we just finalised yet another Community Crawl. every time i try to make it better. so, this time, it was a Surprise One. overall, i am happy with the results. both, for hosts and visitors. Let's celebrate participating community hosts: - Door 1. AI pathway club, by Pacita Florida - Door 2. Inner Healer Skool, by Baba Sam Shelley - Door 3. Expert Society | Side Hustle, by Ian Bosler - Door 4. Healthy People Have Gardens, by Kate DuBois - Door 5. Historical Fiction Club, by Zena Ryder - Door 6. Podcaster in 7 Days, by Carin Chantel - Door 7. The Success Forge, by Dino Tartaglia - Door 8. Kommuity Kids, by Paul Sirvinskas - Door 9. Roast & Promote, by Paulo Costa, The Roaster - Extra Door. ADHD unmasked, by Steve Cobble i hope you guys got new members and amazing feedback from crawl participants that can help you improve your processes. now, the WINNERS (harder choice, cause i appreciate everyone who participate): - @Steve Cobble was the first and the fastest to finish all the doors 🎁 - @Roberto Srpak gets an appreciation award for being the most thorough about reviews 🎁 - @Aimee Jardon gets an appreciation award for being HONEST with her feedback 🎁 - @Jill Hart gets an appreciation award for being BRUTALLY honest & super FAST with feedback 🎁 - @Vladimír Bohm gets an appreciation award for participation 🎁 - @Vladimir Belokapov gets an appreciation award for being BANNED/Not accepted 🎁

it's time for Community Crawl. but this time, it is a little different. the Theme is SURPRISE. but first, WHAT IS COMMUNITY CRAWL? - you visit 9 communities of other HQ builders - you learn new places, you meet new people, find new friends & collab partners - when you finish all 9 communities, you get a present 🎁 WHAT IS IN IT FOR YOU? - these are 9 good communities run by 9 HQ Builders worth knowing. the fastest way to a collab is to turn up in someone's space and be useful in it. - and you get to see those communities the way you'll never see your own. how the onboarding actually feels. what the classroom looks like from cold. who's posting, and what they're posting about. you've stopped being able to see your own community. everyone has. nine fresh ones fixes that faster than any lesson i could write. - so walk in as an owner, not a visitor. same question at every door — what's working here that i'd steal. that answer is the whole point. the doors and the fun is just the excuse to go looking. 💥 SURPRISE: this weekend i'm sending you into 9 communities. BUT you don't know which ones WHAT SHOULD YOU DO? - to start, comment DOOR or your fav gif below. i'll DM you the first 3 links. - you walk all three, then come back here and comment "first 3 done" and what did you notice interesting/surprising about them and worth trying in your community. - then i'll send the next three. - BTW, if you are waiting for the entry (cause some hosts need to let you in), go ahead and ask for the next batch - you do the same with them. come back, comment....you got the idea. THREE ROUNDS. NINE DOORS. - when you've walked all 9, come back and tell us the ONE thing you're changing in your own community because of it. plus any cool HQ builder you've. - doors open NOW, they close Monday at 12:00 my time. that's three days for nine doors. THERE IS NO RUSH. i'm in Israel and i do sleep. if you comment at 2 am my time your next three come in the morning. nothing is lost, nothing expires.

finally, we got something other than GB 😜 💥 BIG NEWS: Skool introduced native reviews! but please don't run deleting your profiles elsewhere, continue reading. ⚠️ UPDATE: i just realized that every community you left a review, has a link in that review, and when ppl click and join that community, i think they will be marked "Skool Network" and Skool will get 30% if GB is turned on 🤔 ℹ️ few things to note about reviews: - you can edit or delete the review that you've left. GOOD! - you can only leave 1 review per community. i can live with that - because you can edit your previous review. - your reviews are gonna be shown on your profile. so, if you are toxic and like to poo-poo on ppl, it will be visible. - owners and admins cannot leave reviews for their community - you can leave a review only after 30 days. make sense. - only paying RECURRING members can leave reviews (not free, not one-off). this sucks if your model is not MRR driven. - you can start leaving reviews and collecting reviews, but they will not be shown to NON-members. Skool wants to collect some reviews, and slowly turn them on (testing first), so that it does not damage your conversion rates. SMART! - if you offer incentives for review (courses, discounts, lollypops - Sam's words, not mine), you will get a BIG RED warning on your about page. this one is a bit shady for me... like, how would Skool know? are they checking DMs? posts inside my community? what about confidentiality? hm🤔 - more updates for this feature is coming. so, i hope they fix some of the things e.g. one-off paying members leaving a review now, the big question - should you focus on Skool reviews only now or not? thanks to Matt (founder of ProveWorth platform) who explained it very well in the video - go and check it out if you are member, if not - join his community, cause it worth it!

reviews are not optional. i hope you agree with them on that one. view reviews are the best. text is the next best thing. let's get you more reviews! THE PRINCIPLE all reviews must be honest and based on your actual experience with that community (you must be a member). no fake stuff. no "i'll say nice things, if you say nice things." one of the biggest benefits of Proveworth is that every review is verified. 🚨 THE PROCESS 🚨 TO GET REVIEWS: 1️⃣ drop a comment below with your ProveWorth Profile link. if you don't have a profile, you need to set one up. it will need to be approved and published, if you need to fast it forward, let me know here or in DMs, i have access to Matt. 2️⃣ go to YOUR community → leaderboard tab or community → find 2-3 active members who are also a member here. if you already know those ppl, you can skip this step. tag them here and ask for reviews. 3️⃣ from YOUR community who are active, but not members here - send them a DM with ProveWorth profile link and make a post in your community. it's a great opportunity/reminder to do this more often ✌🏻 TO GIVE REVIEWS: 1️⃣ check other comments under this post to find links to ProveWorth Profiles where you are a member. 2️⃣ if you do not see any community where you are part of, there are options: - go to ProveWorth Directory, browse communities, find ones you genuinely like (and a member of), and leave a review - just go to the communities that you like, and give some love in the feed. 3️⃣ you can always leave a review for Community Builders HQ 😜 if you have something good to say and you have not done it yet, that would be awesome! Finally, come back tomorrow (Saturday) and Sunday to check on new links. 🏁 Let's finish on Sunday with the comment of how many reviews you gave and how many you got! plus, an insight about this fun domino. LET'S GROW TOGETHER

i have been working on rebrand/upgrade for this community for the last few days and was about to announce it today: the new name was supposed to be Skool HQ - the only place on Skool that helps you launch & grow a lead magnet community to first 100 members - future clients. the idea behind the upgrade/rebrand was to make it a place where Skool community builders not only start, but actually stay and keep getting value. but this morning, i saw @Carol Tice question is Skoolers about potential copyright infringement. "OMF*ck" i thought... i got really mad at Claude for not warning me 🤬 about this. emotions aside, i decided to investigate: - here is the reply from Skool's rep regarding it in Skoolers "As long as you're not pretending to be Skool and are open to changing it later if it's reported, then you're okay to use Skool in your community name." - here is what Claude said: "Good catch — and worth taking seriously. I'm not a lawyer, but building your core brand + logo as "Skool HQ" is riskier than it looks: it can imply official affiliation, and Skool (like most platforms) has brand guidelines around using their name that way. The safe pattern is to brand yourself with a non-Skool name, and use "on Skool" descriptively in the tagline (that kind of nominative use — "for people building communities on Skool" — is generally fine)." i have not made a final decision, but i am leaning towards "Community Builders HQ on Skool": - keeping the vibe of HQ - keeping the focus on Skool and community building - cleaner and safer option from legal and brand perspective CONCLUSION: - it is annoying to change everything, yet again - great that i used Claude Cowork to do the heavy duty of updating the art - and, i am glad i am doing it now, before it's too late or before everyone remembered the new name