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 🤝