1.5 years ago I registered here at Skool and now the time has come. Today I will carry the flame with me for a year (you get this for 10 activities per day). With this post I don't just want to show you a video that we produced especially to show you what my last 12 months have been like. I will share 3 valuable thoughts with you that should inspire you to achieve a lot with Skool in the future. ➡️ #01 Learn to love Skool (as a member) Many people here want to be successful as community creators. Understandable. Unfortunately, more and more people are losing the feeling that we all had at the beginning when we were new here. The feeling of being a member. Many successful community creator are no longer active in their own community. 😳 Why? Learn to love Skool as a member, be active in other communities. That's why it was not difficult for me to carry the flame for a year. ➡️ #02 Don't think about the money Just because a community costs money doesn't mean it's only worth it if you make money. If you go to a concert or spend an evening in a club, that's worth it too, right? You could have stayed at home to listen to music and dance with yourself. But you wanted to spend time with others and you even paid money for it (and didn't get any money back). Stop constantly thinking in MRR. Friendships can be formed here, collaborations can be entered into and we might even have a Skool Baby soon :-) That's worth a lot more. ➡️ #03 Learn the rules like a pro.... One of my favorite quotes is: "Learn the rules like a pro and break them like an artist" (Picasso) If you're new here, take a look around and understand how it all works. Take your time and educate yourself. When I first came to Skool there were no tutorials, live call recordings, etc. But I really listened to every interview by @Sam Ovens to not only understand but also to feel what it was all about. It was only much later that I developed my own strategies, workflows and creative approaches to have even more fun and success.

I remember posting this wuestion a long time ago after seeing some roadmap. One thing that was really important to me was being able to do lives inside a community app. I loved how circle had that simple option, however skool Is much easier to navigate. So I started using skool. Looks like skool never got the native live or native video feature. Is there anything skool is doing that has to do with uploading media, lives and making posts look better in general? Are videos and pictures always going to be to the right?

Years ago this was Skool's homepage! My favourite part: "Come for the courses, stay for the community" Do you remember roughly when you joined Skool?

Just hit a record month & made $200,000 USD from my free Skool community. Total ad spend: less than $5,000. Here are 2 mistakes I see 99% of people on Skool making, including many Skool games winners who I spoke with in Vegas last week. • Mistake #1: Not having a free Skool community. Going directly from an ad/social media to a paid group looks sexy on paper, I agree. But the reality is: A free Skool community nurtures leads & gets them to convert at a rate like nothing else I've ever seen. With a free Skool community, you can nurture leads in 4 ways: 1) The DM's (auto-dm to kick things off) 2) The community feed 3) The classroom 4) The calendar All without ever coming across as salesy! • Mistake #2: Telling people to join your free Skool community. I used to tell people to "jOiN mY fReE SkOoL cOmMuNiTy!" but nobody was joining :( I thought it was an issue with Skool. But then I started doing something insane... I started leveraging human psychology and talking to people about their DREAM OUTCOMES and frustrations. I started saying stuff like: "If you want to achieve <dream outcome> in <X timeframe> without <pain/effort/frustration>, click here to download my new free training that shows you how." And then I'd link them to my free Skool community. Guess what happened? People joined by the TRUCK LOAD. Turns out, nobody gives a 💩 about your free Skool community - until they're in it. To get them to join in the first place, you need to use bait. The best bait I've found? Free (GENUINELY HELPFUL) stuff like courses, pdf's, etc. that help people achieve their specific dream outcome in a specific time frame without a specific pain point. Hold nothing back in your free content. Give give give. Upsell the DFY/Done-With-You implementation - but give away all the DIY instructions. Growth has been insane ever since I started taking the above 👆 seriously. $200,000 in 30 days!!! Hope this helps, Ted P.S. I've attended 5 Skool Games events in Las Vegas and even a lot of the top winners don't know this stuff... but once they implement it, they make even MORE money.