Nice work @Elise Hodge

I have both only because I had a whole business built before I even knew about Skool. My plan is to still keep both because I can post my podcast and YouTube channels on there which will help with SEO and AIO. Plus I can expand on the brilliant work @Elise Hodge is doing on about pages with a fully expanded sales page with member testimonials, my tiers fully laid out and even promote my summits (coming soon!). But if I was starting a business today, I wouldn’t do both right away. I’d start on Skool and start building an engaged community to monetize. From there I’d still add a website but I would do it to start my business.

@Elise Hodge or substack instead??? what do you think about that

I’m typically around 15-20% in my freemium communities but when I have a free summit on I’ll jump to 40-60%. That’s not necessarily a good thing. Because I run my freemium communities like a funnel you can attract folks that never go beyond Level 1 or churn. For me the metric is daily activities. I like them to be at 800-1200!

@Kevin Hall I don't. I take transcripts from past talks and trainings and drop into Notebook LM to make a fun, easy to use infographic and then share with my community. I'll get 200+ comments and that typically inspires other members to reply to other posts or post their own content. A summit - I host live events with experts on a specific topic and then bring people to the event. Speakers and I get to leverage our warm, Skool audiences.

@Miri Campbell yes and add it your classroom content pages at the bottom!

@Katherine Mackenzie-Smith what Katherine said and hyper link it in your about page content. I’ll also screen shot my three tiers and add as an attached image

@Mary Nunaley I try to utilize all the free to paid levers Skool has built into the platform like, 1. About Page - invite to upgrade hyper linked 2. 3 links to share in discovery finder - one of them is my upgrade to premium link 3. 3 member questions - make sure one is a problem you solve immediately for them. Post an infographic, blueprint of mini playbook in your community feed 4. Get daily activities to 800-1200

@Jan Appleton only a sliver of your premium offer. Design premium first. Then carve away 2-5%