... is Apple pay! Please make it work. Conversion would be so much higher.

I'm not happy with the recent trends in this community. This is a place for genuine conversations and connections with other community owners. This is not a place for you to build your "thought leader" reputation with "4 things I learned in Bali about leadership" type posts and hollow comments. Here's the rules: 1. Don't be annoying 2. No self promotion 3. Don't use chatGPT 4. This isn't LinkedIn: Don't be a "thought leader" (see meme) 5. No engagement farming: Empty content to boost posts and get likes 6. Be positive 7. Make an effort If you see any posts/comments that break these rules - report them. If you're not sure, report them anyway. We're tightening up moderation.

I just tested it in my group for like 30 seconds. You can definitely do it using Vimeo's live streaming thingy. I used the browser based version. Quality was kind of "meh". But that's a Vimeo issue and not a Skool issue. Used the encoder version before with way better results in terms of quality. (I use ECamm Live). I imagine you can do the same by livestreaming to a YouTube link and embedding it into a post in Skool. That's all I did with vimeo. If you're really wanting to maximize community engagement I think livestreaming straight into the group is better than doing it on Zoom or whatever because people come into the group to participate. And in the long term (assuming you want to sell stuff from the group or are using it as part of a deliverable for a paid course) ...participation = profit. Or as I said in Mass Control (or one of those courses from 300 years ago) ...Consumption = Cashflow. Wait - I bet you could (for the same of simplicity) set your Zoom call to stream to YouTube ...and then just paste the YouTube link into a Skool post ...and now you're doing a zoom call into Skool. Yep. Just used that newfangled "Google" and found this: https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/articles/360028478292-Livestreaming-meetings-or-webinars-on-YouTube

To build a successful community, you don't need 1,000 fans. You need 10 true regulars. (Credit to David Spinks for this idea... It's brilliant). This may contradict what most people imagine about communities — spaces with hundreds or thousands of people actively contributing and forming relationships where everyone is engaged and involved. In reality, only a small percentage of your members will actively participate. You don't need a lot of active members to get conversations flowing; you only need the right few. When new members join your community and see dozens of new posts and hundreds of new comments every week, they won't know if all that activity is coming from ten people or 100 people. However, getting to ten true regulars is not easy. My recommendation: Start with three. Get to the point where you have three members who are coming back every day (or most days) and posting and commenting. You probably already know the three people. A lot of successful communities have the same founding story: "It was just me and a few friends in a group, and it slowly grew from there." Who are you already talking to about the topic of the community? What three people would you text first with a question? You've already validated that they're motivated. They could be your founding members. Ask them if they'd be interested in joining a small group of friends who are interested in the same topic. Once you get them together, start conversations, discuss interesting articles, and share learnings. Be yourselves, the same way you would in a private text conversation. Be weird, tell jokes, have fun. It's that kind of organic, quirky core that can spark a thriving community. Slowly invite more people, but don't invite too many at once, or you'll smother the flame. Be selective and keep curating. Once you have 3 true regulars — reward them, make them feel special, hang out with them on Zoom 1on1, meet them in-person — give them what they need so they can continue being a role model in your community.

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