Hit #20 🌟 - Skoolyard all the way

Jake Galambos

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8d • Gems 💎

Huge thanks to

@Jack Robinson aka Charlie West

for getting me there and

@Gary Lee

for introducing me to the skoolyard.

Jack got me a star in four weeks. He got

@Gary Lee

a start in 2 weeks (I think - it was crazy fast)

I just wanted to share the things that I've done that have been working.

1️⃣ don't be afraid to post a ton and engage with everything

This includes liking your own posts, commenting on everything you can.

At first, I felt so tacky doing this and even posting as much as I did, but it's really pushing a snowball down the hill.

Everybody in your group wants to be engaged in a fun community. They just need to know that this is a place that they can do that.

2️⃣ Reward the behavior you want.

If somebody posts something off-topic, even if it's not getting a ton of traction, but you want more people to post off-topic things, pin that. Engage with it.

DM people to say thanks when they make an awesome post or comment

When somebody makes a really good comment pin it. teach the members what you want them to do.

3️⃣ ask questions

I try to end every single reply I do with a question. I'm probably only 60% of the way there, but unless it's really awkward to come up with a question because we've been in the same thread for three, four, five back and forths, I try to figure out a way to ask them something more about what they said.

4️⃣ MOST IMPORTANT - have 1 thing for them to do. then a ton of things they CAN do.

@Jack Robinson aka Charlie West

can probably say this better, but...

On our first call, he basically said, "You have too much available for them to do. There's too many options. Do they post to introduce themselves? Do they get started with the coursework? Why are they getting started with the coursework? Where is it?"

Now - I have one challenge that I want everybody to be doing. Everything is baked into that. I've tried to make it as clear as possible, though I could probably still get better at it on what to do and how to do it.

But I also try to post two or three things a day that are off-topic and fun and funny.

I don't know about you guys, but when I'm in the bathroom before I open up Instagram, I open up Skool. And so if my members are doing that, I want to make this a place that they can do that easily, that there's funny stuff, fun stuff, little things they can engage with by just sharing something about themselves really easily.

And then when they get down to doing the actual work that I have for them to get better at guitar, there's only one thing for them to do and nothing to think about.

So...make it easy to scroll and easy to learn - depending on whether they are at the desk or on the toilet.

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