What's makes you suspicious of someone on Skool

Do we know when Skool is rolling out Apple Pay? I have customer who’s card is not a payment option supported by Skool so he has no other way to join :(

I've been doing a little dive into Skool competitors and trying to see what things others did well that made a significant impact on my success. One of the main ones that stood out was being able to actually start 100% free instead of a 14-day free trial for which I have to put in my card details for. I genuinely believe that this little change would be incredibly impactful on the amount of people who give Skool a shot and even succeed, especially for a platform aimed at complete beginners in business. As an example, imagine how amazing it would be to: 1. Set up your free community without having to even put in your card details and apply everything you've learned in the Skool community and other communities such as @Andrew Kirby's community. 2. Then, fail for however long it takes you, provide value, work for free, etc. 3. Finally, when you make it and have your first client willing to pay on call, you go in and setup billing(for which you will then be required to start paying the $99/month) Or even just let people who want to have a little free non-profit community have it for free since they aren't using it for business. I totally understand the downsides of this, such as % of people who have a community succeeding being affected, referrals being put off until the person you referred actually monetizes, people charging off platform to avoid paying for Skool, etc. So, a lot of Skool's focus at that point would probably be to give people a reason to charge their members and clients on Skool. Nevertheless, I feel like the positives would outweigh the solvable downsides with the large amount of people who would give Skool a shot instead of going to other platforms which don't charge you to use it without monetizing. Thoughts?

Today (17th of Nov 2024) marks exactly 365 days since I started my Skool on Nov 17th 2023... So I thought I’d tell you what impact it’s had on my business, the gems I’ve picked up along the way, and my honest and unbiased review. A month before I started my Skool, I had closed down my marketing agency to go all in as a growth partner for coaches. I created my Skool simply to have proof-of-concept when it came to owning and running a community. I created a free Skool, and for the last 365 days, it has remained free, I’ve never made a paid skool (for myself) I simply just have a free skool → clients. Btw this was a little before the Hormozi partnership and true Skool rise, so things were a little more lowkey at the time. I did Skool outreach to get my first 100 members, we slowly climbed to 300 or so and then kicked into some organic growth. The 300 to 1000 member ride was quick and smooth. no ads, no funnels, no promo on other platforms. Just organic Skool growth. At one point we we’re coming in hot to the top 100 Skool communities. My community allowed me to sign some big time clients which was cool. systems and operations soon became the clear high performer of our service so I doubled down on it, and tweaked my Skool towards it. Our organic growth has slowed down and over the last 6 months, simply just because of the sheer increase in active communities or "options". However we've maintained a slow and steady growth curve of 2-8 members every 24 hours. Currently we sit at 1,992 members (so close to 2k in one year lol). Gaining 2.4k Skool followers has given me a small kick of social proof on the platform too. We’ve dialed in some deadly Skool workflows and it’s been a blast. Looking forward to seeing what year two brings. Another ripple effect is the $1,000 in total skool affiliates I just crossed, which is cool. I use skool a little different, it’s my free community, where I post content, give free assets and collect emails & ph numbers for my campaigns. it’s the ultimate incubator for my agency, hence the name ;)

You can find it where Admins used to be!