Tomorrow we’re doing a friendly About Page roast 🔥 If you want in, comment below with: Who your ideal member is Your About page link We’ll pick one person to review live and if you’re up for it, you can come on stage and talk through your community with us. We’ll choose today at 7 PM CST, then message you. 👇 Who’s dropping their page?

The Online Community Show Episode 2 Is Out Now! 🎙️ In this episode, we sit down with @Matthew Burns, community builder and creator of ProveWorth, to talk about one of the biggest challenges on the internet today. Trust. As AI generated content, fake testimonials, and endless marketing claims flood the internet, it is getting harder for people to know what is actually real. That is where honest reviews and real communities start to matter more than ever. In this conversation, Matt shares his journey building communities, working with monday.com, discovering Skool early, and why he believes independent reviews will become one of the most important trust signals for communities going forward. Here are a few of the things we get into: • Why trust is becoming one of the biggest problems on the internet • Why testimonials alone are not enough anymore • How third party reviews can help communities build credibility • Why many community builders are sitting on powerful proof they are not using • The role honest feedback plays in retention, engagement, and growth • How systems help community builders scale what is working • Why launching before things are perfect often leads to better results One of the most interesting ideas from this episode is that communities are not just places to learn anymore. They are places where trust is built. People join communities because they want real connection, real feedback, and real results. But for someone on the outside looking in, it can still be difficult to know which communities are actually delivering value. That is where reviews and proof begin to play a much bigger role. Matt also shares how ProveWorth was created to help solve this problem by giving communities a place where their reputation can live outside their own platform. In other words, a place where people can see real experiences from real members before they decide to join.

This is the first episode of The Skool Morning Show where @Eric Howell & I are going live to chat about all things Skool and being a Skooler! 🤩 We'll be sharing some informational subjects, fun topics, and spilling the tea.. ☕🐸 Plus, reading some of the comments from this post! 👀 Yes, this Live is viewable here in Skool and you can comment for us to see and read what you have to share here. 👇 (This is our first ever going live while recording, so you get to see the beginning chaos lol)

One of the great things about Skool is that Sam Ovens listens when people ask questions or make feature requests inside the Skoolers community. Some questions that came up were: How do I get notified when someone posts in my community? How do I get a notification when a new member requests to join? These were common questions because most owners want to respond quickly and keep engagement moving. Until now there was no way to turn those alerts on. Skool listened and built the solution. You now have them in your notification controls. They are turned off by default. If you want alerts, you can turn them on manually. Here is how to update your notification settings: Click on your profile photo. - Desktop will show you the user menu drop down - Mobile you will have to click the 3 dots in the top right to get to the user menu drop down On the user menu drop down, click Settings. Then click on Notifications. - Desktop it will have tabs on the side and you see "Notifications" there - Mobile you will need to slide it to see "Notifications" Then expand the notification settings for the community you want to change. Click either On or Off for what you want to be notified on. You can turn on notifications for: • Admin announcements • Event reminder email • New customer email • Membership requests • Reported content • New Post This puts you in control of what you stay updated on. Faster approvals. Better responsiveness. A smoother community experience for everyone. Which notification are you turning on first now that the option is finally here?

Skool Stories is back on the Skool Stories YouTube channel and this return episode sets the tone for what is coming next. @Matthew Thompson and Evelyn Weiss sit down with Andrew Kirby and Claire Quinn to walk through how Skool started for them, what happened before Skool even existed, and how they ended up working at Skool today. Andrew talks about starting as a customer in Sam Ovens’ previous company and mastermind, watching Sam pivot to Skool, and investing when nobody really knew what Skool was yet. He explains how he ended up as one of the first investors, launched the first free Skool community for “synthesizers” who love to learn and teach, and later helped big creators bring their people into Skool. He walks through the full Hamza story from the original “why self improvement YouTubers are lying to you” video, to Hamza using his dopamine detox Reddit to get early subscribers, to the Loom plan that helped Hamza go from about twenty thousand a month to two hundred thousand a month in roughly thirty days with a Skool launch. Claire talks about starting as a nurse in a major trauma unit during covid, getting pushed into full responsibility early, and eventually hitting a point where she could not keep going at that pace. She explains how she moved into online work, took a Twitter job with Tiago Forte, helped launch Building a Second Brain, and then over time found her place at Skool as executive assistant, quietly running a lot of the details behind events and day to day operations. What makes this episode special is how candid it is. You get to see the messy middle. The unexpected turns. The exact moments where their lives and Skool crossed paths in a way neither of them planned. If you want a true inside look at Skool’s rise and what is coming next for creators, members, and the platform itself, you will want to watch this entire episode from start to finish.