@Charles Dove Is it skool policy/TOS compliant? Or does it rely more on "Skool probably won't come after this yet"? (Granted as context: I am aware a lot of popular tools even those promoted by people high up in skool and ranking well are technically violating policy, while they have made "consulting firms" against being usable for the payment policy as well, lol, despite being built for S.O. designing skool for clients of his consulting.com business originally, telling people to run their own consulting businesses with community as container for scaleable programs)

@Charles Dove By the way, that's not saying Skool would actually have a problem, as I'm guessing they're fine as long as you're not using it to do some sort of abusive scraping to create lead-lists and be spammy, etc. I just like to have a good idea of what mechanisms are clearly fully unambiguously allowed vs. slight risk territory.

@Marcin Hakemer-Fernandez I'm shocked to read such a close-minded perspective here (/s). Don't ya know ya gotta spend money to make money if you wanna live like a boss? - OpenAI loses (I think, a lot of) money on the vast majority of its its pro plan customers. - The food delivery apps and Uber were losing money on their customers for years. See, we don't reach peak enshitification by everyone playing it safe. My message to everyone is if you were serious about growing your business, you'd consider offering Skool 120% affiliate commission (for what used to be, and what I feel Skool had led us on to believe would always be free through promotion & omission *cough, cough*) instead of these saps only offering 70%. _________ Unironically, in a hypercompetitive environment full of people who don't realize they can easily and far more efficiently increase their own growth with far lower CAC by running their own ads, direct outreach, or content; there is a non-zero chance we could live in such a perfect utopia in which our great benefactors Skool achieve unimaginable profits that would make Andrew Carnegie and John D. Rockefeller blush. After all, each new customer is a new potential referral partner, and of you offer them 70-120% each as well, they can refer more people so you can bleed money even faster, crossing fingers such members will also leave great reviews. And with a massive member list size, this means we can pay for real credibility... credibility that belongs to the wonderful and flawless benefactors that is skool, and is graciously offering us the opportunity to benefit from their brand and platform. And don't forget about the experience we can gain from servicing so many people.

And not to scare anyone using skool, you can still just generate your own traffic with GB off and keep 100%. It's probably going to be more efficient than Growth boost growth, unless you can't pay the time/adspend cost up front. And GB may be less of an issue if customers are serviced in a truly scaleable manner. (I.e. low time / effort / resource cost per customer.)

@Marcin Hakemer-Fernandez Awesome, can't believe I forgot about the ads library!! Such a great resource. @Vera Dobos they covered in skool news it's based on efficiency, if you make major changes they're more likely to test, and if you convert, you'll get more members. Of course, almost anyone simply making their own ads relatively well is going ti get a much higher ROI than through skool sending you ads, because CAC (cost of acquiring customer) can usually be paid off after a couple months, and you can continue keeping 100% per month after. They'll send your community traffic / raise you in discovery IF and to the degree it's optimally profitable for them. So this is really for people who just don't like / aren't good at making ads &/or for whatever reason really need to rely on search/discovery... and is much better if you have very low time/energy cost of fulfilment (more scaleable service).

@Marcin Hakemer-Fernandez lmao, this gave me an idea. I don't see see this as a situation in which the userbase is powerless here... & crisis ➡️ opportunity and all that... But I've said too much where Skool's staff can read this comment already. 😏

Oh my

This would drive me crazy 🤪

@Diana Frank @Marcin Hakemer-Fernandez I'm curious how things like VPNs etc. might accurately or inaccurately affect the time zone. If I was in many countries I'd probably be using a VPN showing totally different time zones (and may keep this in mind when joining new communities). Same thing for travel, too.

@Diana Frank