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I'm saying it helps with retention but barely at all with recruitment - and that it may even get in the way of recruitment of casual EAs. I don't think Skillshare favours will make people want to self-identify as EA. Only a minority of people even require the sorts of favours being offered.
The best way to recruit is to have people who are passionate enough about a subject that they tell their friends.
Yup - although in the case of EA, that's still likely to be a very slow process. This isn't the sort of thing that can go viral. It takes months or years of cultivating before someone transfers from complete outsider to core member.
I don't think that's a problem. We don't need to think in terms of corporate quarter results but are free to think more long-term.
Focusing on quick fixes isn't what successful movement building is about.
To clarify, Skillshare was not created with new member recruitment in mind.