Skool community and delivering value

I recently spoke to David Ashby of the Skool community. He runs one of the biggest n8n communities on Skool, with about a thousand subscribers. I am really inspired by him because he has been able to write every single day and create absolutely amazing content.

After speaking to him and sharing my experience with Skool—how I have tried various things but haven't actually settled anywhere—I decided to take his advice. He told me that my workflows are very transactional, meaning I only create courses and syllabi based on internal workflows.

The issue is that a typical person joining the community may not know anything about automation at all, though they might know something about AI. Consequently, I think I should change my direction to focus more on AI and automation. My new approach will look like this: 1. When people join, they can immediately open ChatGPT, paste in a few prompts, and learn something. This ensures there are direct, actionable steps they can take within the first five minutes of joining. 2. Because automation is a complex topic that only revolves around a subset of people, I need to broaden the appeal. 3. Based on David's advice, I will take my automation workflows and provide them as a freebie when people join. 4. I will also provide the AI courses sequentially, step-by-step, for everyone joining the community. To be honest, I think the guy is super smart.

I was sharing a few more ideas and a problem I’ve been facing recently. I was hiring a community manager for the school, and it turns out that out of the hundreds of applicants who applied, only a few actually qualified. I realized my requirements have shifted. I am looking for someone who: 1. Is super communicative and can express ideas clearly 2. Can take full responsibility over outcomes 3. Can motivate and integrate people 4. Is comfortable doing webinars As I was speaking about this, we noticed that while many people apply, very few are actually qualified. A lot of the time we are looking at 60 CVs. What if we built a tool that could help rank CVs and figure out which ones are actually the better ones? From our experience, we usually use different job boards, we find a few candidates on Indeed, a few on LinkedIn, and so on but it is hard to come to a conclusion because the data is so scattered. We need something to organize them into a more structured format. I want to know exactly who to hire and when, so I can just schedule five interviews instead of going through 60. I think we’re going to build a job rating, CV rating, or some kind of match-rating algorithm. What do you think? I think it's a good idea.