Welcome to the Business, Marketing & Community Growth table! These are the people who can help you start or grow a business, improve your marketing, attract clients, and build a stronger community. You can check the cafeteria for the other tables. Here are the seats: - @Aimee Jardon runs 🌹SNAP: Golden Rose VIP, a premium magazine and community about buyer psychology, confident selling, and why customers choose you. - @Alexandra Alexa runs Coaches Growth Network, where health and wellness coaches use practical systems, AI tools, and mindset work to attract consistent clients and grow their businesses. - @Dave Hughes runs Skool Reset & Rebuild, helping community owners clarify their audience, improve search visibility, and turn quiet groups into active communities. - @Eric William runs AI SEO Content & Traffic, where members use modern content, SEO, social media, and automation systems to get their offers seen. - @Adam McCollough runs Start a Business with No Money, helping people build with the skills, resources, leverage, and free tools they already have. - @Brian Diep helps community builders turn their groups into second homes where members feel that they belong and want to stay. - @Brian Walsh runs Skool Nerds, where builders test, launch, and grow communities that people genuinely want to join. - @Chris K. Davidson brings digital marketing, brand visibility, journalism, and freelance writing experience to business owners who want clearer promotion. - @Des Dreckett runs The Content Revenue Lab, helping creators over 40 build audiences across major platforms and turn their content into income. - @Eliot Payne runs The Marketing Common Room, where business owners, creators, and marketers make their marketing clearer and easier to act on. - @Gary Boyd runs AI Marketing Factory, showing business owners how to build practical AI systems that generate leads, support sales, and scale revenue. - @Heather Boers runs The Directory On Skool, teaching business owners how to improve visibility and get found instead of posting and hoping. - @Joe Sargent runs Skool Growth Lab, helping experienced professionals choose a niche, shape an offer, launch on Skool, and grow an online business. - @LaToya Wiggins runs The Gem Vault, helping faith-driven founders turn good ideas into legitimate businesses through strategy, marketing, AI, and execution. - @Lau Brizuela runs Skooligans, a community that celebrates wins, laughs at mistakes, and turns the messy parts of building into useful lessons. - @Laura Paulina runs SkoolCue | Skool Owners Hub, helping owners see which members need attention and manage relationships through a community-focused CRM. - @Lion Fludd runs The Art Of Going Live, helping community owners use live video to build confidence, reach their first members, and create a community that pays. - @Mike Tielemans runs CULT CREATORS, helping experts attract their first 100 paying believers through a clear mission-based offer. - @Mona Weathers runs Clients for Coaches, where coaches and consultants learn simple, repeatable systems to attract, connect with, and convert ideal clients. - @Toivo Mattila runs Cursor Skool, a learning community for people who want to build software faster with Cursor. - @Auli Takala runs Backstage Mastermind, helping members become visible, build useful connections, create a working funnel, and turn opportunities into clients. - @Ivan Ivanov runs Content Mastery, helping Skool community owners create content that connects with people and converts attention into leads. - @Joshua Guerrero runs Earn Your First $1 on Skool, guiding new builders from choosing an idea to launching a community and taking their first practical steps toward revenue. - @Katie Roth helps entrepreneurs grow without getting buried under digital clutter, too many tools, or constant decision fatigue. - @Kevin Gebert runs The IMPACT Experience, where members build businesses, strengthen their message, and turn their expertise into greater impact through workshops and collaboration. - @Kim M. runs Skoolers PPP-SAUCE→Clarity, helping stay-at-home parents clarify their message and turn silent customers and community members into active supporters. - @Lara Sloan runs Skool Launch Lab, helping coaches launch or scale a community-based practice without social media or technical overwhelm. - @Misty Pastilock runs LUXX Creator Academy, helping creators stop chasing distractions and build clear businesses with strategy, systems, and repeatable income. - @Roberto Srpak runs OBB1 Skool Navigator, helping experts use the Skool community model to attract a small number of high-ticket clients without a huge audience or paid ads. - @Shafna Aura builds online businesses and shares experience from working full time as an entrepreneur, with a focus on affiliate marketing. - @Shannon Boyer runs the skool CLASSIFIEDS, a public place to promote Skool communities, learn ethical promotion, and form useful collaborations without spam. - @Brand Builder brings experience in journalism, publishing, brand strategy, financial advising, and AI consulting to people building stronger public brands. - @Claudio Campobassi runs Panda | Skool Business OS, bringing CRM, tasks, videos, scheduling, and other operating tools together for people running businesses on Skool. - @Constantin C. runs Skool CRM for Growth, helping owners gain members, improve retention, and increase the value created by every community relationship. - @Diana Berryman runs Remotely Social Media, where members learn practical social media skills and get advice from people who market businesses professionally. - @Dr. Robert Gault runs Faith On The Movecommunity to find Counseling for life, depression, grief, loneliness, stress, addiction and more. - @Éva Raposa runs Connect & Collab with Éva+, helping founders and community owners form meaningful collaborations that move their businesses forward. - @Faith Adebayo runs Your Skool Building Bestie:UX, giving owners a fresh view of the member journey so newcomers know where to start, connect, and belong. - @James Simmons runs Business Launch Clarity, helping aspiring founders make the core decisions needed to launch a business. - @Jay Weatherbee helps people turn personal experience and a clear mission into a business they can build one practical step at a time. - @JenEstelle Johnson shares her experience building monthly recurring revenue on Skool as a single mother and autistic entrepreneur. - @Jared Latigo runs AI Leverage Lab where you can replace one time-sucking task in 7 days with AI. No coding. Nothing techy. For founders and personal brands who want to win. - @John Smith runs Skool Community Exchange, helping communities grow through relationships and cross-promotion with other Skool communities. - @Marek Rabcan runs FunnelAscender, helping creators, freelancers, and coaches turn ideas into clear offers and practical funnels without hype or guesswork. - @Rene Kerkdyk runs Prosperous Affiliate Pirates, a starting point for people who want to understand and enter affiliate marketing. - @Sandra Ivy runs Designing Our Worth, helping Gen X women turn their ideas, experience, and gifts into purpose-driven businesses and lives that fit them now. - @Steve Gast runs AuthorityCam, helping people become more confident on camera so they can attract paying clients and charge what their work is worth.

By that I mean Garlic Bread BBQ! Not a fan of any other particular stuff with those initials. → Here are the current top 3 competitors for this week's Roaster of the Week. Check their stuff out! 🥇 @Eric William :44 points - AI SEO Content & Traffic: get modern tools for content, social, SEO, automation and getting your offers seen. 🥈 @Steve Atencio : 27 points - Drafting Workshop: A community where architectural, interior design, and millwork drafters can get coaching and improve their AutoCAD drafting skills. 🥉 @Mimi Ramsey : 27 points - THE BACKROOM | LET IT OUT!: a lil SAFE space to just be REAL n LET IT OUT, - Mimi Ramsey Official: Free yoga. Free trainings. The business stuff nobody talks about - DIRTY YOGA CLUB: Real bodies, no white linen, no pretending. Mess included… Want to raise the scores before the week ends? Roast the pinned roast request! The current pinned one will give 6X more points for the first roaster. See you at the grill!

And for a good reason. [ROAST ANOTHER AI RANT] I got a "community expert" approaching me saying that he would help me scale my community and wanting to disclose his services. I said I was interested in seeing what he offered. He than sent me a PDF diagnosis of my group. It was very very bad. It sugested implementing stuff that I already do very well in a creative way and gave very generic and bland ideas to replace them, like the leaderboard level names, for example. The guy most problably just ran the agent and didn't take a minute to look at my group himself. And I just got to know that Skool and social media are flooding with those consultants. That just creates a reputation that everything that has AI on it is managed by a lazy person or scammer behind it. Now people accuse canva designs of being AI. Scriped videos as being AI. CGI of being AI. Even basic photoshop edits are now AI slop. And it comes with a repulse because the people behind it are seen as lazy like those consultants no matter what they are delivering. Since we're managing communities we have the unique opportunity to break that pattern, because people can connect with us on a level that they can't on modern social media. But the first impression is still very important. Unfortunatelly, if you're using AI for your group images without showing the person behind it, no matter how cool it looks and how much real effort you put behind it, some people will just assume you're a lazy person who uses AI to deliver everything.

[ROAST MY LESSON] Speaking of organic traffic, being active on big groups is a great way to grow here and I'm talking groups with thousands of people. Here are some of my opinions on how to engage on each of them. 👉 For those who own a community: - Skoolers: it's the best one to engage if you're a marketing/business/community building expert. Just go on the new comments filter and start helping people who are asking for help. You can get busy most of the day with it and there is no better way for me to organically get high quality members than doing that. People are grateful because I solve their problems, check me out and come with an initial trust on me that makes them more likely to become a paid member. - Classifieds: this is the best self promotion place on skool, and what inspired me mostly to build this group. @Shannon Boyer and @Mona Weathers gave me valuable feedback there when I was just figuring things out and it got me my very first engaged members and also showed me to some key people who helped me a lot. I wrote a whole article on how you can use it here. - Skool First 100: @Lidia Axe has been actively helping me get more members by giving me the opportunity to talk on her events and also speaking highly of my group, and that's why she is the current referral contest winner. She is an experienced online business expert and I'm learning a lot with her and even paid to get some guidance on paid traffic. - Synthetizer is among the best big groups to network with new people. It's very highly engaged, with very high quality members. I got a comment pinned there yesterday that got me to start a conversation with several skoolers. And the posts that I make there actually get a lot of attention. Their classroom content is really good too.

You can only choose one of those magical pills and the results are instant. What do you choose?