Another sam ovens scam at it's very best..five years ago I got in with his facebook scam when he was in New York..and well saw it to be what it was..1000 students that did good and the other 5000 plus that never got their money back from the guy..right sam...so he took off from New York because everyone was after him on that one..went ti California and is there now doing that scam...till everyone catches on and get their rug pulled from under them next on this scam...you can run sam but you cannot hide..if you have any guts at all buddy you get bsck to me on my refund from your last New York class..such a joke..
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Barbara
New product is missing many features
This website has shifted from "Safe Search for Kids" to a Kajabi online course competitor.
There is no accountability to the moderators of the platform if they choose to act upon bias or bad judgment.
Example: A white moderator decides to delete a person of color's post without understanding the post or intention behind it. All the while, their delete discretion is under no review or feedback mechanism. This biased person can continue to go on "using their judgement" without any feedback loop to spot a biased moderator. The management would be none the wiser about it. There is no option to report a moderator for misuse of their power. There's no undo delete button, if a moderator "accidentally" deletes the wrong post due to their bad judgment.
If a post is accidentally in the wrong group, there is no edit post option to move into the right group.
The onboarding experience does not really educate on where the designated places are to post questions relating to how to a grow a group. This figure it out on your own mindset is a recipe for miscommunication and overly aggressive moderators who are ignorant of marketing principles.
They also make it very difficult to delete the groups and accounts. The groups end up archived instead of permanently deleted. The accounts cannot be deleted from settings or my account, instead they just offer to "log out of everywhere."
For a truly educational setting, it is missing advanced quizzes. With no custom code options, everything would depend upon a zapier integration as a work around.
There is a lot of talk about "gamification" on Skool, yet the only gamification feature on Skool is the leadership board. Inside of Facebook groups, members earn Interaction points and badges for their contributions. It doesn't require having to remember to use the Skool platform nor switching platforms to get interaction features. People check Facebook throughout the day. There's no instinct or habit to check Skool. It's a new habit that would need to be "taught" to students to check Skool.
Skool's name is also hard to type. The company name reads like a typo and rhymes with stool.
While it is being framed as a great business to grow, they are entirely relying on the group creators to generate traffic for the platform.
The platform itself is not feeding group creators with any members. Skool's visibility and revenue grows only because the group creators put in dollars, influence, and work into marketing the Skool platform for them. It's not necessarily a win-win outcome.
The concept of membership websites has existed for a very long time. Just Google membership websites.
There isn't anything innovative about Skool.
For $100 a month, it includes a course creation, leadership board, and discussion forums.
While it does save money from Kajabi's $200 a month. Skool is just an MVP product, with very few features after 3 years of work.
You could achieve member events, files, discussion threads, memberships, and paid workshops, on meetup.com for $35 a month.
