I finally got my headshots done with Cristal Vancarson today and, she is magic! On her Skool community @Karin Crawford said, “Great photography. 𝗔𝗻𝗱 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗰𝗮𝘂𝗴𝗵𝘁 @𝗔𝗱𝗮𝗺 𝗠𝗰𝗖𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗼𝘂𝗴𝗵 𝘀𝗺𝗶𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴!! Genius!” and that pretty much sums it up! To put this in context, in the 52 years I have been on this earth, there has not ever been one photo of me that I am happy to post online. That's why up until now my current social profile image is an AI avatar of me. I thought I would pose a challenge with my dodgy squinty eye which seems to know exactly when a camera is pointed at at, and my elusive smile that normally looks like I'm constipated but she knows all the tricks in the book, and you just can’t NOT smile when in the presence of @Cristal Vancarson . So here is real, human me! I'm so pleased with my photos and she turned an event I was dreading doing and kept putting off into the highlight of my day. 🥰 Thank you so much for making it sooo fun, AND I even got a bonus portrait of me with my daughter that’s definitely going on the wall. When I said that to Cristal she said, “There is NO greater HONOR than for me to have a picture on the WALL in my client’s home.” You can tell she genuinely cares about the people she photographs. What I loved most is that this whole thing was done remotely from home, between my other calls, and was all wrapped up in around 40 minutes. No awkward standing around wondering what to do with your hands. Just a proper live session with someone who knows exactly how to bring the best out of people. She was also brilliant with my daughter. They say never work with kids or animals but Cristal orchestrated then both effortlessly! That is what Cristal does so well. She does not just take a photo. She catches a moment. She makes you relax. She makes it fun. And somehow she makes the whole thing feel easy, even when you thought you were going to hate every second of it.

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Can we give a massive warm welcome to @Marco Berlin the creator of Skool Extensions who has just joined us as our newest Resident Expert! 🎉 Now let me tell you why I'm genuinely excited about this one. Marco didn't set out to build a Skool extension business. He just looked at Skool after using it for 18 months, noticed a bunch of things that were missing, and thought "I'll just build them." What started as a hobby project has, in the space of a few weeks, turned into what I genuinely believe is going to be 𝘁𝗵𝗲 #𝟭 𝗺𝘂𝘀𝘁-𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝘁𝗼𝗼𝗹 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆 𝗦𝗸𝗼𝗼𝗹 𝗼𝘄𝗻𝗲𝗿 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗺𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿 on the planet. This is a prime example of one of my core beliefs - following your passion, solving a problem, and making a business from something because you believe in it. It's just what happens when someone with real skills solves a real problem because they actually care about fixing it. And THAT, my friends, is how it's done! 🙌 No MBA. No big launch strategy. No guru BS. Just a guy who spotted a gap, and built something awesome. 𝗦𝗼 𝘄𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗱𝗼𝗲𝘀 𝗶𝘁 𝗮𝗰𝘁𝘂𝗮𝗹𝗹𝘆 𝗱𝗼? Skool Extensions adds all the things Skool doesn't have yet. Things like: - 📅 Community calendar - 💬 Group chat - 🎙️ Voice and video messages - 📌 Bookmarks - Bold text (finally 😅) - Member lists, tagging systems, sales pipelines and CRM profiles for admins - And coming very soon — a full Workflow Builder with Skool Automations that Marco says will be so powerful you won't need any other Chrome extension ever again. 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗯𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝗯𝗶𝘁? The member features are 𝗳𝗿𝗲𝗲. 𝗙𝗼𝗿𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗿. (Our favourite price) Not a 14-day trial. Not a "freemium bait and switch." Genuinely powerful features that stay free for you and your members, always. If you want the admin superpowers, there's a premium version at $47/month, and here's the bit I love most: if you recommend it to enough people who go premium, 𝗶𝘁 𝗽𝗮𝘆𝘀 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗶𝘁𝘀𝗲𝗹𝗳. Marco has set affiliate commissions at 20%, which means this is another tool in your earn-while-you-help toolkit. Very on brand for this community. 😏

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