I recently decided to turn off Skool's Growth Boost for Bio Builders. For me, it came down to one thing: Protecting my affiliates. Every Bio Builders member can share the community and earn 40% recurring commissions when someone they refer upgrades and pays for their own EZ Bio Page. And you don't need to be a paid EZ Bio member to participate. 🔗 Your EZ Bio Page Can Do the Referring When you create your EZ Bio Page, you have the option to turn on your affiliate badge. That badge connects visitors to Bio Builders using your affiliate link. Someone visits your Bio Page → clicks your badge → joins Bio Builders → upgrades to a paid Bio Page → you earn 40% recurring. 🤝 Why Turn Off Boost? Skool Boost could potentially bring additional people into the community. But I don't want another acquisition channel competing with the members and affiliates who are already helping me spread the word. If you introduce someone to Bio Builders or EZ Bio, I want you to have the opportunity to get credit for that referral. I'd rather put that opportunity (and money) in our members' hands. 🚀 Even If You're a Free Member You don't have to be a paying EZ Bio customer to refer someone. If you're a free member and you know someone who could benefit from Bio Builders or EZ Bio, share the community using your affiliate link. If they eventually upgrade to a paid Bio Page, you can earn 40% recurring. That's why I turned off Skool Boost. I'd rather reward the community that's helping me build the community. 🤝

A few days ago, I shared how we transformed Julianne Anderson's traditional website into a simple, one-page Link-in-Bio at Julianne4History.com. But there's another part of Julianne's story I want to share. Julianne loves picking — hunting for vintage treasures, collectibles, and pieces of history. She also has two communities, Retro Riches Archive and Ricochet, that she's passionate about growing. And she had a dream. She wanted to wear her own branded T-shirts while she was out picking, promoting what she loves and the communities she's building. So we made it happen! 👕 We designed a T-shirt with her branding on the front and a custom QR code on the back. And here's where it gets interesting... 📱 ONE QR CODE. TWO COMMUNITIES. ENDLESS OPPORTUNITIES. When someone scans the QR code on Julianne's shirt, they're taken directly to her new Link-in-Bio page. From there, they can: ✅ Explore Retro Riches Archive ✅ Join her Ricochet community ✅ Shop her vintage finds on eBay ✅ Connect with Julianne through her contact form ✅ Follow her on social media No complicated URLs to remember. No business cards to hand out. Just a conversation, a quick scan, and a connection. And because the QR code points to her Link-in-Bio, Julianne can update her links, offers, and content anytime without printing new shirts. That's what I love about combining EZ Bio with QR codes. Your marketing doesn't have to be complicated, expensive, or even digital to start a digital connection. Sometimes, all it takes is a T-shirt! 👏 Congratulations, Julianne! I love seeing your ideas come to life. 💬 Here's a question for everyone: If you could put a QR code on something you wear or carry every day, what would it be?

After deciding that I needed a little bit of an update for my profile picture, inspired by @Mindy Molein so the gradient ring was added, then... I saw somebody wearing Skool glasses and thought it might be a little bit of fun.... Not only that, I thought I could do, or at least AI could do a better job, and so I went down a rabbit hole and spent several hours trying to get a respectable design or image for some Skool glasses. Alas, I should have stopped much earlier! I'm tossing it out to any of you out there to: 1. See if you can come up with a better-looking pair of Skool glasses (pictures attached). 2. If you feel like it, we can create a challenge to have some fun with a temporary profile picture update, adding our Skool glasses with the final images or an image we've created ourselves over to you. Could there be a 3D printed option? See https://youtu.be/iVcr8vBhW4g Let me know, or just drop the picture in a reply.

If your answer is somewhere between “a lot” and “please don’t ask,” you might want to try this. Chrome now has Vertical Tabs built in. Instead of squeezing a ridiculous number of tabs across the top of your browser, you can move them to the side where you can actually read the page titles. First, make sure Chrome is up to date: 👉 Click ⋮ in the upper-right 👉 Help → About Google Chrome 👉 Let Chrome update if needed Then: 👉 Right-click the empty space next to your tabs 👉 Select Show tabs vertically That's it. It’s a small change, but if you spend most of your day bouncing between tabs like I do, it makes Chrome feel a whole lot more organized. Anyone else using vertical tabs yet? Or are you still living dangerously with 37 tiny favicons across the top? 😂

Today marks one full year of keeping my 🔥 alive on Skool. That means for 365 days, I’ve maintained a streak of 10+ activities every single day. But does the streak really matter? Not really. The little 🔥 doesn’t build a community. Showing up does. Answering a question. Welcoming a new member. Posting something useful. Leaving a thoughtful comment. Helping someone make a connection. Those little actions don't seem like much on any given day. But do them every day for a year, and they add up. The 🔥 is just the scoreboard. Consistency is the real win. So now I'm curious... 🔥 How long is YOUR current Skool streak? Drop your number below — whether it's 1 day or 1,000 days. And if you don't have a streak yet? Today is a pretty good day to start one.