They Made $450k Per Month With Skool (Just Copy Them)

The video explores the potential of School.com, an all-in-one platform designed by Sam Evans, for creating and monetizing online communities through courses, coaching, and agency services. The host details the platform's features, including community engagement tools, course directories, gamification elements, and integrated payment systems. Emphasizing its user-friendliness and cost-effectiveness at $99 per month, the video highlights how School.com can replace multiple software applications. It also showcases successful case studies of users earning significant income and encourages viewers to reverse-engineer these strategies to build their own profitable communities.

• School.com is a platform designed for creating and managing online communities.
• It supports selling courses, coaching, agency services, and more.
• The platform is user-friendly and provides various tools for community engagement.

"Imagine being able to earn six figures per month all from one platform. Today, I'm gonna be going through a deep dive on school.com and how you can create your own community so that you can sell courses, coaching, agency services, really anything you can dream of."

• School.com is versatile and can be used to generate significant income through various services.

• The School Community is a central hub for users to interact and learn about updates.
• Users can join multiple communities to gain insights and reverse-engineer successful strategies.
• New features and updates are frequently announced within the community.

"Here we are in the school.com home page. This is actually the School Community. As you can see, I'm a member of many other communities as well because I love to be able to see what other people are doing to reverse engineer and see who's successful on the platform and how they're selling their services."

• Being part of multiple communities helps in understanding different successful approaches.

• School.com integrates multiple functionalities: community building, course management, calendar, member leaderboards, and more.
• It is cost-effective, offering significant value at $99 per month compared to other software apps.

"School is a complete all-in-one platform. It allows you to build a community, a classroom with different courses, a calendar, members leaderboards, an about page, which is essentially a landing page, and more."

• The platform consolidates various tools into one, saving costs and simplifying management.

• The Community Tab is the primary area for user interaction and content posting.
• It includes features like posting titles, content, attachments, URLs, videos, polls, emojis, and gifs.
• Posts can be categorized, searched, and pinned for easy access and organization.

"The first thing you're going to be able to see in the School Community is this community tab right here. If you're not a member, you'll see a join button which you can click to sign up and then you'll be able to start posting."

• The Community Tab is designed for easy user interaction and content management.

"You have your title up here, so this is the title, and then you can have your post. This is a post. Down here, you can actually add attachments, URLs, even videos like YouTube videos that will actually preview right in the post."

• Users can enhance their posts with various multimedia elements, making content richer and more engaging.

• Users can view profiles of other members, see their posts, and check their memberships.
• The platform supports rich content interaction, including comments, gifs, and likes.

"You can even click onto their name and go into their profile as well and see what other memberships they are also part of."

• Viewing profiles helps in understanding community engagement and networking.

• Categories within the community can be customized to suit the specific needs of the community.
• Examples include "How I Use School," "User Feedback," "Product Questions," and "Feature Requests."

"At the top here, you can see different categories. I can say how I use School, user feedback, product questions, feature requests. This is all customizable when you make your own community as well."

• Customizable categories help in organizing content and improving user experience.

• School.com is an innovative platform that combines multiple functionalities into one, making it easier and more cost-effective to manage online communities.
• The platform's user-friendly design and rich content capabilities make it a strong alternative to other community-building tools.

"It's very rich in terms of content capability but very easy to use, and you can see all these different comments here. There's a gif on this one, and it just makes it for an incredible experience so much better than Facebook groups."

• School.com offers a superior user experience compared to traditional community platforms like Facebook groups.

• School Community Platform: A comprehensive tool for managing and monetizing online communities.
• All-in-One Solution: Combines multiple functionalities, reducing the need for various software.
• Email Notifications: Posts by creators are automatically emailed to all members.
• Free Trial and Pricing: 14-day free trial, then $99 per month, cancel anytime.
• User Onboarding: Simple sign-up process to minimize friction.

"When you make a post on your community if you're the Creator it will actually email all of your users and members as well."

• The platform automates email notifications for community posts.

"It's free for 14 days and then 99 per month you can cancel anytime which is great."

• The pricing model includes a free trial and flexible subscription options.

• Free and Paid Groups: Start with a free group, then upsell to a paid group.
• Case Studies: Upcoming videos will detail how users earn six figures per month.

"People are using school to earn six figures per month starting with a free group and then upselling people into a paid group."

• The platform supports scalable monetization strategies.

• Course Directory: Organizes all courses for community members.
• Gamification: Courses unlock at different levels to encourage engagement.
• Rich Editor: Allows videos, text, links, and buttons for comprehensive content delivery.

"Classroom is essentially a directory of all the courses that you're going to be sharing with your community and your members."

• The Classroom feature centralizes course content.

"Some of the courses are actually unlocked when you reach a certain level which really adds into the gamification of the platform."

• Gamification elements enhance user engagement.

"You can flick through the videos with ease you can also have text under the video you can have links and buttons."

• The rich editor supports various content types for a better learning experience.

• Event Scheduling: Integrates with Zoom or other software for hosting events.
• Accountability Calls: Example of weekly events to keep community members engaged.

"You can actually set this up link it up to zoom meetings or another type of software to hold that call."

• The Calendar feature supports seamless event integration.

"Different events one per week here on Saturdays so this is a free accountability call."

• Regular events can enhance community engagement and accountability.

• Member Directory: View and manage all community members.
• Private Messaging: Direct messaging feature for better communication.
• Membership Levels: View member levels and their participation in other communities.

"You can see all the different members in the group itself you can even click on chat and send them a private message in DM."

• The platform supports direct communication between members.

"Click on their name again and see what other memberships and other groups or communities they're part of."

• Provides insights into members' other community engagements.

• School functions similarly to a social media network but is more organized, simpler, and less distracting.
• It is projected to grow significantly in the coming years as more people create communities, courses, and coaching programs.

"School is almost like its own social media network as well, but it's just much more organized, a lot less distractions, a lot simpler and easier to use."

• School's simplicity and organization make it a promising platform for community and course creation.

• The leaderboard feature promotes competition and engagement among community members.
• Members can see their rankings based on engagement metrics like posting, replying, liking, commenting, and sharing.

"This really increases competition amongst your members to be more engaged because they want to see themselves on the leaderboard."

• Leaderboards motivate members to be more active, enhancing overall community engagement.

• The About Us page can be customized to act as a landing page for new members.
• Videos and payment options can be integrated, allowing for recurring payments and membership tracking.

"The About Us page really acts like a landing page... you can actually have recurring payments attached to your group and get paid each and every month."

• This feature helps in monetizing the community by facilitating easy sign-ups and payments.

• The search bar is a powerful tool for finding content within the community.
• School provides free SEO benefits, potentially placing community posts on the first page of Google.

"You get a lot of free SEO from School... some of your posts could absolutely go on the first page of Google."

• This drives free traffic to the community, increasing visibility and engagement.

• The community "Chat GPT Users" appears on the first page of Google for the keyword "Chat GPT prompt generator."
• This visibility drives significant traffic and new members to the community.

"This School community is on the first page of Google... which means they're driving tons of free traffic and clicks to their community."

• Effective SEO can significantly enhance community growth and engagement.

• School.directory showcases some of the largest and most successful communities.
• Analyzing these communities can provide insights into effective community setup and profitable niches.

"You'll be able to reverse engineer and see exactly what these people are doing to earn so much money online using School.com."

• Studying successful communities helps in understanding best practices and current trends.

• Elevate Academy is a free community with a pinned post containing various links and engaging content.
• The community is growing daily, even without significant promotion.

"Every single day I'm getting more and more members which is great, and I haven't even really started promoting it properly yet."

• Regular updates and engagement strategies contribute to steady community growth.

• The course covers topics like Modern Entrepreneur Foundations, Three Legs of Effective Action, and Three Phases of Legacy.
• It is designed to provide foundational knowledge for aspiring entrepreneurs.

"I just have one course right now in my community called Passive Income Blueprint which is pretty cool."

• Offering valuable courses can attract and retain community members, enhancing the overall value of the community.

• The basics of online marketing and its functionalities.
• Emphasis on the importance of passive income using social media and affiliate marketing.
• Affiliate marketing as the lowest barrier to entry in online marketing.

"The main point of my community is to unlock the secrets of passive income using social media and affiliate marketing."

• Affiliate marketing does not require products, web pages, customer management, or dealing with refunds.

"With affiliate marketing, you're just driving traffic to offer and then you get paid a commission for it."

• Importance of private messaging for sales conversations.
• Features of private messaging: linking, simplicity, and ease of use.
• Availability of notifications and a mobile app for communication on the go.

"Be able to have sales conversations with people right in the chats here which is very, very cool."

• The mobile app enhances communication flexibility for users who are traveling or prefer mobile use.

"They also have a mobile app so you can go in here and really get in there and start communicating with your users via the mobile app."

• Overview of the classroom feature and course management capabilities.
• Editing courses, adding modules, videos, text, and publishing options.

"I can click on here I can go edit course ad set add module for example here I can add a module I can click on edits I can add the video I can have a bunch of text I can publish it or unpublish it."

• Simplicity and user-friendliness of the platform for course creation and management.

"Very simple to use and it's awesome, I'm really, really enjoying it."

• Anticipation of the platform's growth and its potential impact.

"I think it's going to be a huge platform this year and next year as it grows again and how it blows up more people using it."

• Encouragement to join various communities to observe and learn from successful practices.

"I recommend is going again to School dot directory and just signing up and like joining all these different communities and seeing how they're doing it."

• Importance of reverse engineering successful business models to create your own.

"What I recommend always no matter what business you're in is reverse engineering go see what people are actually doing to make money with it and then just make your own version of it."

• Upcoming deep dives into case studies of individuals earning six figures a month using the platform.

"Next week and going through a few different case study deep Dives and how people are earnings six figures a month with it."

• Examples of successful users: Troy Erickson and Charlie Morgan.

"Troy Erickson collected over a million dollars in counting right look at this I made over a hundred one thousand dollars in 24 hour hours when I launched my mini Mastermind on school."

"Charlie Morgan 500 000 per month to school it's just incredible all the results are pouring in here."

• Personal goal to become one of the successful case studies.

"I can't wait to be one of those case studies as well."

• Encouragement to sign up for the free trial and engage with the community.

"Sign up for the free 14-day trial and then just 99 a month definitely check it out."

• Importance of having a community for future online marketing efforts.

"You want to have a community is that's the future of online marketing you know this year and next year."

• Engaging with users through DMs or posts to keep them excited and involved.

"You want to be able to connect with your users and members and have those conversations whether it's DM or on the post and get people engaged and get them excited about what you're doing in the industry."