I keep seeing posts questioning if $99 for a community is worth it and if you shouldn't go with a free Facebook group instead. I didn't see/understand this when I started on Skool, but if you want actually to build a community of a meaningful size, you need to hear this. I have deep regrets. If you don't want to read... watch this video instead: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXUH7yVgdAs Yesterday I was listening to @Matthew Thompson latest podcast and one thing really struck me that I want to share with you: It's insane how much community management costs you save when you use Skool vs. a Facebook group. For context: In my own communities, we manage over 11,000 paying monthly members. Combined with Jessa and other partners over 20,000. Because there is a.) No payment integration and b.) Facebook is restricting our paid reach down to an average 300 out of 6500 members in our biggest group, the Coach Growth Hub inner circle. We have to pay a team of people to a.) Find and remove people who don't pay because FB doesn't do that automatically like skool b.) Provide 24-hour workday written support because in skool members actually see each other's posts and want to help each other out because of the gamification element and the connection that comes from having started to engage Honestly, this is so genius. The digital offer builders is now one of our most profitable communities because: #1: We don't run ads to it at the moment: 234 members NET GROWTH in the first month after playing the skool games. All organically from the skool discovery page and this community #2: We haven't promised 24h written support and don't deliver it. Members helping members works amazingly in here (I am really mind-blown; this would have never been possible with a Facebook group) It might be the amazing community, the lower cost, or the fact that I can finally reach my own community again, but I am becoming a super fan.

Here's how I just hit a record month using Skool while travelling the world, without running ads, without a webinar, and without working more than 2 hours/day. 1. A ruthlessly simple system (which runs like a machine). System = Social Media Content + CTA --> Free Skool Community --> DM --> 15m Call --> 60m Call --> Client/Paid Skool Community. 2. A small team of A+ Players (who free up all my time & get things DONE). 1 VA 1 Appointment setter 1 Discovery call taker 2 Closers 3 (soon to be 4) Coaches (for the service delivery) + I'm currently training a content editor + distributor so I can generate more leads with consistent content output. 3. An offer too good for any human to reasonably say "no thanks" to (which turns nearly every conversation into a sale). "Business in a Weekend" has been our main offer and it's a HT, DWY/DFY service where we help beginners launch their online coaching business and get to 5-10k/month within 90 days. "VIP Weekend" is going to be our new offer, and it's a HT, DWY/DFY service where we help existing coaches scale to 50k/month within 90 days. If someone speaks with us and can't afford our HT, we take $49/m deposit and place them into our $49/month paid Skool community. With these 3 things (System, Team, Offer) in place, you soon get to a point where NOT making money becomes impossible. Money just comes to you whether you want it or not lol. If you'd like similar results, I'd suggest doing the following: 1. Create a free Skool community and fill it with amazing free course content. People will judge you based on your free stuff, so make it good. Try to get people results before they ever work with you. 2. Create a paid Skool community (charge $49/month for it) and offer 2-3 coaching calls per week in it + more awesome course content. 3. Post a ton of content on social media and in each post give away something for free that lives inside your free Skool community. 4. Once someone joins your free Skool community, DM them and see if they want to hop on a quick 10-15m free call with you where you can see if you can fast track their results. 5. If they sound like someone you can help, offer them a longer call to show them a more in depth game plan. 6. At the end of the longer call, offer to work with them inside your HT offer. 7. If they can't afford it, offer them your $49/m community. 8. Continue to study the GOAT'S in this Skool community. There are many people in this Skool community already making 100k+/month who you can learn from... I'm just one of them.

A strategy that you can use for your mastermind which I've been inspired from Sam Ovens & Andrew Kirby. Hope it helps.

Implement these strategies to dramatically grow your free & paid Skool communities fast! This is exactly how I made $14,700 MRR in the last 12 hours of the February Skool games. In this video I cover: - The genius Twitter strategy @Andrew Kirby used to get hundreds of thousands of impressions - How to generate quality YouTube views like Alex Hormozi & Hamza Ahmed - How to generate hundreds of thousands of Instagram impressions with ManyChat - The power of warm retargeting campaigns on Meta - Free trials vs Free communities to reduce the friction Check it out.

Hello everyone, I want to illustrate the importance of a free community with this game plan. Many who are new to Skool wonder whether they should start directly with a paid community to quickly make money, or if a free community would be better at the beginning. If you are aiming for long-term success, I definitely recommend starting with a free community. Once you reach about 100 members there, you can slowly build a paid community. The free community usually generates the most inquiries and commitments for the paid community. If you start directly with a paid community, you miss the chance to gain members through the free community. Additionally, through the discovery search in Skool, you automatically and constantly receive new members for your free community (for free), who can later transition into the paid community. Please let me know if this all makes sense to you. This is my Gameplan and the free community has the biggest impact. If you have questions, write me an DM or a comment lg Calvin