🏆 Week 7 Recap: We Broke Into the Top 10,000 Skool Communities Live On The Call
What a week, fam. Here is everything we covered on Episode 7 of the Monthly Creative Academy show. 🚀 We hit a big milestone live on the call - We jumped into the top 10,000 Skool communities during the show, moving from around 13,800 to rank 9,740 by the end of the call. - All organic. All with just 29 members. We are one member away from 30. - Shoutout to Sarah, our top contributor on the all-time leaderboard. The leaderboard now has level names, and we are planning prizes (1-on-1 coaching, virtual producer sessions) once we hit 100 members. 🧠 Content OS recap - Our first live Content OS workshop happened the day before. The replay is pinned in the community. - You can duplicate the Content OS straight into your own Notion from the Classroom. - It is built for one thing: message clarity. Simple over fancy. - The video on our About page (script plus motion graphics) was made entirely with the Content OS. No keyframes. No manual editing. - Next step after setup is the 3-day content challenge. 📈 Organic example: "Juan Direction" (Tigran Landscaping) - A local landscaping team became social media stars with imperfect, relatable content. - The formula: POV-style on-screen text plus action happening. One shoot gives you 3 pieces (BTS, final result, and the BTS of the BTS). - They landed brand deals with Hyundai and trips to Disneyland and the World Cup, all from top-of-funnel content. - Their business page runs the hire-us content with high-quality results, proving they deliver. - Big takeaway: attention is just the start. You have to deliver on it. Shot on a phone in natural light. Story and on-screen text matter more than gear. Keep it genuine to you. 💰 Ads talk - Best move: turn your organic winners into ads. Do not treat organic and paid as two separate worlds. - Paid ads are not linear. Leads cluster in ways you cannot predict day to day. - "Judging an ad after one day is like judging a workout plan after one gym session." - A full campaign layers content across the funnel: entertainment, then category education, then before-and-after, then a direct call to action. - High cost per customer? Find the bottleneck: ad copy, landing page, checkout, or lead capture. - Hooks 101 (50 hook formulas) is in the Classroom. It works for organic, ads, emails, and blogs. Duplicate it and let Notion AI rewrite the examples in your brand voice.