Why hello there, My Writers Club just hit the tasty 500 member mark, & our paid community has just reached 11 people. I quite enjoy swinging by here & discussing things that have helped me grow a truly thriving community. Hopefully some of these pointers help you out 🥂 🥇 COMMUNITY CHALLENGES If there’s one thing our community loves, it’s our weekly challenges. Every Monday, we launch a new challenge & incentivise participation by pinning the winner’s post at the end of the week (pretty simple incentive, but it works). Our challenges are designed to engage our niche, making it worthwhile for members to contribute, as each one expands their creativity & teaches them something relevant. 🥇 YOU MAY JUST FIND YOUR TEAM ON SKOOL I started this venture completely solo, but as I built, I discovered two brilliant individuals who shared my vision and desired to join me. They possess complementary skills that would have taken me years to develop, & have solidified the value in my community more than anything else I've done. Always keep a weather eye for those who might be the perfect fit to build alongside you, as everyone on this platform is ambitious. Lone wolf just isn't it I'm afraid. 🥇 TREAT YOUR MEMBERS LIKE FRIENDS You're a community owner, cool story. Yes, you have more expertise in your field than your members—that’s why they joined. However, you’re never above commenting back, sending appreciation messages, & publicly highlighting them in posts. Acknowledgment goes a long way, & I’ve made it a point to publicly and privately recognise every single one of my active members. We all want to feel seen, & your acknowledgment has a greater impact on your community than you realise. 💭 Oh, & here's something random I learned recently: I was rackinggg my brain, trying to figure out how communities were adding hyperlinks to their about page copy (not the dedicated links on the side). This may be obvious, but if you paste a link within this section, then write your desired text in the middle of it, you can backspace the rest, & it will retain the link, appearing as a hyperlink.

Been about two weeks since I posted in here, & boy have things erupted. Just under 400 members in our free community, & almost 10 in our paid 😇 Here are some things I've learned within the last fortnight: 🥇 We just introduced our own customised GPT 🔥 Our paid members are obsessed with it, & it was surprisingly easy to do. If your community is based on sharing knowledge (which I presume it is), contemplate adding your own Chat-GPT like bot behind your pay wall. Our niche is writing (poetry, novels, lyrics), so we developed a GPT to take someone step by step through brainstorming, writing, editing & publishing their piece. It's their 24/7 writing assistant that they only get access to by being a paid member in our Skool community. 🥇 Have you identified potential affiliates? Think outside of the box & reach out to companies that align with your niche. For example, being a writing community we've joined the affiliate program of Notion, Brain.FM & Remarkable. Their links are in the footer of our emails, & sitting in our pinned posts. This is helping us turn a profit while we work on bolstering out our core offer. 🥇 When you reach a substantial number of members, you may wonder which community posts the Skool algorithm prioritises at the top. I've noticed (perhaps this is obvious) that it’s based on which post has received the most recent comments. You’ll notice the blue text at the bottom of your post indicating which post has been commented on most recently. I could go on, but comment below if this helps 🤝

👇🏻 How are you feeling about your offer and do you know your ideal client to a T? One of the key pushbacks I see is that we want to help as many people as possible, right? I was there myself 6 mos ago… trust me, it’s not doing you a favor. For example, you want to help as many people become healthy and fit as possible. Great. However, that’s not going to call out specific people, you will get a wide range of peeps in your space, all with varying wants and desires. Then in attempt to make the most of your time, cause you only have a specific amount each day, you have to water down your message to appeal to a broad audience, which then gives them mediocre results which isn’t what you or they want at all. If you get uber specific on who it is you are going after, and specific on what your offer to them is and the results they get, you will be able to easily write your copy and content around their desire, the pain points they get to do without, which then gets them better results and they tell their friends. Examples of more niched down offers and ideal clients: We help busy moms get a flat tummy without expensive meal plans or going to the gym. Tired of feeling drab and flab? As a busy professional, lose the beer gut in 60 days while you increase your energy to close more sales! Want to feel like your 30 again? Increase your bone mass and muscle strength with easy to implement workouts designed to keep you feeling great even into your 60’s. Goal is to ditch the jargon, you want a 5th grader to be able to read and understand what your offer is and who it’s for, don’t fluff it up with words that aren’t imperative to your offer… peeps can tell when it’s just filler 😉 Make it simple and to the point while adding a bit of your flair, how would you tell someone about it in real life conversation?

Hey friends, this little post of mine has become my morning coffee routine. Honestly loving hanging out here, @Alex Hormozi, @Sam Ovens & the team have nailed it. Such a vibe. Here are some recent things I've done to acknowledge my members to help me climb the leaderboard. 🥇 DM highly active members We all love being acknowledged. If someone is a regular contributor in your community (posting, engaging, building relationships) send them a quick DM to let them know you see & appreciate their presence. These people are the backbone of your community, and their love for your community helps YOU more than you realise. A simple appreciative DM can go a long way. 🥇 Publicly shoutout all new members Before I sign off for the night, I hit my members tab, filter by "Newest," & tag everyone who joined that day. I post a public shout-out so they feel welcomed, & encourage current members to welcome them too. This is another great, easy engagement mechanism. 🥇 Regularly check your communities activity Hit "Settings" in your community. Select "Metrics" & scroll down. You'll see a grid that outlines daily activity. I had my first 1,000 activity day yesterday, & I'll be working to maintain/grow that moving forward. Comment below which one of the tips above helped you most 🥂

I've been sharing my communities progress day-by-day to help newcomers on their Skool journey. Here's another one 😇 Within two weeks, my free writing community has climbed to 594 in the global Skool rankings. Not gunna lie, I'm still trying to determine what this actually means for discovery. I suspect it doesn't mean much until you break into the top 30 & make it onto the homepage. Cool nonetheless. Here are some recent lessons I've learned: 🥇 Post in Skool Games, Skool Community & Skool Masterclass often. All of us are on the same journey, & this feed is like a street team on steroids. Everyones hyped to support, & I’ve had several people join my community after seeing my posts, many of whom have become top contributors (if that's you, thanks!). 🥇 Don't underestimate your free community. Even if you're unsure how to upsell to paid right now, building a thriving free community of hundreds or thousands will naturally lead to revenue. A concentrated collective with shared interests brings immaculate vibes, and even if you begin by offering locked upsells in your free community, people will naturally opt-in if your product or offer is compelling enough. 🥇 Free calls with members to identify your core offering is underrated. Don’t be a lazy NPC. You built your community for a reason, and you’ve seen how fast communities can grow here. Avoid the trap of thinking you have all the answers. In the first month, offer free calls to your members & let them book your time through Calendly. Ask them what they are looking for. This way you won't waste months working on something that no one actually wants. That's it from meeee, hope this helped 🌹