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Skool rolled out a brand-new feature today that lets paying members leave reviews for the communities they belong to. 🎉 You can find it under Settings → Reviews. If @Brenda Rigney and Skool Scale Camp have helped you learn, grow, make connections, or build your community or business, please consider leaving a review and sharing a few words about your experience here. 💛 Reviews can help new people get a feel for the community before they join, so it’s another simple way to support SSC and help the right people find their way here. And apparently I was quick on the draw this morning because I got to leave SSC’s very first review! 🔥 Who’s next? ⭐⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

So about a week ago, I went from a Freemium watercolor painting community to making my standard tier $7. I know one week is a short time, but what I’ve learned so far is interesting: 1. My healthy stream of free members is now at a standstill. But I did expect that. 2. Growth Boost picked me up and folks started seeing me in ads within hours of making my community paid. TY those of you who sent me messages about this! 🙏 3. There was some website, IG, YouTube, Pinterest, and post copy to change/shift to reflect the 7 day free trial rather than free entry to the group. 4. I have a brand new YouTube video on my channel that talks about my free group (maybe before I made the group paid) and I’ll probably have to hide it for a while… 5. I’m focusing the energy I was using to welcome new members, on free members who may not know what premium or VIP can do for them. Right now, paid seems harder because - Despite some major growth boost ads, no $7 sales yet. - I feel like I’m speaking to 4 separate groups now instead of 3, and there were some significant changes to make not only in my copy, but in my positioning. I know it’s only been a week, but I’m really missing Freemium. Especially after listening to @Brenda Rigney’s new YouTube video on why her free groups are making more than her paid ones. Thankfully, this was just an experiment and I can change it back to Freemium anytime. Brenda, or some of you with paid groups, maybe you have some tips? 😊 Should I it more time? Or call it quits?

Context first, because it’s important , I’m not new to online business… Since April 2023 I’ve generated over $250,000 US, one mini-project at a time. I know how to run a business. I help other people figure out theirs. And I still could not see my own community clearly. I knew there was something missing, I could even pinpoint what leaks I wanted to fix. I couldn’t figure out how. (Before April 2023 for 8 years I generated about $20K on average if that, so no I’m not an overnight success, I’m slow burn learner, but when I get something I run with it) But I digress, what happens when you’re inside the thing, you get blinders. And it isn’t that you don’t know. (That could be too actually) It’s that you have never once stood outside your own business and looked back at it from a very different perspective. We all are way too close to our business. I came off Skool Games at $10K MRR. It settled at about $7,500 including annuals, so roughly $4,500 a month recurring with the rest already collected up front. Solid numbers. But I knew there was a leak in how people move from free to premium, because while 99 people joined premium , I have 4500 members and I could not find on my own, how to structure onboarding and day to day so that they see opportunities to upgrade throughout without me shouting it. So on July 20th I booked a 1:1 with Brenda. (YES she offers them still - run don’t walk and book it) Not because I want her business model. I don’t want summits and bundles every other month. I do summits twice a year and that is plenty for me. I wanted her to see my community from her expert sharp eyes. Because the way she moves people from free to premium to VIP is the smoothest I have ever seen. Gentle and firm at the same time. Easter eggs tucked into every corner so people upgrade because they want to, not because she is standing there pitching at them every single week. Two hours later I had ten pages of action items. Not scribbles. Real do-this-next items. I have implemented maybe one page of the ten.