Skool is the best community platform I’ve ever used. And I’ve been in online communities since 1994!
Some of the Skool communities are far superior to others. And there are the usual get-rich-quick slippery communities you’ll find anywhere else.
There are two kinds of communities on Skool: huge and growing quickly and very small or dormant. Having a free community plus a paid community is the most common strategy for making money there.
Skool Communities Worth Joining
These are communities I’ve been active in and recommend for reasons I’ll explain below.
Free Skool Course
Use this as an introduction to Skool, an overview on how to use it, and an explanation of how many people are making tens of thousands of dollars a month very quickly on Skool.
Because most of the tech necessary is provided through this course, the typical overhead for running a Skool community is around $210/mo. However, this does not indicate whether it is essential to run ads to grow and what your ad budget would need to be.
Skool Magazine
Learn more about Skool from the interviews shared here. This is one with the CEO who answers why the mission of Skool is “to help 1 billion people find community”.
Ghostwriters Anonymous
This is Nicholas Cole’s free community that promotes his paid community. If you want to see the best example I know of showing how to give away so much value that you can promote heavily and not cause people to leave, here it is!
He teaches how to become a Premium LinkedIn Ghostwriter. I believe what he teaches would work and am considering doing it myself. If you have about $6k (last I heard) for his coaching program and are serious, it would be worth it.
If you have experience with LinkedIn and ghostwriting, you could attend his free webinars, take a ton of notes and screenshots, and probably figure it out yourself.
Olympus Management Group (OMG) Venue Rentals
Dylan Johnson’s community is a top one to join because he uses advanced skills to promote it. For example, he sends SMS messages and is the only Skool group I’m in that has ever sent any to me.
Even if you don’t have a venue to rent, you can learn a lot from Dylan. Check out his Leaderboard. The defaults are “Level 1”, “Level 2”, etc. Boring. See the creative names he uses:
Even though that may not sound important, it makes being part of his community more fun. And that leads to more active members!
WordPress Business Accelerator
If you’ve ever wanted to build websites, especially using the Elementor builder, but didn’t know how to get clients, Ricky Wallace is the guy to follow!
Besides his Skool community you should check out his Ricky Wallace – WordPress, Elementor & AI Expert YouTube channel.
This is his genius method for finding new clients to build websites for which is also useful for other types of businesses:
The Creator Mind (on Building YouTube Channels)
I don’t even make YouTube videos and this is one of my favorite Skool communities!
Ben Cowan teaches how he got to 1 Million views on YouTube by focusing on “1,000 True Fans”. It isn’t active right now, but still worth viewing.
