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New Society is a Skool community focused on the creator economy and digital-business space — content creation, personal branding, online education, and turning audience into recurring revenue. It's one of the more recognizable communities on the platform by member count and shows up in Skool's Discovery rankings periodically. The content mix is typical of the genre: weekly live sessions, structured courses in the classroom section, daily peer posts about progress and obstacles, and a DM channel for direct access to the operator team. Pricing has historically sat in the standard Skool community range. The community fits creators who already have some traction (an email list, a YouTube channel, a podcast) and want a peer group plus structured education to push the next milestone. It fits less well for total beginners who haven't picked a niche yet, because the content assumes you've already done the positioning work. As with any Skool community at this scale, the operator's challenge is keeping engagement healthy across thousands of members.
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What New Society actually is
Strip away the branding and New Society is a paid creator-economy community. Its purpose is to give members a structured curriculum on building an online business plus a peer group of people working on similar things. The category is crowded — there are at least a dozen comparable communities both on and off Skool — but New Society's positioning leans on community size and the depth of its content library. The platform-side facts: it lives at a public skool.com URL, runs on Skool's standard infrastructure (Stripe payments, the classroom module, the calendar, the DM inbox), and operates under the same constraints as every other Skool community. There's no special platform deal or custom feature set. The differentiation comes entirely from the content quality, the operator team's responsiveness, and the network effects of having a large and active member base. Whether that's worth the monthly fee depends on how much value you'd extract from peer access — for most members the network is the reason to stay even after they've consumed the courses.
What's inside the community
Inside the community you'll find the standard active-Skool layout: a community feed (sorted by recent activity), a classroom with structured course modules, a calendar with upcoming live sessions, a leaderboard showing the most engaged members, and a DM channel. The course content typically covers content strategy, audience growth across platforms, monetization paths (digital products, courses, services, sponsorships), and the operations side of running a creator business (taxes, contracts, hiring, tools). The live sessions are usually a mix of operator-led teaching and member Q&A, with recordings available afterward. Daily activity in the feed is what makes the community feel alive — members posting their wins, asking for feedback on a launch, sharing screenshots of their analytics. A community at this scale benefits from peer accountability in a way smaller communities can't replicate, because there's almost always someone awake and engaged regardless of timezone. The trade-off is that it's harder for any individual to stand out, and members who don't actively participate can easily fade into the background.
Who it fits and who it doesn't
The community fits creators with some existing traction. If you've built an audience of 1,000+ on any platform (Twitter, YouTube, Instagram, an email list, a podcast), the curriculum and peer group will compress your next 6–12 months of trial-and-error. The content assumes you've made some early decisions — picked a niche, started publishing — and is built to take you from 'small audience' to 'sustainable income'. It fits less well for total beginners who haven't picked a topic yet. The community can't make that decision for you and the early discovery phase is mostly about your own self-knowledge, not curriculum consumption. Beginners often join, get overwhelmed by the volume of advanced content, and churn within 60 days. The honest signal: if you can describe what you publish about and who your audience is in one sentence, you're ready. If you can't, save the money and spend a month publishing weekly to figure it out, then revisit the community when your direction is clearer.
Compared to other creator-economy communities
The Skool ecosystem has several large creator-economy communities competing for the same audience. New Society sits alongside communities run by figures like Dan Koe, Justin Welsh-aligned groups, and various YouTuber-led communities. The differentiation between them tends to come down to (a) operator style — some are loud-personality driven, others are operator-quiet curriculum-heavy, (b) niche focus — pure content vs. content-plus-services vs. digital-product-focused, and (c) community vibe — high-volume daily activity vs. quiet weekly cohorts. There's no objectively best choice; it's a fit question. Many serious creators try two or three different communities in their first year and settle on the one whose vibe matches their working style. Off-Skool alternatives include Circle.so communities, paid Discord servers, and traditional masterminds, but Skool's pricing model and feature set make it the dominant venue for this category. As with any community choice, take the free trial, lurk for two weeks, and see how the active members talk to each other before you commit to a year.
Lessons from running a Skool community at this scale
From the operator side, running a Skool community with thousands of members is a different job than running one with fifty. The native Skool tooling stops scaling around the 200-member mark — the inbox becomes unmanageable, the welcome flow stops working manually, churn becomes invisible because failed payments and quiet exits blur together. Operators at this scale install third-party tooling almost universally. The standard stack: Auto DM Sequences with multi-condition triggers (so the welcome flow runs 24/7 and adapts to what the new member does), a Churn Saver firing inside 60 seconds of failed payments, a Comment Miner to surface members talking about specific pain points, a Keyword Monitor for mentions, scheduled posts with a Post-Now button, member CSV export for syncing the email list, and a Kanban CRM for tracking high-intent prospects. tools4skool packages these into a single Chrome extension that runs on the operator's existing Skool session — no password stored — and starts free for low-volume use. For a community at New Society scale, the cost of an operator stack is rounding error against the revenue it protects through better retention and faster response times.
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