We had a great first hour, with @Claudio Campobassi, @Sweetz W, @Carol Tice, @Rachel Harmsworth, @Shelly Martin! It was fantastic to get to know more about them, and hear about what they’ve got coming up!

Thanks @Chris Suckling, @Isaac Tut, @Avinash Khatri, @Barbara Hobart, @Jim Jones and @Sweetz W for joining my hosting of the Water Cooler hour today! It was so cool to connect with you, hear your stories, and see what everyone is building. Looking forward to more conversations with you!

Loved our water cooler session from 2-3pm CST today. We ran the gamut of topics including "the boring side" of anti-inflammatory nutrition with @Elena Maren , the importance of cybersecurity when it comes to vibe coding and digital resources with @Jim Jones , GoHighLevel setups and work arounds, digital products with @Sweetz W , getting the spark back in your personal relationships with the va-va-voom @Deborah Oppenehim and getting the most from your Classifieds posts with me @Faith Adebayo LOVED getting to know everyone on a deeper level and getting to see their passions come out to shine around what they do on Skool. The next round is live .... you can still jump in and chat too.

Skool just made the biggest argument for choosing to be a paid group rather than a free or freemium that I’ve ever seen. 👀 If you missed today’s news, Skool rolled out a new feature called Growth Boost. Here’s the short version: Skool will now run ads FOR your community. Off their platform, on their dime. You flip a toggle in your settings and Skool starts sending you new members. Yes. Skool is literally going to run the ads for you. Now, I run ads. I run a Skool community teaching people ads. I love ads. Obsessed with them actually. They’re not scary once you know what you’re doing. But if you’ve never touched Ads Manager, I get it, they can feel expensive and risky. Skool just took that whole barrier off the table for you. But here’s the part most people are going to miss… Skool only makes money on this when a PAID member joins. They take a small commission that funds the whole ad program. So guess which groups they’re going to push hardest? The paid ones. Free groups still get promoted, but they are NOT the priority. Skool doesn’t earn anything by sending people to a free community, so why would they spend their ad dollars there? So if your group is free right now, you’re basically at the back of the line for the exact traffic engine everyone’s about to be fighting over. That’s why this is THE moment to go paid. Even low-ticket paid. Because now the math flips: You go paid → Skool prioritizes sending you traffic → those members convert → part of it reinvests into MORE ads for you. A little growth loop running while you sleep. But (and this part matters) Skool sending you traffic is not the same as Skool making you money. The communities that actually win from this are the ones set up to convert. A cover that works as an ad. A Discovery description that pulls people in. An About page that closes. And an offer that’s actually worth paying for. That’s the whole thing we’re building together alongside each other inside The Skool Scaling Squad. How to launch a paid community from day one (no free group, no huge audience, no years of grinding first) and set it up so it actually converts the traffic Skool is now handing to paid groups first.

It's time to celebrate each other! In the COMMENTS BELOW, please share a Skool community you think is doing really great things. It can be one you've participated in yourself or one that you've heard from others is amazing. Please do the following: 1. Tell us the name of the community and link to it (affiliates allowed). 2. Tag the person who owns the community. If they are not in the CLASSIFIEDS, then please send them a DM and let them know that you mentioned them here. I promise you will make their day! 3. Describe why the group is so wonderful and how it has helped you. Please DO NOT just copy and paste the About page! 4. Comment on each others comments and scroll through the referrals to see if there's an amazing group you are missing out on! Thanks so much for supporting each other and this community! Please note that any #FriendFriday mentions that are created as new posts will be deleted. Thanks! Please DO NOT promote yourself. 🤨. The entire community is for promoting yourself. This post is for celebrating someone else. 😊