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Let's get more members! - RoW #33
@Dave Hughes won the Roaster of the Week again. He is always helping people with their groups here, being the first one to give them the feedback they crave for (and that multuplies your points) and really really puttiing an effort on his roasts. So if he helped you here, you must go to Skool Reset & Rebuild for further assistance from him. Here is what you get there: ✅ Community setup or community audit ✅ Skool help to get members ✅ About Page rewrite + page optimization ✅ Niche positioning + clear messaging ✅ Attract members + improve member engagement ✅ Better member experience + community growth ✅ Brand Identity & Ideal Client Deep Dive ✅ Personalized roadmap WANT MORE HELP? 1:1 coaching Dave: Personalized Skool coaching, weekly private coaching + accountability. 2:1 coaching Dave + Nancy: Weekly coaching, hands-on implementation + an engagement specialist who posts and replies. ⭐ PROOF: One About Page rewrite lifted opt-in conversion by 3.7%. Join now!
Let's get more members!  - RoW #33
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@Lisa Hunt I see that and I have sent you a DM with instructions.
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@Paulo Costa, The Roaster We’re Changing Our Onboarding New members will now have a short Zoom Welcome Call before being approved into the community. PLEASE NOTE: This is NOT a sales call. The call is 30–45 minutes and focuses on the answers you gave when joining what you’re struggling with, what you want to improve, and how we can help. Most importantly, we want members who are serious about their community, willing to participate and support other members, and ready to put in the work to move their own community forward.
Roast my About page: The Lift Society
Growing up in the 20th century, there was always the promise of a bigger, better, and brighter tomorrow, filled with new technologies like flying cars, hoverboards, and cities in the sky. Fast forward to today, and all we have are broken promises and the promise of even more promises. That's where The Lift Society started. It's a funding community for researchers, builders, and inventors working on alternative propulsion and lift outside mainstream consensus. Founding Members ($29/month or $99/year) get a directory listing, a YouTube interview, and a vote on an annual $1,000 funding award for equipment and prototypes. Here's the About page: https://www.skool.com/the-lift-society-8080/about Roast it. I want to know: Can you tell within five seconds who this is for and what it funds? Would an inventor trust it enough to join? Would a backer? What sounds vague, too niche, or hard to follow from the outside? Does the Founding Member offer feel clear and worth the price? Be direct. I'd rather hear it now than after more people land on the page.
Roast my About page: The Lift Society
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@Louis Lockett, Sr. This is what is Fixed: The page now names who it's for (researchers, builders, inventors, and supporters). The Problem list names the inventor's real situation in plain words. The price mismatch is gone, and the tiers (free, $7, $39) are consistent. The purpose now reads the same in the sidebar and the body. The "gravity control" claim is gone, and "Not an investment. No equity." is added. New gaps: The earlier list of what members get (directory listing, newsletter, decal) is gone, so the tiers now show prices with no contents. The body copy no longer has a call to action. Now you have these problems? No proof appears anywhere: no award recipient, funded project, or named inventor. The three tiers are listed by price only; what each includes isn't stated. The body copy has no call to action. "Outside mainstream consensus" has no grounding, so it may read as fringe to a skeptical reader. With awards funded by member fees and 6 members, the page doesn't say how much has been raised or when the first award goes out. No credential, background, or story is given for Louis. The supporter's own situation isn't named; the Problem section speaks only to inventors. "Result" is missing: nothing shows work that got funded or seen. This version speaks to the inventor's real situation far better than the first; the gaps are proof and what the paid tiers include. This version now speaks to the inventor's real situation and is upfront about where the money comes from, but it still shows no funded project, doesn't say what the paid tiers include, and asks a skeptic to take "outside mainstream consensus" on trust. So here is another problem and no one is seeing this. Your key words on this one you have 26 and I went in to skool discovery and searched each one. Out of the 26 you show up for 7 key words meaning people would have to type those into discovery to find you and the other 19 you don't show up and I do page one and two. You have to be on the first page and if not two most don't go to the third.
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@Paulo Costa, The Roaster When you say pitch you mean if I have the brand IDs I can talk about them and put a link to where they can buy them?
People who work with AI are earning a bad reputation
And for a good reason. [ROAST ANOTHER AI RANT] I got a "community expert" approaching me saying that he would help me scale my community and wanting to disclose his services. I said I was interested in seeing what he offered. He than sent me a PDF diagnosis of my group. It was very very bad. It sugested implementing stuff that I already do very well in a creative way and gave very generic and bland ideas to replace them, like the leaderboard level names, for example. The guy most problably just ran the agent and didn't take a minute to look at my group himself. And I just got to know that Skool and social media are flooding with those consultants. That just creates a reputation that everything that has AI on it is managed by a lazy person or scammer behind it. Now people accuse canva designs of being AI. Scriped videos as being AI. CGI of being AI. Even basic photoshop edits are now AI slop. And it comes with a repulse because the people behind it are seen as lazy like those consultants no matter what they are delivering. Since we're managing communities we have the unique opportunity to break that pattern, because people can connect with us on a level that they can't on modern social media. But the first impression is still very important. Unfortunatelly, if you're using AI for your group images without showing the person behind it, no matter how cool it looks and how much real effort you put behind it, some people will just assume you're a lazy person who uses AI to deliver everything.
People who work with AI are earning a bad reputation
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@Paulo Costa, The Roaster Generic is the giveaway, not the AI. If someone never actually looked at your community, a bland PDF shows it right away. Tools are fine, but a real person still has to look at the group and know why it works. Showing who's behind the page matters more now too, because people trust a face and a story faster than a polished image.
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@Paulo Costa, The Roaster I have a new onboarding system and in fact I have someone form this community at the door @Ken Hyra I sent him a DM the other day. I have tried this on someone else and it seem to work good. Everything I do when they come in the community I'm reversing that and doing it before they come in the community. Everything I do is human like you.
Self-Sustaining Life Lab
Okay, so this is my new community, and it is a paid community. Roast my about page https://www.skool.com/ssll/about
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@Rasheed Hooda Try and keep that 100% engagement as people join you have to keep getting them to chat. If they don't that 100% will drop over time. The % will go up and down it will depend on your engagement
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@Rasheed Hooda okay that is good
I'm running a Meta Ad. Roast it first so I don't deliver it raw!
I'm spending the total fortune of 20 USD or a burger dinner on it. It will realistically not bring me more than 3 members at best. But it will give me some useful stats hopefully. I'll make other experiments with video content. Here it goes: Tittle: Stop buying marketing courses. Your next course won’t tell you what’s wrong with your actual ad, offer, website, or content. You don’t have an information problem. You have a feedback problem. Bring what you built to Roast & Promote. Real people will tell you what works, what’s confusing, and what you should fix next. 🔥 Get roasted. Get better. Help someone else and get noticed. 📢 Join free and post what you’re working on.
I'm running a Meta Ad. Roast it first so I don't deliver it raw!
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@Paulo Costa, The Roaster What's wrong, ranked by cost in a cold Meta feed: 1. A stranger can't tell what this is. It never says free Skool community, and "ad, offer, website, or content" covers everyone. The image has no brand and no CTA. Someone who only sees the image has nowhere to go. The "Achievement Unlocked" badge is too small to read at feed size. The image and the copy target different people. The image calls out course hoarders. The copy asks for "what you built," and many of them haven't built anything yet. The proof isn't used. 256 members and a 5.0 rating are real, and neither appears. Your best line likely gets cut. Meta truncates mobile copy, so "You have a feedback problem" probably sits below "See more." "Roast" has no reassurance. "We roast the work, never the person" is missing. "Join free" comes last and weakest. It's your strongest reason to click, and it's buried after the emoji line. "Tutorial hell" is jargon for anyone outside dev and online-learning circles. The mood doesn't match the landing page. The ad is dark and grim, the community is playful. Keep these: "COURSES: 37 / HONEST FEEDBACK: 0" makes the whole argument at a glance. "You don't have an information problem. You have a feedback problem" is a real reframe. "Stop buying marketing courses" is direct and specific. Bottom line: strong concept, but it describes the problem and never says what you're offering, who it's for, or that it's free and safe.
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