Hey gang, I figured this might be a great way to contribute. I run a $3M (and growing) per year Skool group and I am now helping more of my client use Skool as a way to enhance their communities. I had a client ask for some tips in moving their members off of FB groups into a Skool group so I recorded the answer but I figure this might be really useful here as well. In this video, I'll be sharing some valuable tips on how to entice your members to join and engage in your new Skool community. I'll discuss the importance of making Skool the primary option, using welcome emails with invite links, creating a welcome video, and pinning important posts. I'll also explain how to add existing members via email, overlap with Facebook groups, and gamify engagement with points and levels. Additionally, I'll touch on the significance of being an engaged leader, giving likes, and dishing out points to boost their levels and reward them for engaging. Lastly, I'll mention the benefits of setting up auto DMs, sending email notifications, and recognizing members. By implementing these strategies consistently, you'll see a thriving and active Skool group. So, let's dive in and boost member engagement together! 🚀 I've gotten lots of good out of this group so I figured I'd try to give back however I can. Enjoy and hope it's valuable.

We consult in the Airbnb investing space, so sometimes we have investing partners join our program. It would be a great feature to be able to combine three people (me and both investor/partners), or more I suppose, into one private DM thread. Currently it's a weird game of telephone or copy/pasting to each. I hesitate this could create too many threads in my inbox, so a part 2 of this might be that we should have the option to archive or hide or send chats to the bottom or something.

Sometimes you want your members to take action. For example: Introduce yourself and share a photo of your workspace, or... Play this song on the guitar and share a video of you doing it. Simple actions make your community more interactive and fun. Remember the ice bucket challenge? Action posts — Describe the action you want your members to complete. When somebody comments, the action will be marked as complete. Pinning posts to modules — Now you can pin posts to course modules to make them more practical and interactive. For example: Your first module could be "Welcome! Start here" and give a quick overview of how things work with a call to action at the end to introduce themself and share a photo. You can pin any post to a module, it doesn't have to be an action post. You could pin posts relevant to the module, or a post with the title: "Module XYZ - Questions/discussion here" and use it as a comments section. Your turn: Complete this action by telling us what you think?

I want to know.

The big bottleneck for us right now is group chats. We are still having to use FB chat for managing the smaller live discussions. Or there has to be a way to silo group discussions so others can't see it. It could even be locked posts that only some can see. I see many requests for this in past post so I'd like to make a strong push for this as it would really make this a complete product for us and many others in regard to managing community discussion. This has made it difficult to completely relinquish FB. Otherwise, I love the product and have been a user since almost the beginning.