Do you consider yourself a Master Roaster? You get to win once every month and enjoy the podium for a whole week! Just a reminder that the Roaster of the Week gets a lot of spoils for free. - You get a pinned post ad at the top for 7 days. That's very powerful! I make the post, so everyone is notified about you. And for 7 days your offer will be the first thing people look when they come here. - The post is fixed at the community in the Trophy Case of the Roasty High Skool. So people can find you at any time. @Ruben Plasmeijer was the first champion and he still get members in his community even at times when he is not active. - The mere process of competing is already a win. Because people will see how helpful you are, so when you win they will remind you. If the champions are this helpful here, imagine how helpful they are in their own community! I just joined @Dave Hughes 's community, the current champion, and I'm impressed by the quality of his testimonials. - I make a Pinterest post for the champion of each week. So you are promoted inside and outside Skool. And that will include YouTube posts too. All with your previous authorizatiobn first. On top of that, since the community is public your ad posts might be found on Google also. 🏅 AND THE NEW BONUS:🏅 You earn DOUBLE POINTS for roasting roast requests that are currently PINNED! So pinned posts can get you up to 20 points! I grade each post that you roasted individually on: - Quality: How well you wrote the roast, how well you interacted with the roasted and how helpful and respectful you were in general on the thread (0 to 4 points) - Attention to detail: How much time you dedicated to actually go through the persons's stuff and review it, how detailed and technical was your review and the work you gave in the details. (0 to 3 points) - Creativity / Originality: If you give unique responses for each person. Spamming the same answers, not adding much new to answers that other people already made, or always giving similar answers will get you penalized here. (0 to 3 points)

[ROAST MY LESSON] Automations on Skool are pretty limited and a lot of times frustrating. API is something that developers use to provide automation solutions by allowing an app to talk to other apps/codes. Solutions like Zapier, Make and N8N are basically a way to simplify all of that with no code needed. The problem is that Skool does not have a public API. It is also not featured at N8N. Meaning you're limited to automations on Zapier and Make, that are only avaiable for pro communities. Of course automation wizards can go around that, but the alternative solutions are usually complicated and against Skool's terms and services. The Skool integration with Make is basically useless. The only possible action is to Invite a New Member, So we are left with Zapier. Here is what you can do with it: --> Triggers: the starting point of an automation - Membership questions: take the answers of the membership questions and use them to store somewhere or peform an action. The problem: it would be great if it didn't also work for rejected members. So you can't use that for email automations or automatic messages, as they would also include people you don't want inside your community. So it's only decent use case is market research. - New PAID member: that's right, the triger only works for members who paid. If your community is free, you can't use that. And another stupid limitation: the trigger also don't work if a member joined at a free trial! What a joke. ---> Actions: stuff you can do after the automation already started - Invite member: invite a member to a specific classroom course - Unlock course for member: the name says it all That's it. Shitty triggers with anoying and unecessary restrictions and patetically limited actions. No way to automate messages, posts, calendar events, add auto moderation. No way to get info for stuff beyond member's answers. And no open API to get around those limitations in an ethical way. THE SOLUTION: Panda is the best Skool addon at the moment. It still does not solve the mailmarketing issue but it's on the roadmap. And it's only 24 usd, less than a third of what you pay to upgrade to Pro.

I know it's low quality. It's V 0.1 of a VSL. It's 1 am. I intend to keep trying again and definetelly will keep doing it again with better equipment once I buy it. I said before I woudn't do it, but I'm a hypocrit, and I'm always learning and correcting myself.

[ROAST MY LESSON] This is going to be a straight to the point comparisson between Skool and 2 of it's big competitors that I worked with: Circle and Mighty Networks Is Skool the best of the 3? Short answer: Yes! For the majorit of cases. Long answer bellow: --> Circle: PROS: - Segregation: You can have different spaces for a lot of things. Different chat spaces, different spaces for sharing media, share photos. That allows you to have a lot of different things going on in the community in a organized way, and you can accomodate several niches. - Sharing Media is easy and it looks good: You can share media in a lot of different ways. Members can embed code, so they can for example post a spotify reproduction list that you can play without leaving the page. You can also have photo albums that look really good. - Stunning landing pages: In Circle you can create awesome landing pages, very easily and that look like professional websites. WIth these landing pages you can use your own custom domain. You can also have metrics like traffic and convertion rate. - Integrated CRM features, so you can have your own sales funnel and also manage mailmarketing - Support is great. You can have an answer from a real agent in 15 minutes. - Custom domain, without Circle in the name CONS: - Complicated and expensive pricing model: The pricing model is a mess. Upgrades cost too much. LIke going from 89 dollars to 199 to access automations. And 419 to have AI agents. That's pretty salty, specially for solo entepreneurs. - Annoying limitations: Circle has limitations for number of moderators and admins even on the highest plans. Also unlike Mighty Networks, you have a limit to the number of spaces you can create. And the livestreams are also pretty limited in how many hours you can host per month. Ideal for: Businesses that want to sell courses, have multiple niches in the same place, but not too much because of the limitations and want to allow people to share media in a lot of different ways.

Hope this is the right category for this one. I've been thinking about how to make my new yt channel stand out. At first I thought daily growth tips for Skoolers but now I'm thinking about showcasing a different successful Skool community in each video. Showing how they've become successful and why. I get exposure but so does that group and I put a referral link to them in the video. This gets more views since other groups are already established. What are your thoughts on this? Curious for feedback. Thanks.