30 Lessons Learned from 30 Days @ Skool

Nick Maier

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4d ago (edited) in Product Feedback

it's been wild - to say the least

last night I hit Lv 7 in the Games Community (trip to skool HQ soon as Lv7 is just around the corner here)
I get my 🔥🔥🔥 tomorrow
I've found my people (thank you all)

I started my skool account after a 3 month "sabbatical"

I transitioned away from my exec role at an ad agency, ready for the next adventure

I was lost

until I wasn't

skool created that special "feeling" ...

... you know the one

it's indescribable. right there in your gut. it just feels "right"

it took me a week to figure things out and get the lay of the land

see how it works. form a strategy. get some form of direction first, so speed can be applied

and here we are - 30 days later

34 members in the paid group. no ads. no marketing. no promo. no past audience to leverage

just using the skills and experiences from the past 12 years of writing copy, marketing, running ads and building businesses to play this game, inside this ecosystem

the boats are burned, and I am ALL IN

these are 30 lessons I've learned over the past 30 days, I hope you find them valuable

p.s: add your own lesson in the comments! (and if you'd like anything expanded upon, just ask!)

the likes don't matter at all, and they also matter a lot
@Mimi Ramsey
is a badass. Don't ever get in a war with her - even IF she starts it
engage with people - like REALLY engage. If you're commenting, add some damn value, don't just write a few words or leave your vague opinion
there are cheat codes to the Skool Game
start the damn community. Figure the rest out later
the simplest skool funnel is the best
most top 10 skool game winners are bad models for building your building skool communities
there is more than one way to skin the cat
if you show up daily with value, you can't lose
@Dr. Stephen Buscema
is the ultimate hype man
simple at a macro level, hyper tactical at the micro level
you can learn from every single person here
choose a few core communities that have your ideal client and go a MILE DEEP into them
spending time on skool and being active IS work
we're so fucking early to this platform
if you don't have an audience or list of contacts to leverage and value speed, ads are the play
if you don't have an audience or list of contacts to leverage and value quality, youtube is the play
what matters is getting people to your skool page and then inside your skool page. how you do it is up to you - it all works
there are no rules or "best" ways to do it ... everyone is figuring it out as they go along
remember you only see 5% max of what other people are ACTUALLY doing
spend 90% of your time researching your market so you nail your about page words/bullets and VSL - you can tweak your traffic sources much more easily to get more traffic
you'll meet people and feel like you've known them for years ...
@Hunter Johnston

@Kym Lam Sam

@Alex Kilbee

@Raquaza Moss

@Koen Cramer

@Rens van Daalen
your ability to focus on LESS and do more of it, better, can put you miles ahead in a short time
add value every single day
don't ever mention your community or link it (unless people ask)
if you're starting a free community and then want to transition it to paid, start marketing it and selling it as if it is paid - as you're conversion event isn't getting people into the free community, it's the paid community
make sure you have an objective in mind so everything you do can move you toward it (everything else is a distraction, keep the main thing the main thing)
study what
@Ryan Duncan

@Andrew Kirby
and at
@Matthew Thompson
post and say - there's gold in their content
keep it simple. simple is sophisticated. when you find yourself overwhelmed - stop, breathe, and write ... get your thoughts down on paper and ask "what would this look like if it were simple" - then go do that thing
The name of the game is traffic and conversions. The people who get MORE people to their page AND get more inside of it - win