For the whole month of april there will be no repeated Roaster of the Week Winner. That means @Gus Gray @Ruben Plasmeijer @Mike Tielemans and @Brian Diep can only compete for the second pinned post (still great for exposure, just takes more work to maintain). That's because I'm giving a better chance for everyone to become a RoW winner and also compete for free VIP. VIP members have me making an active effort to promote them here, with the possiblity to have stuff in the classroom and me directly referring them to people who come here for help and might need them. If you want to take this opportunity, start roasting today, as the scores are cleared. And bring people in, because the RoW winner who brings the most active referrals is the one who will win the free VIP spot! @Mike Tielemans and @Gus Gray already have active referrals so they're in for the competition!

You can use AI to make it easier. Have fun. Feel free to link your stuff while doing it. Mine: Respectful roasts that spark real growth, Winners rise and take the crown, Praised and pinned where they’re seen all around.

are you scared that your roasts will make people feel offended? scared that they might be burnt to a crisp? so it feels safer that you compliment their posts anyway. Your compliment may encourage your roastee lots, but they may find themselves looking for ways to improve their skool. so how do you make good roast? a good roast 🔥comes as a sandwich 🥪 it's called the sandwich method. this is the same technique i been using since high school to critique my peers work to find missed points and clarity without hating each other the next second. this is how you do the sandwich method. compliment roast compliment easy, right? first: you compliment what they did right, something you noticed they put alot of effort in and paid off. i.e. "you rock your hairstyle, it matches your skool vibe!!" second: the meat of the compliment, the MOST important of the sandwich. a bread sandwich sucks! so the roast inside is cooked. i.e. "I would like more information about what you did that made you an award-winning designer" --we are not overcooking the meat into charcoal. DON'T say "you have no evidence of being successful" HIGHLY recommended to add a sauce (the example) i.e. "for example, something like a badge from a design show will show proof that you are a award-winning designer" third: compliment something else you noticed. make it open ended, thank them for sharing their time. they put alot of effort into their post! i.e. "you have a great future with your skool! thank you for sharing, Let me know if this helped i am looking forward to see your skool again" putting it all together: Good roast sandwich: "you rock your hairstyle, it matches your skool vibe! I would like more information about what you did that made you an award-winning designer for example, something like a badge from a design show will show proof that you are a award-winning designer. you have a great future with your skool! thank you for sharing, Let me know if this helped i am looking forward to see your skool again"

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I noticed most people suck at polls. I learned how not to by copying @Albert Reyna. Polls are in my opinion the best resource for engagement on Skool. First of all, because people join communities for interaction, and there is no better way to call people to interact with you than to ask a question. And the effort people make to interact with polls is much smaller than in posts where you write a text and expect people to give you an insight on it. Or simply in posts where you ask open questions with no poll. Here is how you can make full use of polls: - Ask a question that will give you insights on the needs and interests of your members/audience/leads. Use it for Market Research. - Have a clear follow up for people who gave each individual answer. - Interact in the comments of the posts. It's underrated how much you can get done in comments. Many people were not convinced to join my community with my classifieds posts, but they interacted with me in the comments, I developed a conversation and convinced them. - After a while check the people who answered a specific option. Tag them and call them to a conversation if they didn't engage beyond the poll. Offer something specific of value for them. Here are some posts where I applied this strategy to promote the VIP members: - The 2 current pinned posts. @Gus Gray and @Zena Ryder take use of it and start engaging with people there. - What do you need to do to level up? - Faceless vs Personal Brand - Who would you contract?