When your community wins, you win
This model only works because the incentives line up. Your collective earns more as the businesses you serve succeed, so your success is tied directly to your customers and your community succeeding too.
Train-the-trainer is the key. Your people are trained as trainers first, which means they can teach, support, and grow the businesses around them, and recurring revenue follows naturally as those businesses thrive.
It is a partnership built so that doing right by your community is also the thing that grows your collective.