Good Morning, Skoolers! ☕ Today we are talking about workshops as a traffic source! Yes, you can grow your Skool with Workshops, and we will go over pitching them, creating them, and converting them into members. We are going LIVE for The Skool Morning Show now. 🎥 👇 To Chat with us LIVE comment on this post and we'll pull up some of the comments.

There is no "one-size-fits-all" answer to this question, and I think that is why so many people feel unsure about what to choose. Most people are trying to make this decision based on what they think they “should” or are “supposed” to do, instead of what actually makes sense for their niche, their goals, and the type of community they want to build. Including whether they even have a real plan for getting members. 👀 And a big part of the stress around this choice comes from thinking it is final. Like once you pick public or private, you are locked into it forever. That is not actually how I look at it. 🤷‍♀️ You have way more flexibility than you think. You are allowed to test. You are allowed to change your mind. You are allowed to treat this like an experiment and collect real data instead of trying to make the perfect decision upfront. Whatever you choose is going to show you how people actually respond. What they engage with, what they ignore, and what needs to change. Don't forget to track it! ✍️ You have way more flexibility than you think. In fact, you should be testing. You should be changing your mind when you get more information. And if you needed someone to tell you, you are allowed to have more than one community serving different purposes. Especially if one of them is meant to help you get discovered. It does not have to be complicated or add a "massive" amount of work. Because I will tell you one big myth that is still floating around out there.. you know the one.. "If you build it, they will come." No. 😐 That is not how it works. So much good work never gets seen. Not because it is bad. Not because the person is not smart or capable. But because nobody ever sat them down and said the simple truth. You have to get traffic. * hello * Please read that again.. PLEASE! lol This is not me trying to sell you on a traffic package. Yes, I have found people that can help you like @Eric Howell and his upcoming Free community Traffic Lounge and then even @Matthew Burns with his ProveWorth community that is essentially the community Trust Pilot or Yelp. Two people I trust a lot, because I know traffic is needed for you to even get the business help.

Just saw that one of my favorite TikTokers is now on Skool and he dropped a 💎 Gem of a post! Definitely worth checking it out! How A Real Community Is Supposed To Work | The Truth

Skool News today shared that growth = traffic × conversion, and traffic can be a bigger challenge if you don't have a plan. If you had to pick just one, where’s your main traffic source? (If you like combos, you have to comment.. sorry it's the rules lol)

Skool is growing fast and it is only going to get faster! Right now about 70,000 new members and 1,000 new communities are joining every single day. There are now over 60,000 communities on the platform collectively earning more than a billion dollars per year... whoa! (You can see this on the Skool News from this week.) The bigger Skool gets, the more it benefits you. More members means more people searching Discovery, more suggested community placements, higher conversion rates, and even lower churn. You may have already seen this post in Skoolers, but in case you are not in there or you are supporting a community, I wanted to post it here too. ❗And this does not just matter if you are new. Even if you have been running your community for a while, you should be checking this because I have seen many people missing out on searchable keywords. In this quick walkthrough, I show you: • The Discovery settings that unlock visibility • Why your About Page is more important than you think • How to use keywords to show up in Skool search and even in AI tools like ChatGPT • A real example of what works I'm also including a video from a live that @Matthew Burns did in Skoolers, so you can make sure you start using this in your planning. We did this call previously here, but this is an updated version. If you're building or helping someone else build, then don't forget there is a build template in the classroom. You can see that here. Here are the frameworks I recommend (Always be testing new things, but I found these to work for most people.) VSL Framework: - Problem/Pain - Let them identify themselves in the message. - Proof - Help them know it is something they can do. - Promise - Here is what they will get if they follow a laid out plan. - Plan - Here is how they do what they now believe is possible.