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We’ve grown plants. We’ve designed islands. Now we’re hitting the trail! 🌲🥾 Welcome to Level Up to the Ridge — our end-of-summer community challenge. Everyone starts with an empty backpack. 🎒 Drop a backpack emoji (or GIF) 🎒 below in the comments! Then help your fellow community members get ready for the climb by adding: 🥾 Boots — to build a strong foundation 🔦 Flashlight — for clarity on the path ahead ⛺ Tent — a place to regroup and recharge 💧 Water — to fuel their momentum 🪢 Rope — support so they never climb alone See someone on the trail? Reply to their backpack and add something they need for the hike. The more people you support, the more support comes back your way. And remember, every time you level up in the community, you unlock new resources, opportunities and exclusive perks. 🎒 Drop your backpack below and let’s see how many of us can make it to the ridge before summer ends! 🏔️🙌

So about a week ago, I went from a Freemium watercolor painting community to making my standard tier $7. I know one week is a short time, but what I’ve learned so far is interesting: 1. My healthy stream of free members is now at a standstill. But I did expect that. 2. Growth Boost picked me up and folks started seeing me in ads within hours of making my community paid. TY those of you who sent me messages about this! 🙏 3. There was some website, IG, YouTube, Pinterest, and post copy to change/shift to reflect the 7 day free trial rather than free entry to the group. 4. I have a brand new YouTube video on my channel that talks about my free group (maybe before I made the group paid) and I’ll probably have to hide it for a while… 5. I’m focusing the energy I was using to welcome new members, on free members who may not know what premium or VIP can do for them. Right now, paid seems harder because - Despite some major growth boost ads, no $7 sales yet. - I feel like I’m speaking to 4 separate groups now instead of 3, and there were some significant changes to make not only in my copy, but in my positioning. I know it’s only been a week, but I’m really missing Freemium. Especially after listening to @Brenda Rigney’s new YouTube video on why her free groups are making more than her paid ones. Thankfully, this was just an experiment and I can change it back to Freemium anytime. Brenda, or some of you with paid groups, maybe you have some tips? 😊 Should I it more time? Or call it quits?

I'm back at my kitchen island (with Sadie asleep at my feet), ready to get to work on our plans for August. Here's what's coming up in my three communities by August 10, 2026 (take your time - I've never added so many links to one message!!) 📣 Level 5 Members: - As a Level 5 member in any of my communities you can apply to speak or be a contributor in our communities Summits, Bundles and Mentor Programs - We'll have two summits: AI-Driven Business Community and Skool Scale Camp - To apply to be a Premium Mentor, please review requirements here. 🚀 Skool Summit Community: - We're increasing the price to $15/month and offering an annual VIP offer at a 40% savings at $108 - We have our Bundle Debrief session coming up on August 14 where I'll debrief the learnings from the recent Communities to Cashflow Bundle, and also share my Fall prep plan for 2 summits and 1 bundle in Q3/4. ⛺️ Skool Scale Camp: - Our Premium membership is increasing to $79/month and $380/year for VIP. Upgrade here - We are starting Week 4 of our How to Host a Summit of our Skool 9 week project for VIP's and launched Tech Systems Calls with Lawson Lim - I'm currently back resuming VIP community audits with members now that I am back from Europe - We'll have another 5-6 week project starting in October - to be announced - Launching Premium Mentor workshops focused on supporting midlife women entrepreneurs in their domains of wealth, health, nutrition and wellness, relationships, and more!! - stay tuned in the Calendar

Over the weekend, I was auditing my 11 Discovery Keywords. Some words I wasn't even ranking in the top 1,000. Delete underperforming words and replaced six of them. In addition to keyword changes, I tweaked Discovery Card description and About Page. Result -> 9 of 11 keywords shows my community within the top 5 pages. So keep testing, monitoring and optimizing those 11 keywords that are getting you seen in Skool's Discovery Pages.