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For coaches who want to launch or scale their coaching practice on Skool.
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10d •
Correction on yesterday's post
I got the Skool part wrong on yesterday's post. Skool runs its own payment system through Stripe (Skool's Payments FAQ), so Apple and Google aren't taking a cut of your membership. Their app store fees are real for apps that use their checkout. Skool just isn't one of them, and I connected dots that didn't connect, but it is worth knowing for other apps you may use. But a few of you mentioned referrals going missing, and that part is worth knowing about. As one of our members pointed out, Skool takes a 30% commission through Growth Boost when it brings in a paying member. So if someone finds a group through the Discovery page instead of your link, Skool gets the credit, not you. So the advice still stands: if a friend referred you, use their link instead of finding the group through Discovery. Click the link and join directly. Skool credits the last referral link you clicked, so if you click someone else's link or find the group through Discovery afterward, the credit can go to them instead. Thank you @Lisa Vanderveen for pushing on this.
1 like • 10d
@Lisa Vanderveen Yes HOWEVER it's recurring. It's not like when you buy ads you pay 1 time to aquire the lead. With growth boost it's recurring and in the end if you look at the lifetime value it may have been cheaper to run your own ads.
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10d •
💸 Skool Discovery: Is It Growing Your Community or Eating Your Profits? 🤔
Okay, Directory friends, I need your brains on this one because the numbers have me scratching my head! 😂 When I first joined Skool, my community, The Smell of Money, was placed in the Relationship category. I immediately requested to move to Money because that's what I teach! Cash flow, debt reduction, money management, and wealth building. What I didn't realize was how many communities in the Money category focus on MAKING money through marketing, advertising, technology, and selling. Apparently teaching people how to MANAGE the money they make is a whole different animal! Maybe I belong in the Hobby category! 😂 But that's not why I'm posting. Let's talk about Discovery and ROI. 💸 I turned on Skool Discovery to see whether it would help grow my community. Currently, I'm ranked #1,684. Then something happened. One of my Premium members joined, and I realized she hadn't used the referral link from the VIP member who invited her. Instead, Skool received a 30% commission! 😳 That didn't sit well with me. So I decided to test turning Discovery OFF. Skool immediately warned me that my ranking would drop into the 3,000s and I'd receive NO Discovery referrals. Interesting, right? 🤔 Meanwhile, SEVEN spammers have tried to join my community. And between migrating my business systems and dealing with AWS holding my domain hostage, I haven't had time to dig into whether Discovery is actually producing results. But here's where my financial brain kicked in... Are we measuring GROWTH or PROFIT? Skool lets us give up anywhere from 30% to 70% in commissions to potentially get more traffic. But more traffic doesn't automatically mean more paying members. And more paying members don't necessarily mean more profit if we're giving away a significant percentage to acquire them. I teach entrepreneurs to stop making money decisions based on feelings and start looking at their numbers. So I need to practice what I preach! Here's what I'm curious about: 💸 Are you using Discovery? At what percentage?
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First I love Skool but was and am still super cranky over the skool boost for so many reasons. I don't believe it serves skool owners. 1. Skool essentially is forcing us to accept them as an affiliate at a minimum of 30% of sales they bring in 2. Skool acts as an affiliate even on our HOBBY communities in addition to the increased 10% they take for stripe fees. So now they are taking 40% of any sale on a hobby community which as a reminder we can not offer affiliate commission on the hobby plan 3. They collect on the traffic they bring to you through ads AND "skool network". What does skool network mean. Someone finds you by searching in discovery, by clicking on someone else's profile, by the suggestions on the right side of hobby plans, by clicking on your profile when you post something worthy and they want to check you out. ex click on my profile here, join my community, skool takes 30% 4. As skool owners we can decide which offers inside we want to offer as affiliate offers. so for instance you may not want to offer your 3k high ticket offer as an affiliate. However, Skool is immune to that. They still take their 30% 5. By prioritizing paid communities they just ruined the freemium tier they released not that long ago. Freemium communities rank traditionally below paid communities 6. Last touch attribution. You bring them in, your affiliates bring them in BUT a quick click on your profile on the about page hands the attribution to skool network. GRRRRRR.... 7. RECURRING...If we run ads we pay 1 time for that lead. If someone joins through GB it's 30% EVERY month. more grrrr What really makes me frustrated is so many people do not know any of this and think it's great or are completely oblivious that GB is even a thing What to do if you want play the growth boost game: 1. create a low ticket community and treat it as your lead gen community. Essentially what a free community was before. This is NOT your money maker. it's you playing the attraction game according to Skool.
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11d •
WARNING: Please read this before you pay from your phone
UPDATE: Part of this post was incorrect. Skool runs its own payment system, so Apple and Google don't take a cut of Skool memberships. 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗰𝗼𝗿𝗿𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲. _________________________________________________________________________________________________ I just learned something that honestly made my blood boil, and you deserve to know it. If you join or pay for a community from inside the Skool app on your iPhone or Android, Apple or Google takes up to 30% of EVERY payment. Not just the first one. Every month. They did nothing to earn it. They just own the app store. But here is the part that really gets me. If a friend told you about this community and you clicked their link through the mobile app, that friend gets NOTHING. Not the first commission. Not any of them. Ever. Their referral can't be tracked through Apple's or Google's checkout, so the person who sent you here gets zero while a trillion-dollar company pockets 30%. I don't know about you but I would much rather that money go to a real person than to Apple. So please do this one thing for me. If you are on your phone, open your browser (Safari, Chrome, whatever you use), open the join link there, and sign up through the website. It takes ten extra seconds but your money goes to the community and to the friend who referred you instead of an app store. And one more thing. If you're browsing Skool's discovery page looking for a community to join, check first whether one of your Skool friends has a referral link for it. Same community, same price for you, but instead of the money flowing straight to the big guys, it lands with a real person. Thank you for reading this. Now go tell a friend!
1 like • 11d
@Lisa Vanderveen I hope you are right because I was getting a bit PO
Jul 15 •
Summit for Nutrition and Fitness Coaches - July 16th
The one day Nutrition Coaching Summit is TOMORROW July 16th Nutrition and Fitness coaches, this is for you if your client knows exactly what to do, yet they are still not doing it. That gap is for many of you is your whole job, and almost nobody teaches it. Most coaching summits are about how to grow a coaching business. This one is about how actually to be a better coach. One Day Ten practitioners 55 minutes each All on the real work: the science, the protocols, and the behavior change that move clients right now. The lineup is stacked: Dr. Layne Norton, Dr. Krista Scott-Dixon, Dan Garner, Jennifer Broxterman, Eve Guzman, and more. FREE to attend live. THE NUTRITION COACHING SUMMIT I'm an affiliate for this event, so I may earn a small commission if you grab the optional VIP pack. I'd send you either way.
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Jul 6 •
Here’s What’s Happening • Week of July 6th!
🟢😎✨ CHECK OUT THIS WEEK’S EVENTS HERE ✨😎🟢 And we thought the fireworks were happening this past weekend! Check out the things happening this week! 👀 Thank you to this week’s event hosts and contributors: ✨ @Joe Sargent ✨ @Susan Wisnewski ✨ @Des Dreckett ✨ @Simon Holley ✨ @Liisa Reimann ✨ @Monna Tang ✨ @Lisa Adams ✨ @Elena Maren ✨ @Sarah Lauren ✨ @Michelle Cyr ✨ @Lara Sloan ✨ @Heather Cooksey ✨ @Jenelle Livet There’s something for everyone this week! 🙌 ➡️ Browse all events here Want your events featured here every week? ⭐ Join Premium Today ⭐
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@Julianne Anderson Thanks my friend
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