Looking at starting a new community and leveraging some of my members or just in general onto a waitlist. What have you found works well what have you done? What website do you recommend

This is related to @Calvin Hollywood's lasted post. Many people need to *feel* the car before buying. Why not let people build their community as a draft that doesn't cost money, but is private and limited to 5 free members? This is useful to prepare the courses content before it gets released.

Hey everyone!!! I don’t normally post, but after speaking to some of you in the Skool HQ I thought I’d share a couple of the things I’ve learned working on the support team for the past 1 year 😄 Here we go: 1. When members can’t reach you for help, their experience suffers—and they’re more likely to leave. Solution: Make your support email easy to find. Add it to key places like your community’s About page, the welcome post, or the first page of any course. The easier it is for members to get help, the better their experience will be. When members know where to ask for help, they’ll feel supported. They know you have their back even if they don’t contact you. 2. People get confused about what to do in your community without a clear community roadmap. Solution: Engaged communities provide a clear roadmap. The purpose of the roadmap is to guide members from point A to point B with simple, actionable steps. Outline precisely what members need to do to achieve their goal. This shows you have a proven plan and can help them succeed. People will join your community to achieve their goals. But they stay because of the valuable connections they make along the way. Speaking of connections… 3. Members are less likely to churn when they feel a personal connection with you. Community is like a party: If you don’t know anyone there, you will feel left out. And no one likes that feeling. By taking the time to connect with members, you make them feel included. Members who know you personally become invested in your community and are much less likely to leave. Solution: Start by building relationships through AutoDMs. Ask open-ended questions like, “Have you been doing this for a while, or are you just getting started?” From there, tag them in relevant posts based on where they are in their journey. Move from DMs to a one-on-one call. For smaller communities, consider short 1-1 calls. For larger communities, an onboarding call is a great time investment. You can even direct members to the onboarding call directly from your AutoDM.

and my gif feature has been faulty life with no gifs = bad 👎

This summer was my first time really having control of doing what I wanted to do I flew from the east coast to the west coast Took trains up to LA 4 times Met @Goose Dunlavey and @Nav Pabla cause I got to level 7 (still waiting to meet @Jeffrey Buoncristiano) @Matthew Thompson asked me if one google meet link can change my life I drove across the country 15 hours a day in 111° heat I slept in my car after seeing it is possible thanks to @Ryan Schrope Got better at super smash bros thanks to @Daniel Bissonnette Ate more fruit thanks to @Ted Carr And I want to thank @Andrew Kirby for being Andrew Kirby And also thanks to all the people who helped me the year before just learning Skool and finding my way @Mike Gowans @Sahil Pandit Also @Isabella Etenberg is cool asF And the whole time I BARELY had time to spend time on skool, but its all THANKS to skool