Why? Because I'm testing things out. E.g. Discovery now shows paid groups at the top of each search... Check out how the position of my group changes from second page (first image), to the first page (second image). The only change was making the group paid. You might see the price of this community go up and down. You stay for free. I might remove inactive accounts at one point. Inactive on Skool, not inactive in this community. This community is an engagement free zone 😂 You don't have to "engage". More coming soon. This message might self-destruct in a couple of days. ------- Thinking of starting your own Skool community? Here's the free 14-day Skool trial (referral link)
It makes a tiny difference, I also tested this. We are always at the 3rd page in trending for our category, when I switched it to freemium, we only jumped to the 27th page
Gareth just shared this in his community. Basically is someone searches you on Discovery and finds you, signs up, Skool gets a %30 cut. Of course this is if you have growth booth on.
@Marcin Hakemer-Fernandez yeah, exactly. And especially painful for the people who have been gaining a lot of members by engaging in other communities. If you use this strategy now, you put in loads of work and Skool just takes 30% for every member who joins because you put in the work.
After the algorithms changed it got pushed to the second page which kind of sucks. The downside: WAY less people join... But... The upside: WAYYY less spammers join... Looks like the real people actually take the time to search more and go deeper. (Clarification: it used to be in the top 5 for the search term "Skool")
I noticed the same. When my community went to first page in the category, I've seen a huge influx of spammers applying, when we lost a few positions and went to the 2nd page, the growth was slowing down just a tiny bit, but we stopped getting any spammers
@Marcin Hakemer-Fernandez I just listened to your video on YouTube about the VAT and Merchant of record. I have a community in French so a lot of members are from the EU and there are a lot of questions. One member is saying that Skool has just started ADDING the VAT to her members invoices, and that it was not like that before. (I have no idea if that is true or not) See the image she sent me. Have you noticed a change in your members VAT calculation on their invoice? Is it really new ? BTW I don't know if I can ask that type of question here... so feel free to delete if needed! 😅
Oh wow, never seen that yet! I'd be so mad if I decided to pay $500 for something and then realize I actually need to pay $600 after going to check out