Here are the 5 things I did to gather a ton of points fast. I don't have hours a day to comment on everyone's posts so I did this mainly with my own. 1. Make posts for only 4 reasons: providing value, getting help, sharing wins, initiating a challenge. 2. Keep things personal not preachy. I tried to share personal stories and put the value in it rather than just sharing my advice. 3. Post at active times. 4. Respond to comments and keep the engagement going. (This keeps your posts at the top) 5. Saving the most important tip for last. Using GIF in every post. A gif is worth a million words. It's timeless. And it will make you money. Gif more often.

Does Skool have an affiliate system for people to refer other people to join my membership?

Hey everyone, I'm planning to launch my community soon - I've already prepared a lot of content. Now I'm thinking: Paid or free. I have relatively good social media accounts (about 1 million followers across all platforms) - does anyone have experience with managing this?So should I start with free or go directly to paid?

To build a successful community, you don't need 1,000 fans. You need 10 true regulars. (Credit to David Spinks for this idea... It's brilliant). This may contradict what most people imagine about communities — spaces with hundreds or thousands of people actively contributing and forming relationships where everyone is engaged and involved. In reality, only a small percentage of your members will actively participate. You don't need a lot of active members to get conversations flowing; you only need the right few. When new members join your community and see dozens of new posts and hundreds of new comments every week, they won't know if all that activity is coming from ten people or 100 people. However, getting to ten true regulars is not easy. My recommendation: Start with three. Get to the point where you have three members who are coming back every day (or most days) and posting and commenting. You probably already know the three people. A lot of successful communities have the same founding story: "It was just me and a few friends in a group, and it slowly grew from there." Who are you already talking to about the topic of the community? What three people would you text first with a question? You've already validated that they're motivated. They could be your founding members. Ask them if they'd be interested in joining a small group of friends who are interested in the same topic. Once you get them together, start conversations, discuss interesting articles, and share learnings. Be yourselves, the same way you would in a private text conversation. Be weird, tell jokes, have fun. It's that kind of organic, quirky core that can spark a thriving community. Slowly invite more people, but don't invite too many at once, or you'll smother the flame. Be selective and keep curating. Once you have 3 true regulars — reward them, make them feel special, hang out with them on Zoom 1on1, meet them in-person — give them what they need so they can continue being a role model in your community.

Ive been saving this one until today. As of last night we are #397 on the entire Skool Platform IN 20 DAYS I had to bite my tongue as @Jade Jemma was posting her MASSIVE win, cuz our number kept dropping, and this is where it seems to have balanced. And theres something IMPORTANT here. It might blow your mind, and change your growth strategy. Her strategy results are excellent: 📈 100% engagement ⛔ 100% spam free 👀 Almost 100% lurker free! My strategy results are also solid! 📈 90% engagement ⛔ 99% spam free (once or twice a week) 👀 Not lurker free! Both are strategies are something for you to consider depending on your goals & here is why. A strict approach to your community, DEFINITELY raises the quality of the community, but CAN limit its growth A loose approach to your community, DEFINITELY raises its pace of growth, but can lower the quality I recommend most people find a balance. Right now for us, growth is the MOST important because of one reason, We have found a way to turn LURKERS into active members. Not all of them, but a lot. And were doing tests constantly to measure the results of different strategies. And starting today we're gonna start trying some bolder ones to see what the limits of engagement and "lurker reactivation" are. If you have giveaways and freebies and ALL KINDS of wild shit to bring people value, You can turn silence into noise. But probably down the line, we will shift our strategy to more of a stricter strategy! The point is however you decide to run your community, the more your give the more you get. As @Jade Jemma once said: Skool is AMAZING, FABULOUS & THE PLACE TO BUILD COMMUNITIES IN 2024 AND BEYOND!!!