Free for Free Communities? · Skool Community

Free for Free Communities?

I've been doing a little dive into Skool competitors and trying to see what things others did well that made a significant impact on my success.

One of the main ones that stood out was being able to actually start 100% free instead of a 14-day free trial for which I have to put in my card details for.

I genuinely believe that this little change would be incredibly impactful on the amount of people who give Skool a shot and even succeed, especially for a platform aimed at complete beginners in business.

As an example, imagine how amazing it would be to:

Set up your free community without having to even put in your card details and apply everything you've learned in the Skool community and other communities such as
@Andrew Kirby
's community.
Then, fail for however long it takes you, provide value, work for free, etc.
Finally, when you make it and have your first client willing to pay on call, you go in and setup billing(for which you will then be required to start paying the $99/month)

Or even just let people who want to have a little free non-profit community have it for free since they aren't using it for business.

I totally understand the downsides of this, such as % of people who have a community succeeding being affected, referrals being put off until the person you referred actually monetizes, people charging off platform to avoid paying for Skool, etc.

So, a lot of Skool's focus at that point would probably be to give people a reason to charge their members and clients on Skool.

Nevertheless, I feel like the positives would outweigh the solvable downsides with the large amount of people who would give Skool a shot instead of going to other platforms which don't charge you to use it without monetizing.

Thoughts?

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