18th Sept at 5:55pm.

This is how I assumed it worked tbh, that any members you gain at 70% would be a loss financially, and permanently, since they will also be classed as having joined at that rate, but a benefit as far as numbers go. The 70% to me is for people with fewer members who want to increase them more quickly, so they are a loss financially but a gain numbers wise, with the theory that if you gain more members from this, then switch it off, more people will see the now higher number of members and be more likely to want to join them, and will then join at the lower percentage rate. It's just a shortcut to me, assuming it works, for people who think doing this will get them more members faster than doing it themselves. If I see two almost identical groups, which there are quite a lot of on here (I found 8 with identical names the other day), then the group with the higher number of members makes me think, correctly or otherwise, that that group must be "better", because more people have already made the choice I'm now making and joined it before me. So switching to 70% temporarily is a way to get that higher number faster (assuming it works) which would then result in a long term benefit more of perception, than financially. But eventually financially, if more people join later as a result.

Hi Everyone, I've run a pet loss website for 20+ years and am now trying to build a Skool community to work alongside it. I'm in the middle of building a course (currently held up by errors in Heygen) and have an avatar that presents them and is also the GPT on my website. Eventually I also want my avatar to become a presence on social media and represent both my website and Skool. I also have an Etsy store where I make AI art and custom AI art, mostly pet and animal related, which I'm also intending to tie in with my website and Skool.

@Mindy Molein Thank you. I think I looked up Angela and followed after our meeting.

Okay you convinced me, just signed up, and been thinking about it for a while, but also finally joined Claude Code Club.

@Mindy Molein Thank you.

I use Pinterest for my Etsy store, but it didn't occur to me to use it for my Skool until I saw your post. Might have to get on that.

@Mindy Molein Interesting. Do you mean so it contains niche related keywords, as opposed to a random name. I really find my Etsy store ones do much much better if I spend the time adding hashtags that are actual searches people are doing on Pinterest, and related to my products. But unfortunately I rarely have time to do that level of detail for them. When I was, I was getting 50K views a month, now I'm not, it's gone down to 11K a month, and it goes up and down like that, whenever I spend the time adding them, so it definitely makes a difference. I just wish I had the time to do it.