Here's a quick update of the Skool update call earlier today mostly about Growth Boost. Sam Ovens (Skool CEO) suggested Skool owners do the following to maximize "Growth Boost". 1- Fix your packaging: cover image, group description, and About page. This is what shows in Discovery and gets used directly as ad creative. 2- Make it instantly obvious what the group is and who it is for. Study the groups currently on Discovery Trending for examples. 3- Add your social links under Settings, then Profile, then Social Links (YouTube, X, Instagram). Growth Boost now reads these to understand your audience and to pull content for ad creatives. 4- Put your Skool link directly in bio on every platform. Link aggregators like Linktree or Stan Store do not count, and the algorithm is being weighted to favor direct links. 5- Bulk edit your YouTube back catalog to insert the Skool link in every video description. 6- Drive your own traffic to the About page early. Groups getting the biggest boosts are usually the ones already pushing traffic themselves, since that creates the data signal the system scores. They will be using an "Efficiency Scorecard" to determine what ads get shown. The five things being measured: 1- Clear market niche, the narrower the better. Fantasy crochet beats crochet. 2- Price between $5 and $200 per month, with $20 to $100 as the sweet spot. Too low and ads cannot pay for themselves, too high and conversion drops. 3- About page conversion rate above 1%. (Remember this is cold traffic converting to paid) Note that this figure naturally falls as volume rises, which is normal. 4- Trial conversion rate of 40% or better, if you run trials. 5- Retention above 80%. Worth knowing Efficient groups working the best currently receive $5,000 or more per day in dedicated Skool ad spend, with dedicated campaigns and custom creatives. The team expects that to climb toward $10,000 per day. The efficiency score lags, so new groups need time to accumulate data before the system can act.

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Congrats to @Muskan Ahlawat and her AI Automation Club. She's now only 19 members shy of 1,000. I believe she has the most members of anyone in our group right now followed by @Michael Wacht at 825 members in his AI Bits & Pieces. Keep up the great work!

Here's a quiet act of courage most builders skip... Deciding, for yourself, what success actually means for your members. Not the flashy version, the real one. When you leave that undefined, you end up chasing someone else's scoreboard, and no number is ever enough. But when you can name the specific change you want for the people you serve, you finally have something true to aim at, and something honest to feel proud of when it happens. So ponder this one today... What does a real win look like for one of your members? Not for you, for them.

The "Promote-Friendly" Skool Classifieds Group That's Beating the Rest So Far We've published our initial results from testing across several "Classifieds" Skool communities. You can read the full page-by-page breakdown at the link below, but one group clearly stood out initially, both in the comments we received and in the bang for your buck for most members. To be fair, joining any community can pay off if it connects you with people who help you grow or who turn out to be the right-fit clients for what you offer. Want to see which Classifieds groups came out on top so far? Check out the full review here. Thanks to our own @Jean Day McCarthy for suggesting this type of review. What have your own results been when advertising in these groups?