If I create a course/product in my community, am I able to also create a discount code? I'm jumping on as a guest speaker and am thinking of offering a discount code to their audience for a paid product.

If your goal is to built your Skool community into something that could potentially bring you in enough money to retire your spouse or parents, buy you a house, stay home with your family (or anything else), then you need to be treating it like a legit business. 📋 Build a plan (or as much of one as you can while you're experimenting with what works and what doesn't) 📋 KEEP EVERY SINGLE RECEIPT - if you're ever audited, you need to back up every expense that you say was business-related. If not? HELLO penalties! And the gov't is NOT gentle... oh, and upload the receipts to your accounting software if you're using one. It's a cloud backup that is worth the two minutes to upload! 📋 Track your numbers! You should know exactly how much you're spending vs bringing in - not to scare you or upset you at the beginning of your journey, but so that you can see any negative or positive patterns that might be coming up and adjust (or perhaps celebrate because you hit a money goal you didn't think you were close too yet). I don't personally care if you're on the Hobby plan or the full plan or not. I'm on the Hobby plan, but I know where I want my community to go, so I'm treating it like it's *not* a hobby. This is my business (one part anyway). What do you think has been your biggest expense so far in business??

Anyone else struggling (at least at the beginning) with conversion from Ads? I’ve been running Instagram Ads now for about a week and have seen a few thousand views, a 1500 link clicks to the about page on my community and no conversions at all (even with a 7 day free trial & I’ve reduced the price of membership to well below what I think it should be). Appreciate social proof is a thing that comes into play but at this point it feels like throwing money into the void. Anyone overcome this sort of thing?

When I started this challenge, I had nothing. No audience, no traffic, no clue what I was doing, just an idea and a stubborn little spark. Fast forward to now? ✨ 70 amazing women inside The U Crew 💰 Ads converting at just $1.99 per member 👀 Discovery rank went from 545 → 171 🔥 100% cold traffic, no list, no followers, just doing the damn thing This has been a massive shift for me. My background’s in weddings and website design, but now I’m building a space for midlife women and carers (like me) who are tired of always holding it all together, and just need somewhere real, kind and calm to land. This challenge forced me to stop planning and perfecting and actually start. Now The U Crew is live, growing, and officially a paid community ($9/month) that’s already changing lives...including mine. 💛 Huge shoutout to @Evelyn Weiss and this challenge and to my wonderful allies who’ve kept me sane and laughing through it all. Next goal: see how far we can grow now that my community is paid. If you’ve been sitting on an idea, this is your nudge, stop overthinking it and just go. You don’t need an audience. You just need to begin. ☕️ Progress beats perfection every damn time.

I launched my community a week ago. It's free to join and I've got 30 members so far. Made my first sale today which is a low ticket offer for $17. I'm currently uploading my full course over the weekend which will be a monthly membership.