Public vs Private communities - from a member perspective

Sep '23 (edited) in General Discussion ✅

Hellooo! I’m not far off launching my new Skool community and keen to hear your thoughts as a member, how you feel about public vs private community.

Background: My community is free for anyone to join, and is also a place people in my paid programs (but self paced - no personal support) to/share wins etc - which acts as social proof and creates curiosity for non members

I’m VERY keen on the SEO element of this as I know the conversations we’ll be having will be great for ranking.

But I’m also aware of privacy and how people will feel.

I’d of course make it clear it was a public community to members before they join- if I were to make it public. And know that it’s free to join anyway if it were private. So anyone could join and look if they wanted, so it’s still somewhat public. Just not indexed by Google…

But I am still conscious of how people would feel about it. So I thought I’d create a discussion to hear more perspectives.

Context: My community is a business community, so although private would likely be everyone’s preference if they could choose, I feel business doesn’t tend to be as personal in the same way of health or sensitive subjects.

Keen to hear your thoughts before I hit go ❤️

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