Running a Skool community is a full-time job on top of a full-time job. Moderating, posting, responding, promoting - the to-do list never shortens. YouTube ends up being the thing that gets pushed to tomorrow indefinitely. The Skool owners who make consistent progress on YouTube are not the ones with the most time. They are the ones who stopped treating filming as something that happens when the community is quiet enough. They batch instead. One filming day a month, four videos back to back, the same setup and the same headspace throughout. The decision about when to film gets made once and does not compete with everything else on the list. A community that is not being fed by YouTube is relying entirely on word of mouth and platform discovery to grow. Batching is not a content hack. It is the only realistic way a Skool owner with a full schedule keeps YouTube working as a traffic source. This is one of the systems covered in a live workshop running this Thursday. If you want to find out more, join The Content Revenue Lab and look for the pinned post with the details. https://tinyurl.com/TheContentRevenueLab Des Dreckett — The Content Revenue Lab

I built The Creative Boss Society because I kept seeing the same thing over and over — smart, talented creative entrepreneurs who were doing EVERYTHING right and still feeling stuck, scattered, or like they were the only ones going through it. This community is where we fix that. Inside, you get access to tools, templates, and strategies that actually work for creatives. We talk about building offers, showing up online without burning out, and making real money from what you're already good at. And the best part? Right now it's only $3/month while we're in the founding member phase to upgrade to premium. That's less than your afternoon coffee and you get a whole community of people who GET it. If you've been looking for your people, this might be it. 👇 https://www.skool.com/the-creative-boss-society-3011

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I spent the first part of this week overthinking how I could revive my community. There was eclectic collection of people in there. Some were free. Some were from bundles I participated in. Some had purchased a stand alone course. I wanted to make sure that everyone kept what they had bought. I also didn't want to just remove a group of people that would potentially reengage. So I leaned into the freemium model. I went through and did away with the engagement unlocks. I toggled on the option to unlock courses by either paying once or upgrading to premium. Then I made a post in the community. Within minutes someone upgraded to premium. Then I sent an email to my list. A few more joins and upgrades. Then I started posting on my personal Facebook page. More joins and upgrades. I didn't create anything new. But I did come up with a fun upgrade game. The first 10 locked in at $1/month. The next 10 at $3/month. The next group at $5/month. I plan on going until it lands at about $30/month. Then I will evaluate. I used Claude to help me create a spreadsheet to decide how many members following this strategy I needed to hit a MRR goal and how many until it makes sense to move from the Hobby Skool plan to the Pro plan. If you on the fence, my biggest takeaway is to just take action. The worst thing that can happen is that it doesn't work and you try something else. The best thing is that you see validation and keep going down that path.

About a year ago, I felt burn out creeping in and I cut everything that wasn’t essential, including my community. I thought it would be for a couple of weeks. Then a few months. Eventually it turned into a full year. There were a few times that I thought it was the right time, but something kept me from re-activating. As someone that believes in practicing what I teach, I knew that I needed to rest. I needed to take time to really think through how I could revive something but it a better way. A way that included systems to keep myself from burning out again. And it finally occurred to me. I needed to build the system. I didn’t just need to do lists. The first phase was building a tool for myself. Now I am ready to teach others how they can better run their businesses solo without burning out. If this sounds like something you would like I’d love to invite you to my community. https://www.skool.com/the-creative-boss-society-3011