I know this has been discussed in here before, but this is deeper detail and important info to be aware of. I'll do my best to lay it out simply, but if you want the full details I recommend you watch the attached video. 𝗔𝗟𝗦𝗢 𝗙𝗬𝗜, #𝟮 𝗶𝘀 𝗖𝗥𝗔𝗭𝗬, and I hope they get it fixed soon. So make sure you read to the second part of this post. 1️⃣ 𝗚𝗿𝗼𝘄𝘁𝗵 𝗕𝗼𝗼𝘀𝘁 𝗶𝘀 𝗡𝗢𝗧 𝗷𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝗮𝗱𝘀. As you may know, Growth Boost is a program where Skool collects an affiliate commission when they get you a customer. That is the idea. But it's not just when they run ads for you that they take a commission. There are five main situations when they would take a commission. It's #4 and #5 that give some real pause for thought >> 1. As mentioned, when they run ads and a new member clicks on the ad 2. From Discovery, when a member searched and then found your group 3. From suggested communities (listed on the side of the $9/month hobby communities in place of the leaderboard) 4. Anyone who clicks your profile, then joins your group that way (side note, like right now... if you clicked my profile + joined my group because of this post, Skool could get a commission if I had GB turned on. So you'd want to join via @Lidia Axe's referral link HERE if you did) 5. Your community listed in the memberships area of members' profiles I would argue that there are HEAPS of situations when Skool did NOT get you the customer, but the commission is charged due to #4 and #5. Not to mention that there used to be no charge for Discovery. (that part I'm a bit cranky about but mostly understand) 2️⃣ 𝗔𝘁𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗯𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗵𝗮𝘀 𝗞𝗡𝗢𝗪𝗡 𝗜𝗦𝗦𝗨𝗘𝗦/𝗠𝗜𝗦𝗧𝗔𝗞𝗘𝗦. Growth Boost is "last touch attribution". That means that the last source before joining gets the credit. So if you click LinkedIn, YouTube, Skool network = Skool network gets the sale because it is last. 𝘛𝘏𝘐𝘚 𝘐𝘚 𝘐𝘕 𝘛𝘏𝘌𝘖𝘙𝘠. On September 29, something rocked my world. I clicked on a friend's DIRECT LINK, made sure to join without clicking anything else, and even though I had clicked his link last, Skool network got the attribution.

two weeks ago i proposed a visibility report to Skool. real numbers. total transparency. i even showed them an example. their answer: "we are not doing it. not a priority right now. but you can go ahead and launch your own report if you'd like :)" i'd like. so i am. doing it now. === meet the Road to Clover Report ☘️ the leaderboard shows the top 100. number 100 sits at around $52k MRR... long way to go. this report will show the rest of us. where we are, what we invest, what we struggle with. below $3k MRR, no clover yet. it's a pilot. Q4 2026 is the test run. let's see how it goes. my target is 100 communities. anything beyond that will be a huge win. if it works, it becomes a quarterly thing. if it doesn't, i'll tell you. === why i'm doing it: - i'm tired of "3 communities that crushed it this week". - i want to collect real numbers from real people - and i want to share them with you === what do you need to do: - open your Skool dashboard - fill in the form, about 15 minutes - that's it === what you get back: - the report by email, around 25–27 December, before it goes public here on 1 January '27 - your Where You Stand card + 2-3 recommendations from me, by 31 January - the Road to Clover badge ☘️ your numbers are never published. only totals. i treat confidentiality seriously. === 🚨 this is for you if you're below $3k MRR. free, paid, one week old or two years in. every category, old or new. 💥 if you run a community, podcast or program for Skool owners, become a partner and share it with your people. ➡️ click here for all details + the links submitted? drop a 🍀 in the comments

day 2 was about engagement. and the first thing i said on the call was that i don't like the word 🙃 by the end of the day nobody had found a better one, but we all agreed on the part that matters: - engagement for the sake of engagement is busy work. - you want people talking because it moves them somewhere. - otherwise it's just gif wars with extra steps. and after yesterday's chaos, today actually went as planned and a really cool teamwork. thanks to @Paulo Costa, The Roaster for letting us pick apart how Roast & Promote gets 78% of members posting, commenting and participating. huge thanks to @Éva Raposa and @Shannon Boyer for this important and meaningful roundtable discussion that was way more honest and substantial than most paid courses on this topic. 🎥 NOW THE RECAP all recordings are in the Classroom (available to everyone till 1 October, only to Premium & VIP after that) with summaries and time codes (still think this deserves a like): - case study with Paulo - roundtable with Eva and Shannon - hot seats recording ♨️ THE HOT SEATS still i believe one of the most useful part of the clinic. and another round of applause for the brave ones: @Sandra Martinez @Vladimir Belokapov @Kate DuBois @Nikesh Amit plus @Diana Frank who jumped in with the story of a tiny spin-off that outsold her main community in 3 days. you can find links to their communities in the class. 🏆 THE PRIZES thanks to our lovely sponsor - Community Income Mastermind - community for Skool community builders ready to go from free to profitable, we have our grand prize - annual membership ($497) to be awarded to just 1 person via name lottery among all active participants.

you don't need more information. you need someone to look at your community and tell you what to fix. that's the whole clinic. no slides, no frameworks, no summit replays you'll never open. you bring your community, i ask how can i help, and i tell you what i'd actually do. but there is more: - 6 amazing experts/speakers joining me for a daily roundtable discussions (to be revealed shortly) - 3 successful case studies to help you see a real life examples - bunch of other Skoolers sharing their struggles here's what one conversation did for Eugene - he just posted yesterday after our call only 2 days ago: "I made changes to my community and already got 4 members since we've talked. Awesome and thank you 😊" check the calendar. come to as many sessions as you can. for sure come for the hot seats. that's where your community gets fixed. and there are prizes from our sponsor - Community Income Mastermind 😎 anyone who joins live or take a REAL part in the CC 2.0 - you're in the draw for $497 annual subscription. i'll draw the winner at the Monday debrief. everyone else who shows up and takes part gets an ASYNC audit of their community from me. it's all FREE. the recordings are FREE until 1 October. check the Calendar and check in. ps who is coming?

the major part of yesterday's Skool news was on Growth Boost (sigh). so, i am not going to share a summary - if you are interested in what they are saying, check the recording in the Vault here. === i am still here to give the Axe Verdict. but let's hear from other Skoolers first. very respected one. here is someone, who has been on Skool for a while / been successful: "My latest growth boost observations...Idk about the rest of you, but I wish they had never started it at this point. I haven’t watched today’s Skool News to hear the latest, but I feel over the whole experiment...I have gone up and down on it several times, but it really does feel like a huge distraction." and then this comment, from someone who is really successful and many of you know: "It's built for the few and it will benefit the few. For the rest of us, it's just a distraction." finally, the last drop, yesterday i invited someone to speak at the Community Clinic 2.0 - more on this to come. she was not a member here. and while we were talking over DMs, she joined from the profile. big mistake , i know - just kidding, it is not on her. but now, i have to pay Skool 50% from $9. well, i can survive that. but still not fair. === what do i think? i think, they are trying to help Skoolers - in their minds. i think, here is what they could have done instead: - introduce efficiency score transparency, so community owners can see how effective they are + share advice/suggestion on what to focus on. - introduce "Deep research" feature to help community owners improve what they are doing. - and whatever else they are doing to improve Growth Boost -- offer it to us as extra paid service. all those features could be at extra cost per month. i would pay for it. for sure. instead, right now: - ppl going paid, when it does not make any sense. - we have to trust/gamble to get results without any visibility of what is going on. - we are blackmailed into using Growth Boost or we loose features we thought are inherent