One of the most important things I've learned since becoming an online entrepreneur is that the most important thing you can do to grow your business is to build relationships. Many of us (myself included) have rushed to promote our groups and services that we care so deeply about. And it only makes sense - we are excited about what we are doing! Today, I'd like to invite you to take a step back and introduce yourself to the group by answering the following questions: 1. Who are you personally? 2. Who are you professionally? 3. What is something you love doing outside of work? 4. What is something surprising about you? As you open up and make more connections, you will find that not only are people more interested in what you do, but they will also be more interested in helping you make connections with other people they know! 😉 After you introduce yourself, please scroll through the other introductions and add a comment to someone you have something in common with or would like to know more about. 😊 Please add your introduction in the comments below! ⬇️

In a post in Skoolers from 2024, someone asked what a "good" retention rate is for your community. Sam Ovens gave the following statistics for churn. Churn is the opposite of retention. It is the number of paying members who leave your community: 2-9% = Amazing 10-19% = Good 20% = Average 21-30% = Bad If we translate this into retention rate, which is what is what is now reported by Skool in your settings instead of churn, it looks like this: 91-98% = Amazing 81 - 90% = Good 80% = Average 70-79% = Bad I looked at my own numbers and was confused, so I asked him for clarification. His response was that the retention rate in the CLASSIFIEDS is "exceptional!" Why exceptional? Because the retention rate is better than 100%. It is actually 105%!!! Retention is defined by Skool as "the amount of MRR revenue at the start of last month which is still active at the end of last month." In the Build Lab, my other community, the retention rate is 96%. Want to know how to improve your retention rate in your community and the #1 thing I do to ensure that my own retention rates stay high? Check out the new Standard tier of the Build Lab. We discuss this and many other factors that play a real role in making sure that your community is successful for the long term (and none of them have anything to do with flames, games, or insane MRR goals)! I'll be doing a live training at the beginning of August on my top 6 retention strategies so that you can start implementing them immediately. Oh, and there's a 38% discount if you sign up for the year - because we all know that it's going to take longer than a minute to get your community where you want it to be. 😉 Check out the Build Lab here! I can't wait to support you in creating a successful Skool community that gets meaningful results for both you AND your members!

I asked Chatty G to analyze the posts in this group that have the highest engagement (excluding admin posts) and make recommendations about how people could create better posts. This is what it said: I’ve been spending some time looking at the posts here to figure out why some take off while others barely get seen — and the patterns are pretty clear. If you want your promo post to actually get attention (and not just disappear into the feed), here’s what I’ve noticed consistently works: 💡 1. Lead with something people care about — not just the name of your offer. Instead of starting with “Join my group” or “Here’s my course,” open with a question, a challenge, or a common pain point your audience has. The best-performing posts usually make the reader think “Oh, that’s me.” 🎯 2. Keep the focus tight. Posts that promote one clear thing — a free resource, a single workshop, a focused offer — get far more engagement than those that list everything you do. If you have multiple things to share, make separate posts over time. 📈 3. Show the benefit, not just the feature. Telling people “I run a membership” is less compelling than “I help coaches sign their first 5 clients.” Always connect what you’re offering to the result it creates. 🤝 4. Make it feel like an invitation, not a sales pitch. The posts with the most traction don’t pressure anyone. They share something valuable and then say, “If this sounds helpful, here’s where to go.” A soft invitation builds more trust here than a hard sell. ✨ 5. Demonstrate your value inside the post itself. A short insight, quick tip, or example of your expertise within the post does more to build credibility than any list of credentials. It gives people a reason to believe you before they ever click. None of this requires being pushy or salesy — it’s just about making sure your message is framed in a way that resonates. The more valuable and relevant we make our posts, the more this space will work for all of us. What do you think? Have you noticed the same or different patterns?

I earned a TOTAL of $37.00 in my first three years of being a podcaster....that SUCKED! 😆 BUT...by the end of year FIVE (2019).. I had replaced my income and I went full time! 😎 The goal of my Podcasting Business School community is to help podcasters hit the fast forward button, start seeing growth, and start earning meaningful income a lot faster than I did!

I created a summer camp idea inside my Skool community, the Good Girl Gone Bold Club after thinking of creative ways to do "the work" of detecting our protection patterns and rewiring them to go bold. 30 days of themed camp experience (we just started Monday - not too late to join!) The camp ends with a campfire circle on week 4. So campfire talk was on my radar. I came across this tonight and I couldn't scroll past it. The Campfire Theory.🔥 SIDEQUEST: Friendship talk incoming Since our whole destination this month IS the campfire — it felt like the universe was sending us a little mid-week side quest. It's about Friendship. As grown women (heck, maybe men find the same challenge) Can we just be honest about this for a minute? Making friends as an adult woman is HARD. Like — genuinely, surprisingly, nobody-warned-me-about-this hard. When we were kids it was easy. You sat next to someone at lunch. You both liked the same TV show. You were friends. Done. But somewhere along the way it got complicated. Heck, I just got unfriended by not just one, but three women I thought were friends. That's how it goes. We get busy. We got burned. We moved. We changed. We outgrew people — or they outgrew us. We stopped having the automatic proximity that made friendship feel effortless. And a lot of us ended up with a wide circle and a quiet ache for something deeper.💛 The Campfire Theory names that ache so well. Here's what it says: Some people come into your life for your warmth. Some stay long enough to enjoy the glow. Some disappear the moment you burn low. But a rare few... Stay when the night gets cold. Bring wood when your flames grow old. Share stories and embrace your warmth. Protect you and weather the storm. Those are your people. Finding them — and more importantly, BEING that person for someone else — that's the real work of adult friendship. Can we find that here in online communities? HEre's my thought on where that starts.