People don't hang out in classrooms.. they hang out in hallways. In a school, hallways are the pathways to classrooms. Hallways funnel people into classrooms where they eventually commit to learning. Hallways create connection, evoke emotions, and are where people express their personalities. Live chatter. Fun conversations. Our school, our community. Picking communities from a list is boring and requires effort. Picking communities while you walk the hallways sounds fun and would require less effort. If you see people in the hallways, you'll eventually learn more about them. Maybe after awhile you'll feel comfortable enough to send them a message. If I see a post or message that resonates with me while walking the hallways, I can more easily join communities I wouldn't have otherwise looked for. Hallways = Have fun, get comfortable with Skool and eventually join a community No hallways = manually discover communities. How are people expected to know what they want to learn? This is most peoples first time!

Sometimes you can forget there are other things more important than your business growth. I believe that if I put my energy and priority into myself first then the business I love will come as a result. Often I can forget this however.

Have been thinking about this for me. What is the minimum number? For me it is enough to cover my living costs. I wanna get super super clear so the number can be really meaningful. Like the number to the tea. For now it is 2k MRR for me. If I hit that I think I could quit my job. What is yours?

I started my free community on the 17th of June and today I woke up to more than a hundred members...finally in the 3 figure club haha. I'm happy to experience this growth but what's more important for me is to see that 81% of members were active 🗣️ The way I grew my free group was with 2-step posts on instagram, i.e. I post daily reels with the cta to read the caption and then the cta in the caption is to comment to receive access to my free lead magnet (which is a link to my free community). In terms of engagement, I publish a post every single day inside my free community with a question and poll so that it is easier for members to engage and share their thoughts. Also, I did not let everyone into my free group. I made sure that they had a profile photo, short bio, and answered the membership questions. In my mind, if someone isn't willing to upload a photo and add a short bio then they are unlikely to be anything other than a lurker in the group (or a bot). Next steps for me are to continue growing and nurturing my free community while getting an evergreen offer ready for my paid community 🤑 P.S. I learned about 2-step posts from @Andrew Kirby and he also made a post about this strategy on this post in the games community.

Late night learning over here! Trying to get my first 500 free members for my full-time creator community! I've managed to get to 200 with instagram & paid ads.... but does anyone have an organic Skool strategy they'd like to share? Anyone have any luck getting organic traffic on skool?? Thank you! Sawyer