We had a really great conversation in the PERSONALS yesterday, and some of us ended up chatting for more than 2 hours! Our next session will be on Wednesday but at a different time, so make sure to check your calendar and block off the date because we will be doing a recorded round-table where you will get to introduce your group, your expertise, and who your group is for. The recording will then be posted to the community as a whole, so you will want to make sure you are there for that! After the round-table, we will turn the recording off and open up for discussion for as long as people want to stay (within reason, I'm not sure I have the stamina for one of @Alexander Walter 's 5-hour marathons!!!! 😂). We discussed many things including how to plan for more members joining the Classifieds (our goal is 10,000 members 🤩). The discussion was around how to make sure that everyone still has the opportunity for visibility when there will be so many members posting. The feeling was that post people won't scroll past the first page. 💡 An idea was put forward to get rid of the General Discussion and Communities tabs (and possibly the Freebies tab) and instead have the categories be based on topics - tech, relationships, health and wellness, education, hobbies... I'm not sure how detailed or specific we would want to go - I guess that would be the next decision. I don't want to have too many categories, so that is something to consider as well... ‼️ I'm looking for feedback to see what the group thinks. For any decision I make, I always make it through the mission, vision, and values of the group, and for this group the simplified answer is this: mission - visibility for all through exposure and enhanced connections and collaborations; vision - 10,000 members interacting and supporting each other in their growth; values - high-quality everything so that there is a reason for people to join, to interact, and to keep coming back!

I just learned this today and maybe some of you have not heard this yet either. Creators who tested Skool + YouTube have found that Skool’s default embed sometimes does not send the view back to YouTube analytics unless you force a proper watch URL with a parameter. The simple fix they use is:​​ - If your link already has a question mark in it (it has other parameters), add: &views - If your link has no question mark yet (plain watch URL), add: ?views This forces Skool to treat it as a standard YouTube watch URL, and tests from Skool/YouTube creators show those clicks then show up as views on the channel.​​

Hello my fellow CLASSIFIERS! 👋 I wanted to share a fun prompt I built for the mini-AI Challenge I run in my community. The results today were seriously impressive, so I had to share this with the group! My focus with this challenge is to help leaders master the actual skill of prompting—especially amidst the never-ending stream of "shiny objects" in the AI space. Effective prompting is a skill set all its own. It requires the same careful thought and strategic implementation that we apply to our own businesses. Since we are in the season of GIVING, I wanted to share this with you all! 🎅 👇 The Code: 1️⃣ Open Gemini 2️⃣ Select "🍌 Create Image" 3️⃣ Paste this code: "A breathtaking, hyper-realistic cinematic close-up of Santa Claus standing in a heavy blizzard next to his lead reindeer. He is holding a vintage brass oil lantern up, casting a warm, glowing amber light onto his weathered face and the reindeer’s wet, fur-textured nose. You can see the steam rising from the reindeer’s nostrils and Santa’s breath condensing in the freezing air. Santa wears a deep crimson velvet coat with authentic, heavy white fur trim, covered in a dusting of real snowflakes. The background is a dark, blurry majestic pine forest with a hint of the loaded sleigh. Shot on an ARRI Alexa LF, 50mm prime lens. Incredible detail: individual snowflakes melting on warm skin, reflection of the lantern in the reindeer’s eye. 8k resolution, National Geographic Winter Edition style." Action Item: 1. Generate the image. 2. Check the nose! (Is it wet/textured?) 3. Check the steam! (Does it look like real breath?) Post your prompt and image below! 🦌🔦

On Wednesday, we will be having our first Premium meetup of the month affectionately called the PERSONALS, and no, it has nothing to do with dating! We will be doing two different break out groups this time. Members will have an opportunity for small group discussions with two different groups. The first discussion will be about growth and the second discussion will be about engagement. Participants will introduce themselves with a short two-sentence introduction to their group and a link in the chat at the beginning of each discussion, so you might want to type up something ahead of time that you can easily copy and paste. No one is forced to talk, so if you want to come and lurk, that's okay too! We're a pretty casual, supportive, and friendly bunch, though! I can't wait to see you there! Oh, and I will need a co-facilitator for the group that I am not a part of, so if you are interested in this, please send me a DM. If you are not yet a Premium member and you would like to attend the meetup, please click here.

MYTH: More content = more value. REALITY: More content often creates more confusion. I see course creators panic and respond the same way: They add another module, another bonus, another “just in case” lesson. It feels generous, but it also quietly breaks the learning experience. Here’s what actually happens when you overload a course: - Students can’t tell what matters most, so they do nothing first. - The “path” disappears, and the course becomes a content library. - Momentum drops because progress stops feeling measurable. - You get lower completion, fewer wins, and softer testimonials. Value isn’t measured in minutes of video.Value is measured in capability: what your student can confidently do after. If you want your course to feel premium and produce results, design for: - a clear sequence (this → then this → then this) - practice opportunities (not just explanations) - application (so students can make decisions without you) - tight scope (so “finished” is achievable) A high-quality course doesn’t say, “Here’s everything I know.”It says, “Here’s what you need to master, on purpose.” If you’re building (or rebuilding) a course right now, check out Your Best Course Experience inside of the Build Lab, it walks you through the exact process and frameworks you need to build with clarity, intention, and implementation so that you can stand out in your niche and scale exponentially.