An About page that isn't quite clicking? A decision you've been going back and forth on? Something you've created that could use a fresh set of eyes? Or maybe something's finally working, and you'd love to share what you've learned! It's Build Room Wednesday over in Skoolology. ❤️ Todd and I set aside time every Wednesday for members to bring whatever they're working on and figure things out together. No presentation. No required Zoom call. Just real conversations, questions, feedback, ideas, and a little celebrating along the way. And some of the best conversations happen when members jump in to help each other. We have wonderful builders with all kinds of experience and perspectives, and I love seeing those connections happen. You can join the conversation in the feed or ask to talk something through by DM, text, or call. If you've been wishing you had a few more people to bounce ideas around with as you build your Skool community, we'd love to welcome you. ❤️🐼 Skoolology

It's time to celebrate each other! In the COMMENTS BELOW, please share a Skool community you think is doing really great things. It can be one you've participated in yourself or one that you've heard from others is amazing. Please do the following: 1. Tell us the name of the community and link to it (affiliates allowed). 2. Tag the person who owns the community. If they are not in the CLASSIFIEDS, then please send them a DM and let them know that you mentioned them here. I promise you will make their day! 3. Describe why the group is so wonderful and how it has helped you. Please DO NOT just copy and paste the About page! 4. Comment on each others comments and scroll through the referrals to see if there's an amazing group you are missing out on! Thanks so much for supporting each other and this community! Please note that any #FriendFriday mentions that are created as new posts will be deleted. Thanks! Please DO NOT promote yourself. 🤨. The entire community is for promoting yourself. This post is for celebrating someone else. 😊

It’s 9/25, Dolly Day, so obviously this has been in my head. 😂🎶 But it made me wonder... How many hours are you actually working for your community each week? Writing posts. Creating content. Answering comments. Sending DMs. Planning calls. Building courses. Welcoming members. Trying to keep everyone engaged. Community building can quietly become a job we created for ourselves. And when something isn't working? We often add more work. Another post. Another call. Another challenge. Another course. Another thing for us to maintain. So, in honor of Dolly, here's today's little experiment. 😄 Take a quick look at what you do for your community each week and ask: What am I doing because my members actually need it? and... What am I doing because I assume a “good community owner” is supposed to? 👀 You might not need another strategy. You might need permission to stop doing something. So tell me... 🎶 What’s one thing in your community you’d happily clock out of? 😂

“My members aren’t engaging.” “My onboarding isn’t working.” “I need more members.” Once we name the problem, it’s tempting to start fixing it. But what if we’ve actually named the symptom? Take engagement. “My members aren’t engaging” could mean: They read but don’t post. They respond but rarely start conversations. They come to calls but ignore the feed. They joined…and stopped coming back. Those can all look like the same problem. But are they? Before you add another prompt, challenge, event, or piece of content, try filling in these blanks: My members are __________, but they aren’t __________. Maybe: My members are reading my posts, but they aren’t starting conversations. Already, that gives us something more useful than “engagement is low.” Now resist fixing it for just a minute. 😄 Ask yourself: What do I actually know about why this is happening? Then: What am I assuming? 👀 That second question can change things. Because what your community needs next may be very different depending on those answers. Your turn: What happens when you fill in the blanks for your community?

A client came to me for a quick audit of her membership. It was doing well. Happy people, real momentum. She just wanted a second set of eyes. Within five minutes, I saw it. Tucked inside her "courses" were long recordings of live sessions she'd taught. She'd hit record, sliced them up, and called them lessons. It's the advice everyone gives: just record your live class and repurpose it. It's easier. So I told her the truth. And to her credit, she didn't get defensive. She got curious. Then she made a decision I didn't see coming. She didn't just fix the recordings. She chose to teach the whole thing live one more time — completely on purpose — so she could build something far better than a recording ever could be. Here's what most people never stop to consider: Live and prerecorded aren't two versions of the same course. They're two different formats, built for two different purposes. Treat them as interchangeable, and your students feel it before you do. But there's a second layer — the reason her course is about to be dramatically stronger than it was. That's the whole conversation in this week's episode of The ART of Online Course Creation. If you've ever been told to just record your live session and call it a course, this is the more honest (and more effective) way to think about it. 🎧 Episode 68 — listen now! What's your take: have you ever tried to turn a live session into a course? How did it go?