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This is a “BATTLESTATIONS” focused community where Multi-Monitor Maniacs, or aesthetically minded folks can get together to share your rigs and rooms.

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Skool Community

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Skeptic - Making money from people who want to make money
When I look at all the "communities" here, it seems like every community is in one way or another a "guide to how to create a successful community". I am struggling to find in the Discovery are any communities for real businesses that aren't just something like a "self publishing" kind of thing. It comes across as a company that essentially finds people desperate to create a revenue stream, charges them to learn how to create a revenue stream, and that is it. I want that to be wrong, because I would love to create a community that pays me for my time, but when I look at the leader boards, the only ones making money are those who teach us how to make money using school. I don't see a dogfood business making money, or a legal firm, or any of the other businesses that might be out there. Please correct my impression if I am wrong!
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New comment 9d ago
@Peter Simons Well there is a flood of this stuff this year because of the numbers of smart tech people who have been laid off. Everyone needs help, and it is like selling shovels.
@Aaron League I do have to agree that he may have the shtick for topping the leaderboard. It is always nice when everything you do feeds the engine and brings you right back to the top. I would say too that there has to be a ton to learn in those groups, even if it is about how to be good at Skool. It comes down to the rules of the game. If feeding on your tail is allowed, and you can get enough people in between your mouth and your tail, it is fine. It might be less obvious if the ARR number didn’t include revenue from membership referrals. That is what is being rewarded now because it helps the platform grow, so no shade there. But if you focus on revenues not generated from member referrals, that means you have people paying for content essentially.
Discovery search filters
@Sam Ovens Maybe this is a feature request then. In Discovery, it would be great to have a filter, like a real estate house buying filter. Put filters up there for: 1. Community Category like "Training, Selling, Consulting, etc." 2. Community members so that you can search for communities with 1 to 100 members, 101 to 1k members, 1k to 5k, and so on. 3. Last active dates. So you can skip over communities that are not doing anything. While this may really limit some visibility, what it will do is drive trust and confidence when people search. Because they won't have to troll through hundreds of empty or dead communities, and they can go after topics they specifically want. I would really like to find communities where folks have gone independent from traditional businesses, but they are offering services back to those businesses. I would love to become a trainer for companies like the ones I used to work at, and a thriving community would help me to do that.
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Support for iFrame or embedding request
I have a particular interest in seeing more of the features that are in some of the other platforms show up here too. I would like to be able to embed iframes into my content because I use an external tool to create content. What you see in the picture I have attached is an embedded mind map, which I use to deliver content. By the way, what would make this great is if you can support this in the CLASSROOM postings, rather than just in the post area. I am evaluating Circle in conjunction with Skool, and they can do this in their discussion threads (which is where the screenshots are taken from). I tried it in their classroom and that was a fail. The pictures show it embedded in another site, and here is the link directly for this tool: [I was going to provide a link to the item that was listed below so that this could be evaluated as a feature request, but I got a ding for posting external links. (Making it impossible for anyone who is trying to do what I am requesting to see it live.)] The iFrame embed function I was trying to use is this: <iframe width="800" height="600" src="Some external weblink I had to delete to stick with community guidelines." frameborder="0"></iframe> This allows me to build my content in that platform, which is my preferred place to build content, and I want to show it here. Much less linear.
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After a Year on SKOOL 👨‍🏫 I Finally Took Action 🚨
I NEED your HELP & I'm embarrassed to admit this, but I finally posted a video to my YouTube about SKOOL. This might not seem like much to all of you massively successful entrepreneurs, but to me... this is a MASSIVE step of overcoming fear, and putting myself out there. You see, 12 years ago I did something that might sound crazy - I turned my cell phone OFF for 4 years straight. Not just silent. Not just airplane mode. Completely OFF. It was an iPhone 4, and I SHUT OFF service after watching an organization I founded disintegrate overnight. I ran to the Mountains to hide from business, from people, from everything - because the pain was just too much to bear. This wasn't just any organization - we had over 2,500 people, $2.5 million in annual revenue, and then... nothing. Just like that. I felt blindsided and blamed myself, even though deep down I know there was nothing I could have done to prevent it from happening. I hid in adventure sports, and adrenaline rushes for the next decade. For over 10 years - a whole decade - I carried this massive weight of guilt. I convinced myself I had let down every single one of those 2,500 partners. That weight was crushing me... until something unexpected happened. I started reaching back out to them, terrified of what they might say. But what I found shook me to my core: none of them blamed me. Not one. In fact, most of them told me those years of building something together helped them grow in ways they never expected. Even though it all ended overnight, they got to keep the growth, the lessons, the transformation. That hit me like a ton of bricks. Same story, completely different perspective. You know what's crazy? That same fear tried to stop me from posting this video about SKOOL. That same voice saying "what if you cast a vision again, and it doesn’t work out for everyone?" But this time, instead of running to the mountains, I'm running towards the community. Towards possibility. Towards you. I would love your honest feedback on my first video about SKOOL. The good, the bad, the "what were you thinking with that background?" - all of it. I appreciate each one of you more than you know, and honestly, I wouldn't have found the courage to do this without this community having my back.
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New comment 20d ago
After a Year on SKOOL 👨‍🏫 I Finally Took Action 🚨
@Ian Kirk 5 days in? Still dreaming the life!
@Ian Kirk Hi Ian. I am at a "holding my breath before jumping" stage. I haven't built anything just yet. I started exploring this tool (Skool) about 5 days ago. I have spent 20+ years in cyber and physical security as a pre-sales engineer. I got laid off this past year. I think I have aged out of the business model I used to work in. I have interviewed over 100 times since February and it is a combination of getting ghosted on interviews or getting the inevitable "You are so talented, but we found someone better." letter. I get about 5 of those per day, so it is great for morale. I decided this month, about two weeks ago in fact, to really try something different. So I am still "dreaming" about what I want to do. I am currently suffering a bit of analysis paralysis. With the daily reinforcement of "threw your resume out today, so pound sand" I am trying to decide if being a mentor to the field that won't hire me back is a questionable value proposition. Once I begin, I have the work ethic and drive to do quite well, but being ready to throw my entire life (12 hours a day) into building something, I am trying to make sure it is the right thing. My decision making process includes the following: 1. Build a website to advertise my talents and create a boatload of written content to rank on SEO. 2. Build a ton of YouTube videos on esoteric knowledge I have, but where I can't use the tools I used to sell, either because of non competes. 3. Build a community where all of my previous co-workers and our peers in the industry will come to learn from me. (Back to the pound sand reinforcement, along with the typically snarky cyber security industry pundits as positive reinforcement.) 4. Go design office chairs and sell them online. So at this point, perhaps I just need to get over my PTSD from working corporate before trying to make a positive start in something new.
Embed iFrame
Hi @all - I have a question - does someone of you guys know if its possible to embed a iframe into a text area of a module?
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New comment 9d ago
I would like to embed something like this: <iframe width="800" height="600" src="https://app.thebrain.com/embed/2d91a2f5-c115-4c96-a898-4c19f49d7af6" frameborder="0"></iframe>
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David Hawkins, CISSP, CTPRP, APMP
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20 year pre-sales engineering vet, looking to build a community to offer mentorship, training, and fellowship in the industry.

Active 2d ago
Joined Oct 25, 2024
Vero Beach, FL
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