If you're a Skool group owner who sends traffic to your Skool about page and/or you want more members to find your group, this new program could be really important to know about. On Tuesday, Skool announced this new program: the Growth Boost. Video 1 shared at the bottom of this post explains it in more detail, but here's the summary along with some helpful resources. ⬇️ ➡️ THE FULL SCOOP ABOUT GROWTH BOOST: - Skool is now sending paid ad traffic to Skool groups, both directly to groups and to the Discovery. - If Skool gets you paid members from the Skool Network, you will pay a 30% commission much like paying an affiliate. If it's a one-time payment, you will pay once. (for classroom and/or membership purchases) If it's a recurring membership, it will be recurring. - If they don't get you paid members, you will not pay anything for the ads running to your Skool. - Attribution is on a group-by-group basis, so if you own multiple groups, the source can be different for the same member in different groups. - This is likely to massively increase the number of Skool users over time because they're diverting ad spend from getting new Skool group owners, to getting new members for existing Skool groups. - As it is currently designed, the Skool network includes visitors who find you from the Discovery, from Skool ads, from the recommended groups side bar in Hobby groups, and from visiting your profile. - More info about traffic sources here >> https://help.skool.com/article/226-traffic-sources - 💖 Full Disclosure: I personally was initially less than thrilled that profile visits are included in this mix because these are typically the result of making connections in Skool. I believe the Skool Network OVERALL will grow so much, however, that this will only be for everyone's benefit and that there would be more friends to connect with on Skool. I believe that the math works out here overall. ➡️ WHEN YOU WILL *NOT* BE CHARGED FOR GROWTH BOOST MEMBERS:

Welcome to the 2026 version of my Official Skool Blog. Let's GO! What You'll Find Here: - Genuinely useful posts about best practices in Skool - Shared by a Skool-obsessed gal who has owned multiple top 1% groups and won the Skool Games (for the Connect & Collab group, we have a pretty awesome thing going there) - Favorite Skool groups and the cool things happening in those groups - Curated mix of some bangin' posts from around Skool What You WON'T Find Here: - Naval-gazing personal bits -- like what I ate for a snack today - Tons of personal stuff about me -- although sometimes I'll share personal stuff in the mix if it feels special and worthwhile enough - Boring rants (if we have a rant, the hope is that it will at least be interesting) How Often I'll Post: - Could be as often as 3-7x each week - Probably not ever more than once daily unless there's a really good reason - We'll see as the year goes on, won't we?! Quick Background: - This started as an experiment, but in the last month or so I was too busy winning the Skool Games to keep it rolling (such a cool flex 💪🫠) - The flex was somewhat tongue in cheek. That last month was insane, and I had no sense of balance. It actually felt like some kind of miracle that we won! 😃 - I love the photo shared with this post because it might display just a tiny fraction of the obsession I have with Skool. - Pictured: my husband Carlos, married to this amazing man since 2005, the Skool Cat (ha!), and me (hi! ::waving::) P.S. It's a "blog" but is also technically a group. Feel free to join by clicking the "JOIN GROUP" button, but you won't be able to post like in a normal group.

When you're online and have 10+ engagements for 30 days in a row, you get a FLAME by your name. I have it right now. But in 24 hours, it will be gone. I'm going offline on purpose. It's simply because I'm not here for emojis. I'm here for - friends - community - business - growth And so much good!! But not for emojis. I'm making just this ONE post, though, so that my profile has a lovely light green for today, rather than gray! One of the BIGGEST struggles with the emoji dance is that it literally becomes a part of your identity. I don't want that. So that's why I feel that I need to do this. But also... I love the idea of better boundaries! And so it is!

First of all, this post isn't even really ABOUT Joe. It's about - WHY everyone's talking about Joe - WHY this matters to the rest of us And I'm totally going to answer these questions for you. So here goes...! BTW. Joe being Joe DeFilippo, maker of Skooly. ➡️ #1: WHY IS EVERYONE TALKING ABOUT JOE? - Joe listened to what people were looking for, and he solved the problems by making those things exist with his fancy pants programming skills (examples: native-like audio shares in Skool, bookmark posts within Skool, easily make your own GIFs so others can share them in Skool, and actually a bunch of other stuff) - He made the price insanely affordable (like, I cannot believe the price is going "UP" to $9 because really this COULD cost way more!!) - He also just keeps on making things better (example! I asked for the voice transcription to be available in Hungarian and Portuguese, and WITHIN 24 HOURS he added those languages!) - SO. About the growth and "talking about Joe" side, a few days ago, I made the first of several posts in my group about this to spread the word. Already more than 10 friends from my group signed up right away, AND some other friends piped up to say "yes yes yes! it's great!" Joe made a point to thank friends for spreading the word. - Joe's not making a huge thing of the affiliate stuff. But we all know that the price will go from $5 to $9 next week, and it feels like a nice time to get friends in there quick! - WHEN SOMETHING IS REALLY GOOD, and people WANT AND NEED THAT THING, it's easy to spread the word! So it's been more than a little crazy to notice that now in the last couple days, there seem to be posts about this everywhere! And I'm not sure, but I think he's gotten something like 40-50 new members in the span of a few days! ➡️ #2: WHY THIS MATTERS TO THE REST OF US! - Make the thing people want. - Offer it at a fair price. - Keep making it better and LISTEN to feedback. - Thank the friends who are spreading the word! - You don't even have to make a big thing about your affiliate program. When you have a great thing, YOUR PEOPLE WILL SHARE!

BOY OH BOY I've been thinking a lot about the conversation Martin started yesterday after our chat! BASICALLY, WE HAVE TWO OPTIONS: 1️⃣ FUNNEL-First Community = the community exists as a funnel, plain and simple 2️⃣ COMMUNITY-First Community = community is there for us to connect, even if it is also part of a business ecosystem which has paid offers. STAY WITH ME HERE on the incoming analogy... This got me thinking about how my daughter is 14, and now we have to teach her to be wary of boys. For some reason, when teenage boys' hormones get crazy, they're not always thinking of the girl and her brains and jokes and HER AS A PERSON. "NOTCH ON THE BELT" feels - honestly? GROSS - like there is the conquistador and then the conquest - as though one person is essentially there just to be used and tossed FUNNEL-FIRST COMMUNITIES = - feel much the same - like members are conquests - members are used like we're a cash machine to pull money out of And yeah, it's truly just like being another notch on the belt so the hustle bros* can brag about the $$$ from the launch. *QUICK NOTE about "hustle bros" --> I know this a gender-heavy marketing conversation. MEANWHILE... IN THIS ROOM, there are actual *GENTLEMEN*, so I want to take a moment to acknowledge that women can also show up as "hustle bros" and that men are often insanely thoughtful and gentlemanly in terms of the way they show up in life and business. This is not about man vs. woman. This is about the FEELING of being used or a conquest vs. the FEELING of being honored as a human. LET'S BRING THIS BABY HOME: In a community-first community where there are offers in place, there's no feeling of "notches on the belt" (which is obviously gross as a side note, but I make this analogy because I think we need to know that certain ways of showing up in relationships of ANY KIND feel genuinely... gross!). ➡️➡️➡️ YOUR THOUGHTS ON THIS ONE?!