I just got off an absolutely fantastic Skool Extension Q&A call today! A massive shoutout to our very own Resident Experts, @Kristine Alise, who is an admin over in our fellow expert @Marco Berlin 's Skool Extension community. I thought I knew my way around this extension pretty well, but learning about some of the new features of this awesome software today completely blew my mind. If you are building a community right now and you haven't installed this extension yet, you are leaving hours of your week on the table and doing things the hard way! Every day's a skool day! Here are just a few of the game-changing features I didn't even know about that I learned about on the call: - 𝗗𝗶𝗿𝗲𝗰𝘁 𝗩𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗼 𝗗𝗼𝘄𝗻𝗹𝗼𝗮𝗱𝘀 - You can automatically save your live recordings directly into a classroom. I was up up until 3 AM spending 45 minutes downloading and re-uploading each Resident Expert meeting videos last night. (Skool makes them like over 1gb each - Not ideal on UK Cornish internet speeds!) This feature completely eliminates that hassle! I just wish I had known it was there yesterday! - 𝗖𝘂𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗺 𝗞𝗮𝗻𝗯𝗮𝗻 𝗕𝗼𝗮𝗿𝗱𝘀 - You can open up to 12 different panels and drag-and-drop a personalized project management board right inside your Skool window. You can even collaborate with your team, assign tasks, and track project progress without ever needing an external app. - 𝗔 𝗕𝘂𝗶𝗹𝘁-𝗶𝗻 𝗖𝗥𝗠 & 𝗧𝗮𝗴𝗴𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗦𝘆𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗺 - You can create custom visual tags for your members (like "Warm Leads," "VIPs," or "Coaching Clients") and even apply these tags in bulk. The CRM also lets you see exactly when a member was last active and tracks their course progress at a glance. - 𝗔𝗱𝘃𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲𝗱 𝗣𝗼𝘀𝘁 𝗦𝗰𝗵𝗲𝗱𝘂𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴 - You can batch your content, schedule posts days or weeks in advance, repeat them and even set them to automatically pin to the top of your community when they go live. Perfect for when you need to take a well deserved holiday! (Shame it can't actually do the fire for you, but at least it does show you visually)

A community is not a community if there's just one person broadcasting in it. It's a lecture. A community becomes a community when people are having conversations, sharing stories and differing points of view. It's very difficult to do this alone, so I recommend buddying up with one or two other skool Community owners and be as active and add as much value in their Community as you do your own. If they do the same then all of you have a much more interesting community that people will want to be part of and participate in, then if the same amount of content was provided by just one of you. It's quite obviously something we encourage in here and I would love to hear stories where this has or even hasn't worked for you.

Please tell me... I would love to know in the comments: 😍 What makes a really good Skool Community for you (Think about your top three and why you love them) And 😫 What would make you leave a community.

I went through the About pages of the top 100 trending communities on Skool Discovery. On each one I looked at the headline, the body text, the proof they show, the cover image, the group description and the price. I wanted to see what they have in common and what tends to get someone to join. Here is what I found. THE HEADLINE Most of them open with the result you get, not the subject or the method. So instead of "a real estate community" it is "close your first deal in 90 days". Instead of "learn AI video" it is "make your first viral AI video in a day". One automation group opens with "automate 5 tasks in 7 days". A faceless YouTube one opens with building a channel without ever showing your face. A careers one opens with "if you're applying and getting no response, it's not bad luck, it's your strategy". Most of the time there is a number and a timeframe in that first line. A lot of them follow the promise with an "even if" line, to deal with the obvious objection before someone clicks away. "Even if you've never made one." "Even if you're a complete beginner." "No code, no experience." The About pages that just named the subject, like "a community about X", were usually the weaker ones. I think the result works better because someone only spends a second or two deciding, so the first line has to be the thing they actually want in their words. That is probably why so many of them lead with it. THE FOUNDER AND THE SPECIFIC NUMBER Every one of them has a real founder name and a face on the About page, not a logo. And there is almost always one specific number next to the name. Not "lots of students", but things like "$556,452 in member ad revenue", "34,000 sales", "helped 750 coaches", "$150M in ad spend", "100M views a month", "1,000+ doors". A specific number is more believable than a round one. An exact figure like that looks like a real count rather than an estimate. A lot of them also add a short before-story with the number. "Laid-off nurse to creator." "Father of three feeding his family from Etsy." "Engineer who quit his job and bought 1,000 doors." "Surgeon who went full-time on YouTube." It makes the result feel like something a normal person could reach, instead of something only the founder could do. The strongest ones put a few proof points together, like "$25M in career sales, $3.5M online, 750 coaches helped, 3x Skool Games winner". The weaker ones just said something like "Amazon coach" with no number.

I always do this. Wake up all excited with plans to get x y and z done, and halfway through x, realize that this is definitely NOT going to be done in a day! It was TOUGH! I thought it would be an hour or so thinning out the plants, but the root mass was solid, and all the way to the bottom. It is amazing that the fish could move around at all! So it's not quite the satisfying full thriing and beautiful pond I had hoped to show you.. but at least the fish are happier with so much more room to swim around. When it's filled back up it will feel like a mansion for them. So I've thinned it out quite a lot fixed the pump. Just the fountain to repair, then do the lower pond. Realistically it might be finished in a couple of weeks if I don't get bored by then! It really has got a lot worse before it gets better. Anyway, I'll f did my best, and hopefully I'll get a chance to clear away all the stuff in the week before it rains again. It might not be the win I hoped for, but it's progress and I had a lot of fun. 😁 Hope you all had a super weekend. Feel free to share your pics/vids too!