ownership. Most entrepreneurs don’t actually own their audience — social platforms do. They don’t own their communities — the host app does. They don’t even fully own their data — it’s scattered across services that can change their terms at any time. That’s dangerous when your livelihood depends on connection. A hub gives you that ownership back. When your business lives on your domain, when your community engages through your app, when your brand controls the environment — you’re building a digital asset, not just running campaigns. And digital assets appreciate in value. Every post, every course, every live, every member interaction compounds inside your own ecosystem — instead of feeding someone else’s.

One of the smartest moves ESTAGE made was including a white-labeled mobile app for every hub owner. In a world where attention is mobile-first, that’s a big deal. Think about it: Your members aren’t checking emails all day — they’re on their phones. So when you go live or make a post, ESTAGE sends a push notification directly to their phone — not through Facebook, not through a cluttered feed, but straight from your app. You’re not fighting for their attention — you already have it. That means when you teach, launch, or connect, your audience sees it first. It’s like having your own private broadcast network. And because it’s native to your hub, the entire experience feels cohesive and personal — no distractions, no competing voices, no algorithm deciding who gets to see what. Your brand becomes a destination, not just a domain.

If you zoom out, you can see the direction clearly: The internet is decentralizing. Creators are becoming their own platforms. Communities are replacing audiences. Attention is shifting from mass content to meaningful connection. ESTAGE sits right at the intersection of all those trends. It’s built for where business is heading, not where it’s been. That’s why it feels different — not because it’s new tech, but because it’s built around an evolved mindset: “Stop renting your business. Start owning it.”

Whether you sell your own products or promote others, this matters. Because the more the world fragments, the more valuable clarity and cohesion become. When everything lives in one hub — your site, your funnels, your community, your app — every piece of effort you put in strengthens your core brand. Instead of spreading yourself across rented platforms, you’re creating compounding equity in your own ecosystem. And that’s the future. Not just more automation, but more ownership. Not just faster funnels, but deeper relationships. Not just selling — but building something that lasts. That’s what ESTAGE makes possible.