Skool Review and Setup 2024 (+ Alex Hormozi INVESTMENT?!)

Summary

In this exciting video, Jake from StartBlogging101 dives into a comprehensive review and setup tutorial of the Skool platform, revealing major news of Alex Hormozi's largest investment into Skool.com. Jake shares insights on the various functionalities of Skool, particularly its integration of community and course features, making it an ideal platform for building a thriving online learning community. He details the advantages of using Skool over platforms like Facebook, especially highlighting its searchability, gamification, and monetization features. Plus, Jake hints at potential upcoming enhancements, making Skool an even more attractive choice for community builders.

Highlights

• Alex Hormozi's major investment into Skool.com makes headlines and draws attention 🔥.
• Skool integrates courses and communities, solving common problems faced by creators 🤝.
• Gamification and leveling encourage active participation in Skool communities 🏆.
• Skool offers excellent search capabilities, far superior to Facebook groups 🔎.
• The auto-affiliate program in Skool can turn into a lucrative income stream 📈.

Key Takeaways

• Alex Hormozi makes his largest investment in Skool.com, hinting at its massive potential 🚀.
• Skool blends community and classroom features seamlessly, ideal for online courses 🌐.
• The platform offers great opportunities for monetization through its auto-affiliate feature 💰.
• Skool encourages community engagement with gamification and a robust notification system 🎮.
• Upcoming features like native video hosting promise to enhance the platform further 📹.

Overview

Jake from StartBlogging101 gives us an in-depth look at Skool.com, a platform that's creating buzz, thanks to Alex Hormozi's substantial investment. In his detailed review, Jake explains how Skool's features are designed to foster vibrant, engaging online communities centered around educational content. The integration of community and course elements allows creators to maintain cohesive learning environments without the hassles of managing multiple platforms.

One of the standout features Jake highlights is Skool's gamification system, which motivates community members to participate actively through likes, comments, and level-ups. This feature not only enhances user engagement but also adds a fun, competitive edge. Skool's robust search function also sets it apart from other community platforms like Facebook, offering more relevant and organized search results.

Jake is optimistic about Skool's growth, especially with upcoming updates that will include native video hosting. These enhancements, along with the platform's existing features, make Skool a strong contender for anyone looking to build a thriving online community. Jake also mentions Skool's auto-affiliate program, which can significantly boost monetization for community creators, making it both a practical and profitable choice.

Chapters

• 00:00 - 00:30: Introduction and Alex Hormozi Investment In this chapter, Jake, from start blogging 101.com, introduces a new school platform and demonstrates how to set up a community within it. He shares significant news that Alex Hormozi, a renowned business and marketing expert, has made his largest investment ever in the school.com platform, which underscores its potential and importance. Jake expresses his admiration for Alex Hormozi and sets the stage for a deeper exploration of the platform's features and benefits.
• 00:30 - 01:30: Alex Hormozi's Books and School Community The chapter explores the books written by Alex Hormozi, focusing on his series. The first book, '$100 Million Offers,' teaches readers about crafting irresistible offers. The second book, '$100 Million Leads,' released in 2023, provides insights on attracting customers. The chapter also mentions a yet-to-be-released third book and highlights Alex Hormozi's engagement with a school community.
• 01:30 - 02:30: School Platform Overview The chapter "School Platform Overview" discusses the immense engagement a post by Alex Heros has received, elevating him to the top of the 30-day leaderboard with a score of 679. The score is based on the number of likes his post received. The transcript touches on the anticipation for Alex Heros' new book titled '$100 million school,' while a joke was made about it being called '$100 million communities.' The discussion highlights the power of community engagement within the school platform.
• 02:30 - 03:30: Community and Classroom Features The chapter focuses on the integration of community features within educational platforms, particularly highlighting the school site, spelled 'SK l'. The primary application of this platform is for online courses where the course content and community are closely intertwined. It hints at the potential for creating significant value, suggesting the creation of a $100 million community through these methods.
• 03:30 - 04:30: Gamification and Calendar Features The chapter discusses the use of gamification and calendar features in building a thriving online community around a knowledge product, such as an online course. The speaker shares personal experiences on creating profitable WordPress websites for generating passive income through affiliate marketing. They highlight the challenges encountered in finding a perfect Learning Management System (LMS) solution that integrates community-building aspects within WordPress platforms, despite numerous options available. The chapter concludes with the speaker's quest for a seamless platform to host their course effectively.
• 04:30 - 05:30: Email Broadcast and Search Features This chapter discusses the use of Facebook groups as a tool for building a community, particularly within the WordPress community. The speaker explains their experience with running multiple WordPress groups and the benefits Facebook groups can provide, such as a large user base and a platform for questions and support. However, a significant challenge highlighted is keeping users engaged, as Facebook's main feed can distract from group content.
• 05:30 - 06:30: Affiliate Feature and Growth The chapter discusses the challenges of using Facebook groups for courses, highlighting issues like user distraction and the difficulty of integrating course content with the group. It introduces the 'School' platform as a solution, offering a combination of community and classroom features to streamline management on a single platform.
• 06:30 - 08:00: Suggestions for Improvement The chapter titled 'Suggestions for Improvement' describes the functionality of the community feature within a school platform. The community page allows users to make posts, engage with others through likes and comments, and foster interaction within the group. The platform also integrates a classroom tab where an unlimited number of courses can be hosted within each community. This system aims to keep users engaged and facilitate educational interaction.
• 08:00 - 09:00: Conclusion and Recommendations The 'Conclusion and Recommendations' chapter highlights the diverse courses offered by the school platform, including 'School 101' for beginners and various courses tailored to different subscription models. It emphasizes the flexibility of enrolling in multiple courses based on user preferences. A noteworthy feature of the platform is the ability to unlock certain courses, such as the one labeled 'Visit the School HQ,' only upon reaching a specific level, in this case, level seven. Additionally, the chapter mentions participation in private communities within the platform and includes a brief reference to the leaderboards tab, suggesting a feature for tracking participation or achievements.
• 09:00 - 09:30: Closing Remarks The chapter titled 'Closing Remarks' highlights the gamification aspect of a platform called School. The narrator describes their own progress, stating they are at level six. They emphasize the feature that allows for unlocking courses based on the member's level, designed to enhance student or member engagement. Statistics of member distribution across various levels are provided, noting that a majority of members are at level one, while only a small percentage have reached level six. Additionally, the chapter references a useful help article from School that provides more information about the platform.

Skool Review and Setup 2024 (+ Alex Hormozi INVESTMENT?!) Transcription

• 00:00 - 00:30 hey what's up guys in this video I'm going to give my own personal review of the new school platform and also show you how to set up your own community in school for those of you that don't know me my name is Jake from start blogging 101.com let's get right into it some absolutely massive news that just came out less than a week ago is that Alex hosi invested his largest investment of his life into the school.com platform and if you don't already know Alex Heros he is by far one of my favorite business andet marketing gurus out there in fact
• 00:30 - 01:00 he has written the book $100 million offers which is the first book in his series and this book teaches you how to make offers so good that people feel stupid saying no and then his second book which he released in 2023 with an absolutely massive virtual event was $100 million leads and this one teaches you how to get strangers to want to buy your stuff and he has already announced that he has finished his third book and so this was really awesome back in the school Community you can see that Alex Hermos posted four 4 days ago as of the
• 01:00 - 01:30 making in this video and he said new to school who this and so this post got pinned to the top and has gotten a ton of Engagement in fact Alex Heros has already reached the top of the 30-day leaderboard simply because of this post you can see that he already has a score of 679 which is a matter of likes on his post and if you click in here I had commented on here and tagged Alex Heros and said hey we're waiting for the new book $100 million school and another guy joked that it would be called the $100 million communities which is also really awesome name and so who knows maybe Alex
• 01:30 - 02:00 Heros will create a book in the future that teaches you how to build a $100 million community on the school platform so here is a look at the school site and just in case you didn't already know it's spelled SK l so there are a ton of different scenarios that you can use school for but I would say the number one use case is for an online course and the best part is that the online course and the community are very very tightly knit together and so it's a a fantastic
• 02:00 - 02:30 option if you want to build a thriving community based around a knowledge product such as a course and so I personally teach others how to build fast profitable WordPress websites that generate passive income through affiliate marketing and although there are a number of Wordpress options for different Learning Management Systems out there there just never seems to be a perfect solution when it comes to building a community around it as well and so I had been personally looking for a solution to host my course platform
• 02:30 - 03:00 and to also have a fantastic Community built around it and so I'm in dozens of different WordPress Facebook groups online and I run a few myself and so Facebook groups have been pretty nice over the years there are so many people on Facebook and so it's a good way to get a number of people into your group and have people asking questions and be able to help out but one of the biggest problems is that I find it really hard to keep users engaged on Facebook because Facebook has an entire feed and so whenever some somebody logs into
• 03:00 - 03:30 Facebook they tend to get completely lost in their feed and distracted from being in the Facebook group and being engaged and then another huge issue is that there's no easy way to tie your course content into your Facebook group and it just ends up being two separate platforms that people have to manage and so here we are back on the school platform and here is their features page that highlights all of the best features that they have and you can see that the very first two here are community and classroom and so here we are on the actual School Community itself this is
• 03:30 - 04:00 the official Community from the school platform and you can see that we're on the community tab here and so here is the entire Community page and this is where people make posts and then you can come in here and like these posts or you can add comments and it's just a really easy way to keep people engaged throughout your group and then if we scroll back up here and we jump over to the classroom tab here are all the individual courses that you can have within your community and you can have an unlimited amount of courses within each community and so you can see that
• 04:00 - 04:30 school here has a school 101 course that teaches you just the basics of how to use school they have a different course here for different subscriptions and how subscriptions work within school and then you can add as many of these courses as you would like within school and another really really nice feature of school is you can see that this course right down here that says to visit the school HQ it doesn't unlock until you're level seven and so here is one of the private communities that I am a part of in the school platform and you can see that I'm on the leaderboards tab
• 04:30 - 05:00 here which is another really nice feature within school and here is my profile and you can see that I am currently level six and what's really cool about school is that you can unlock certain courses in things for your students or members once they reach a certain level and so for this group you can see that 52% of members are at level 1 22% of members are at level two and then as we go all the way down you can see that only 1% of members are in level six and here is a really nice help artic article from school that talks about
• 05:00 - 05:30 points and leveling so basically you get points by getting likes on your posts or your comments and so this is a super nice gamification feature that school has that really encourages engagement among students and whether you unlock something at a higher level or not within your own Community it's still just a really nice feature and it's just a subconscious thing where people want to unlock points and reach the top so back on the features page here I just want to go over a few of the other features that I think are really amazing
• 05:30 - 06:00 in school and set it apart from other platforms like this and so the third one that they have listed here is a calendar and so there is a really really nice calendar integration and this can be used within your community to be able to set live q&as different live meetup events whatever it might be and so here is an example of that calendar feature in effect here on one of the private communities that I'm a part of and so you can see on Mondays and Wednesdays at certain times there are live q&as and then if you click in here you can see different information about that event
• 06:00 - 06:30 and then there's a really nice button down here that if you click this you can then really easily add this to any of your calendars with one click and so I really like this feature in school and then if we scroll down on the features here here is that gamification that I was talking about where you unlock different levels as you get different likes on your posts and your comments and so it just really encourages you to post helpful content in different communities get people to like your stuff and school is so much better than other communities that you out there
• 06:30 - 07:00 such as Facebook groups because there are so many times that people leave really low value posts inside these communities and they don't get a lot of Engagement and that's just not good overall for communities in general one really simple but nice feature is they have email broadcast so if you are making a post in your community with one click it can automatically go and send an email to all of your users and so that's really nice without having to set up a full CRM or anything like that and any post that is really big news for your members you can go in and choose that option to email all your members so
• 07:00 - 07:30 that you can let them know in one Fell Swoop in fact talking about Facebook groups there are so many times that I make an important post in my Facebook group and I might link out to my main website and anytime that you include a link in Facebook groups they do anything in their power to not have people leave Facebook and so it barely shows it to anybody and so I might make a really important post and only 10 to 20% of my community might end up seeing it and so is just infinitely better when it comes
• 07:30 - 08:00 to Facebook groups in this regard because if you're making a really important Post in your community you can really easily add an attachment for different images you can add a link to an external website you can add a video such as a link to a YouTube video you can add polls add different actions and there's just so many things that you can do with school and school is not going to hide this post from your members just so that you stay on the school platform hands down one of my favorite features in school is their search and so this is
• 08:00 - 08:30 another massive advantage over Facebook groups is their search ability is so much better in showing you relevant topics and all the areas that that search term pops up so let me show you an example of this so one question that I had with school communities and that a number of people ask is a free community versus a paid community and so if you come into the school Community here and I searched free versus paid you can see that wherever free versus paid shows up so it showed up in the title here it showed up in one of the responses here
• 08:30 - 09:00 or in comments here and then another really nice thing is that if this term pops up in the classroom or in the videos it will also show there and so you can see in the community there were 16 results that popped up but also in the classroom there were 12 results that popped up so let's click on this and so here's what I'm talking about you can see that these are all different videos within the school community and so you can see that free or verses are paid whenever these terms show up in these videos it is highlighting these and so you you can see right here it says can
• 09:00 - 09:30 you invite free members to a paid group and if you try to search something like this in a Facebook group you have no idea what type of results are going to show up and so here's an example here in my own Facebook group where I searched for the term affiliate marketing and the very first result that comes up is relevant to the term and this is a poll that I ran and you can see that I posted this back in August of 2023 but there are no terms that are highlighted here I don't know where it is finding this you can see that there's a few options to filter over over here if you've seen the
• 09:30 - 10:00 post or you can also search most recent but I've never had a good experience in searching for different posts on Facebook and I can never find what it is exactly that I need and so back in school here I find that the searchability is so much better I will say that there definitely needs to be some improvements here in the searchability factor but keep in mind that school is a newer platform and with Alex Heros announcing that he has invested in the platform you were going to see a massive amount of resources and
• 10:00 - 10:30 things like that dedicated to the platform to start cranking out features and I think that this is going to become a fully-fledged amazing platform for running your courses and communities but just to show you what I mean on how I think it could be improved is if you come in here and you search for a longer term so here I've searched for the term how to make money with school and I know that there are a number of people that have talked about this but perhaps they haven't written this exact term like this but you can see that in the community there were zero results here
• 10:30 - 11:00 and so just searching for terms in general is a complex problem that is hard to solve because you need to figure out if you should break up each of these words and search for just those words or if you should search for different terms that are bundled together so if I go to classroom here you can see that the terms how and money highlighted in this scenario but in the second one here you can see that only the word how was used twice and so it showed that but this specific video isn't how to make money with school and so it's not exactly relevant but I do still feel that school
• 11:00 - 11:30 has much better searchability than other platforms out there and I do think that it will get even better with time and then the last feature that I want to highlight here is the auto affiliate feature and this thing is absolutely incredible and so whenever you sign up for your own community in school you automatically become an affiliate for school and then if any of your members create a community from your community you end up automatically getting a 40% Commission on their community and so
• 11:30 - 12:00 that just ends up becoming an income stream and school ends up paying for itself within only a few referrals and so here I am in a brand new community that I just created to show you an example here and say that I am a member in this community and I come up to this tab here that says to switch communities and I click on the option here that says create a community here is the school signup page and it says create your community and it's free for the first 14 days which is another really nice perk is that if you sign sign up to create your own Community you get a free 14-day
• 12:00 - 12:30 trial where you can try out all the features and if you don't like it you can simply cancel with one click and then you can see that it's $99 a month after that and here is what I was talking about you can see it says you were referred by Jake F which is me and so if any of my students or members in my communities come in and create a community I'm automatically going to get that referral commission and get paid 40% of that new person's Community automatically every single month and so I think that is an absolutely genius
• 12:30 - 13:00 move from the school team and this is a way that you're going to see exponential growth in the school of platform in fact in Alex Hero's investment post here you can see he says to give you an idea users are joining school communi so fast that host payouts are growing by 62% per month that is not a typo that is absolutely insane and that is before Alex hosi invested in school and so there is is literally no better time to
• 13:00 - 13:30 get into school and create your own Community because we are going to start seeing absolutely exponential growth with school and all of the communities within and so since this is a full School review I do want to talk about a few of the things that I think school could improve on so I already talked a bit about how I think that the search is really really fantastic but I do think it could be even better and then another thing since I am creating my very own community in school with my own course that will teach people how to create f fast profitable WordPress websites that
• 13:30 - 14:00 create passive income through affiliate marketing I have a course here that I'm getting set up and when you add a module here so this module says what domain name should I choose if I edit this here there's an option to add a video so I'm going to click on this and then you can see that right now they only have an option for YouTube Vimeo Loom or wistia and so this is one of my complaints and I do wish that school had their very own native video hosting but I have already looked this up and I know that this is a
• 14:00 - 14:30 very very important feature for school to have and they have mentioned that this is going to be coming in early 2024 and so by the time that you watch this video they might already have native video hosting but at the time you can currently only host with thirdparty platforms such as YouTube which I don't want to do because the video privacy is not good on that and then I don't want to pay for a thirdparty hosting service such as Vimeo or Loom because I'm already paying for school and so I think that'd be really really nice if that was just built into the school platform and
• 14:30 - 15:00 like I said I know it's coming and so it might already be there by the time that you watch this video and then a third thing that I think that the school platform could improve on is notifications and so I will say that I do like the notifications better than Facebook but I feel that school gives you too many notifications and you can actually see right now that I a little notification crazy I have 55 notifications I have 22 messages and so the thing with school right now is anytime that a single person likes a post post that you made or a comment
• 15:00 - 15:30 that you posted it will give you a notification for each of those likes and so I think that's a little over the top I wish that they would group those likes together like Facebook does for example if 10 people like your post I wish that it would say that so and so liked your post plus nine others and create that as one single notification rather than 10 individual notifications and then I also wish that you could filter down your notifications so for example maybe you don't want to see notifications if somebody likes a post and you only want
• 15:30 - 16:00 to see a notification if someone maybe mentions you in a post or they comment on your post because those are more important notifications and simply getting a notification that somebody liked your post might not be something that you want to see and you might not want to be distracted by that and so all in all I think that school is an absolutely amazing platform already and it is going to get even better with time especially after Alex Hermos announcement that he has invested in the platform and I would highly recommend you come to school.com commmunity which
• 16:00 - 16:30 is school's official Community here and scroll through these posts and see all of the very inspiring and motivational posts out there there are so many good questions being asked and there are tons and tons of success stories of people that are making 20,000 50,000 $200,000 a month with different School communities by having a separate free community and then a paid community that they get people into that has more premium content and so if you do want get in on the action there is literally no better
• 16:30 - 17:00 time than right now because I promise you that within a few months this is going to be absolutely exploding with members and new communities coming out and so I'll have a link in the description below to sign up and that will bring you to a page that looks like this that I showed you earlier where you can create your own Community like I said there is a completely free 14-day trial that gives you everything that you need for those 14 days at no cost so you can come in here and just try it out and if you don't like it simply cancel with
• 17:00 - 17:30 one click and although school is slightly pricier than other platforms that are similar to it I absolutely think it is worth the money because it is such a well-rounded and Polished platform already it's going to get way way better with time and like I mentioned there is that auto affiliate feature where if you create a community you automatically become an affiliate for school and then if any of your members or students sign up for their own communities you get paid a 40% recurring Commission on their community
• 17:30 - 18:00 and so it just ends up becoming an entire income stream and you can make a massive amount of money from school while also hosting your own Community I would highly recommend going to school.com Discovery and here you can discover many of the most engaged communities out there and you can even filter them down so you can see that there is business there's health and fitness personal development arts and crafts music and so whatever ever it is that you're interested in you can come
• 18:00 - 18:30 in here and filter them down and you can go through all of the different communities out there and see whether they're free or whether they're paid or whatever it might be and so that's my personal review on the school platform like I said I'm currently working on my own course and community and I had been searching all over for the best solution out there and I'm so glad that I ended up joining my first school Community well over a year ago and found this platform before it blew up and now it's just going to EXP intentionally grow with Alex Hero's investment and so I
• 18:30 - 19:00 hope that this school review helped you out if it did leave me a comment below and let me know what you think of school if you get in there and start your own community and definitely take advantage of that 14-day free trial see if you like it see if all of the features are what you're looking for for a course in community for your group hey if you like this video it would be awesome if you could give it a thumbs up subscribe to the channel and ring that Bell and I'll see you guys in the next video
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