119 to 1,100 Members in Months: 3 Community Growth Strategies

If you’re trying to build an online community, you’ve probably been told it takes months or even years to see real growth. In my video, I show you exactly how we went from 119 stuck members to over 1,100 highly engaged community members in just a few months, and I break down the three specific strategies that made it happen.

We’re now ranked in the top 100 communities and number 51 in the business category, with 10 to 15 new members joining organically every single day.

I created this video to walk you through the exact playbook we used to scale our community so fast it felt almost illegal.

The Foundation: Starting Where You Are

Six months ago, we were completely stuck at 119 members inside our community. The engagement was lackluster, growth had stalled, and it felt like we were shouting into the void. Fast forward to today, and we’ve built a highly engaged, profitable group that people actually want to show up for and tell their friends about. The leaderboard numbers inside our community are insane—the amount of time, effort, and energy our members invest in helping each other and building relationships is beyond what I imagined when we started.

The best part? We didn’t burn out posting all day, and we didn’t wait forever for things to take off. If you’re struggling to get traction in your community, or worse, you feel like you’ve started but lost momentum, the three strategies I explain in my video will change everything for you.

Strategy One: Leverage Your List

Alex Hormozi says it best: you really just need 10 active founding members to have a solid foundation for your community. The problem most people face when they launch is that they don’t have those active members from day one. When someone new joins and sees crickets, they’re not going to want to be the first person to start posting or engaging. This creates a vicious cycle where your community never gains momentum.

In my video, I explain how we solved this by leveraging our existing list. This means looking at your phone contacts, social media followers, existing clients, or basically anyone in your existing audience who could be a good fit to become a founding member. You need to get loud about what you’re launching and connect people to the vision of what you’re creating.

When you start with 10 active and engaged founding members, every additional person you add comes into a community that’s already off the ground. They see conversations happening, they see value being shared, and they’re far more likely to participate themselves. This is the foundation that makes everything else work.

Strategy Two: Get Known in Other Communities

The biggest mistake I see people make when trying to grow their community is attempting to do it in isolation. If nobody knows who you are, why would they join your community? You could have the most valuable resources, the best program, and incredible knowledge, but if nobody knows about it, you’ll hear nothing but crickets inside your community.

In my video, I break down how we got known by adding value in other communities—both online and offline—where our ideal members were already hanging out. Instead of spamming likes or dropping links everywhere, we engaged authentically. We answered questions, started real conversations, and gave away genuine value. People became curious about who we were and what we were doing, so they’d check out our profile, find our community, and join organically.

This approach is what allowed us to grow an average of 10 to 15 people per day who find us organically because of all the foundational work we put in. Here’s a pro tip I share in the video: if you’re using Skool, get ranked on the leaderboards inside communities where your ideal members are already hanging out. When people see you consistently at the top of the leaderboard, they start to see you as an authority and the known expert in your space.

The more active and helpful you are, the more people notice you. You’ve got to be engaged enough that people start seeing you as the go-to expert and authority on your topic. When they check out your profile out of curiosity, they’ll discover your community and join on their own. This organic discovery is far more powerful than any paid advertising because these people are already warm and interested.

If you want a full breakdown of exactly how we use Skool as a funnel for our business, step by step, I’ve created a 42-page PDF that I’ve also turned into a mini course. It’s yours absolutely free inside our free community. If you want to see how we’re growing our free community, it’s best to just experience it from the inside.

Strategy Three: Run Challenges to Create Momentum

Once we get people interested and joining our community, we need to make sure they continue to show up. We don’t want to be one of those communities with 60,000 members where only five people are actually active. That’s why we constantly run challenges to create momentum inside our community.

In my video, I explain how challenges create urgency. People don’t want to miss out, and when you do these right, they create a high-energy environment that makes people genuinely want to engage, show up, post, and get to know each other. Anytime our engagement feels a little bit lower, we ask ourselves: what’s the next challenge we can launch?

Our goal was 10 new members per day, and within the first couple of weeks of implementing these strategies—getting known in other communities, sharing what we were doing, adding value on social media, and driving people back to our community—we started hitting that goal consistently. When you get momentum, the algorithm starts to kick in. People notice you more, they start referring you to their friends, and suddenly you’re growing on autopilot.

The action step I give in my video for this third strategy is simple: pick a challenge topic that aligns with your community’s mission and run it for at least 7 to 30 days. This also gives you something concrete to talk about on social media and a natural reason to message people. Having a challenge running creates an easy conversation starter about your community that doesn’t feel salesy or forced.

It Doesn’t Have To Take Forever

If you’re watching my video thinking that building a thriving community is going to take forever, let our results prove that it doesn’t have to. Yes, it might be a little hard in the first couple of weeks as you’re navigating how to do this successfully and finding your rhythm. But once you have a good system in place and you’re in a consistent rhythm, things start to take off exponentially.

To recap the three strategies I cover in my video: number one is leverage your list to get your founding members; number two is get known in other communities and spaces where your ideal members are already hanging out; and number three is run challenges to boost engagement and create momentum.

When you execute these strategies consistently, you’re not just going to grow a little—you’re going to create a highly engaged, profitable community fast. We went from 119 stuck members to ranking in the top 100 Skool communities and top 50 in the business category. Our engagement skyrocketed, people actually showed up, and our revenue hit over $10,000 per month.

If you want my full step-by-step roadmap, grab the free 42-page PDF and make sure to join our community so you can see behind the scenes of exactly how we’re doing this and how it works in real time. In my video, I walk through each of these strategies in detail with specific examples of what worked for us and what you can implement today to start seeing results within weeks, not months.