Our very own @Alex Beviss is being featured on the Backstage Roadshow! And the timing couldn’t be better. Alex just joined us and has been sharing more about what he’s building and where he wants to take it. Tomorrow, we get a chance to hear more of his story and meet the person behind Prostata Paladin. 📅 October 8 ⏰ 11:00 AM GMT 🔗 https://meet.google.com/qxc-swdt-kjr Alex, we’ll be cheering you on from Skoolology! 🙌

I've had a few conversations lately with builders who are trying to get more of the right people through the door. So when @Des Dreckett shared this, I asked if I could bring it over here. Des put together 10 Ways to Get People Into Your Skool Community, with practical ideas for YouTube, commenting in other communities, Classifieds, events, presenting in other communities, your About page, and more. Thank you, Des, for putting so much work into this and letting me share it with our builders. ❤️ But here's the part I REALLY want you to notice... Des isn't telling you to go do all 10. His advice is to pick two, test them for six weeks, pay attention to what actually brings people in, and keep what earns its place. That part feels especially important. Because when traffic is slow, it's really easy to collect another 10 things we could be doing...and suddenly we're trying to do all of them. 😂 I'd rather see you use this as a menu. Read through it. Notice what makes sense for your community, your people, and the time you actually have. Pick something to test. And, I'd love for you to come back and tell us what happened. If you look through all 10 and aren't sure what makes sense to test first, bring that question here, too. That's exactly the kind of thing we can think through together. Thank you again, Des. This is a really a very useful resource.

A conversation with @Elsebeth Fogh got me thinking about this. She’s been experimenting with some easier-to-answer questions in her community and noticing that more people seem willing to jump in. But she doesn’t want easy to answer to become meaningless to answer. And THAT got my attention. 👀 Because maybe sometimes we make people work too hard just to enter a meaningful conversation. A good conversation doesn’t necessarily have to start with a thoughtful paragraph. It might start with... “Yep. Me too.” A quick opinion. A funny story. 😂 One sentence that makes someone else say... “Wait...tell me more about that.” And suddenly we’re somewhere deeper. So maybe there are two different things to think about: How easy is it to ENTER the conversation? and Where can the conversation GO once someone is there? That brings me back to a question that's been on my mind lately... What is the biggest thing keeping the next member from getting the experience you want them to have? Maybe sometimes people aren't avoiding meaningful conversation. Maybe the doorway into it is just a little too high. I'd love to hear from you... What have you found actually helps people take that first little step into a conversation? 👀 @Elsebeth Fogh Thank you for bringing this in!🤗

If you’ve been around here for a while, you’ve probably watched @Jen Ps do something I really admire. She pays attention. She listens. She asks for feedback. She tweaks. She tests. And she keeps coming back to one question: Does what I’m building actually fit the women I’m building it for? Jen created The Room to Breathe for women carrying the invisible mental load. The grocery lists. The appointments. The remembering for everyone else. The decisions. The 20 tabs that never quite close. She described those women in a way I haven’t forgotten. “I want women to stop saying ‘I’m fine’ when they really mean ‘I’m still functioning." When Jen thought about what already-overloaded women needed from a community, she made a choice worth noticing. She didn’t give them more to keep up with. She built less. On purpose. No courses. No catching up. Because, as Jen says... “For women who are already overloaded, less is more.” THAT is one of the reasons we wanted Jen in Headliners: Builders Behind Great Communities. Her story says something about mental load, yes. But it also says something about building. Sometimes creating more value isn’t about adding another thing. Sometimes it’s knowing what not to add. 👉 Meet Jen in Headliners Jen, you’ve let us watch you question, listen, experiment, change things, ask for feedback, and occasionally promise me you’ll STOP touching your About page. 😂🩷 But no tweaking today. Today we get to celebrate YOU. 🌟🩷 Building better communities. One builder at a time.

We spend a lot of time around here talking about what we're building, testing, changing, and figuring out. But I'm pretty sure there are questions wandering around in some of our heads that haven't made it into a post yet. 😂 So let's open the door. What's one thing about your community, business, or the work you're building around it that you're genuinely trying to figure out right now? Maybe something isn't working the way you expected. Maybe you're trying to make a decision. Maybe something is working and you don't quite know why. Maybe you keep getting conflicting advice. Or maybe all you can say is... “Something about this isn't sitting right, and I can't put my finger on it.” That counts, too. ❤️ You don't need to fit it into a SKOOLME category. You don't even need to know what the real problem is yet. What's got you scratching your head? 🔬🐼