As 20+ year entrepreneur myself, I've been wondering whether to create a free community, free to paid or paid community only. Based on the stats of this community alone, I think paid communities work best. Stephen is pretty direct, and I hope this post isn't taken the wrong way - or at least, incites discussion. Looking at the stats - 85% of all the members on this board are Level 1 - Procrastinator's. That means they signed up, and then don't comment or interact with anyone on the board. That's a lot of people doing nothing, but the 8k member count looks impressive! Skool is set up in a way where you have to comment on posts, in order to upgrade your posting ability. So you'll see welcome post replies, "thanks" comments and unproductive replies to posts. I don't think it helps the community. Instead, paid members usually join either to download resources or to ask direct questions that they need answers to. The post quality will go up, as the posts will be super specific too.

Made a quick video on how to sell courses on Skool using external landing pages without having to manually add and approve new members. Using Thrivecart and Zapier you can build a smooth customer experience. I Cover: ✅ Why having an external landing page is important ✅ What common mistakes to avoid ✅ The tools I use to make it all possible Let me know if you have any questions.

Is selecting the right niche really that important? Well yea, but let's put some meat on that bone. It is important, I have a niche and it helps a lot. But only a well educated person (and by well educated, I mean educated on market desires, not skills) can just select the right niche and be successful. What I mean is, only someone that knows a niche well, someone that has researched it, and knows the problems well can just select a niche out of the blue and serve them. Only a person that has that type of mindset can just "select" a niche and run with it successfully. There are some people that can do that, they just go talk to people, find a problem, and solve it. That takes a special type of person, one who's only motivated by the "game" of business. They could careless about their passions, what they prefer, they only care about money, they go find a problem, and then they solve it. They could care less if they enjoy the work. If you do that things can happen very fast for you. BUT. Most of us, are driven by our passions. We are not like that, it's not JUST for the money, it's to live a life we love. When you're driven by passion, success requires you to develop a valuable skill within your zone of genius. You'll have to twist, turn, and flop around a bit until you match that with passion with people that want to hire you. That means you just have to get out there and help people, and eventually your niche will pick you. That is, if you're doing the work and pushing forward without the perfect answer. Your niche, your unique selling proposition isn't a course module away, where you fill out yet another GURU's business template. Do you really want to fill out another ICP module?? How many times have you done that now? how many times has it helped? I can't stand those anymore. No! Your niche and unique ability is found in doing work for people, having success, having failures, doing more of this, less of that, and iterating on that until you find your zone.