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I'm so proud of this young man, as he goes on his journey. bowling one year and won state championship and qualifies for nationals in July..

Alright heres my situation. I built a Skool community two years ago. Got 10 members. Felt like I was talking to myself. Deactivated it. Last week I reactivated it. ⚡️ 3,000+ members in 6 days ⚡️ $1,000+ MRR ⚡️ $2,000+ in payments ⚡️ Zero ads spent ⚡️ Zero systems in place (this is the bad part) I am drowning in the best way possible and I need help from people who have actually scaled a community because I have not done this before 😂 🟢 What I do: I teach people how to use AI tools (specifically Claude Code) to build real things. Not hype. Not "10x your productivity" stuff. Actual folder structures, workflows, and software engineering fundamentals applied to AI. 🟢 What's working: One Instagram video about why you dont need AI agents if you have a good folder structure went crazy. Over a million views across my videos in a month. 21K followers. Everything funnels into the free Skool tier and people are upgrading to paid ($7 and $49) daily. 🟢 What I'm terrible at right now: - Onboarding. People join and I have no automated welcome flow - Organization. 3,000 people posting intros and I'm responding to every single one manually - Retention systems. No challenges, no structured engagement loops - Moderation. Its just me and my CRO and I havent slept properly in a week - Building paid content fast enough to justify what people are paying for 🦆 What I need from this community: - How did you structure your first 30 days of onboarding - When did you hire your first mod and what did you have them do - How do you keep people engaged past week two when the new community excitement wears off - Anyone running a Skool plus Discord combo? How do you keep people going back to Skool instead of living on Discord 🔵 Quick background so you know I'm not just some random: Marine Corps veteran, 15 years in tech, MSc from University of Edinburgh, trained employees at Pacific Life, Colgate Palmolive, and KPMG UK on AI. Built the content pipeline that drives all the growth using the same AI workspace system I teach. One person operation producing what normally takes a team.

I asked community builders one simple question: “What’s at least 1 simple action people are taking to grow their Skool community?” After reviewing all responses, here’s what became obvious. It’s not: • Fancy funnels • Viral posts • Perfect branding • More platforms It’s conversations. Ta daaa 🎩 😀. Here’s a snapshot of what people actually said: “Consistent daily engagement.” “DMs, comments, calls.” “Networking calls.” “Free sessions + sales calls.” “Outreach.” “Helping people directly in DMs.” “Building real relationships.” “Trust turns into long-term income.” “Conversations inside and outside the community.” “Leads are the constraint.” “Content + outreach.” “Give value in other groups and then run outreach engines.” Different wording. Same core pattern. Community growth = repeated human conversations. Even content only works when it leads to a conversation. So, the conclusion I have come to which is extremely helpful for me is if you want members, talk to humans. Not just the algorithm. Pick one main way you’re going to do that and then do it consistently. That’s your foundation. Everything else is a bonus. Thanks for reading!

How fast did you get your first 100 members? And what did you do? 🤔