I rarely ask for anything, so I'm cashing in a small one. Two minutes. Would you leave a short review of this [Skoolology] community? Here's why I'm asking now. Skool is turning on public review visibility daily, community by community, as each one passes a threshold number of reviews. Every community's reviews will be visible by the end of this month. We're not past that threshold yet, so someone checking us out today sees nothing while other groups already show a full page. That gap is often what decides whether a person joins. How to do it: go to our About page, click Reviews/No Reviews Yet, then Submit a Review. If you don't see that option, no problem, that just means it isn't available yet. Drop your review as a comment below instead. Posting it here gives us permission to use it on our About page, in emails, and anywhere we're telling people what happens in this community. If you'd rather we leave off your name or photo, just say so in your comment. Not sure what to write? Two or three sentences is plenty. Pick one of these and answer it: - What was going on for you before you joined? - What is one specific thing you've gotten out of being here? - Who should join this, and why? One request either way: be honest and real. I'm not looking for a five-star script. If something took you a while to click, or the value showed up somewhere you didn't expect, say that. Real beats polished, and the people reading these can tell the difference. No rush beyond this month but sooner helps. Thank you. We've got good people in this group, and this genuinely matters for the folks still deciding whether to take a chance on us. [Todd]

When you post in public communities, the images you upload should match your content, and the file name you give them matters more than most people realize. My profile picture in Skool is saved as: todd-thornton-skoolology Lowercase tends to perform better, and hyphens work better than underscores. Search engines and AI tools read a hyphen as a word break, while an underscore tends to fuse the words together into one string. Correct todd-thornton-skoolology.jpg todd-thornton-skoolology-community-card.jpg Format: main-keyword-descriptive-detail.jpg Incorrect Todd_Thornton_Skoolology.jpg IMG_4471.jpg todd thornton skoolology copy (2).jpg Each of those wrong examples fails for a different reason. The first uses underscores and capital letters, the second tells no one anything about who or what is in the image, and the third has spaces and leftover file clutter that get mangled into odd characters when uploaded. Right now, Skool doesn't use image metadata, and there is no good way to add descriptive information for AI to read. To be fair, today's AI tools are already strong at analyzing images on their own, so the file name usually acts as a tiebreaker when the tool is not certain what it is looking at. A good habit going forward is to name every image for exactly what it is, following the pattern above. Skool may build a better system for handling images down the road, but you are probably posting the same images in several places anyway. Make sure the copy saved on your computer or phone is named for maximum impact everywhere it lands. Keep in mind that AI summaries pull information from multiple sources. The more signals you can stack in one place to show the connection, the better your results will be. What to do now Edit or replace your image if you are not happy with the one you have, then name it using this format: your-name-community-name Once it is renamed, use that same file everywhere else you show up online. Update your profile picture on your other social platforms, your website, your author bio, and anywhere else you use a headshot.

Big congratulations to @Lynne Vella, who just launched Healthy Halls and is ranked 82 in the Health category. Donna and I say this often: our goal is for all of you to go further than we ever did. That is what makes a coach or mentor worth having, whatever title you want to put on it. Watch the video for the full explanation.

I want to take a counterintuitive stance on the new Skool reviews. Not that they're a bad idea. My concern is what happens if you let Skool become your entire review strategy. Here's what caught my attention. The top producer on all of Skool asked for a toggle to turn reviews off until things were more fleshed out. His worry was the empty state. A brand-new review section showing nothing at all reads worse than no review section, and he expected conversions to suffer. Skool answered that by keeping reviews hidden during collection mode, so the empty state problem is handled for now. But I think there's a second problem waiting on the other side of that, and it's the one nobody is talking about. He has done a fabulous job collecting powerful video testimonials, and he uses them well. Five of the six image slots on his About page are video testimonials. That is a curated, visual, high trust asset sitting above the fold. Skool reviews are 500 characters of text at the top/bottom of the page, in whatever order Skool decides. For someone who has already built the better thing, the new format doesn't add much. It just gives visitors a weaker signal to compare against the stronger one. Will Skool eventually add video and image attachments? Probably. But the format isn't really the issue. Control is. You can't remove a review that misses the point. You can't decide which one leads. You can't reorder them to match what a particular buyer cares about. Your testimonial page is something you build. Your review section is something that happens to you. There's one more angle worth sitting with. Reviews are increasingly how AI tools decide what to recommend, and vague praise gives them nothing to work with. "Great community, learned a lot" doesn't tell an AI who you help or what changes for them. Specific reviews do. So what would I actually do? Collect reviews on Skool when you can. The window is supposed to open on day 31 of a paying member's journey when they are prompted for a review. So build the ask into that moment rather than leaving it to chance. Set a reminder to send them an email or text.

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