Thank you @Shannon Boyer for the opportunity. I have been teaching English for over 25 years and it’s what I do best! 😁 My community The English Pronunciation Lab helps non native speakers of English speak with confidence and clarity using the IPA, phonetics…those cute symbols in the dictionary next to every word 😁. They make you pronounce any word perfectly! https://www.skool.com/sals-fluency-payground-3674/about I recently just created a new community called The Pronunciation Code, built for professionals. I am running a free workshop for it next Thursday: https://pronunciationcode.netlify.app/ Feel free to ask me anything at all 🌞 Sal 🇺🇸🇬🇧💙

Most Skool about pages don't fail because they're poorly written. They fail because the person who wrote them already knows what the community does. The visitor doesn't. Think about what actually happens when someone lands on your about page for the first time. They've got maybe five seconds before they decide whether to keep reading. In those five seconds they're asking one question: is this for someone like me? If the answer isn't obvious in the first two lines, they're gone. Not because your community isn't right for them. Because your page didn't tell them it was. The five things that move the needle most aren't complicated. Your headline needs to name who this is for and what they get - not what the community is about, but what changes for the member after they join. Your page needs to show what actually happens inside on a day-to-day basis, because "a supportive community of like-minded people" tells a visitor nothing. A short video from the founder explaining the experience in plain language does more work than a page of copy. Your copy needs to be short enough to scan on a phone, because most people landing on your page are on mobile. And your call to action needs to be a single clear instruction, not a paragraph that trails off into a link. None of this is advanced. But most about pages are written by someone who's too close to their own community to see it the way a stranger does. The fix is to read your page as if you've never heard of it. If you can't tell in ten seconds who it's for and what happens after you join, neither can your next member. If that's a problem you want to solve, Skool Monetization Lab is free to join, and this is exactly the kind of thing we work through together. https://tinyurl.com/TheContentRevenueLab Des Dreckett - Skool Monetization Lab

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Your grammar is fine. Your vocabulary is fine. But your pronunciation is costing you credibility in meetings, presentations and pitches. I’m Sal, English pronunciation coach with 25 years of experience 😅. I run the English Pronunciation Lab: a live training community on Skool for professionals and entrepreneurs who need clear, confident English. What’s inside: Free: • 1 live lesson every two weeks • Vowel training camp • community access Premium: • 🎯 3 live training sessions every week • 📚 Full IPA and phonetics classroom • 📺 Session recordings — never miss a session •📱 Weekly WhatsApp exercises with personal feedback from me If clarity matters in your work come and train with me. 👇 🔗 skool.com/sals-fluency-payground-3674/about

So, there are two ways to fill a free Skool community. One feels fast. The other feels slow. The crazy thing is, they produce very different results. Now, the fast way is social posts, paid ads, or a well-timed viral moment. You get a burst of signups. Some engage for a few days. Then the feed moves on, and so do they. The community fills up with people who joined on impulse and never came back. This is sometimes called the ghost member problem. It is not a retention problem. It is an acquisition problem dressed up as one. The slow way is YouTube. Specifically, long-form videos are built around questions people are already searching for. Someone types a problem into YouTube at 11 pm. Your video comes up. They watch twelve minutes of it. They join your community from the description of your video. That person arrived with a defined problem, spent real time with you before they joined, and made a conscious decision rather than an impulsive one. Everything that happens after that is different. The mechanism is simple. Search-intent traffic and feed-scroll traffic are not the same psychology. One is a person looking for something. The other is a person being shown something. The first type tends to stay, participate, and eventually pay. The second type tends to look around once and go quiet. There is a second advantage that rarely gets mentioned. A social post has a lifespan of about 48 hours. A YouTube video built around a specific search term can drive new members into your community for years. The compounding effect is real. Members joining your community from a video you recorded in 2022 are not a surprise. They are the system working as designed. If you're building a Skool community and wondering why your member count grows, but your engagement doesn't, the question worth asking is where your members are coming from. That's what The Content Revenue Lab is built around. https://tinyurl.com/TheContentRevenueLab Des Dreckett - The Content Revenue Lab