I want to know.

Hey, My name is Josh Gavin. As per request, I'm here to share how I'm using a $27 offer to fill my Skool group with members who engage, collaborate and upsell into my $3k+ offers. To give you some history... I grew a Facebook group to 5200 members and collected $486,000 cash from it without running a single paid ad. But while I was doing this I noticed my homies over at Clients & Community had invented this new concept of running ads to a lead magnet which would then point to a free group. So after some time, this method became very popular which meant new problems appeared. But here I was... Growing just as fast as everyone else without running paid ads. So I decided to launch an LTO (low ticket offer) as a side mission to teach all these struggling group owners how to get new members without ads. I never planned on this becoming my main offer since I hated the thought of becoming another one of those 'coaches' who help 'coaches' with organic marketing lol But here I was with a method no one else was teaching... So I launched it! And just 30 days later I enrolled over 200 people at $27 + 40 people into a sass upsell. Using my V1 funnel here: https://www.organicgroupmethod.com/join Then I decided I wanted to take this more seriously and increase my AOV as I started learning more from the LTO God himself Alen Sultanic... So I added new upsells and launch V2 which you can find here: https://www.organicgroupmethod.com/offer Then in December, I launched V3 which you can find here: https://www.organicgroupmethod.com/launch But here’s where things get spicy… Although I believe Facebook is still better for a free group since you can get more attention to funnel people into sales conversation… I don’t like FB as a client portal for paid products…

I have 3 Skool groups. 1- Free Group: this is where people can join for free and learn how to trade futures. How I filled this group by promoting it through my social media platforms and now people are adding their friends and so on. This is a self service group. I use this group to promote my LTO algo they need to trade with. 2- LTO group. I sell an algo people need to trade. So when they purchase it they get added to this group. We offer live trading together and a private chat group via telegram (Skool needs a chatroom feature with live notifications) This group I start to help people replace their income and become full time traders. I hand pick people to join the next group. 3- The Mastermind: this group is all about harmony and accountability. We have a system that tracks daily trading and performance and we hold each other capable and accountable daily. This group is a very tight group. 100 people max. 30k a year to be a part of this group. The main thing is to create a place where people feel supported and valued. 💯

Hey everyone, Introducing Skool Kompanion - A Free Mobile App for Skool I’ve made a number of tools for Skool over the past few months such as Skool Directory or the Members Export Plugin. I believe in Skool the product and ecosystem, and am excited to see it grow. As with directory, this project was inspired by seeing numerous requests about a Mobile App. In response I’ve gone ahead and created Skool Kompanion. Skool Kompanion is a simple mobile app that allows you to access Skool as you would from a browser. It also gives you access to real-time push notifications for posts and comments at the tip of your fingers. Over the course of the last couple of weeks — I have found myself more engaged with Skool due to the way notifications keep me looped in. I think this mobile app with notifications will lead to higher engagement within your groups. I encourage everyone to try it for some time, and see how much of a difference it makes. I think it will be an essential tool in order to stay engaged and connected with your groups. At this time Skool Kompanion does not support Android, and notifications do not support chat. These are things I may look at in the future depending on support and feedback. So please try it, and let me know if you have feedback.

We just shipped some new gamification features to make things more fun! • Custom level names: Personalize your group by naming your levels. • Unlock courses at levels: Unlock a course or something of value when members hit a high level. • Leaderboard redesign: Now you can see your progress and what you can unlock as you level up. Watch the Loom video below for more info on how it works and how to set it up for yourself. This is an experimental feature we're playing with, so we want to hear your feedback! Try it out for yourself and let us know what you think?

I use Skool by helping creators make a substantial living doing what they are great at and what they love. PS. I have nothing to sell you. I am just passionate about education.

@Andrew Kirby stopped by Skool HQ the other day to hang out. We talked about Skool for 6 hours. He's doing some interesting things with his free group "Synthesizer School". He basically funnels his audience (social, email list, etc.) to his free group + mini-course. He builds a relationship with his audience in the group, and occasionally promotes his paid course. It works! The funnel: Audience → to Community → to Customers. Anyway... I got Kirby to create a "Free Group Funnel" mini-course sharing his process. If you have any questions, comment below, and I'm sure Kirby will help. Enjoy!

Like all things, growing a Skool community and getting engagement is EASY when you know what to do. In this post you'll learn the 3 secrets to growing a free & potentially highly profitable Skool community. Here's how I grew my free Skool community to 250 members with an 80% activity score over the last 7 days. (For context, I have a $47/m membership with 280 members, but I recently just launched a free Skool community so I can create a pool of prospects to nurture for eventual sales down the road.) - Secret 1: Make the group public. I used to think a private group was the move, but I was wrong. Private only makes sense if your community required paid access. When your group is public, it gives people the chance to tour the community and get a feel for it - and if you're group look good, they'll join. - Secret 2: Invite people. I used the bulk .CSV invite feature, but it didn't work as well as I thought it would. I sent an email to 10,000+ people with it, but not many joined from it... The real magic was inviting people in my FB group by telling them I was closing the FB group (see attached image) AND when I told my FB group (& my Instagram following) they could access my new contentpreneurship course inside the Skool group (see attached image). So now I'm going to email my 10k+ list and invite them using the same angle. - Secret 3: Set your courses to unlock after level 1 & 2. As you can see in the image below, I locked everything except for 1 course. This way, if someone was visiting the public group, they could at least watch my Step 1 and get inspired & learn how to unlock the rest of the material. But here's the real secret for getting super high engagement: Set all your good course material to unlock after level 2, and tell your people that in order get to level 2, they need to introduce themselves, and to get to level 3 and above, they should comment underneath with their key takeaways and insight.

Classroom is a lightweight content portal for online courses. Create modules, embed videos, add resources, transcripts, and track student progress. Classroom integrates with your Skool community, so your students will have 1-login, 1-profile, and 1-search — for everything. Totally free. Watch the video below to see how it works. Enjoy!

If you could wave a magic wand and add one feature to Skool, what would it be?

Here is our business model where we help farmers desing and implement their dream farms. The model is completly driven by the communities on Skool platform using Skool groups as our main support system for client results and collaborations. It's effective and it's a lot of fun for us and for the clients!

In a group that is public- where there are certain courses that are locked for paid only members... does everyone have access to the same community? Meaning people in the paid private course as well as people in the free group both utilize the same community? See attached... looks like @Andrew Kirby has a paid mastermind course locked- inside of a public group. So, mastermind customers post alongside non-paying customers in the same shared community?? Trying to understand how this works... Currently I have a private group- for paid course members... but trying to layer in a free public group strategy - but don't want the same shared community.

Coding Bootcamps are 3 to 9 month intensive programs which aim to accelerate you through a curriculum that normally takes years in degree programs. The best ones are selective, have proven results, and cost anywhere around $20,000. When you see that number, it is a little eye watering. It’s a lot of money, and you don’t know anything about these bootcamps. Will it work for you? Have others gotten results? Is it worth it? Will you even like it? These bootcamps have to somehow take you from being skeptical, to being a believer who spends $20k. So what do they do? Do they target you with ads until you give in? Do they bombard you with emails? Do they pitch you hard over the phone? The interesting thing is that they do none of these things. What they do is this: after you ask for more info, you are required to join their Slack group before an initial interview. This is where you meet other applicants, from all kinds of backgrounds. They give you all a free beginner Javascript course. They give you free workshops. They have you work with other prospects in pair programming. You are required to do all this to qualify for the technical interview. By taking you through these steps, over a period of roughly 3 months, they make you a believer. You now know how they teach. You have made progress in your skills. You have made friends in the group. You know this is legit. You believe you can do this, and you are hoping you even pass the technical interview. You want to pay them $20k. That’s the power of community. Top coding bootcamps have assembled a system and team that leverages this to warm you up effectively in a short amount of time. They invest in their prospects at scale, build tremendous good-will and trust, and use interviews to qualify and make you work to even be considered to purchase their very high ticket offer. And it works, because they are actually good at what they do. Maybe you can apply some of this techniques to your own community with Skool. There are lots of ways to innovate.

Just starting my first day in the platform. Having created a group in Facebook and seeing it grow to several thousand, I just felt it was out of control. I am looking forward to learning how to use Skool and engage with others on the platform. ps I am an online cycling fitness and performance coach 🚴😍

Any thoughts on a Skool app in the future? I think students would love it!

Ok, I couldn’t be on live. Who wants to share the highlights? 😂 #waitingforthereplay

I am a total beginner at these platforms: What´s the difference between Skool and Kajabi now that Kajabi has a 2.0 community function?

Hey @Sam Ovens and @Sid Sahasrabuddhe , here is why we want an option for giving manual access to sets/modules. In your own words: "Courses serve a prupose but they are not the main thing." Client results and community is the main thing. How to focus on that? 1. We would love to keep classroom simple, with only one course, not breaking the content into different courses. 2. Step by step access based on the real action steps and results, not based on time. Please watch the video for more context.

This just popped up in my private FB group today. It looks like FB has decided to join the party already in progress😁

Here’s how to use Skool with the goal of an MVP (minimal viable product) for your course 1. Create content around a problem you want to solve and build an audience on channels 2. When you have momentum, form a community on Skool with your audience 3. Use that community to get feedback on the best solutions for the problem you want to solve 4. Use that feedback to create a mini or beta course on the same free Skool account 5. Market the product to the community and improve it over time 6. Release it outside the community as a more advanced product eg high-ticket mastermind

This was the announcement to my clients in a private FB group. Few days later i closed it and ditched Kajabi. I was so happy! :) Skool was amazing even when it was in beta stage.

Is there a way to remove community & calendar access for a member and only give them classroom access?

If you watch Sam's videos, he talks about how he's always saying 'no' to things, and the power of that word. I think he even calls himself Mr. No at one point if I'm not mistaken. I think it's interesting, because saying no is also a great habit to have in software development, and that philosophy reflects in the quality of Skool. Every idea should have to prove it's worth, and work hard to be implemented. It's better to say no to an idea the first time it appears, and let it stand outside in the rain. If it keeps coming back, that's when you know it might be worth taking a deeper look - because each time you say yes, you've actually said yes to a whole chain of events. You need to take that single yes through planning, design, coding, testing, tweaking, testing, tweaking, testing, tweaking...updating any copy if necessary, making sure pricing is not effected, launching, and then hoping you didn't break any promises. And once that feature is out there, it's tough to take away - people will get pissed off, even if the feature sucked. So it's better to start with no - and pick carefully when you do say yes. Right now, Skool doesn't have a mobile app, or payment integration, or a landing page builder, or a catalogue of groups, or a post scheduler, or custom gamification, or video hosting, or white labeling, or a myriad of other requests that come in daily. I definitely like a few of those ideas, and some of them may become reality - but I think what makes Skool great is the tendency to lean towards no, instead of trying to please everyone all the time. Because great software has a vision, instead of being as flexible as possible. Great software is opinionated, and doesn't just give you features - it gives you an approach. Skool certainly does that, and I think it's better for it. “People think focus means saying yes to the thing you've got to focus on. But that's not what it means at all. It means saying no to the hundred other good ideas that there are. You have to pick carefully. I'm actually as proud of the things we haven't done as the things I have done. Innovation is saying no to 1,000 things.” - Steve Jobs

Hi everyone! I've been considering starting my own Skool community for a while. I have a YouTube channel on songwriting / music and I think it would be great to have a free community of people who all want to learn songwriting, people can learn from each other, collaborate, share ideas, etc. The first thing I did was create a short application (I'd like people to apply to join to make sure the right type of person is in the community). This is the application: https://forms.gle/Nx1cuC4JB6g1EjTH8 I also sent an email to my email list (around 150 subscribers) and put up a YouTube Short on my channel: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Kiht-rqQy4Q So far I've had no responses - did anyone have any ideas on how I could go about promoting this better? Would appreciate any ideas you may have. Thank you!

If you have an audience, creating a money machine by turning your audience into a community is not the way to go. Building a true community based on care and concern for its members is a much more fulfilling and sustainable approach. It's important to have a genuine interest in the well-being of your community, not just to make a profit. Thoughts?

Would be a great feature if we can build a public community but have protected categories for paid members.

They add complexity. And are redundant. @Sam Ovens I love Skool. ❤️ And for paid communities is a no-brainer. But having 2 communities 1 free, and another paid... It's just DOUBLE the work. DOUBLE the content to create. DOUBLE the moderation to do... 😮‍💨 My proposal: 🤩 FREEMIUM MEMBERSHIP community. 1. 🗣️ Community: Limited Public view of the 10 most recent posts (only members can participate). 2. 🤓 Classroom: Free demo course + (only members can access premium courses) 3. 🗓️ Calendar: (only members can participate) 4. 🤝Members: (only members can see and network) 5. 🏆Leaderboards: Level 1 public. Level 2 - 10 members (Level up to unlock content for higher retention and Live Time Value of a member for the community). Integrating the RECURRING payment functionality of monthly/yearly membership.🤑 I would love to be able to do this with Skool. Not needing to manage 2 groups, all-in-one is what we want. FREEMIUM MEMBERSHIPS. Fancy Fails, Simple Scales.

I tried to link to a video content in a chat to a member. Would that be possible?

I am thinking about moving my communities to Skool, but want to screen them. From my quick research it looks like if you send an invite, people bypass the questions. On that basis, is there a link that I can put in my courses that brings them to my Skool, but doesn't directly invite them? In other words is there a way to ensure everyone answers the questions, regardless of how they found my Skool community?

I love This plattform. I just would love That People can actually find the different Community Chat rooms. Right now they can only find them if they see on the Feed someone posting. Can you create something That they can See all Community groups we create on one Page? Thanks :)